BILLBOARD: Big Sean's "I Decided" Debuts Atop Billboard 200, Surpasses Sales Projections

Big Sean's "I Decided" Debuts Atop Billboard 200, Surpasses Sales Projections

Big Sean has exceeded expectations with his fourth studio album.

Big Sean has earned his second #1 album on the Billboard 200 with I Decided, Billboard revealed Sunday. The Detroit rapper's fourth studio album moved 151,000 equivalent album units in its first week, surpassing Billboard's original projections of 120,000 and making it his second consecutive solo album to top the charts. 65,000 units of the total figure are attributed to traditional album sales.

The album falls slightly short of Sean's 2015 release, Dark Sky Paradise's first week, which topped out at 173,000 equivalent album units. 

The album replaces Migos' sophomore album CULTURE at the top of the Billboard 200. Last week, Migos earned their first #1 album with 131,000 in equivalent album sales. The album moved 44,000 units traditionally and 10,000 in track equivalent album units. Streaming made up for the remaining 59% of the total figure.

NEWS: Rae Sremmurd Projected To Land Billboard Top 10 Debut With "SremmLife" [Update: First Week Sales Are In]

Rae Sremmurd Projected To Land Billboard Top 10 Debut With "SremmLife" [Update: First Week Sales Are In]

The brothers in Rae Sremmurd are looking like they will debut within Billboard 200's top 10 next week.

Rae Sremmurd have already received enough co-signs to make any new artist happy (among them, Kendrick Lamar and Chance The Rapper), however, there's even more good news coming their way as Billboard projects that they will land within the top 10 next week. Not too shabby for their first album, which at first was just going to be an EP, and which dropped after the holiday rush.

SremmLife, released via Mike WiLL Made It's Ear Drummers imprint, is expected to sell 45,000-50,000 units opening week. The album just dropped two days ago, and features the certified-gold single "No Type" as well as their earlier smash "No Flex Zone." The Young Thug & Nicki Minaj-featured "Throw Sum Mo" is on its way to becoming the third hit for these Tulepo, Mississippi brothers.

Have you copped the album? Thoughts? Stay tuned next week for their final first week sales.

[Update: First Week Sales Are In]

The first week has passed and the numbers are in. According to HDD, Rae Sremmurd’s debut project, Sremmlife, moved a respectable 33,005 units in its first week, with approximately 46,000 including streams.

Check back tomorrow, January 14th to find out if the duo made the top 10 of the new Billboard 200 chart.

NEWS: First Week Sales For Fabolous' "The Young OG Project" [Update: Final Numbers Arrive From Billboard]

First Week Sales For Fabolous' "The Young OG Project" [Update: Final Numbers Arrive From Billboard]

Fabolous moves just under 100k in the first week out.

Fabolous has sort of made a tradition out of dropping projects on Christmas day, and this year was no different with his new album The Young OG Projecthitting iTunes on December 25th.

The '90s inspired album seems to be doing well out the gate, and HitsDailyDouble arrives with some first week sales for the album today. Whereas Billboard has been counting a mix of sales and digital streams, this number from HDD appears to be just sales, and so it could be updated slightly once Billboard reveals their stats.

Nonetheless, HDD reports that Fab moved 72,000 units opening week, which will likely land him within the top 10 of the Billboard 200. 

Did you cop The Young OG Project? Initial thoughts? Share in the comment section below.

On a related note, it appears J. Cole's 2014 Forest Hills Drive moved another 105,000 copies in its third week out, which beats Nicki Minaj's second week out with The Pinkprint, which moved 104,000.

[Update: Final Numbers Arrive From Billboard]

As we expected, we get a slightly updated number for Fabolous' The Young OG Project with Billboard revealing their stats. Loso actually did 71,000 units, which didn't quite get him in the top 10, but he is rounding out the top 12 at #12.

As for J. Cole and Nicki Minaj, when we bring digital streams into the mix, The Pinkprint actually outdid 2014 Forest Hills Drive this week. Billboard reports from Neilsen SoundScan that Nicki did 156,000 units total, with sales of just 105,000. J. Cole did 120,000 units total, with sales of 104,000.