Chart Check [Billboard 200]: Drake & Beyonce Block Meghan Trainor From #1

Published: Tuesday 24th May 2016 by Rashad
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‘No’ singer Meghan Trainor heard exactly that from fans of Drake and Beyonce as she was blocked from #1 on this week’s refreshed Billboard 200.

Originally believed to be the week’s top contender for the tally’s perch, as reported here, ‘Thank You’ – Trainor’s sophomore album – missed the top 2 due to equivalent album sales of 107,000 (nearly 90,000 less than her debut album).  Drizzy, on the other hand, holds tight to the top spot for yet another week after moving equivalent album units of 239,000 (83,000 actual sales) followed by Bey’s 128,000 (92,000 actual sales).

Keen to see where all of your other favorites landed on this week’s album charts?  It all awaits below:


Billboard 200 This Week

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  1. ???????Chile, take this “Itty Bitty Piggy” to the market and make sure you hold her hand while crossing the street!??????? May 24, 2016

    Who didn’t know this was gonna happen? I’m sad to say that Ariana’s #1 albums streak will come to an end soon. You just can’t beat the power of black artists that make great music. That’s just how it is.

    • ???????Chile, take this “Itty Bitty Piggy” to the market and make sure you hold her hand while crossing the street!??????? May 24, 2016

      …and “Anti” is STILL in the top 5. What kind of slayage? I swear I really see the album being certified triple platinum. Can’t wait for it to clock “Prism’s” streaming record.

      • wrosy3 May 25, 2016

        Good nothing against Trainor but she got clocked and blocked oh well the three biggest black artist on top look at baby anti lawd rih this made my day very happy for drake and bey it shows their fans ain’t playing gone are the days look at Justin number one song fell so hard

  2. #JACKIE May 24, 2016

    Drake is king!

  3. HailBeysus May 24, 2016

    Embarrassing! Especially after both albums have been out for practically a month lmao! Anyway nice try at least you didn’t debut at #27 at #460 copies ????????

  4. ThatMessJuice.Flop May 24, 2016

    Drake Bey Rih…I just have to say though Anti is just so refreshing…still the same old shtick from hum…and I shall leave it at that.

    • wrosy3 May 25, 2016

      Everyone please ignore hailbeysus she is a cockroach that crawls into people’s lives peasant nothing but hate for rih be gone parasite I rebuke you in the name of all the cockroach sprays

  5. ThatMessJuice.Flop May 24, 2016

    Drake Bey Rih…I just have to say though Anti is just so refreshing…Drake could do better. … still the same old shtick from him …and I shall leave it at that.

  6. Mark111 May 24, 2016

    Damn Anti, back at it again in the top 5. Flop where?

  7. IStan4Rihanna. May 24, 2016

    In other news…

    .

    US album sales: ANTI 11,745 (434,148 TOTAL)
    .
    US SPS: ANTI 44.000 (1.077.000 TOTAL)

    .

    For albums released in 2016, ‘ANTI’ is the third best selling album of the year behind Drake “Views” (#1) and Beyoncé “LEMONADE” (#2) in SPS and the fourth best-selling album of the year in pure sales.

    .

    Congratulations Rihanna, Drake and Beyoncé. 😉 😉 😉

    • ???????Chile, take this “Itty Bitty Piggy” to the market and make sure you hold her hand while crossing the street!??????? May 24, 2016

      Yes! I love how you stay with the receipts in possession. Gotta respect the fact that you can be unbiased in presenting stats for other artists correctly, other than Rih. Love it!

    • Keri Qween May 24, 2016

      Yasss bring the receipts sis

  8. Mark111 May 24, 2016

    Beyonce is really lucky Drake didn’t drop a week earlier or her lil streak would had ended. Lol Poor thing only has her circus to depend on.

    • Nancy grace slays May 25, 2016

      That would have been a cute battle!

    • Danny Bey May 25, 2016

      But she’s still SELLING more than him in her 4TH week and his 3rd? So what are you saying?

    • wrosy3 May 25, 2016

      You need to give Beyonce credit and stop the foolishness you starting to become hailbeysus hating people for no reason but even I can give respect to her when will we see another slayage by a black woman Rihanna came and carrying the torch from what see these are the only two black women even though people want to divide them in the media

  9. Mark111 May 24, 2016

    Selling 500K after giving out 1.4 million albums is really impressive. I don’t see many artist doing that.

    • IStan4Rihanna. May 24, 2016

      Exactly.

      • wrosy3 May 25, 2016

        I’m proud of rih and navy she releasing sunglasses with dior rih needs to start her own clothing empire she making money for,these companies I see her the next Victoria Beckham I wanted one of those slippers monolos creepers and could not find any but end up getting the fenty I need those sunglasses hope I can get one

    • Keri Qween May 24, 2016

      It sure is

    • Danny Bey May 25, 2016

      Where’d the 0.4 come from? Lol

  10. ???????Chile, take this “Itty Bitty Piggy” to the market and make sure you hold her hand while crossing the street!??????? May 24, 2016

    I just wanna also take the time to address a concern about Bey’s MET Gala makeup. Why does everyone on social media keep saying that it was messy, cheap, and just rushed? She STILL looked good, and she doesn’t need much makeup like those other basic Betty’s, so what’s the darn issue? Goodness! And nothing was wrong with her hair’s closure. I swear people just look for attention.

  11. IStan4Rihanna. May 24, 2016

    YTD ALBUMS SPS – 2016 (USA):

    1. Views: 1,352,000
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    2. Lemonade: 1,176,000
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    3. Anti: 1,077,000

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    😉

    • No favs, just here for the music May 25, 2016

      Would you happen to know the pure sales tally for Views and Lemonade? I haven’t been keeping track

      • Danny Bey May 25, 2016

        Views – 1,110,000
        Lemonade – 926,000

    • Music May 25, 2016

      What about pure album sales, do you have that?

    • wrosy3 May 25, 2016

      Wow very proud of rih she always have slow start to her albums but baby girl always manage to slay

  12. Authentic May 24, 2016

    Lemonade has legs because allot of the mainstream is still discovering it… It’s gonna have a second wave of sales when it’s released universally allot of older people or those who don’t use apple don’t even know about the album yet ….. Views was honestly disappointing but kudos to Drizzy… These white artist get all the promo & budget & still can’t win these black artist are hustling & it’s paying off. Black artist don’t need radio because we drive pop culture what we do is always watched… i told this white guy black people don’t listen to radio anymore because it’s not for us …

    • XYZ May 25, 2016

      Funny, when certain artists don’t sell, it’s cause they’re black. If they do, it’s cause they’re black als well? And white people get all the promo and budget? Good to know that bey and drake had no promo or budget…i mean the superbowl is not counted as promo, isn’t it? A movie on tv as well aus pictures all over time square isn’t either, or?

      And isn’t lemonade already available universally?

      • Danzou May 25, 2016

        let me guess youre either non black poc or youre white which one

    • Danzou May 25, 2016

      so true. black people are at the center of pop/hiphop culture. everything we do is imitated and recycled. u see how OMI had a reggae island pop hit then all of a sudden bieber recorded sorry? white people are irritating because they live everyday completely ignoring this until POC bring it up THEN they wanna argue but only ever argue to defend themselves. they try to make it seems like people are blaming all white people and thats not the case. the truth of the matter is that the mainstream media is flat out racist because of executives and higher ups that pull strings.

  13. Authentic May 24, 2016

    Some of you have hate in your heart…. It’s very tiresome. probably stay in a damn Trap house talking about what celebrity has this & that all day…?? Sam F** it! I can’t anymore bro

    • Danzou May 25, 2016

      lol just what i be talmbout

  14. HailBeysus May 24, 2016

    BeyHive THE SLAYAGE IS REAL!!!!
    .
    11 Dates Total
    479,894 / 479,894
    (100%) $61,543,595
    .
    $61M FROM 11 DATES!!! ALL SOLD OUT!!! SHE’S COMING MADINOSOUR SHE’S FUXKING COMING!!!!!

    • Slay_Hive May 25, 2016

      Yaaaasss she’s slaaaayying tf outta fRih easily, effortlessly yaaaasssssss!!!!!!!!!

      • HailBeysus May 25, 2016

        YAAASSS!!! SHE IS WHICH IS WHY THE SLAVI IS HIDING BEHIND FATDEL AND DRAKIESHA KIII!!!
        .
        I can’t at her team these venues sending in her Box Score stats immediately! Meanwhile 75% of fRihanna’s dates are still MIA!!! ????!!! Im getting my life at he EGG on the SLAVI’S AND Z-LISTERS faces saying she couldn’t sell a Stadium Tour Solo and that she was struggling to SELL the stadiums!!! Hahahahahah!!!

      • Datredd23 May 25, 2016

        Both ladies are slaying per usual why cant we just leave it at that? Lol

      • wrosy3 May 25, 2016

        Hailbeysesus go eat s*** your snide remarks at rih is tiresome get a life

      • wrosy3 May 25, 2016

        People like you give your own black Americans a bad name you hate on your own people a true troll you are very pathetic and the sad part is that you are know better than Wendy Williams and azalea it’s call self hate other races are happy for each other success I feel sorry for your ass I guess you mad at rih and drake for coming to America took your job made success of themselves is that’s what killing you the mere fact of two foreign people get over it maggot this country is built on emigrants

      • Danzou May 25, 2016

        lol fatdel

    • Ihaterihanna May 27, 2016

      SHE not touching Madonna record

      Madonna is the Queen of touring. FLOPonce can take that unsweetened Limeade somewhere else

      • HailBeysus May 27, 2016

        Sure about that? She has yet o announce a Asain leg for the tour, rumors are circulating that she’s getting ready to announce Australian and New Zealand dates. Oh and let’s not forget she hasn’t announced a South America leg for the tour yet. Also she was expected to do $250 million from 39 dates but since than has added several more dates. PS. If Rose Bowl could gross $7.8m from 50k in attendance imagine the number for O2 Stadium date in the UK where she sold 90k tickets. She’s coming AND YOU WILL DEAL!!!

  15. No favs, just here for the music May 25, 2016

    I think the biggest hit off that album is ‘NO’ but let’s be honest, that song is dated as hell. It sounds like something I would have heard in the very early 2000s. Drake’s slayage on the BB200 is real. Both in pure sales and SPS he’s slaughtering all competition right now.

    • BEYICON May 25, 2016

      Pure sales Beyonce outsold Drake this week lol. But i agree with everything else.

      • No favs, just here for the music May 25, 2016

        I meant the total tally of pure sales not just week by week

    • Danzou May 25, 2016

      i thought the EXACT same thing its not a bad song it just sounds like a destinys child demo from survivor its a fake anthem.

  16. Yes girl May 25, 2016

    Big congrats to Bey, Drake, and Rih. An even bigger congrats to Bey for her tour, pure slayage!

  17. KD May 25, 2016

    This streaming nonsense really distorts things. Pure album sales should be all that’s taken into consideration.

    • Music May 25, 2016

      I agree, it’s ridiculous

    • XYZ May 25, 2016

      Don’t agree. It’s just keeping up with Times. Sales will decline furthermore as people are using streaming. And they consume music via streaming, so it needs to be counted. we’re in 2016, thats just the way it is

  18. BeyKnowlesBest May 25, 2016

    If bey is not nominated for album of the year I’m gonna be highly irritated

  19. Bravo!! May 25, 2016

    If am reading right Beyoncé should be number because of pure sales?

  20. Bravo!! May 25, 2016

    If am reading right Beyoncé should be number #1 because of pure sales?! Drake albums should be considered more popular off steaming..

  21. Bravo!! May 25, 2016

    Billboard should not combine streaming with pure sales… They can separate or make a new Category. Still have albums sales & make a new chart that count toward steaming

    • Danny Bey May 25, 2016

      There should be a separate chart that incorporates or is just dedicated to streaming. It shouldn’t be counted for the main Billboard 200

  22. cocobutta May 25, 2016

    3 of that top 5 will be chilling there probably next week also.

    I hope Bey actually start separating the videos and push a singles run. Would be cool if she released Sorry while Queen Serena slays in the French Open. Picking singles to stretch the era will actually make the album sell a bit more also.
    Rihanna Billboard vocal performance with boost her sales some more also.

  23. jlove May 25, 2016

    black people are so of them self…only them want to be winning other race up there they all just hating

    • Danzou May 25, 2016

      if black people are full of ourselves then what are the rest of the world made of? s.hit. im tired of black people being the b*** of peoples frustration meanwhile no one says s.hit about what white people are doin.

    • B&B May 26, 2016

      This is America, where my great grandmother’s mom was a s****. Not THAT long ago, I barely missed meeting her before she passed. To be stripped of our dignity until this very day (very subtle in comparison to slavery days aka psychological warfare) so hell yes we have pride in our people’s success!!!

      Now, to down the next successful artist just cuz they’re non-black or just cause they’re white I do disagree with. However, a white man’s success and a black man’s success are attained differently.

  24. jlove May 25, 2016

    adele don sell out beyonce

  25. Danzou May 25, 2016

    the only reason lemonade isnt selling hardcore is because white people and non black poc literally dont know how to enjoy anything black people do without feeling like theyre a part of it or they wont support it.

  26. Taylor swifts number 1 fan!!! May 25, 2016

    1989 is at number 26 in the charts! Still going stromg after being released in October of 2014!

  27. Reddish tran ivy blokz Need UK timely May 25, 2016

    Nice

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