Drake, 21 Savage No.1 Debut ‘Her Loss’

Her Loss by Drake and 21 Savage debuts at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard 200, making history.

A total of 404,000 equivalent album units—including 391,000 from streaming, 12,000 from album sales, and 1,000 from streaming equivalent album units—were achieved by the 16-track joint album in its first week. With 513.56 million on-demand official streams of the tracks, Her Loss records the largest debut week for a hip-hop/R&B album in 2022 so far and the fourth-largest streaming week in album history. Drizzy receives his 12th and 21st No. 1 albums with this record.

Joji’s Smithereens, which debuted at No. 5, also made it into this week’s top 10. Of its initial 57,000 equivalent album units, 39,5000 came from streaming (52.95 million on-demand official streams of the tracks), 17,500 from album sales, and the remaining from track equivalent album units.

Taylor Swift, Lil Baby, and Bad Bunny are at Nos. 2, 3, and 4, respectively, on the chart. The bottom half of the top 10 is made up of Morgan Wallen, The Weeknd, Harry Styles, Zach Bryan, and Steve Lacy.

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