2 on the Billboard 200 chart, and sold 131,000 copies in its first week. It is available exclusive to stream via Apple Music.īoth releases are Ocean’s first full-length offerings since his debut album, Channel Orange, which came out in 2012. It was the second-most streamed album on the chart, behind only Drake’s Views, with 67.5 million streams.įrom Beyonce to Frank Ocean, Breaking Down the Mechanics, and Politics, Behind Streaming Exclusivesīlonde arrived two days after Ocean released the long-form video Endless (which many have referred to as a visual album). The songs on the Blonde album generated 65.4 million streams during the week. Blonde also logs the third-biggest sales start - behind, again, just Views (852,000 copies sold in its first week) and Lemonade (485,000).īlonde was available exclusively to stream via the Apple Music service and for sale through the iTunes Store (but only as a full album - none of its tracks were sold a la carte). Only two albums started bigger than Blonde in 2016: Drake’s Views (1.04 million units earned in its debut frame) and Beyonce’s Lemonade (653,000). Of Blonde’s start of 276,000 units, 232,000 were in traditional album sales, while the rest were SEA (44,000 units). 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Aug. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. 25, according to Nielsen Music.īlonde logs the third-largest debut of 2016, behind only the arrivals of Drake’s Views and Beyonce’s Lemonade.įrank Ocean’s ‘Blonde’ Poised for Big Billboard 200 Debut, But ‘Endless’ Will Be Absent - Here’s Why 20, bows atop the list with 276,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with the arrival of Blonde.
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