6LACK made a giant splash on the newest Billboard 200 chart, securing a No. three debut together with his sophomore mission East Atlanta Love Letter. Whereas Carrie Underwood’s Cry Fairly was the most important debut the week at No. 1, 6LACK reached new heights in his profession and solely trailed Eminem within the Hip Hop class.
As for Slim Shady, his shock album Kamikaze continued to rack up huge numbers whereas sustaining the No. 2 spot for the second week in a row. Elsewhere within the High 5, Drake’s Scorpion and Travis Scott’s Astroworld gave Hip Hop a big presence on the chart.
The opposite notable debut for the week was YoungBoy By no means Broke Once more’s 4Respect 4Freedom 4Loyalty 4WhatImportant, which was in a position to land within the High 15.
6LACK Scores High 5 Debut
6LACK’s East Atlanta Love Letter skyrocketed previous his breakthrough mission FREE 6LACK, which peaked at No. 34, by hitting No. three in its first week on the chart. The rapping and singing twin risk was ready to take action by shifting 76,807 whole album equal models. 20,227 them got here from pure album gross sales.
East Atlanta Love Letter’s launch additionally reignited some curiosity in FREE 6LACK. 6LACK’s debut mission returned to the chart at No. 181 with a modest 5,351 whole album equal models.
Eminem Maintains Maintain On No. 2 Spot
Paul McCartney was in a position to knock Eminem f the highest spot final week, however Slim Shady nonetheless has tons traction on the Billboard 200. Em’s Kamikaze remained at No. 2 for the second week in a row, solely trailing Carrie Underwood’s Cry Fairly album.
In its third week on the chart, Kamikaze was in a position to transfer 102,993 models, 43,545 which got here from pure album gross sales. Whereas Em’s star energy certainly performed the most important function in his gross sales, the continuing feud with Machine Gun Kelly has supplied some further promo too.
YoungBoy By no means Broke Once more Cracks High 15
Regardless of being a glorified a compilation EPs, YoungBoy By no means Broke Once more’s 4Respect 4Freedom 4Loyalty 4WhatImportant debuted at No. 14 within the newest Billboard 200. The mission mixed the beforehand launched 4Respect, 4Freedom and 4Loyalty EPs with some new tracks billed because the 4WhatImportant part.
Earlier this month, YoungBoy’s 4Respect was in a position to peak at No. 19 by itself. His most up-to-date launch provides him three High 20 charting initiatives in 2018, which incorporates his main label debut Till Dying My Name Identify that topped out at No. 7.
High 10 Billboard 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 9/20/2018
Be aware: The primary quantity under is that this week’s “whole album equal models” depend, an intersection album gross sales, single gross sales, and streams applied by Billboard’s new score system. A pure album gross sales determine is on the market in daring in parenthesis and details about every album’s streaming depend is on the market in brackets.
1. Eminem — Kamikaze — No. 2 — 102,993 (43,545) 77,108,822]
2. 6LACK — East Atlanta Love Letter — No. three — 76,807 (20,227) 72,656,159]
three. Drake — Scorpion — No. four — 67,567 (three,154) 85,624,112]
four. Travis Scott — Astroworld — No. 5 — 61,877 (1,210) 81,439,673]
5. Submit Malone — Beerbongs & Bentleys — No. 6 — 47,097 (three,128) 58,982,460]
6. Nicki Minaj — Queen — No. 9 — 36,224 (2,763) 45,920,950]
7. Juice WRLD — Goodbye & Good Riddance — No. 10 — 36,155 (641) 56,019,923]
eight. Mac Miller — Swimming — No. 12 — 33,zero43 (four,957) 36,874,173]
9. XXXTENTACION — ? — No. 13 — 31,537 (1,440) 47,315,809]
10. YoungBoy By no means Broke Once more — 4Respect 4Freedom 4Loyalty 4WhatImportant — No. 14 — 30,508 (795) 41,319,660]