Big Sean Scores Third Consecutive No. 1 Album With 'Detroit 2'

Juice WRLD, Pop Smoke and Post Malone also appear in this week’s top 10.

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Big Sean is opening this week’s Billboard 200 at No. 1 as Detroit 2 debuts with a total of 103,000 units. Earning 71,000 streaming equivalent album units (93.55 million on-demand streams), 30,000 in album sales and 2,000 in track equivalent album units, this marks the rapper’s third consecutive No. 1 on the chart following 2017’s I Decided. and 2015’s Dark Sky Paradise.

Following Sean Don are Pop Smoke and Juice WRLD‘s posthumous efforts at Nos. 2 and 3, while 6ix9ine‘s TattleTales opens at No. 4 and Taylor Swift moves down from No. 1 to 5. The bottom half of this week’s top 10 is comprised of the original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton: An American Musical, Lil Baby, Rod Wave and DaBaby. Post Malone moves up a spot and re-enters the top 10 to round out the week.

Elsewhere in music, vinyl records outsold CDs for the first time in over 35 years.

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