A$AP Rocky has secured his third Billboard 200 No. 1 album – and first in over a decade – as Don’t Be Dumb debuts atop the chart, earning 123,000 equivalent album units in its first tracking week ending January 22. The Harlem rapper’s previous chart-toppers were AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP in June 2015 and LONG.LIVE.A$AP in February 2013. The album’s success was driven by 76,000 SEA units from 78.02 million streams – Rocky’s best streaming performance ever – plus 47,000 in album sales, including 40,000 vinyl copies sold, marking the best vinyl sales week of his career. Three other releases made strong debuts and cracked the Top 10 this week, as ENHYPEN achieves their sixth career Top 10 with the No. 2 arrival of THE SIN : VANISH, while YoungBoy Never Broke Again scores his 17th Top 10 after Slime Cry launches at No. 6, and Madison Beer lands her first ever Top 10 with the No. 10 premiere of Locket.
Another notable move was made by Bad Bunny’s former chart-topper, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, which jumped nine spots to reach No. 3 after a new vinyl exclusive was released. Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving falls four spots to No. 7 after reaching a peak of No. 3, while the rest of this week’s Top 10 is rounded out by a series of former chart-toppers, as Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem drops two spots to No. 4, and Zach Bryan’s With Heaven On Top falls four spots to No. 5 in its second week. Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl slides four spots to No. 8, and the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack plunges four places to No. 9. (Billboard)
