The Carters’ joint album, EVERYTHING IS LOVE, has made its first appearance on the Billboard 200, landing at #2. Meanwhile, XXXTENTATION’s projects jumped up the chart in the wake his murder, and Nas, Christina Aguilera, and Jay Rock’s new projects all made their first appearances on the chart.
EVERYTHING IS LOVE Debuts At #2
The Carters have made their debut on the Billboard 200 this week with their joint album, EVERYTHING IS LOVE. While it still made a respectable showing at #2 — moving a total 122,870 equivalent album units (69,695 in pure album sales and a streaming count 73,239,130) — it was still kept out the top spot by Australian pop band 5 Seconds Summer.
EVERYTHING IS LOVE debuted lower than JAY-Z’s 4:44 album and Beyonce’s Lemonade album, both which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. The album’s lack pre-promotion, Saturday release and brief exclusivity on TIDAL all impacted its first-week numbers — although Beyoncé already made clear how she felt about streaming numbers on the project.
Check out the review the album (DX’s first 5/5 in years) here.
XXXTENTATION Surges On The Chart
On Monday, June 18, XXXTENTATION was gunned down in Florida, and died at the age 20. Just one week after his murder, his second studio album ? has spiked on the chart, placing firmly at #3 on the Billboard 200 with 93,820 equivalent album units (8,554 in pure album sales and a streaming count 116,344,730).
The rapper’s debut album, 17, also saw a major increase, landing at #7 with 55,125 in equivalent album units (3,546 in pure album sales and a streaming count 72,532,706). X’s Revenge project also currently sits at #30 on the Billboard 200.
All three the projects saw surges around 400% since last week.
Nas, Christina Aguilera & Jay Rock’s Albums Debut
The NYC legend’s latest album, NASIR, made its debut at #5 on the charts, earning Nas his 12th Top 10 album. His prior studio album, Life is Good, debuted at #1. Check out our review NASIR here.
Christina Aguilera is back in the Top 10 with her latest studio fering, Liberation. The album, which features GoldLink, Ty Dolla $ign and 2 Chainz, moved 68,176 in equivalent album units in its first week. Read DX’s review Christina Aguilera’s Liberation here.
Jay Rock’s latest, Redemption, makes a solid debut at #13, with 32,633 in equivalent album units. Read DX’s review the album here.
Top 10 Billboard 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 06/21/2018
Note: The first number below is this week’s “total album equivalent units” count, an intersection 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.
- The Carters — EVERYTHING IS LOVE — #2 — 122,870 (69,695) 73,239,130]
- XXXTENTACION — ? — #3 — 93,820 (8,554) 116,344,730]
- Post Malone — Beerbongs & Bentleys — #4 — 82,489 (8,566) 99,146,424]
- Nas — NASIR — #5 — 76,637 (48,940) 39,211,866]
- XXXTENTACION — 17 — #7 — 55,125 (3,546) 72,532,706]
- Juice WRLD — Goodbye & Good Riddance — #8 — 43,344 (1,139) 60,157,673]
- Cardi B — Invasion Privacy – #9 — 42,959 (2,988) 51,422,990]
- Kanye West — ye – #11 — 36,841 (5,808) 44,948,113]
- Jay Rock — Redemption — #13 — 32,633 (9,101) 33,578,489]
- KIDS SEE GHOSTS — KIDS SEE GHOSTS — #14 — 31,533 (8,022) 34,531,583]