Cyrus Langhorne
A$AP Mob leader A$AP Rocky‘s new A.L.L.A. album reigns supreme as the top-selling release of the past week with more than 100,000 sold copies.
After arriving to retail outlets a week early, Rocky’s new LP managed to sell 146,000 copies.
Rapper A$AP Rocky claims his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as At.Long.Last.A$AP bows atop the tally. The set, which was released on May 26, moved 146,000 equivalent album units in the week ending May 31, according to Nielsen Music. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). (Billboard)
One-day estimates had the LP expected to sell at least 110,000 copies.
A$AP Rocky will debut at #1 next week on both our sales and SPS charts following the release of his At.Long.Last.A$AP a week ahead of schedule. Here are this week’s key debuts.
A$AP Rocky (Polo Grounds/RCA) 110-120k sales, 125-135k SPS
Hillsong United (Hillsong) 45-55k, 50-60k
Boosie Badazz (Atlantic) 40-50k, 45-55k (HITS Daily Double)
Three 6 Mafia’s Juicy J hopped onto Twitter last month to promote the LP.
Rocky recently revealed plans to put together a posthumous album for late A$AP Mob member A$AP Yams.
“Yams started an album before he passed and he left his notebooks and blueprints and I’m just picking where he left up because me and him were gonna do the album together. He was working on a crazy album. I’m letting people know that if I do something good, the next thing I do will be have to be great.” (BBC Radio 1Xtra)
