Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘MEGAN’ Is 2024’s Biggest Debut for a Rap Album by a Woman
Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan and Beyoncé also appear in this week’s top 10.
Megan Thee Stallion is opening this week’s Billboard 200 at No. 3 with MEGAN.
The Houston Hottie’s latest studio effort marks her sixth top 10 effort and debuts with a total of 64,000 equivalent album units in its first week, including 47,000 in streaming equivalent album units (62.67 million on-demand streams of the songs), 16,000 in album sales and 1,000 in track equivalent album units. MEGAN is officially 2024’s biggest debut for a rap album by a woman by units so far, and is also the year’s first top 10-charting rap album by a woman.
Elsewhere on the chart is Taylor Swift, who logs her 11th week at No. 1, followed by Morgan Wallen at No. 2, Billie Eilish at No. 4 and Chappell Roan at No. 5 — the last of which marks the first time that The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess has entered the top five. Making up the bottom half of this week’s top 10 are Wallen again at No. 6, followed by Peso Pluma, Shaboozey, Noah Kahan and Beyoncé from Nos. 7 to 10.
