Lil Wayne returns to the front row with "Tha Carter V" – Rolling Stone

A delay of several years hardly prevented Lil Wayne's request Tha Carter V The rapper's latest album debuted at Number One on the Billboard 200 with the two best streaming results of the opening week.

Tha Carter V, bound by contract paperwork for years while Lil Wayne was working on his departure from Cash Money, sold 480,000 copies in total to open at the top of the Billboard 200, the rapper's fourth album, Number One, Display panel reports.

The vast majority of Tha Carter V"A total of 325,000 copies come from streaming equivalent albums (ESI), the album having accumulated more than 433 million streams of audio on demand during its first week of release; only Drake Scorpio generated more feeds on demand for a week in the graphical history. Tha Carter V also sold 141,000 "traditional" copies.

What promised to be a tumultuous battle for the number one between Lil Wayne and Kanye West suddenly disappeared when the latter failed to release his Yandhi September 29th. However, there is no shortage of news in the Top 10, even though Lil Wayne flew with first place.

The logic YSIV The number two of the rapper's first album, Number Two, was shot at 167,000 copies. At number three, Cher made her debut debut as Billboard 200, after a long career as an ABBA singer's album. Queen of Dance sold to 153,000 copies, a total partly helped by a package that combines tickets for Cher's upcoming tour to a free copy of the vinyl record.

Two new releases had an impact on the Top 10: rapper Kevin Gates' Luca Brasi 3 started at number four with 78,000 copies in total, while Tom Petty's extensive cabinet An American treasure debuted at number nine and 34,000 copies.

Drake's Scorpio led this week's group of returnees to number five, followed by Eminem's work Suicide bomber at number six, Travis Scott's Astroworld at number seven and post malone Beerbongs and Bentley at number eight. XXXTentacion ? closed the Top 10 at number 10.

Next week's Top 10 is expected to see another major transformation, with a handful of new prominent releases, including the film directed by Lady Gaga. A star is born soundtrack, Eric Church Desperate man, Twenty-one drivers & # 39; Trench and Steve Perry's new album traces – All invade the Billboard 200.