Former rivals Nas and Jay-Z discover themselves on equal footing in a single regard on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, as Nas’ King’s Disease III debuts at No. 10 on the chart dated Nov. 26. With the arrival, the Queens MC lands his sixteenth high 10, tying Jay-Z for probably the most amongst rappers within the chart’s historical past.
King’s Disease III opens with 29,000 equal album models earned within the U.S. within the week ending Nov. 17, in accordance with Luminate; 20,000 models of the beginning sum derive from streams, equaling 26.5 million official on-demand streams of the album’s songs. Of the remaining models, 8,500 are in conventional album gross sales, with the excellent stability owed to track-equivalent album models. (One unit equals the next ranges of consumption: one album sale, 10 particular person tracks offered from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams for a track on the album.)
As the brand new album enters the record, right here’s an up to date leaderboard for the rappers with probably the most high 10 albums on the Billboard 200:
16, Jay-Z
16, Nas
15, Drake
15, Future
12, Eminem
12, Lil Wayne
12, YoungBoy Never Broke Again
11, Jeezy
11, Kanye West
11, Snoop Dogg
Elsewhere, King’s Disease III begins at No. 4 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and at No. 3 on Top Rap Albums. On the previous, it turns into Nas’ 18th high 10, the second-best sum amongst rappers there, behind Jay-Z’s 21.
King’s Disease III is the third installment of what has turn into an annual sequence from Nas. The first version arrived in August 2020 and peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200. Its subsequent iteration got here 12 months later and improved on the unique, beginning at a No. 3 finest on the Billboard 200. Between King’s Disease II and King’s Disease III, Nas launched one other album, Magic, which reached No. 27 this January.
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