A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.Christopher Edwin Breaux, professionally known as Frank Ocean, was born on the 28th of October, 1987 in Long Beach, California, before moving to New Orleans, Louisiana, at five. 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.

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

After the success of his hit song “Say It,” the Toronto artist continues his commercial success with “Luv” climbing the Hot 100 chart. The 28-track project sold 52,485 units and was streamed nearly 25 million times. Tory Lanez’s I Told You debuts at #4 in its first week. Tory Lanez Told You His Debut Album Would Be Successful In 2012, Channel Orange opened at #2 with 131,000 album sales its first week. It is also the third independent LP to land at the #1 position, following Blink-182 and The Lumineers. These numbers gives it the third-highest selling debut of the year, only behind Beyonce’s LEMONADE and Drake’s VIEWS. Blonde, which was reportedly an independent release, was streamed more than 65 million times as an Apple Music exclusive. Frank Ocean Lands First #1 Album With “Blonde”įrank Ocean’s fans gobbled up 275,616 album equivalent units of Blonde to give Ocean the top spot on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart after the singer didn’t release a full-length project in four years. PARTYNEXTDOOR and Rae Sremmurd see significant drops in their second week of sales with P3 landing at #25 with 13,799 units (a 72 percent drop) and SremmLife 2 appearing at the #28 position with 13,150 total sales (a 54 percent falloff). Tory Lanez makes a splash with his debut album, I Told You, landing in the Top 10. Frank Ocean made the anticipation pay off as his sophomore LP, Blonde, hits the top of Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart its first week.

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