After weeks of Top 10 inactivity and record-low album sales in the top spot of the Billboard 200, Future ended the charts malaise as the rappers latest The Wizrd opened at Number One.
The Wizrd sold 126,000 total copies in its first week of release to give Future his sixth Number One album in a little over three years; 2015s DS2 and What a Time to Be Alive, 2016s Evoland 2017s Future and HNDRXXpreviously topped the album charts, Billboard reports.
However, Future wasnt the album-selling remedy the Billboard 200 desperately needed as The Wizrdonly sold 15,000 traditional copies. While its a vast improvement over the 823 traditional copies a Boogie Wit Da Hoodies Hoodie SZN sold on its way to Number One, its still a far cry from the platinum weeks of yore.
Two more new releases impacted the Top 10 this week: Maggie Rogers much-anticipated first album Heard It In a Past Life debuted at Number Two with 49,000 total copies but 37,000 traditional copies, more than doubleThe Wizrds total. Country singer Cody Johnsons Aint Nothin to It bowed at Number Nine.
The rest of the Top 10 were returnees, including the two-time Number One Hoodie SZN dropping to Number Three after two modestly selling weeks atop the Billboard 200. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and 21 Savages I Am > I Was slotted Number Four and Five respectively, followed by Meek Mills Championships (Number Six), Post Malones Beerbongs & Bentleys (Number Seven) and A Star Is Born (Number Eight). Travis Scotts Astroworld closed out the upper tier at Number 10.
New releases that could shake up next weeks Billboard 200 include the Backstreet Boys DNA and Weezers surprise teal-colored covers album.