Album Sales: Rae Sremmurd's "S3RMM" Makes Billboard 200 Top 10 Debut

Although Rae Sremmurds triple album, SR3MM,made its debut in the Billboard 200s Top 10 for the week ending May 10, its Post Malone who continuesto the dominate the chart. Malonessophomore album, Beerbongs & Bentleys,has hit #1 for a second consecutive week.

Although Rae Sremmurd’s triple album, SR3MM, made its debut in the Billboard 200’s Top 10 for the week ending May 10, it’s Post Malone who continues to the dominate the chart.

Malone’s sophomore album, Beerbongs & Bentleys, has hit #1 for a second consecutive week.

Elsewhere, J. Cole’s KOD makes a short leap to #2 from its #3 position last week despite a 35 percent decline in sales, Leon Bridges’ Good Thing makes a big debut at #3, and the Black Panther soundtrack and Migos’ Culture II round out the Top 10.

AD LOADING...

Post Gets An Encore

For the second week in a row, Post Malone’s Beerbongs & Bentleys has nabbed the Billboard 200 crown. With 192,655 total album equivalent units (23,664 in pure album sales and a streaming count of 240,693,746), it was still enough to take the #1 spot — even with the 58 percent slump in sales.

AD LOADING...

Beerbongs & Bentleys has been smashing records since its April 27 release. Last week, Malone broke the record for the most simultaneous Hot 100 hits, which The Beatles had held since 1964.

Real Crowd Pleasers

Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi’s triple album SR3MMhas entered the chart in the Top 10. The Rae Sremmurd duo racked up 56,955 total album equivalent units (5,157 in pure album sales and a streaming count of 73,597,207), landing the project in the #6 slot.

AD LOADING...

SR3MM serves as the follow-up to 2016’s SremmLife 2, which debuted at #7 upon its initial release.

Nickel Nine Makes Debut

Even with the Eminem feature on “Caterpillar,” Royce Da 5’9’s Book Of Ryan wasn’t able to crack the Top 20. The project wound up in the #24 spot after pulling in 18,883 total album equivalent units (10,799 in pure album sales and a streaming count of 9,942,824).

AD LOADING...

Book Of Ryan serves as the follow-up to Nickel Nine’s 2016 album, Layers, which debuted at #22 and marked the first album of his to hit #1 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

[apple_news_ad type=”any”]

Top 10 Billboard 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 05/10/2018

Note: The first number below is this week’s “total album equivalent units” count, an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams implemented by Billboard’s new rating system. A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.

AD LOADING...

  • Post Malone — Beerbongs & Bentleys — #1 — 192,655 (23,664) [240,693,746]
  • J. Cole — KOD — #2 — 68,230 (12,828) [80,860,377]
  • Leon Bridges — Good Thing — #3 — 66,135 (8,575) [9,048, 089]
  • Cardi B — Invasion Of Privacy — #4 — 61,780 (5,420) [78,007,963]
  • Rae Sremmurd — SR3MM — #6 — 56,955 (5,157) [73,597,207]
  • Various Artists — Black Panther: The Album — #9 — 29,619 (4,522) [33,432,716]
  • Migos — Culture II — #10 —28,708 (1,524) [37,909,883]
  • Post Malone — Stoney — #11 — 28,157 (2,323) [36,114,638]
  • YoungBoy Never Broke Again — Until Death Call My Name — #12 — 28,085 (845) [38,152,382]
  • XXXTENTACION — ? — #13 — 27,804 (655) [38,777,971]

    • ncG1vNJzZmigmaW1sLzDsWWcp51ku6bD0mignWZka4V1fI6toK2klWO1qryMoaapZZGhr7a5jKyYpZ2jYr%2BisYysqZ6lnaq%2Fpb%2BMrKlspZ1iuqK3xKxkraegYn5xecGio6Wan5a%2FpXmRaWdmnJWXwrU%3D

     Share!