At long last, A$AP Rocky is No. 1
Rapper A$AP Rocky's new album showed up a week early and still got to No. 1.
Initially scheduled for a June 2 release, At.Long.Last.A$AP came out May 26 instead and sold 117,000 copies last week, according to Nielsen Music, giving the rapper his second No. 1 on the Billboard albums chart.
Rocky's first album, 2013's Long.Live.A$AP, also topped the chart upon its debut.
According to Billboard, At.Long.Last.A$AP is the sixth rap album to top the trade publication's chart this year. It's also one of three top-five debuts this week.
Rapper Boosie BadAzz, formerly known as Lil' Boosie, sold 59,000 copies of Touch Down 2 Cause Hell, enough for a No. 3 debut. Christian worship band Hillsong United enters the chart at No. 5 with Empires, selling 47,000 copies.
Though they sold fewer copies, Taylor Swift's 1989 held the No. 2 spot, and the Pitch Perfect 2 soundtrack came in at No. 4. Both albums had their chart positions strengthened by individual track sales. Billboard factors album sales, track downloads and on-demand streaming into its ranking of the week's most popular albums.
Last week's No. 1 album, Twenty One Pilots' Blurryface, falls to No. 6, its second-week sales dropping 80% from the previous week.