Hip Hop Album Gross sales: Tekashi 6ix9ine&#zero39;s "Dummy Boy" Catapults To Billboard 200 Glory

Tekashi 6ix9ine’s debut album Dummy Boy has made a monster debut at No. 2 regardless of his present incarceration. Though the challenge was initially leaked earlier than it might be correctly rolled out, that didn’t appear to affect his numbers.

In the meantime, with Travis Scott amid his Astroworld: Want You Have been Right here Tour, followers the Houston-bred rapper are probably scooping up the Astroworld album left and proper. Consequently, the challenge has returned to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 for the week ending November 29. It marks the third time the album has topped the chart this 12 months.

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Elsewhere on the chart, J.I.D’s DiCaprio 2 challenge struggled to crack the Prime 40 and lands at No. 41.

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As Tekashi 6ix9ine sits behind the partitions a New York jail getting “G-Checked,” his debut album has made its grand entrance on the Billboard 200 at No. 2. Boasting 65,598 complete album equal items, 10,137 pure album gross sales and a streaming rely 73,231,512, Dummy Boy has earned the controversial determine his highest-charting challenge so far.

6ix9ine is dealing with a slew authorized bother and his case isn’t anticipated to go to trial till September four, 2019.

The 22-year-old’s final challenge, the DAY69 mixtape, was launched in February and peaked at No. four. It has since by licensed gold by the RIAA.

Again On Prime

With 71,048 60 complete album equal items, 31,455 pure album gross sales and a streaming rely 51,953,691, Astroworld has boomeranged again to Billboard’s coveted spot. It jumps 60 p.c from the No. 7 place final week.

Astroworld initially debuted at No. 1 in August, managing to dethrone Drake’s Scorpion on the similar time. Throughout its second week, it was up towards Nicki Minaj’s Queen album however nonetheless held on to the highest place.

Scott’s final album, 2016’s Birds In The Lure Sing McKnight, additionally debuted at No. 1, promoting roughly 53,000 items in its first week.

Learn the Astroworld assessment right here. 

J.I.D Virtually Cracks Prime 40

J.I.D’s new challenge DiCaprio 2 has hit the chart at No. 41 with 16,970 complete album equal items, 2,955 pure album gross sales and a streaming rely 2,553 18,483,519. It serves because the Spillage Village vet’s follow-up to 2015’s DiCaprio and additionally serves as his first studio album since 2017’s The By no means Story.

DiCaprio 2 is J.I.D’s highest-charting solo challenge. The By no means Story peaked at No. 197 upon its preliminary launch.

Prime 10 Billboard 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 11/29/2018

Be aware: The primary quantity under is that this week’s “complete album equal items” rely, an intersection album gross sales, single gross sales, and streams carried out by Billboard’s new ranking system. A pure album gross sales determine is offered in daring in parenthesis and details about every album’s streaming rely is offered in brackets.

  1. Travis Scott — Astroworld — No. 1 — 71,048 (31,455) 51,953,691]
  2. Tekashi 6ix9ine — Dummy Boy — No. 2 — 65,598 (10,137) 73,231,512]
  3. Drake — Scorpion — No. eight — 39,254 (2,518) 49,628,297]
  4. Lil Child & Gunna — Drip Tougher — No. 10 — 33,882 (264) 49,512,460]
  5. Publish Malone — Beerbongs & Bentleys — No. 11 — 33,124 (2,588) 41,915,859]
  6. Metro Boomin — Not All Heroes Put on Capes — No. 12 — 31,810 (228) 44,890,480]
  7. Trippie Redd — A Love Letter To You three — No. 13 — 31,578 (685) 47,927,367]
  8. Lil Wayne — Tha Carter V — No. 15 — 29,815 (2,598) 35,274,596]
  9. Mariah Carey — Merry Christmas— No. 19 — 24,080 (5,360) 22,871,975]
  10. Juice WRLD — Goodbye & Good Riddance — No. 21 — 23,612 (252) 37,726,800]