With no major new releases this week to challenge Drake for the Billboard 200 throne, expect Views to bump its Number One streak to six weeks. It generated 80,000 in consumption, with 62,000 coming from album sales. Views also now has the top five largest streaming weeks for an album ever, according to Nielsen Audio.
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Bentley’s latest album, “Black”, debuted at No. 2 with 101,000 units sold, including 5 million streams.
Drake’s latest studio album Views has surpassed the one billion stream mark in the USA – 1.07 billion to be exact, Drake’s second such album to pass the lofty mark. His self-titled 2012 debut album failed to chart. His previous career high mark came courtesy 2006’s “Long Trip Alone”, which sold 82,000.
Drizzy previously topped one billion streams with his studio album If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, which topped out at 1.06 billion.
7/27’s lead single, “Work From Home”, recently became the act’s first top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 – and has so far peaked at No. 4.
With a unit total of 63,000, Blake Shelton’s “If I’m Honest” is #5 on this week’s Billboard 200 chart.
Bentley’s previous album “Riser” moved 63,000 pure United States copies in its first week. Ariana Grande’s “Dangerous Woman” drops to sixth place after enjoying some time in second place. This is the 24-year-old Australian star’s very first visit to the chart.
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The rest of the top 10 of this week’s Billboard 200 is made up of Adele’s “25” which stays at No. 9 with another 31,000 units and Twenty One Pilots’ “Blurryface” that rises from No. 11 to No. 10 with 28,000.
