Drake’s Honestly, Nevermind debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart (July 2), giving the superstar 11th place in the chart. The surprise release was announced on June 16, and the album was released at midnight on June 17. The set is a sonic turn to the left of the hip-hop giant, as it is “almost entirely composed of a gloomy electronic atmosphere and moving body dance heat” and “relies on the house music scene” with collaborations from “seven house music producers of varying degrees of mainstream glory ”.
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Drake became the fifth act with more than 10 albums № 1 on the Billboard 200 since the chart began to be released regularly on a weekly basis in 1956. He joined The Beatles (who lead with a record 19 No. 1s), Jay-Z ( 14), Bruce Springsteen and Barbra Streisand (11 each).
Honestly, Nevermind started with 204,000 equivalent album units won in the US during the week ending June 23, according to Luminate. The streaming activity powered 94% of the amount for the first week of the album.
Also in the new top 10, Kevin Gates collected his fifth top 10 in the Billboard 200, with Khaza arriving at number 8.
The Billboard 200 ranks the most popular albums of the week in the United States based on multimeter consumption, measured in equivalent album units compiled by Luminate. Units include album sales, song equivalent albums (TEA) and equivalent streaming albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale or 10 individual songs sold by an album, or 3,750 supported by commercials or 1,250 paid / subscribed official audio and video streams on demand generated by songs from an album. The new chart dated July 2, 2022 will be published in full on the Billboard website on June 28. For all the news about the charts, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Of the 204,000 equivalent Nevermind albums earned, SEA units consisted of 191,000 (equivalent to 250.23 million official streams when requesting songs from the set), album sales consisted of 11,000 and TEA2,000 units.
The 14-song Honestly, Nevermind ranked with the fourth-largest streaming week for an album in 2022, from official streams on demand: 250.23 million. It should be noted that the three major weeks this year were recorded from albums with a longer playlist (all in their debut weeks): Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny (356.55 million of 23 songs), Mr . Morale by Kendrick Lamar & The Big Steppers (343.02 million; 18 songs) and I Never Liked You by Future (283.75 million; 22 songs).
In fact, the last time an album as short (or shorter) as Honestly, Nevermind had a bigger streaming week, was more than a year ago, when Olivia Rodrigo’s 11-song Sour bowed to 300.73 million official streams at request (schedule of June 5, 2021).
The most streamed version of Honestly, Nevermind, from official streams on demand, is his final song “Jimmy Cooks”, featuring 21 Savage, with 39.59 million. The second and third most streamed tracks are the opening track of the album “Falling Back” (27.05 million) and “Sticky” (26.16 million). “Falling” is the only song on the album with an official music video, and 3.03 million of its streams come from video playback. (Watching only the official audio streams on demand, the two best-selling songs on the set are “Jimmy Cooks” with 37.93 million and “Sticky” with 25.37 million.)
“Jimmy Cooks” and “Sticky” are the most rap rap clips on the album. Taken together, the two songs accounted for 26% of official album search streams in the first week (65.75 million out of 250.23 million).
Overall, Honestly, Nevermind is Drake’s 14th album in the top 10 in the Billboard 200. Since 2009, when it first entered the charts, it has entered at least one new top 10 each year, except for 2012. and 2014. Honestly, it gives Drake its eighth consecutive year with a new album in the top 10 (extending to What a Time to Be Alive from 2015, with Future and If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late – both number 1 ). No other act has marked a new top 10 every year since 2015.
Second in the new Billboard 200, Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti is still with 121,000 equivalent album units (down 8%). Un Verano Sin Ti has scored over 100,000 in each of its first seven weeks in the rankings. The last title to do so was Drake’s Scorpion, whose first seven weeks were over 100,000 units (July 28 – August 25, 2018, charts).
Former Harry Styles leader Harry’s House remains in 3rd place with 79,000 equivalent album units (down 13%), BTS’s Proof falls 1-4 in its second week with 75,000 units (76%) and Dangerous: The Double of Morgan Wallen The album rose 6-5 with 52,000 copies (to less than 1%). The former No. 1 Future I Never Liked You fell 5-6 with 49,000 units (down 11%), and Post Malone’s Twelve Carat Toothache fell 4-7 with 44,000 units (down 26%).
Kevin Gates hit his fifth album in the top 10 on the Billboard 200, while Khaza finished in 8th place with 38,000 equivalent albums won. Of this amount, SEA units consist of 34,000 (equal to 47.05 million official streams on demand for songs from the set), album sales include 3,000, and TEA units consist of less than 1,000.
Closing the new top 10 two former number 1: Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers by Kendrick Lamar (7-9 with 36,000 equivalent album units; down 14%) and Sour by Olivia Rodrigo (8-10 with 32,000 units; up 1%).
Luminate, Billboard’s independent chart data provider, is completing a comprehensive and in-depth review of all submitted data used in compiling the weekly rankings. Luminate reviews and verifies the data, removing any suspicious or unverifiable activity using established criteria, before final calculations of the chart are made and published. In partnership with Billboard, data considered suspicious and unverifiable will be disqualified before the final calculation.
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