Hip Hop is once again a strong presence on the Billboard 200 chart for the week ending May 17. Post Malone’s Beerbongs Bentleys remains in the #1 spot and Playboi Carti’s Die Lit made its debut at #3.
Tee Grizzley also made his grand entrance at #10 with his Activated album, while J. Cole’s KOD dropped 22 percent to land at #6.
Elsewhere on the chart, XXXTENTACION’s ? project has stayed in the Top 15 even with the 10 percent drop in sales and Spotify’s new Hate Content Hateful Conduct policy, which resulted in the removal of X’s music from Spotify-curated playlists.
It’s Lit
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Playboi Carti’s new project Die Lit hit the chart running with 60,904 total album equivalent units sold (4,752 in pure album sales and a streaming count of 82,113,921) to settle at #3, even as a surprise release.
It serves as the follow-up to 2017’s self-titled mixtape, which peaked at #12 on the Billboard 200. In that project’s first week sales, Carti moved roughly 28,000 units thanks in part to the success of “Magnolia.”
Again Again
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Post Malone’s Beerbongs Bentleys continues to dominate the chart for its third week with 147,343 total album equivalent units sold (18,053 in pure album sales and a streaming count of 183,141,122). The Texas-bred rapper’s debut, 2016’s Stoney, also remains on the chart. Despite the five percent dip in sales, it still landed at #13.
Beerbongs Bentleys went platinum almost immediately upon its release due to the success of the project’s lead singles, “Rockstar” featuring 21 Savage and “Psycho” featuring Ty Dolla $ign. Since then, it’s broken several records, including one Billboard record previously held by The Beatles for 54 years.
GRRRR
If it wasn’t a “Dreams Nightmares” it wouldn’t be a “First Day Out” ?
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Rising Detroit rapper Tee Grizzley made his chart debut for Activated, his inaugural studio album. The project landed at #10 with 32,883 total album equivalent units sold (5,518 in pure album sales and a streaming count of 39,345,915).
Activated follows 2017’s My Moment, which peaked at #44 on the Billboard 200 and #22 on the Top RB/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Top 10 Billboard 200 Rap RB Albums For The Week Ending 05/17/2018
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.
- Post Malone — Beerbongs Bentleys — #1 — 147,343 (18,053) [183,141,122]
- Playboi Carti – Die Lit — #3 — 60,904 (4,752) [82,113,921]
- J. Cole — KOD — #6 — 53,269 (9,738) [63,401,112]
- Cardi B — Invasion Of Privacy — #7 — 52,697 (4,245) [66,748,154]
- Various Artists — Black Panther: The Album — #9 — 33,044 (8,591) [32,343,646]
- Tee Grizzley — Activated — #10 — 32,883 (5,518) [39,345,915]
- Rae Sremmurd — SR3MM — #11 — 27,784 (852) [38,359,015]
- Migos — Culture II — #12 —26,872 (1,332) [35,599,248]
- Post Malone — Stoney — #13 — 26,640 (2,033) [34,549,972]
- XXXTENTACION — ? — #14 — 24,900 (604) [34,696,001]
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