As we near the end of the September 16-22 US album tracking week, Drake’s “Views” is the frontrunner for #1 on the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n
According to Hits Daily Double, Drake is pacing for 54-58,000 in weekly US consumption units (album sales + track sales\/10 + track streams\/1500).<\/p>\n
While not enough for a blowout, such a total should be enough for a victory in the Billboard 200 race. The closest competition will likely come from Mac Miller’s new “The Divine Feminine” (~46-50,000 units) and “Suicide Squad: The Album” (~46-50,000).<\/p>\n
“Views,” which dominated the Billboard 200 in the first half of the summer, last held #1 on the chart dated August 13 (July 22-28 tracking week).<\/p>\n
— On the pure sales front (Top Album Sales chart), look for a tight race between Aaron Lewis’ debuting “Sinner” and Jason Aldean’s reigning champion “They Don’t Know.” Hits has the former pacing for 36-39,000 pure US album sales and the latter trending for 35-38,000. Mac Miller’s album will be just behind with 32-35,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[183,1047,206],"tags":[7115,54,1372,423,7027,6365],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n