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Drake’s ‘ICEMAN’ Spends Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200.

Drake’s ICEMAN holds atop the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 6) for a second week, earning 225,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending May 28 (down 52%), according to Luminate.

The set hit No. 1 a week ago, alongside two more Drake projects, HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOUR, as he became the first artist ever to rank at Nos. 1, 2 and 3 simultaneously in the chart’s 70-year history. They fall 2-7 (53,000 units, down 53%) and 3-8 (42,000, down 62%), respectively, in their second week.

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 ICEMAN’s 225,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 223,000 (down 50%, equaling 228.45 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it spends a second week at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 1,000 (down 90%) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 59%).

Of Drake’s 15 Billboard 200 No. 1s — tied for the most among soloists with Taylor Swift — ICEMAN is his sixth to lead for multiple weeks.

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published. S: Billboard

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