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Billboard Breakdown: Pusha T Slides Above A$AP Rocky To Notch Highest Charting Album To Date

Posted on June 4th, 2018
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Karen


Pusha T notches his highest charting album yet, as his third studio set, Daytona, debuts at No. 3. The seven-track album bows with 77,000 units, of which 39,000 were in traditional album sales. It was predicted on Friday that Daytona may only pull in 72k units but after high profile appearances on Jimmy Kimmel and Governor’s Ball Festival a benefit was definitely netted. A$AP was previously projected to pull in 73k units.

Interestingly, unlike most hip-hop albums recently, over half of Daytona’s starting sum was powered by traditional album sales. SEA units represented 36,000 of its overall launch. But, since Daytona only has seven tracks, the album’s SEA start is still impressive, as it collected 53.8 million on-demand audio streams for those seven songs during the tracking week.

 

Pusha T’s previous offerings visited the top 10 once before, with My Name Is My Name, which debuted and peaked at No. 4 in 2013.

Coming in at No. 4 on the new Billboard 200 is A$AP Rocky’s Testing, bowing with 75,000 units (album sales represent 13,000 of that figure). SEA units drive the debut, as the album starts with 60,000 SEA units (89.3 million on-demand audio streams). It’s the third straight top five-charting effort for the hip-hop star, following a pair of No. 1s: At.Long.Last.A$AP (in 2015) and Long.Live.A$AP (2013).

 

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