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21 Savage’s American Dream debuted atop the Billboard 200 list (dated Jan. 27), becoming his fourth No. 1 album. Luminate reports that the collection debuted with 133,000 equivalent album units earned in the US in the week ending January 18, with streaming activity driving the majority of that total.
All four of the rapper’s leaders have come consecutively, starting with I Am > I Was in 2019, and followed by Savage Mode II (with Metro Boomin in 2020), Her Loss (with Drake in 2022) and American Dream.
American Dream launches with 21 Savage’s best week, by units earned, for any of his non-collaborative projects (surpassing his previous high of 131,000 in the debut frame of I Am > I Was). The set also boasts his biggest streaming week for any of his non-collaborative sets, as its collected songs generated 169.53 million on-demand official streams in its first week (again, beating the opening stanza of I Am > I Was, with 151.87 million).
The set debuted on January 12 and was announced on January 9, therefore there was very little lead-up to the release of American Dream. Guests on the fifteen-song album include Summer Walker, Travis Scott, Metro Boomin, Doja Cat, Lil Durk, and Travis Scott.
Among the new Billboard 200’s top ten albums, Kali Uchis’s Orquideas, her second Spanish-language full-length record, debuts at No. 2 and has her best week ever in terms of units garnered (69,000). This is her highest-charting album to date.
According to Luminate’s compilation of multi-metric consumption in equivalent album units, the Billboard 200 list ranks the most popular albums of the week in the US. Sales of albums, as well as track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA), are units of measurement. For every unit sold, there are 10, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams made possible by an album’s songs. Full coverage of the revised Jan. 27, 2024 chart will be available on Billboard’s website beginning January 23, 2024. Follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on X (previously Twitter) and Instagram (formerly Instagram Stories) for all the latest chart news.
In the week ending January 18, American Dream earned 133,000 equivalent album units. Of this, 128,500 were earned through SEA, which is equivalent to 169.53 million on-demand official streaming of the album’s fifteen songs. Album sales accounted for 4,000 units, and TEA units made up 500.
Kali Uchis achieves her highest-charting album ever on the Billboard 200, as Orquideas starts at No. 2 with 69,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum — her best week ever — SEA units comprise 38,000 (equaling 51.01 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 14 songs; her biggest streaming week ever for an album), album sales comprise 31,000 (her largest sales week, and the top-selling album of the week) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.
Orquideas is Uchis’ second top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200, following the mostly-English-language Red Moon in Venus, which debuted and peaked at No. 4 in March 2023.
Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time falls 1-3 on the Billboard 200 with 61,000 equivalent album units earned (down 1%). Drake’s chart-topping For All the Dogs dips 2-4 (52,000; down 10%) and Taylor Swift’s former leader 1989 (Taylor’s Version) descends 3-5 (50,000; down 11%).
Noah Kahan’s Stick Season slips 5-6 with 45,000 equivalent album units (down 1%), while the rest of the top 10 comprises former No. 1s: Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday 2 falls 4-7 (44,000; down 16%), Swift’s Folklore rises 10-8 (43,000; up 24%), SZA’s SOS drops 6-9 (41,000; down 6%) and Swift’s Lover falls 8-10 (38,000; down 8%).
Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
