Charts Don't Lie: October 28th
Last week was all about The Game, and one
would have assumed this week would be a
similar story, but despite neck-and-neck
projections, Machine Gun Kelly's General
Admission pulled ahead of the Documentary
2.5 , giving MGK the number one rap album
this cycle. Still neither artist could get ahead
of The Weeknd, who is pretty unstoppable
right now, securing the number 3 spot on the
Billboard 200 after 8 weeks.
Check the full breakdown below.
1) The Weeknd —Beauty Behind The
Madness : While there were a few big debuts
this week, The Weeknd still managed to come
out on top of the rap and R&B pile, moving
62,087 units of his third studio album (23,192
excluding streams). This week the album was
officially certified gold by the RIAA. It's sold a
total of 609,695 copies so far. He stay steady
at number 3, below Pentatonix and Demi
Lovato.
2) Machine Gun Kelly— General Admission :
Despite competing with The Game, MGK
managed to score the number one album of
the week, pulling in 56,310 units from his loyal
fanbase (49,351 excluding streams) and
placing at number 4.
3) Fetty Wap— Fetty Wap : While there may
still be people saying Fetty Wap is a flash in
the pan, even after having 5 charting singles,
he continues to perform well on the album
charts. His self-titled debut is in its 4th week,
and is still out-selling efforts from The Game
that were released after it. This week Fetty
sells 47,957 units (13,380 excluding
streams). He's at a total of 127,000 sold and
slides from 4 to 5.
4) The Game —The Documentary 2.5 : The
game's second album in two weeks still
manages to do decent numbers, coming in at
number 6 earning him 42,968 units (11,582
excluding streams). Coupled with the numbers
with Doc 2 (see below), he had a pretty good
week.
5) Drake & Future—What A Time To Be
Alive : What A Time is coming up on the gold
mark, with 451,00 units moved thus far, this
week it's down from 5 to 8 and sells 42,968
copies (11,582 excluding streams).
6) The Game— The Documentary 2 : Doc 2
falls from 2 to 11, likely taking a bit of a hit
due to the rapper competing with himself. Still
he manages to move 28,810 copies (21,433
excluding streams) in week 2.
7) Future—DS2 : Future falls from 15 to 20
this week, making him the only artist other
than Game to have two albums in the top 20.
He sells 18,570 copies (5,091 excluding
streams), putting him at a total of 277,000.
8) Drake —IYRTITL : Drizzy has finally fallen
out of the top 20, shifting down to 23 this
week as he moves a respectable 17,833 units
(4,780 excluding streams), and beefs up his
full tally to 1,051,000.
9) Bryson Tiller— Trapsoul: Tiller has been
surprisingly resilient in his four weeks on the
charts, hanging in at 28 (down from 24). This
week he sells 15,582 copies (6,494 excluding
streams).
10) Joe Budden— All Love Lost: Budden
quietly released his new album this week,
debuting at number 29 and moving 15,254
copies (14,229 excluding streams).
While it seemed certain that Drake would
come out on top of the Hot 100 this week,
unfortunately memes don't count as streams,
and neither do Apple Music video plays, so
Drizzy took a backseat to his pal Abel for the
third week straight. With Adele's new single
released earlier in the week, we don't foresee
Drake pulling through in the next cycle, so he'll
just have to come a little harder (or release his
video on VEVO) the next time around.
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