Here Are the First Week Album Numbers in 2016

A look at the first week albums numbers for everyone from Drake to Childish Gambino.

Dec 29, 2016

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We were spoiled rotten with the amount of music that was released this year. Think about it: in 2016 we got projects from Drake, Beyoncé, Kanye, Rihanna, J. Cole, Childish Gambino, Solange, Chance the Rapper, the list goes on. Even Frank Ocean broke his musical hiatus. Shoot, A Tribe Called Quest came back in full effect this year.

One thing that was difficult to keep up with—along with the music—was how each project sold, so we have rounded up their first week sales numbers in one place. This is not an exhaustive list (although it's pretty lengthy) but rather a look at the first week numbers for music we and our readers definitely bumped at some point this year.

The figures shown are album-equivalent units, which consists of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA), and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).

Check out the list below to get a better grasp at who was truly moving units in 2016.

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Here Are the First Week Album Numbers in 2016

Danny Brown, 'Atrocity Exhibition'

James Blake, 'The Colour in Anything'

Snoop Dogg, 'Coolaid'

Joe Budden, 'Rage & The Machine'

Ty Dolla Sign, 'Campaign'

Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J, and TM88, 'TGOD Mafia: Rude Awakening'

Desiigner, 'New English'

Rihanna, 'Anti'

Common, 'Black America Again'

The Game, 'Streets of Compton'

D.R.A.M., 'Big Baby D.R.A.M.'

Logic, 'Bobby Tarantino'

Isaiah Rashad, 'The Sun's Tirade'

ASAP Mob, 'Cozy Tapes Vol. 1: Friends'

Young Thug, 'I'm Up'

De La Soul, 'and the Anonymous Nobody...'

Jojo, 'Mad Love'

Phantogram, 'Three'

Rae Sremmurd, 'SremmLife 2'

Flatbush Zombies, '3001: A Laced Odyssey'

Flume, 'Skin'

The Game, '1992'

DJ Snake, 'Encore'

ASAP Ferg, 'Always Strive and Prosper'

Young Thug, 'Jeffery'

Gucci Mane, 'The Return of East Atlanta Santa'

Usher, 'Hard II Love'

YG, 'Still Brazy'

Young Thug, 'Slime Season 3

Chance the Rapper, 'Coloring Book'

Jon Bellion, 'The Human Condition'

Mac Miller, 'The Divine Feminine'

Twenty88, 'Twenty88'

Kid Cudi, 'Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin’'

Alicia Keys, 'Here'

Partynextdoor, 'P3'

Tory Lanez, 'I Told You'

2 Chainz, 'Collegrove'

Post Malone, 'Stoney'

K. Michelle, 'More Issues Than Vogue'

Maxwell, 'blackSUMMERS’night'

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, 'This Unruly Mess I’ve Made'

Yo Gotti, 'The Art of Hustle'

Wiz Khalifa, 'Khalifa'

Nick Jonas, 'Last Year Was Complicated'

Gucci Mane, 'Everybody Looking'

Bon Iver, '22, A Million'

Solange, 'A Seat at the Table'

Fifth Harmony, '7/27'

Schoolboy Q, 'Blank Face LP'

Sia, 'This Is Acting'

Gwen Stefani, 'This Is What the Truth Feels Like'

Meek Mill, 'DC4'

Travis Scott, 'Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight'

Jeezy, 'Trap or Die 3'

Kanye West, 'The Life of Pablo'

DJ Khaled, 'Major Key'

Childish Gambino, 'Awaken, My Love!'

The 1975, 'I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It'

Britney Spears, 'Glory'

Kevin Gates, 'Islah'

Future, 'Evol'

A Tribe Called Quest, 'We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service'

Zayn, 'Mind of Mine'

Radiohead, 'A Moon Shaped Pool'

Ariana Grande, 'Dangerous Woman'

Kendrick Lamar, 'Untitled Unmastered'

David Bowie, 'Blackstar'

Various Artists, 'Suicide Squad: The Album'

Various Artists, 'The Hamilton Mixtape'

Lady Gaga, 'Joanne'

Bruno Mars, '24K Magic'

Frank Ocean, 'Blonde'

The Weeknd, 'Starboy'