Fetty Wap Debuts at No. 1 on Albums Chart
Fetty Wap is on top. After owning the summer with his hits “Trap Queen” and “My Way,” the New Jersey rapper takes the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 with his debut album.
The self-titled set sold 129,000 album equivalent units (75,000 in pure album sales) in its first week, according to Billboard. He becomes the first rapper since A$AP Rocky (2013’s Long.Live.A$AP) to reach No. 1 with a studio debut.
Fetty knocked off Drake and Future, whose joint mixtape What a Time to Be Alive slides to No. 2 in its second week with 107,000 units.
Elsewhere in the top 10, The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness falls 3-5 with 81,000 units, while Disclosure enters at No. 9 with the duo’s sophomore album Caracal (35,000 units).
Billboard 200 Top 10
1. Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap – 129,000
2. Drake and Future – What a Time to Be Alive – 107,000
3. Don Henley – Cass County – 89,000
4. George Strait – Cold Beer Conversation – 86,000
5. The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness – 81,000
6. Thomas Rhett –
7. Taylor Swift – 1989 – 41,000
8. Chvrches – Every Open Eye – 38,000
9. Disclosure – Caracal – 35,000
10. The Dead Weather – Dodge and Burn – 33,000