The 59th Annual Grammys were one to remember for Hip Hop fans as Chance The Rapper made history and Beyoncé wowed with her performance, which gave both significant sales spikes. Meanwhile, Big Sean and Migos drop down in their sales. Oh, and Lupe Fiasco’s DROGAS Light makes its debut at #28. All of this follows the debut of the Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack, which takes the top spot this week on Billboard’s 200 albums chart.
Beyoncé Soars With “LEMONADE”
Beyoncé had a significant leap in album sales last week, going from #49 to #33. The singer sees her LEMONADE project landing at #9 this sales cycle with a 190 percent increase. The project sold 38,066 equivalent album units and was nominated for Album of the Year. While Queen Bey didn’t take home that trophy, she did take home two others. The hype had fans purchasing 29,371 albums and streaming the project 1.4 million times.
Chance The Rapper Continues To Make History With “Coloring Book”
Chance The Rapper saw an 87 percent spike in the sales for Coloring Book, the project that won Best Rap Album at the Grammys, as it lands at #22 on this week’s chart. Of course, this is without a single traditional album sale. But it was streamed 33 million times to make 22,100 equivalent album units.
AD LOADING...
Migos & Big Sean Slip Slightly
Big Sean’s I Decided. lands in the #3 spot this week after debuting at the top spot last sales cycle. The 61,679 equivalent album units the project pushed led to a 59 percent drop from last week. Migos’ Culture charts at #4 in its third week with 58,897 album units, a 14 percent decrease. Both projects were streamed more than 60 million times each.
Lupe Fiasco’s “DROGAS Light” Makes Debut
Lupe Fiasco’s DROGAS Light hits the #28 spot its first week on the chart. As the Chicago rapper’s first independent project, it pushed 18,868 equivalent album units with 6.8 million streams. His last LP, 2015’s Tetsuo & Youth, reached the #14 spot while his highest-charting album is 2011’s Lasers, which topped the chart.
AD LOADING...
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 02/16/2017
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.
#2 Bruno Mars — 24K Magic — 65,554 (36,213) [20,827,936]
#3 Big Sean — I Decided. — 61,679 (12,076) [66,355,360]
AD LOADING...
#4 Migos — Culture— 58,897 (5,551) [69,308,418]
#5 The Weeknd — Starboy — 53,987 (13,738) [44,458,252]
#9 Beyoncé — LEMONADE — 38,066 (29,371) [1,405,550]
#11 Post Malone — Stoney— 28,877 (2,826) [34,236,511]
AD LOADING...
#15 Drake – VIEWS — 26,770 (5,275) [28,716,814]
#21 Rihanna — Anti— 22,205 (4,098) [18,702,159]
#22 Chance The Rapper — Coloring Book — 22,100 (0) [33,150,345]
#28 Lupe Fiasco — DROGAS Light — 18,868 (12,966) [6,838,356]
AD LOADING...
