On this week’s Billboard 200 albums chart, The Weeknd remains at the #1 spot with Starboy. The rest of the list maintains similar standing from previous weeks with the exception of Social Club Misfits.
The Weeknd Stays In The Stars
The Weeknd’s Starboy holds its #1 position for the third week in the row. This sales cycle, the LP pushed 60,659 equivalent album units. It sold nearly 13,000 albums and was streamed 57 million times.
Run The Jewels Sprints Up The Chart
The independently released third album from Killer Mike and El-P’s duo shot up 239 percent this sales cycle, selling 20,057 equivalent album units. The album came out digitally as a Christmas surprise for fans, but was released physically on January 13. The increase moves the album from #106 to #13 — the highest position the group has ever hit on the chart.
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Social Club Misfits Land First Billboard 200 Placement
Social Club Misfits chart at #80 with the debut of The Misadventures of Fern & Marty. The project, the duo’s first on Capitol Records, sold 7,006 units with 5,314 albums and 1.7 million streams.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 01/19/2017
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 The Weeknd — Starboy — 60,659 (12,854) [57,169,612]
#5 Bruno Mars — 24K Magic — 32,683 (15,970) [15,744,122]
#7 J. Cole — 4 Your Eyez Only — 27,183 (8,269) [26,412,015]
#8 Drake – VIEWS — 26,510 (3,644) [30,928,155]
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#9 Post Malone — Stoney— 24,769 (3,193) [27,676,963]
#12 Rihanna — Anti— 21,166 (3,375) [18,683,455]
#15 Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife 2 —18,641 (1,185) [17,746,617]
#17 Various Artists — Suicide Squad: The Album —16,736 (5,869) [10,317,777]
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#18 Travis Scott — Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight — 17,011 (1,600) [20,246,873]
#23 21 Savage & Metro Boomin — Savage Mode—14,723 (556) [19,219,272]