Rapper Gunna pulled off quite the surprising upset by beating out The Weeknd's highly-anticipated album on the Billboard 200 album charts.
Both Gunna's album, DS4Ever, and The Weeknd's Dawn FM, debuted on January 7, with both artists giving fans less than a week of advanced notice of the album's release, with no physical CD copies available for several weeks.
Gunna's album debuted with 150,300 equivalent album units, just barely beating out The Weeknd's Dawn FM, which tallied 148,000 equivalent album units.
Upset: Rapper Gunna pulled off quite the surprising upset by beating out The Weeknd's highly-anticipated album on the Billboard 200 album charts
No notice: Both Gunna's album, DS4Ever, and The Weeknd's Dawn FM, debuted on January 7, with both artists giving fans less than a week of advanced notice of the album's release, with no physical CD copies available for several weeks
Each equivalent album unit is comprised of album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).
One equivalent album unit is equal to one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, 3,750 ad-supported audio streams or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams of songs from an album.
Gunna's 19-track DS4Ever featured a star-studded list of collaborators including 21 Savage, Chris Brown, Future, Lil Baby, Roddy Ricch and Young Thug.
Album: Gunna's 19-track DS4Ever featured a star-studded list of collaborators including 21 Savage, Chris Brown, Future, Lil Baby, Roddy Ricch and Young Thug
The #1 debut is Gunna's second album in a row to debut atop the album charts following his last
