Drake Tops Billboard 200 for Third Week, Wiz Khalifa Debuts at No. 2
Drake spends a third week atop the Billboard 200.
The rapper’s record-breaking album Scorpion sold 260,000 equivalent album units in the week ending July 19, according to Billboard. Streaming continues to play a major role as 82 percent of its total units came from SEA units (213,000), while traditional album sales were 29,000.
With a third week at No. 1, Scorpion now ties Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys and Black Panther: The Album for the most weeks spent atop the Billboard 200 in 2018.
Following Drizzy is Wiz Khalifa, who returns to the charts with Rolling Papers 2, which opens at No. 2 with 80,000 units. The Taylor Gang boss earns his fifth top 10 album following 2016’s Khalifa (No. 6), 2014’s Blacc Hollywood (No. 1), 2012’s O.N.I.F.C. (No. 2), and 2011’s Rolling Papers (No. 2).
Elsewhere, Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys falls to No. 3 (68,000), XXXTentacion‘s ? holds at No. 4 (45,000), and Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy remains at No. 5 (44,000).
Billboard 200 Top 10
1. Drake – Scorpion – 260,000
2. Wiz Khalifa – Rolling Papers 2 – 80,000
3. Post Malone – beerbongs & bentleys – 68,000
4. XXXTentacion – ? – 45,000
5. Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy – 44,000
6. Juice WRLD – Goodbye & Good Riddance – 41,000
7. Various – The Greatest Showman – 31,000
8. Lil Baby – Harder Than Ever – 26,000
9. Maroon 5 – Red Pill Blues – 25,000
10. Luke Combs – This One’s for You – 25,000