Drake's "Scorpion" sold 29,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending July 12, the smallest sum for the week's top-selling album in the 27-year history of Nielsen Music.
While Drake’s Scorpion rules the Billboard 200 albums chart for a second week (dated July 21), the set also claims a woeful distinction at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart.
With just a little over 29,000 copies sold in the week ending July 12, according to Nielsen Music, Scorpion logs the smallest sum for the week’s top-selling album since Nielsen began tracking data in 1991.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The Top Album Sales chart tallies the top selling albums of the week, based on only traditional album sales.