Drake and Future topped the Billboard Top 200 Chart this week, as expected, although their joint project sold less than the anticipated 500,000 units. Mac Miller and Andy Mineo also debut in the Top 10. The Weeknd fell from the top spot and Beauty Behind the Madness now sits at #3. Jay Rock saw a 69 percent decrease in sales and holds the #94 slot with 90059.
Drake and Future Take Crown
Drake and Future’s surprise release, What a Time to be Alive, saw 375,458 total units of sales its opening week. It was released on a Sunday, which gave it two fewer days to sell because most albums drop on Fridays. The album saw nearly 37 million streams and was only available on Apple Music. Both Drake and Future had solo projects top the chart this year, with If Youre Reading This Its Too Late and Dirty Sprite 2, respectively. Those albums remain in this week’s top 20.
Mac Miller Charts Again
Mac Miller’s Go:od AM, debuts at the #4 spot on the chart. The project saw 86,914 total sales units. His last album, 2013’s Watching Movies With the Sound Off, debuted at the #3 spot, following Kanye West’s Yeezus and J. Cole’s Born Sinner.
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Andy Mineo Lands In Top 10
Andy Mineo’s sophomore LP, Uncomfortable, debuts at the #10 spot with 35,329 total units of sales activity. The Reach Records release topped the independent chart. The project includes the singles “Uncomfortable” and “Hear My Heart” and is executively produced by !llmind.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 9/24/2015
Note: The first number below is this week’s “total album equivalent units” count, an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams implemented by Billboard’s new rating system. A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.
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#1 Drake & Future – What a Time to be Alive – 375,458 (334,423) [35,703,785]
#3 The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness– 90,143 (41,187) [37,374,721]
#4 Mac Miller – Go:od AM – 86,914 (73,067) [14,637,659]
#10 Andy Mineo – Uncomfortable– 35,329 (32,054) [2,991,187]
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#12 Future – Dirty Sprite 2 – 25,184 (9,339) [16,520,327]
#18 Drake – If Youre Reading This Its Too Late– 19,455 (6,041) [15,371,250]
#22 Travi$ Scott – Rodeo – 16,914 (7,576) [9,604,122]
#29 J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive– 13,146 (4,647) [9,493,791]
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#37 Meek Mill – Dreams Worth More Than Money– 10,751 (1,998) [8,456,408]
#39 Dr. Dre – Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre – 10,620 (8,558) [2,143,450]
