Hip Hop didn’t handle to prime the most recent Billboard 200 chart resulting from Girl Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack, which bought a bump from the 2019 Academy Awards. However, rap did safe half the entries within the Prime 10. Gunna, Offset and Lil Pump’s respective albums had been all capable of rating Prime 10 debuts this week together with R&B star Kehlani’s Whereas We Wait mission.
Additionally, some Hip Hop’s latest staples on the chart skilled slight falls this week. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie went from No. 6 to No. eight, Submit Malone fell from No. 7 to No. 10 and Travis Scott dropped from No. eight to No. 12.
Gunna Secures Hip Hop’s Finest-Promoting Album Of The Week
Offset was projected to have the highest gross sales amongst rappers on the most recent Billboard 200, however Gunna was capable of narrowly beat him out for the honors. The Younger Thug protégé’s Drip Or Drown 2 managed to maneuver 89,874 whole album equal items, beating out Offset by just some hundred items.
In phrases pure album gross sales, Gunna solely offered 465 extra copies than the Migos member. He additionally racked up about 6 million extra streams to seize Hip Hop’s prime spot for the week and No. three total.
Offset’s First Solo LP Cracks Prime 5
Whereas Offset didn’t lead the cost as predicted, he nonetheless managed to debut at No. four after his album went by way of months delays. Father four was initially scheduled to drop final yr however bought pushed again amid turmoil in his marriage with Cardi B.
With the couple’s issues seemingly within the rearview mirror, Offset lastly dropped the LP in February. He offered 89,zero29 whole album equal items, 6,590 which got here from pure album gross sales.
Lil Pump Debuts In Prime 10
One other t-delayed album, Lil Pump’s Harverd Dropout, hit No. 7 in its debut on the Billboard 200. The controversial rapper did significantly nicely when it got here to pure album gross sales, promoting 24,789 copies.
Total, Lil Pump’s sophomore LP moved 48,351 whole album equal items in its first week on the chart.
Prime 10 Billboard 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 02/28/2019
Word: The primary quantity under is that this week’s “whole album equal items” 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 accessible in daring in parenthesis and details about every album’s streaming depend is accessible in brackets.
1. Gunna — Drip Or Drown 2 — No. three — 89,874 (7,055) 112,257,348]
2. Offset — Father Of four — No. four — 89,zero29 (6,590) 106,580,553]
three. Lil Pump — Harverd Dropout — No. 7 — 48,351 (24,789) 33,404,598]
four. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie — Hoodie SZN — No. eight — 36,997 (303) 54,998,822]
5. Kehlani — Whereas We Wait — No. 9 — 34,269 (5,976) 35,821,086]
6. Submit Malone — Beerbongs & Bentleys — No. 10 — 32,959 (2,135) 41,969,364]
7. Travis Scott — Astroworld — No. 12 — 30,632 (1,125) 39,984,008]
eight. Meek Mill — Championships — No. 13 — 30,389 (1,536) 38,852,964]
9. Drake — Scorpion — No. 14 — 29,893 (1,474) 38,164,485]
10. 21 Savage — I Am > I Was — No. 15 — 28,944 (530) 40,807,329]