Drake’s Honestly, Nevermind debuts at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart (dated July 2), giving the superstar its 11th No. 1 spot on the chart. The surprise release was announced on June 16 and the album was released at midnight on June 17. The ensemble is a sonic left turn of the hip-hop giant, as it is “almost entirely composed of a grumpy electronic atmosphere and a dance floor that moves the body. Heat” and “is supported in the scene of house music “with collaborations from” seven house music producers with different degrees of popular fame “.
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Drake becomes the fifth act with more than 10 number 1 albums on the Billboard 200 since the list began to be released regularly weekly in 1956. He joins The Beatles (who lead with a record number 19). Jay-Z (14), Bruce Springsteen and Barbra Streisand (each with 11).
Honestly, Nevermind is released with 204,000 equivalent album units obtained in the U.S. the week ending June 23, according to Luminate. Real-time playback activity boosted 94% of the album’s first week’s sum.
Also in the new top 10, Kevin Gates picks up his fifth top 10 on the Billboard 200, as Khaza reaches number 8.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimeter consumption measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units include album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit is equivalent to an album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 official on-demand audio and video plays with ad support, or 1,250 paid / subscription generated songs from an album. The new chart dated July 2, 2022 will be published in its entirety on the Billboard website on June 28. For all the news on the chart, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Honestly, of the 204,000 equivalent album units obtained from Nevermind, SEA units include 191,000 (equivalent to 250.23 million official on-demand reproductions of the ensemble’s songs), album sales comprise 11,000 and the units ASD includes 2,000.
The 14 tracks Honestly, Nevermind tilt with the fourth largest playback week of an album in 2022, through official on-demand plays: 250.23 million. In particular, this year’s three biggest weeks were scored by albums with the longest song list (all in their debut weeks): A Summer Without You by Bad Bunny (356.55 million 23 songs) , Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers by Kendrick Lamar (343.02). millions; 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 major playback week was more than a year ago, when Olivia Rodrigo’s 11-song Sour tilted with 300.73 million official reproductions on demand (June 5 chart). , 2021).
The most played cut in Honestly, Nevermind, by official reproductions on demand, is its closing theme “Jimmy Cooks”, with 21 Savage, with 39.59 million. The second and third most played tracks in streaming are the opening song 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 plays came from video plays. (Looking at only the official audio streams on demand, the set’s two most played songs are “Jimmy Cooks,” with 37.93 million, and “Sticky,” with 25.37 million.)
“Jimmy Cooks” and “Sticky” are the most rap-cut tracks on the album. Combined, the two songs accounted for 26% of the official on-demand plays of the first week of the album (65.75 million to 250.23 million).
All in all, Honestly, Nevermind is Drake’s 14th album with the top 10 charts on the Billboard 200. Since 2009, when he first entered the charts, he has recorded at least one new top 10 each year, except in 2012 and in 2014. Honestly, it gives Drake an eighth year in a row with a new top 10 album (dating back to 2015’s What a Time to Be Alive, with Future and If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, both numbers 1) . No other event has reached a new top 10 every year since 2015.
At number 2 on the new Billboard 200, Un Verano Sin Ti, the top of the Bad Bunny charts, is a no-move with 121,000 equivalent album units (8%). A Verano Sin Ti has added more than 100,000 in each of its first seven weeks to the chart. The last title to do so was Drake’s Scorpion, which saw its first seven weeks surpass 100,000 units (July 28-August 25, 2018, charts).
Former Harry Styles leader Harry’s House is in third place with 79,000 equivalent album units (13%), BTS Proof falls 1-4 in its second week with 75,000 units (76%) and Dangerous: The Double by Morgan Wallen. The album goes up 6-5 with 52,000 units (less than 1%). Future’s former No. 1, I Never Liked You, drops 5-6 with 49,000 units (11%), and Post Malone’s twelve-carat toothache drops 4-7 with 44,000 units (26%).
Kevin Gates gets his fifth album in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 when Khaza reaches number 8 with 38,000 equivalent album units won. Of this sum, SEA units comprise 34,000 (equivalent to 47.05 million official on-demand reproductions of the ensemble’s tracks), album sales comprise 3,000, and TEA units contain less than 1,000.
Closing the new top 10 are two old numbers 1: Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers by Kendrick Lamar (7-9 with 36,000 equivalent album units; 14% less; Sour by Olivia Rodrigo (8-10 with 32,000 units; 1 more).%)).
Luminate, Billboard’s independent chart data provider, completes a thorough and thorough review of all submitted data used to compile the weekly chart ranking. Luminate reviews and authenticates data, eliminating any suspicious or unverifiable activity using established criteria before making and publishing final graph calculations. In collaboration with Billboard, data deemed suspicious and unverifiable is disqualified prior to the final calculation.