The First Week Numbers for Juice WRLD’s ‘Death Race for Love’ Are Here
Written by SOURCE on March 17, 2019
Juice WRLD has just scored his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with Death Race for Love, Billboard reports. Scoring the second-biggest streaming week of 2019 so far, the album brought in 165,000 equivalent album units in the week ending on March 14, with 43,000 of those pure sales. In 2018, he reached the No. 2 spot with his collaborative album with Future, WRLD on Drugs. His debut album, Goodbye and Good Riddance, peaked at No. 8 in Aug. 2018.
Death Race for Love earned over 176 million on-demand streams during its debut week. Only one album so far this year has managed to pull in more streams in its first week, with Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next accumulating an impressive 307 on-demand streams. Grande’s Thank U, Next has held on to its No. 1 spot on the charts, meanwhile, with 72,000 equivalent album units. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born soundtrack has stuck around at No. 3 with 48,000 units.
The rest of the top five is rounded out by Maren Morris’ new album Girl at No. 4, while the Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack sits at No. 5. Post Malone’s Beerbongs & Bentleys and Drake’s Scorpion also re-entered the top ten at No. 7 and No. 9 respectfully. 2 Chainz’s Rap or Go to the League, Solange’s When I Get Home, and Lil Skies’ Shelby all dropped out of the top ten.
