A years-long delay did little to quell the demand for Lil Wayne‘s Tha Carter V as the rapper’s latest album debuted at Number One on the Billboard 200 thanks to the second-best opening-week streaming numbers ever. Tha Carter V, bound in contractual red tape for years as Lil Wayne worked …
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Hip-hop “boy band” Brockhampton scored their first Number One album as the rap collective’s Iridescence opened atop the Billboard 200. Iridescence sold 101,000 total copies – including 79,000 traditional copies – in its debut week to give the 14-member Brockhampton their first Number One. The group – which reportedly signed …
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Nicki Minaj‘s Queen andTravis Scott‘s Astroworldwere projected to be in a close race for Number One album, but it didn’t pan out that way. Scott’s albumbeat Minaj’s by 20,000 album-equivalent units, which, in chart-nerd parlance is not exactly “close.” And Minaj did not take kindly to the numbers. “I put …
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