Mac Miller’s Balloonerism bows at No. 1 throughout a number of Billboard album charts, together with High Album Gross sales, High Rap Albums, Vinyl Albums and Indie Retailer Album Gross sales. Plus, seven of the album’s tracks dot the Scorching R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Balloonerism’s songs date again to 2014, however the challenge was shelved in favor of different releases.
Balloonerism is the second No. 1 on High Album Gross sales for Miller, who died in 2018. It’s additionally his third chief on High Rap Albums, his sixth chart-topper on Vinyl Albums and his first on the Indie Retailer Album Gross sales rating.
Balloonerism offered just a little over 41,000 copies within the U.S. within the monitoring week ending Jan. 23, in response to Luminate. Vinyl gross sales comprise the majority of that sum – 32,000, marking his greatest gross sales week ever on vinyl.
Billboard’s High Album Gross sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based mostly solely on conventional album gross sales. The chart’s historical past dates again to Could 25, 1991, the primary week Billboard started tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece rely data from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales have been the only real measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart by way of the checklist dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a strategy that blends album gross sales with observe equal album (TEA) items and streaming equal album (SEA) items.
On High Album Gross sales, Miller triumphs over a surging Gracie Abrams, whose The Secret of Us vaults 33-2 with 21,000 offered (up 689% after the vinyl and CD launch of a deluxe version of the album). Rounding out the remainder of the highest 10: the Depraved soundtrack (shifting 2-3), Stray Youngsters’ HOP (5-4), Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (3-5), Sabrina Carpenter’s Quick n’ Candy (holding at No. 6), Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Onerous and Comfortable (9-7), ROSÉ’s Rosie (11-8), Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours (13-9) and Tyler, The Creator’s IGOR (15-10).
On the Billboard 200, Balloonerism debuts at No. 3 – the eighth prime 10-charting set for Miller on that rating.
Miller On the R&B/Hip-Hop & Rap Charts: Miller earns his third No. 1 on the High Rap Albums chart. He first dominated with Blue Slide Park in 2011 and adopted with The Divine Female in 2016, each of which led for one week. On the High R&B/Hip-Hop Albums checklist, Balloonerism debuts at No. 2 andgives the late rapper his seventh prime 10 effort. Along with the No. 1s Blue Slide Park and The Divine Female, he additionally reached the area with Watching Films With the Sound Off (No. 3 in 2013); GO:OD AM (No. 2, 2015); Swimming (No. 3, 2018) and Faces (No. 3, 2021).
Seven of Balloonerism’s tracks land on the Scorching R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, led by a No. 16 debut for “Humorous Papers.” The arrival immediately makes it Miller’s second-highest peak on the chart amongst his 23 entries, trailing solely the No. 10 greatest for “Good Information” in 2020.
Notable among the many different tracks, “5 Greenback Pony Rides” bolts 32-19 in its second week on Scorching R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and wins the weekly Streaming Gainer and Gross sales Gainer honors. “DJ’s Chord Organ,” that includes SZA, begins at No. 23 and opens at No. 7 on the Scorching R&B Songs chart.
Over On the Billboard Scorching 100: On the all-genre, multi-metric Scorching 100, 4 of the album’s songs debut: “Humorous Papers” (No. 77), “5 Greenback Pony Rides” (No. 85), “DJ’s Chord Organ” (No. 95) and “Stoned” (No. 97).
Miller Hits a New Peak on the Billboard Artist 100 Chart: Exercise surrounding Ballonerism drives Miller 66-2 on the Billboard Artist 100, a brand new peak for the rapper at his 83rd nonconsecutive week on the chart. The Billboard Artist 100 measures artist exercise throughout key metrics of music consumption – album and observe gross sales, radio airplay and streaming – to offer a weekly multi-dimensional rating of the preferred artists within the U.S.
