Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘Megan’ Tops R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart
Megan Thee Stallion’s new album Megan launches at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, giving the rapper her second profession champ. Her new set crowns the checklist dated July 13 and arrives with 64,000 equal album items within the U.S. for the monitoring week of June 28 – July 4, in line with Luminate. The whole marks the largest debut, by items, for any rap album launched by a girl in 2024.
Of Megan’s 64,000 first-week sum, streaming exercise contributes 47,000 items – equal to 62.3 million official on-demand U.S. streams for the album’s songs. The determine interprets right into a No. 5 debut on the Top Streaming Albums chart, the place it ranks because the week’s highest-charting rap album. 16,000 of Megan’s items come from conventional album gross sales — giving the artist her best-ever gross sales week — and the remaining 1,000 derive from track-equivalent items. (One unit equals the next ranges of consumption: one album sale, 10 particular person tracks bought from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams for a track on the album.)
With Megan, Megan Thee Stallion nets her second No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, after Good News debuted atop the chart in 2020 for its sole week in cost. Beyond the 2 chart-toppers, the Houston-bred rapper has collected 4 prime 10 tasks: Fever (No. 6 in 2019), Suga (No. 6, 2020), Something for Thee Hotties: From Thee Archives (No. 3, 2021) and Traumazine (No. 3, 2022).
Plus, Megan Thee Stallion turns into solely the sixth feminine rapper to attain a number of leaders on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. She joins Nicki Minaj (who has 4 No. 1 albums), Eve, Missy Elliott (every with three), Da Brat and Foxy Brown (two every).
Elsewhere, Megan begins at No. 1 on the Top Rap Albums chart, the place it likewise secures the rapper a second champ, and at No. 3 on the all-genre Billboard 200. On the latter, Megan turns into the primary prime 10-charting rap set by a girl launched this 12 months.
Five Megan cuts debut on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, led by “Otaku Hot Girl” at No. 20. (It’s additionally the album’s most-streamed track for the week, with 7.5 million official U.S. streams.) “Mamushi,” that includes Yuki Chiba, begins at No. 21, adopted by “Where Them Girls At” (No. 24), “Accent,” that includes GloRilla (No. 42) and “Rattle” (No. 47).
In addition to the brand new arrivals, three beforehand launched Megan tracks have appeared on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs: “Cobra,” which reached No. 10 final November, “Hiss,” a one-week No. 1 in February and “Boa,” which peaked at No. 13 in May. Thanks to the album’s streaming exercise, “Boa” re-enters the chart at No. 27 and “Hiss” returns at No. 38.