Anderson .Paak & Cordae’s ‘Heavy Is the Crown’ Reigns on Top Rap Albums Chart
Both artists lead the list for the first time with a third visit to the ranking.
Anderson .Paak and Cordae team up for the first time on their collaborative album, Heavy Is the Crown, which ascends to the top of Billboard's Top Rap Albums chart. This marks a first-place debut for each artist. The album launches with 30,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States during the tracking week of Oct. 23-29, as reported by Luminate.
These units are a combination of album sales (19,000), streaming activity (11,000), and track-equivalent sales activity (negligible). One unit represents album sales, individual track sales, or a combination of paid/subscription tier or ad-supported tier streams of songs from the album. Cordae's partnership with Anderson .Paak precedes his Top Rap Albums chart entry with Yes Lawd! under the Nxwrries duo in November 2016 and Oxnard in December 2018.
Before the success of Heavy Is the Crown, Anderson .Paak's music spanned hip-hop, R&B, and other genres, and he had consistent success as an R&B artist with albums such as Malibu and Ventura. Cordae's albums The Lost Boy and From a Birds Eye View also achieved notable positions on the charts. The album debuted at No. 2 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and No. 11 on the all-genre Billboard 200.
The lead track, "Airbender," performs well, debuting at No. 21 on Hot Rap Songs and becoming the most-streamed song of the week with 2.4 million official U.S. on-demand streams. This achievement secures Anderson .Paak's first entry on Hot Rap Songs, and it marks Cordae's fourth appearance on the chart, having previously collaborated with Eminem, NF, Lyrical Lemonade, and Juice WRLD.
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