CARDI B sold 255,000 copies of her new album “Invasion of Privacy” during its first week out, and that was EASILY enough to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200.
Cardi is just the fifth female rapper to hit #1 on the chart, after Nicki Minaj, Eve, Foxy Brown, and Lauryn Hill. But she’s the first to do it since 2012. The album also had the biggest streaming week for a debut studio album . . . and had the largest on-demand audio streaming week ever for an album by a woman.
Here’s this week’s Top 10 albums:
1. NEW: “Invasion of Privacy”, Cardi B . . . 255,000 copies
2. NEW: “America”, Thirty Seconds to Mars . . . 62,000 copies
3. “My Dear Melancholy”, The Weeknd . . . 52,000 copies
4. The “Greatest Showman” soundtrack . . . 51,000 copies
5. “?”, XXXTentacion . . . 46,000 copies
6. “Culture 2”, Migos . . . 37,000 copies
7. The “Black Panther” soundtrack . . . nearly 37,000 copies
8. “The World Is Yours”, Rich the Kid . . . 36,000 copies
9. “Stoney”, Post Malone . . . 29,000 copies
10. NEW: “Total Xanarchy”, Lil Xan . . . 28,000 copies
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