The week of March 17, Flatbush Zombies debut on Billboard’s Top 200 chart with its 3001: A Laced Odyssey album. Rihanna and Kendrick Lamar are also in the Top 10 on the list. Meanwhile, 2 Chainz’ Collegrove album with Lil Wayne drops to #29, a 71 percent decrease in sales after debuting at #4 last week.
Rihanna’s ANTI Reclaims Top Spot
Rihanna’s ANTI album is back at #1 on this week’s Top 200 chart after spending the past two weeks at #3. The singer pushed 54,370 total units this week, including more than 36 million streams. The single “Work,” which features Drake also sits at the top spot on the Digital Genre R&B/Hip Hop singles chart.
Kendrick Lamar Still Selling untitled unmastered.
In its second week on the chart, Kendrick Lamar’s untitled unmastered. sits at #5 with 38,402 total sales. This is a 78 percent dropoff after last week’s chart-topping performance. The Compton, California rapper’s other two major label releases, To Pimp a Butterfly and good kid m.A.A.d City, are also still charting, at #41 and #67 respectively.
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Flatbush Zombies Make Noise Independently
Flatbush Zombies debut in the Top 10 with its independent 3001: A Laced Odyssey album. The project sold 28,291 total units and was streamed 5,758,286 times. The single “Bounce” charted at #32 on Billboard’s Twitter Top Tracks chart.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 03/17/2016
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 Rihanna – ANTI – 54,370 (17,035) [36,385,676]
#5 Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered.– 38,402 (26,830) [15,108,596]
#9 Kevin Gates – Islah – 30,418 (12,885) [16,897,976]
#10 Flatbush Zombies – 3001: A Laced Odyssey – 28,291 (23,692) [5,758,286]
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#11 Bryson Tiller – Trapsoul – 28,070 (8,152) [24,688,579]
#13 The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness – 26,595 (9,068) [17,970,181]
#16 G-Eazy – When It’s Dark Out – 24,224 (4,888) [18,663,979]
#18 Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap – 19,044 (3,706) [15,415,946]
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#20 Flo Rida – My House – 18,359 (1,790) [8,536,909]
#22 Future – EVOL – 17,036 (2,961) [17,410,451]
