Chris Brown earns another Billboard 200 Top 10 with “Breezy”.
Last week, Chris Brown dropped his highly anticipated new album “Breezy” and the first week sales for the 10th studio effort are here. The new album from the 33-year-old failed to top the Billboard 200, but earns another top 10 debuts on the US Charts.
As projected, the album moved 72,000 equivalent units in the first week, with 87.36 million on-demand streams and 5,000 pure sales. Now all the 10 albums from the R&B star earned top 10 debuts on US Billboard Charts. Chris Brown’s previous album “Indigo” topped the Billboard 200 with 108,000 album-equivalent units in 2019.
During its debut week, Chris Brown’s album “Breezy” had five songs that charted on the Billboard Hot 100. This feat put Chris Brown ahead of Elvis Presley and secured his position as the eighth artist with the most entries on the Hot 100, totalling 112 songs on the chart.
Previously, the R&B star called out the media for lack of support. “July 8th [Breezy] deluxe album, not that [it] matters…,” he wrote on his IG story. “SEEMS LIKE YALL ONLY INVEST IN THE NEGATIVE STORIES ABOUT ME. CHRIS GETS IN TROUBLE (THE WHOLE WORLD IS ON it). Chris drops album…[cricket emojis].”
Billboard 200: #4(new) @chrisbrown, Breezy 72,000 [87.36 million on-demand streams | 5,000 pure sales].
— chart data (@chartdata) July 3, 2022
With featured guest performances from Fivio Foreign, H.E.R., Lil Wayne, Jack Harlow, Lil Durk, Lil Baby, Bryson Tiller, and others, the project is already a star-studded event. Since the debut of Breezy, a number of tracks have also become more popular, notably his WizKid-leaning “Call Me Everyday” and “WE (Warm Embrace),” which features Normani, a multi-talented singer and dancer.
Meanwhile, Bad Bunny’s latest album continues making new records on the chart, as it returned to the top this week. It is now the first project to sell over 100,000 units in the US in each of its first eight weeks of release since Drake’s “Views”.
.@sanbenito‘s ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’ is the first album to sell over 100,000 units in the US in each of its first eight weeks of release since @Drake‘s ‘Views’.
— chart data (@chartdata) July 3, 2022
Drake’s “Honestly, Nevermind” which topped the charts last week, is now on number third. Lil Durk also earned good numbers with the deluxe edition of his album “7220“, as it debuted at #5 with 68,000 equivalent units.
Billboard 200: #3(-2) @Drake, Honestly, Nevermind 73,000 (277,000 units since release). *peak: #1*
— chart data (@chartdata) July 3, 2022
Billboard 200: #5(+13) @lildurk, ‘7220’ 68,000 (732,000 units since release). *peak: #1 for 2 weeks*
— chart data (@chartdata) July 3, 2022
