62 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 08.04.2018
Four On
Top ForDrake
Drake’s Scorpion holds on
to the No. 1 slot for a fourth
week on the Billboard 200,
making it the album with
the most weeks atop the
list in 2018.
The set earned 184,000
equivalent album units
(down 29 percent) in
the week ending July 26,
according to Nielsen
Music. Of that sum, 15,000
were in traditional album
sales. The streaming-
powered set debuted atop
the list and hasn’t left
the penthouse since its
arrival. The last album to
collect four frames atop
the list was Taylor Swift’s
reputation, which earned
four nonconsecutive weeks:
three in a row from in 2017
(Dec. 2-16) and then one
more on Jan. 6. The last
set to link four weeks in
a row in the top slot was
The Weeknd’s Starboy
(Jan. 21-Feb. 11, 2017), and
the last to have its first four
weeks at No. 1 was Drake’s
own Views in 2016. It led
for its first nine weeks (of a
total 13), between May 21
and July 16 of that year.
Scorpion is the first album
since Views to earn four
weeks of at least 184,000
units. Scorpion launched
with 732,000, then earned
335,000, 260,000 and then
slightly over 184,000 in its
second, third and fourth
weeks, respectively. Views
opened with 1.04 million,
and then raked in 313,000,
239,000 and 189,000.
—Keith CaulfieldThe Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums).SALES DATA COMPILED BY