Drake is opening this week’s Billboard 200 at No. 1 with HONESTLY, NEVERMIND.
The 14-track record earned a total of 204,000 equivalent album units in its first week, including 191,000 in streaming equivalent album units (250.23 million on-demand streams of the tracks), 11,000 in album sales and 2,000 in track equivalent album units. HONESTLY, NEVERMIND also marks 2022’s fourth-largest streaming week for an album so far and is Drizzy’s 11th chart-topper, making him the fifth artist with more than 10 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200, joining the likes of The Beatles, JAY-Z, Bruce Springsteen and Barbara Streisand.
Elsewhere on the chart are Bad Bunny, Harry Styles, BTS and Morgan Wallen at Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5, respectively, while Future, Post Malone, Kevin Gates, Kendrick Lamar and Olivia Rodrigo make up the bottom half of this week’s top 10.
Elsewhere in music, GIVĒON, Dot da Genius and Lil Nas X lead the week’s Best New Tracks.
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