Chart Listings: BB200: Drake 111K
Views earned 111,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 30, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 25,000 were in traditional album sales. The bulk of Views units were driven by streaming equivalent album units (67,000), owed to the album’s popularity on streaming services. Views pulls ahead of Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP (with eight weeks at No. 1) to solely claim the third-most weeks at No. 1 by a hip-hop album. Ahead of Views are Vanilla Ice’s To the Extreme (16 weeks at No. 1 in 1990 and 1991) and MC Hammer’s Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em (21 weeks in 1990). Further, the last time an album by a man tallied nine consecutive weeks at No. 1 was way back in 1992, when Billy Ray Cyrus’ Some Gave All accumulated 17 weeks at No. 1 — all in a row. At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200 is Beyonce’s Lemonade, which rises one slot with 48,000 units (down 3 percent). Since the album debuted at No. 1 — 10 weeks ago — it has never left the top four position of the chart. |
POSITION | ARTIST | ALBUM | UNITS (Pure) [Streams] | CHANGE |
#1 | Drake | Views | 111,0000 (25,000) [100,500,000] | +2% |
#2 | Beyoncé | LEMONADE | 48,000 | -3% |
#3 | The Avett Brothers | True Sadness | 46,000 (43,000) | DEBUT |
#4 | Twenty One Pilots | Blurryface | 38,000 (15,000) | +5% |
#5 | Rihanna | Anti | 37,000 | -1% |
#6 | Cast of Hamilton | Hamilton | 36,000 | -26% |
#7 | Adele | 25 | 33,000 | +16% |
#8 | Various Artists | Epic AF | 28,000 (0) | +26% |
#9 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | The Getaway | 28,000 | -76% |
#10 | Meghan Trainor | Thank You | 27,000 | -22% |