21 Savage’s new album is making an immediate impact on the charts.
His fourth studio album What Happened to the Streets? debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, making it his seventh top 10-charted project, per Billboard. The magazine also reports that Savage continues a run in which all seven of those LPs have reached the top five.
The album earned 73,000 equivalent album units in its opening week, driven by 48,000 streaming equivalent album units, which equaled 65.83 million on-demand streams. The album also sold 25,000 copies, which helped it debut at No. 5 on Top Album Sales.
What Happened to the Streets? was released on Dec. 12 in multiple formats, including a 13-song digital download, a 14 track download and streaming edition that added the song "Mr. Recoup," with Drake, and a 14 track CD edition that added "Trust Nobody" with INK. The CD was sold exclusively online in five variants, including a signed edition and four versions with alternate cover art.
Elsewhere on the chart, Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl spent a 10th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 with 104,000 equivalent album units earned, thanks in part to new color vinyl variants sold through her webstore. With this feat, she became the first woman and third act overall to log at least four albums with 10 or more weeks at No. 1.
Trailing behind are Morgan Wallen’s I'm the Problem No. 2 and the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack at No. 4.
Christmas albums also took over the charts in time for the holiday season with Michael Bublé's Christmas at No. 5, Bing Crosby's Ultimate Christmas at No. 6, Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song at No. 7, Vince Guaraldi Trio's A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack at No. 8, A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector at No. 9, and finally Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas rounding out the top 10.
