Tyler, The Creator’s ‘Cherry Bomb’ Debuts at No. 4, Young Thug Lands Outside Top-10 in This Week’s Album Sales (4/22/2015)

Just fourteen days after announcing that he would would be releasing Cherry Bomb, Tyler, The Creator debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard Top 200 chart with 58,000 units sold. With a scheduled release date of April 14, the album hit digital retailers a day early and physical copies didn't start hitting stores until April 17. Over 49,000 of the 58,000 albums sold were downloads and only 2,000 were physical copies (the other 7,000 were compiled of streams from various services). By comparison, the Odd Future MC's 2013 album, Wolf, came in at No. 3 with 89,000 sold. Still, with less than a week for promotion and late shipping physical copies, Cherry Bomb did well on the chart.

After all the hype surrounding Young Thug's Barter 6, the eccentric rapper didn't crack the top-10. According to HITS Daily Double, which gives approximate sales based on data from a limited number of retailers, Thugger's project came in at No. 21 with 19,568 sold. Of course Barter 6 isn't Thug's official debut. That will come in the form of Hy!£UN35 on Aug. 28.

Elsewhere on the chart, the soundtrack for Furious 7 fell from No. 1 to No. 2 with 79,000 sold, holding strong thanks to the strength of Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again" which is the No. 1 song on the Hot 100. Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late remains in the top-10, Kendrick's To Pimp a Butterfly slipped to No. 16 and Wale's The Album About Nothing comes in at No. 29. The full list of hip-hop projects represented in the top-50 can be seen below:

2. Various Artists, Furious 7 Soundtrack, 79,000
4. Tyler, The Creator, Cherry Bomb, 58,000
10. Drake, If You're Reading This It's Too Late, 35,000
15. Various Artists, Empire Soundtrack, 23,875
16. Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly, 23,107
21. Young Thug, Barter 6, 18,714
22. Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint, 18,434
24. Wale, The Album About Nothing, 18,120
29. Big Sean, Dark Sky Paradise, 16,521
37. J. Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, 12,252
38. Ludacris, Ludaversal, 12, 248

*The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on mulit-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums and streaming equivalent albums.

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