Mac Miller’s ‘Balloonerism’ Makes Chart-Topping Billboard Debut

Mac Miller’s Balloonerism bows at No. 1 throughout a couple of Billboard album charts, together with Most sensible Album Gross sales, Most sensible Rap Albums, Vinyl Albums and Indie Retailer Album Gross sales. Plus, seven of the album’s tracks dot the Sizzling R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Balloonerism’s songs date again to 2014, however the venture was once shelved in desire of alternative releases.

Balloonerism is the second one No. 1 on Most sensible Album Gross sales for Miller, who died in 2018. It’s additionally his 3rd chief on Most sensible Rap Albums, his 6th chart-topper on Vinyl Albums and his first at the Indie Retailer Album Gross sales rating.

Balloonerism offered just a little over 41,000 copies within the U.S. within the monitoring week finishing Jan. 23, consistent with Luminate. Vinyl gross sales include the majority of that sum – 32,000, marking his highest gross sales week ever on vinyl.

Billboard’s Most sensible Album Gross sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week primarily based handiest on conventional album gross sales. The chart’s historical past dates again to Would possibly 25, 1991, the primary week Billboard started tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece depend data from SoundScan, now Luminate. Natural album gross sales have been the only real dimension used by the Billboard 200 albums chart in the course of the record dated Dec. 6, 2014, and then that chart switched to a technique that blends album gross sales with observe an identical album (TEA) devices and streaming an identical album (SEA) devices.

On Most sensible 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 unencumber of a deluxe version of the album). Rounding out the remainder of the end 10: the Depraved soundtrack (shifting 2-3), Stray Youngsters’ HOP (5-4), Chappell Roan’s The Upward thrust and Fall of a Midwest Princess (3-5), Sabrina Wood worker’s Quick n’ Candy (protecting at No. 6), Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Exhausting and Comfortable (9-7), ROSÉ’s Rosie (11-8), Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours (13-9) and Tyler, The Writer’s IGOR (15-10).

At the Billboard 200, Balloonerism debuts at No. 3 – the 8th peak 10-charting set for Miller on that rating.

Miller At the R&B/Hip-Hop & Rap Charts: Miller earns his 3rd No. 1 at the Most sensible Rap Albums chart. He first dominated with Blue Slide Park in 2011 and adopted with The Divine Female in 2016, either one of which led for one week. At the Most sensible R&B/Hip-Hop Albums record, Balloonerism debuts at No. 2 andgives the past due rapper his 7th peak 10 effort. Along with the No. 1s Blue Slide Park and The Divine Female, he additionally reached the area with Looking at 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 at the Sizzling R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, led via a No. 16 debut for “Humorous Papers.” The coming straight away makes it Miller’s second-highest height at the chart amongst his 23 entries, trailing handiest the No. 10 highest for “Excellent Information” in 2020.

Notable a number of the different tracks, “5 Greenback Pony Rides” bolts 32-19 in its moment week on Sizzling R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and wins the weekly Streaming Gainer and Gross sales Gainer honors. “DJ’s Chord Organ,” that includes SZA, starts at No. 23 and opens at No. 7 at the Sizzling R&B Songs chart.

Over At the Billboard Sizzling 100: At the all-genre, multi-metric Sizzling 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 Height at the Billboard Artist 100 Chart: Job surrounding Ballonerism drives Miller 66-2 at the Billboard Artist 100, a brand new height for the rapper at his 83rd nonconsecutive week at the chart. The Billboard Artist 100 measures artist job throughout key metrics of song intake – album and observe gross sales, radio airplay and streaming – to offer a weekly multi-dimensional rating of the most well liked artists within the U.S.