
4-9 slots on the Billboard 200, as Meek Mill’s Championships moves 3-4 (46,000 units down 4 percent), Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys dips 4-5 (43,000 units down 10 percent), Travis Scott’s Astroworld climbs 7-6 (just over 41,000 units down 5 percent), Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack rises 10-7 (41,000 units up 2 percent), Drake’s Scorpion descends 6-8 (nearly 41,000 units down 7 percent) and Kodak Black’s Dying To Live holds at No. The hip-hop-heavy set includes the hit single “Sunflower,” by Post Malone and Swae Lee, among other contributions from A-listers. 3, the soundtrack to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse hits a new peak, as it climbs two slots (49,000 units up 6 percent). 2 with 56,000 units (down 14 percent).Īt No. 1 on the Billboard 200, 21 Savage’s I Am > I Was slips to No. Swae Lee On His Prolific 2018, His Imminent 'All Bangers' Solo Project & Why He's 'The King of…Īfter two weeks at No. Further, just isolating physical album sales, R&B/hip-hop tumbled 27.8 percent, while overall physical album sales fell 15.8 percent.

Comparatively, overall album sales, across all genres, fell 17.7 percent. In 2018, R&B/hip-hop album sales fell 20.8 percent from 2017. 1 album on the Billboard 200, 21 Savage’s I Am > I Was, sold just 3,000 copies (though earned a total of 65,000 units, thanks to large streaming figures). Slim album sales for hip-hop titles have become commonplace in the past year or two, as streaming increasingly becomes the preferred means of consumption for hip-hop fans. Hoodie SZN did not sell enough to rank on that 100-position list. 1 on the sales-only Top Album Sales chart. The top selling album this week is Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack, with 21,000 sold, and is No. 12, 2001-dated tally, when Amos Lee’s Mission Bell sold 40,000 copies.) (Back when the Billboard 200 was an album sales-only tally, the smallest sum at No. The previous consumption-era low was registered just a week ago, when 21 Savage’s streaming-powered I Am > I Was sold 3,000 copies (of its total 65,000 units). 1 on the Billboard 200 chart since it flipped from an album sales-only list to a multi-metric consumption-ranking in December 2014. That 1,000-album sales figure is the smallest weekly sum for a No. On the new Billboard 200, of Hoodie SZN’s 58,000 total units, 56,000 come from SEA units (equaling 83 million on-demand audio streams for the album's 20 songs), 1,000 from TEA units and 1,000 from album sales.ĭrake's 'Scorpion' Is Nielsen Music's Top Album Of 2018 in U.S., 'God's Plan' Most-Streamed Song In its premiere week, it sold just 6,000 copies, while in its second and third weeks, sold a mere 1,000 in each frame. The 20-song Hoodie SZN has been largely powered by streaming activity since its debut on the chart.

He previously visited the region with his first full-length set, The Bigger Artist, which debuted and peaked at No. Hoodie SZN is A Boogie’s second full-length studio album and second top 10 effort.

1 - since The Greatest Showman soundtrack rose 5-1 in its third week on the list (dated Jan. 1 by climbing up the chart - rather than debuting at No. Hoodie SZN is the first album to spend its first week at No.

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