Rod Wave's Last Round debuts at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Streaming Albums chart (dated Oct. 26), marking the third-biggest rap debut streaming week of 2024.
Also in the top 10 of the latest Top Streaming Albums, Charli XCX Brat jumps 17-3 (a new high) after its deluxe reissues in the week ending Oct. 17, GloRilla's Glorious debuts at No. 4, by BigXthaPlug Care comes in at No. 5 and Jelly Roll's Beautifully broken bows to No. 7.
The Top 50 Streaming Albums chart ranks the most streamed albums of the week in the US as compiled by Luminate. Titles are ranked by Streaming album Equivalent Units (SEA), where each SEA unit is equal to 3,750 official ad-supported paid audio and video streams or 1,250 official paid audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. If an artist has multiple albums containing the same song, SEA units for that song are generally assigned to whichever album sells the most by traditional album sales in a given week.
Last Round debuts at No. 1 with 125,000 SEA units earned. That amount equates to 173.35 million official streams of the set's on-demand songs, marking the third-biggest streaming debut week for a rap album in 2024. The two biggest rap debut frames were captured by Future and Metro Boomin's collaborative set We Don't Trust You (324.31 million) and Eminem The Death of Slim Shade (Coup de Grace) (220.08 million).
Sabrina Carpenter's Short n' Sweet drops one spot to No. 2 (70,000 SEA units, down 11%) after six non-consecutive weeks atop the chart.
Charli XCX's Brat bounds 17-3, a new high, with 57,000 SEA units (up 144%) after the album was reissued twice in the week ending October 17.
On October 11, 16 remixes of his songs were added to the original album's tracklist in a deluxe edition (dubbed Brat and it's totally different but still Brat), and those remixes included guests like The 1975 and Ariana Grande. Then on October 14, the deluxe was paired with yet another remix, a redux of “Spring Breakers” featuring Kesha. All its versions Bratnew and old, combined for tracking and mapping purposes. BratSEA's 57,000 SEA units equates to 73.63 million official streams of her songs on demand – the album's best week yet and Charli XCX's biggest streaming week of any album.
GloRilla's new Glorious debuts at No. 4 on Top Streaming Albums with 56,000 SEA units (corresponding to 77.98 million official on-demand song streams). Both figures represent career highs for the artist and the longest weeks for any rap album by a female artist in 2024. Glorious it's also the highest-charting rap album by a woman on Top Streaming Albums this year.
BigXthaPlug's Care debuts at No. 5 on Top Streaming Albums with 47,000 SEA units (corresponding to the set's 62.77 million official song streams on demand). It's the rapper's biggest streaming week ever. Morgan Wallen's top chart One thing at a time falls 2-6 with 46,000 SEA units (down 5%). Jelly roll Beautifully broken arrives at No. 7 with 44,000 SEA units (58.86 million official on-demand streams) – its biggest streaming week yet.
The top 10 is completed with Billie Eilish Hit hard and soft (3-8 with 42,000 SEA units, down 2%), Chappell Roan's The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (4-9 with 40,000, down 4%) and former leader Taylor Swift Department of Tormented Poets (5-10 with 39,000, down 3%).
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