US rapper Wale is currently No 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
His album ‘The Album about Nothing’ is his second No 1 album on the Billboard
200.
According to Billboard;
As forecast, rapper Wale debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200
with his Seinfeld-inspired The Album About Nothing. It’s his second
chart-topper, following his previous effort, 2013’s The Gifted.
With the No. 1 arrival, Wale beats out the surging Furious 7
soundtrack, which drives 17-2 and is the greatest gainer on the chart.
The Album About Nothing was released on March 31 through EBM
Music/Maybach/Atlantic Records, and tallied 100,000 equivalent album units in
the week ending April 5 (according to Nielsen Music). The Furious 7 album (on
Universal Studios/Atlantic) shifted 74,000 (a gain of 202 percent).
With both The Album About Nothing and Furious 7 at Nos. 1 and
2, Atlantic Records owns the top two slots for the first time since the July
19, 2014-dated chart. That week, Trey Songz’ Trigga (on Songbook/Atlantic)
debuted at No. 1, while Ed Sheeran’s x (Atlantic) fell 1-2 in its second week.
Furious 7 just beats out the new album by one of Furious 7’s
other co-stars, Ludacris. The hip-hop artist sees his new album Ludaversal bow
at No. 3 with 73,000 units. It is his eighth top 10 album, and first
full-length release since 2010’s Battle of the Sexes, which debuted at No. 1
with 137,000 units of pure album sales its first week.
Last week’s No. 1, Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly,
falls to No. 4 in its third week with 65,000 units (down 47 percent).
Congrats to WALE and others who are playing real big in the
hiphop world.
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