PARTYNEXTDOOR & Drake’s ‘$exy $ongs’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200

PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake’s first collaborative album, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, debuts atop the Billboard 200 chart (dated March 1), incomes 246,000 identical album devices within the U.S. within the week finishing Feb. 20, in keeping with Luminate. It’s the primary chief for PARTYNEXTDOOR and fourth most sensible 10 charting set. It’s 14th No. 1 for Drake amongst 17 most sensible 10s. Drake now ties JAY-Z and Taylor Swift for probably the most No. 1s amongst soloists within the nearly-69-year historical past of the chart. Total, most effective The Beatles, with 19 No. 1s, have extra.

A collaborative challenge from PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake were teased for months, however used to be most effective formally introduced on Feb. 3, upfront of its unencumber on Feb. 14.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. in response to multi-metric intake as measured in identical album devices, compiled through Luminate. Devices include album gross sales, observe identical albums (TEA) and streaming identical albums (SEA). Each and every unit equals one album sale, or 10 person tracks bought from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand reputable audio and video streams generated through songs from an album. The brand new March 1, 2025-dated chart might be posted in complete on Billboard‘s website online on Feb. 25. For all chart information, apply @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously referred to as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of $ome $exy $ongs 4 U’s 246,000 first-week identical album devices, SEA devices include 219,000 (equaling 287.04 million on-demand reputable streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 1 on Most sensible Streaming Albums), album gross sales include 25,000 (it debuts at No. 3 on Most sensible Album Gross sales) and TEA devices include 2,000.

With 287.04 million on-demand reputable streams generated of its songs, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U nets the biggest streaming week for an album in 2025. It’s the biggest streaming week for any album since Kendrick Lamar’s GNX debuted at No. 1 at the Dec. 7, 2024, chart with 379.72 million.

Talking of Lamar, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U is Drake’s first album for the reason that feud between him and Lamar escalated in March 2024 with the discharge of “Like That” through Long term, Metro Boomin and Lamar. A flurry of diss tracks adopted from every artist, with Lamar’s “Now not Like Us” discovering probably the most industrial good fortune, spending 3 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 at the Billboard Sizzling 100 (together with a go back to the highest per week in the past after he carried out the observe all the way through his Tremendous Bowl LIX halftime display on Feb. 9).

$ome $exy $ongs 4 U replaces Lamar’s GNX atop the Billboard 200, because the latter falls to No. 3 after returning to No. 1 per week in the past within the wake of the halftime display. It’s the primary time Lamar and Drake have swapped the No. 1 slot at the Billboard 200. This could also be most effective the 3rd time Lamar and Drake were within the most sensible 3 on the similar time at the Billboard 200. They prior to now shared area within the most sensible 3 at the Might 13, 2017, chart, when Lamar’s DAMN. used to be in its 2d week at No. 1 and Drake’s former chief Extra Lifestyles used to be No. 2, and at the Might 6, 2017, chart, when DAMN. debuted at No. 1 and Extra Lifestyles used to be No. 3. (DAMN. spent 4 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in Might-August 2017 and Extra Lifestyles had 3 weeks at No. 1, consecutively, in April 2017.)

$ome $exy $ongs 4 U is the primary collaborative No. 1 at the Billboard 200 in 2025. There have been 3 collab No. 1s in 2024, none in 2023, one in 2022, one in 2021 and one in 2020. Of Drake’s 14 leaders, 3 are collaborative units. He prior to now led with the collab tasks Her Loss (with 21 Savage in 2022) and What a Time to Be Alive (with Long term in 2015).

At the new Billboard 200 chart, Sabrina Chippie’s former chief Quick n’ Candy surges 7-2 with 156,000 identical album devices earned (up 208%) following its reissue with 5 further tracks on Feb. 14. The set used to be reissued on streamers, in addition to at retail as a virtual obtain, CD, cassette and two vinyl variants. Some of the further cuts at the reissue is a transformed model of Chippie’s solo No. 1 Sizzling 100 hit “Please Please Please,” now rerecorded as a collaboration that includes Dolly Parton.

With 156,000 identical album devices earned in the most recent monitoring week, Quick n’ Candy snags its greatest week because it debuted at No. 1 at the chart dated Sept. 7, 2024, with 362,000. Of the album’s 156,000 devices earned, SEA devices include 83,000 (up 108%, equaling 111.95 million on-demand reputable streams of the set’s songs; it climbs 7-4 on Most sensible Streaming Albums), album gross sales include 71,000 (up 616%; it rises 6-1 on Most sensible Album Gross sales) and TEA devices include 2,000 (up 198%).

SZA’s chart-topping SOS falls 2-4 at the Billboard 200 with 93,000 identical album devices earned (down 14%); Dangerous Bunny’s former No. 1 Debí Tirar Más Fotos dips 4-5 with 67,000 devices (down 14%); and The Weeknd’s chart-topping Hurry Up The next day to come descends 3-6 with 58,000 devices (down 42%).

Chappell Roan’s The Upward push and Fall of a Midwest Princess slips 5-7 at the Billboard 200 (49,000 identical album devices earned; down 17%); Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Arduous and Cushy drops 6-8 (46,000; down 18%); Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Factor at a Time dips 8-9 (39,000; down 5%); and Lamar’s DAMN. falls 9-10 (33,000; down 14%).

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