A$AP Rocky scores his third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, and first in more than a decade, as Don’t Be Dumb debuts atop the list dated Jan. 31. The set earned 123,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Jan. 22, according to Luminate.
He previously topped the list with AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP (in June 2015) and LONG.LIVE.A$AP (February 2013), both of which also debuted at No. 1.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.
Of Don’t Be Dumb’s 123,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 76,000 (equaling 78.02 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks, A$AP Rocky’s best streaming week ever — it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 47,000 (it debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.
Don’t Be Dumb’s release date of Jan. 16 was announced on Dec. 19. The long-awaited set was issued as a widely-available standard 15-track vinyl LP, as well as a 15-track CD and cassette sold exclusively via the artist’s webstore. The wide digital download and streaming editions carried two further tracks. In total, the album was issued across more than a dozen vinyl variants (adding up to 40,000 sold — his best week ever on vinyl). The set also got a boost from its availability in multiple deluxe boxed sets sold in his webstore, each containing a copy of the album on CD and a branded piece of clothing. Further, on Jan. 21, two more tracks were added to the digital and streaming version of the album.
The album’s debut was preceded by its song “PUNK ROCKY,” which entered the Billboard Hot 100 dated Jan. 24 at No. 64.
S: Billboard
