NAV finds himself back at No. 1

The Toronto artist’s Good Intentions album sits at the top of the Billboard 200 chart, despite intense competition from the likes of Kehlani and Lil Durk.

Driven by merchandise/album bundles sold via NAV’s official webstore, the album earned 135,000 equivalent album units in the week ending May 14, per Nielsen Music/MRC Data. Of that, the album earned 84.8 million on-demand streams.

Good Intentions follows NAV’s 2019 release Bad Habits, which launched with 82,000 units earned.

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On the final day of album tracking (May 14), NAV’s webstore had 100 different merchandise/album bundles available that were tied to his Good Intentions album as well as 18 different physical format/digital album offerings. He also re-released the album in a deluxe edition, adding 14 new tracks, following the initial May 8 release, which had 18-tracks.

The move pushed initial forecasts for the album, which sat at 80,000 units earned to north of 100,000. It’s XO Records second No. 1 of the year following label head The Weeknd’s After Hours, which debuted with 444,000 album units.

Kehlani’s sophomore album, It Was God Until It Wasn’t marks a personal best for the singer. The album landed at No. 2 on the chart with 83,000 units earned, topping her previous high from 2017’s SweetSexySavage, which debuted at No. 3 with 58,000 units earned.

Elsewhere on the chart, Drake’s Dark Lane Demo Tapesslides its way down to No. 3, earning 79,000 units. A week ago, it debuted at No. 2 with 223,000 units, snapping a decade-long streak of Drake albums and projects that debuted at No. 1. Last week’s No. 1, Kenny Chesney’s Here and Now plummets to No. 38.

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Lil Baby sits at No. 4 with 72,000 units for his My Turn project, followed by Lil Durk and his Just Cause Y’all Waited 2 at No. 5 with 57,000 units and DaBaby’s Blame It On Baby at No. 6 with 45,000 units earned. The rest of the top 10 features Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atakeat No. 8 (42,000 units), The Weeknd’s After Hours at No. 9 (40,000 units) and Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding at No. 10 (37,000 units).