New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Eminem's Revival reigns supreme on this week's Billboard 200! The 45-year-old rapper notched his eighth straight No. 1 album with his latest release, which opened with 267,000 equivalent album units sold during the week ending on December 21. Featuring Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, Ed Sheeran, and Kehlani, the star-studded set debuts with 267,000 equivalent album units. Of that number, 197,000 are traditional album sales.
According to Billboard,
Eminem becomes the first act to achieve eight consecutive No. 1 chart entries. Revival also earns the third-largest week of 2017 among hip-hop albums, following Kendrick Lamar's DAMN. (603,000) and Drake's More Life (505,000).
By comparison, Slim Shady's previous album, 2013's The Marshall Mathers LP 2, debuted at No. 1 with 792,000 copies in its first week.
G-Eazy scores the second biggest debut of the week with his third major label album The Beautiful & Damned, which opens at No. 3 and becomes his third top 10 in a row. The album, which features the
Cardi B and A$AP Rocky-assisted hit "No Limit," enters with 122,000 units (68,000 in traditional sales).
The Snowman, Jeezy, blows onto the charts with his ninth top 10 album, Pressure, which debuts at No. 6 with 72,000 units (54,000 in traditional sales). All of the Atlanta rapper's albums have debuted in the top 10, starting with his debut, 2005's Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101.
Elsewhere in the top 10, Taylor Swift's Reputation slides to No. 2 (133,000), Ed Sheeran's ÷ falls 3-4 (90,000), and Sam Smith's The Thrill of It All rises 8-7 (60,000).
Billboard 200 Top 10:
1.
Eminem - Revival
2.
Taylor Swift - Reputation
3.
G-Eazy - The Beautiful & Damned
4.
Ed Sheeran - ÷
5.
Pentatonix - A
Pentatonix Christmas
6.
Jeezy - Pressure
7.
Sam Smith - The Thrill of It All
8.
Luke Bryan - What Makes You Country
9.
Garth Brooks - The Anthology: Part I, The First Five Years
10.
Chris Stapleton - From A Room: Volume 2
