Drake continues to dominate the Billboard 200 this week, with Views earning another 121,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music. This makes Drake the first solo male artist with seven weeks at #1 since Eminem‘s The Marshall Mathers LP way back in 2000. The last record to spend seven weeks atop the Billboard 200 was of course Adele‘s 2015 release 25.
Nick Jonas earns the biggest debut of the week with Last Year Was Complicated. It gives Jonas the highest charting solo album of his career, earning 66,000 units, 47,000 of which were traditional album sales.
At #3 is the cast recording of the Broadway smash hit Hamilton. Powered by the show’s big night at the Tony Awards last weekend, Hamilton leapt from #13 to #3 on the strength of a 119 percent increase in overall units, including a 164 percent jump in traditional album sales. Billboard notes that this is the first time the Hamilton cast recording has broken the top ten, as its highest peak was previously #11.
Singer Jon Bellion debuts at #5 with his first album The Human Condition. Bellion co-wrote and sang on Zedd‘s single “Beautiful Now” and co-wrote the hit songs “The Monster” by Eminem and Jason Derulo‘s “Trumpets.”
The rest of the top ten is rounded out by Beyoncé (#4), Rihanna (#6), Twenty One Pilots (#7), Adele (#8), Blake Shelton (#9) and Chris Stapleton (#10).