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Snoop Dogg’s Missionary album debuts within the high 10 throughout a number of Billboard charts, because the set opens within the high 10 on Prime Album Gross sales (No. 7), Prime R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (No. 7) and Prime Rap Albums (No. 3) — all charts dated Dec. 28. It additionally launches at No. 20 on the general Billboard 200 chart. On Prime Album Gross sales, Missionary marks Snoop’s highest-charting effort in over 15 years.
Missionary is the primary album from Snoop Dogg produced by Dr. Dre since their profitable teaming on Snoop’s debut effort Doggystyle in 1993.
Billboard’s Prime Album Gross sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based mostly solely on conventional album gross sales. The chart’s historical past dates again to Might 25, 1991, the primary week Billboard started tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece rely data from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales have been the only real measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart via the checklist dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a technique that blends album gross sales with observe equal album (TEA) items and streaming equal album (SEA) items.
Missionary debuts with 38,000 equal album items earned within the U.S. within the week ending Dec. 19, based on Luminate. Of that sum, album gross sales comprise 20,500, SEA items comprise 16,500 and TEA items comprise the remaining sum.
On Prime Album Gross sales, Missionary is Snoop’s thirteenth high 10-charting effort and highest charting effort set Ego Trippin debuted and peaked at No. 3 on the March, 29, 2008-dated checklist.
As for the remainder of the highest 10 on Prime Album Gross sales, Stray Children’ HOP opens at No. 1 with 180,000 offered (it’s the sixth chief for the group); Taylor Swift’s chart-topping The Tortured Poets Division falls 1-2 with 50,000 (down 75%); the Depraved movie soundtrack rises 6-3 with 29,000 (down 5%); Chappell Roan’s former chief The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess jumps 8-4 with 28,000 (up 34%); and Sabrina Carpenter’s Brief n’ Candy goes 7-5 with 26,000 (down 8%).
Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Exhausting and Smooth scales 9-6 with 23,000 (up 26%); TWICE’s STRATEGY falls 2-8 with 19,000 in its second week (down 76%); Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas TV soundtrack bumps 10-9 with 16,000 (up 20%); and Taylor Swift’s former No. 1, 1989 (Taylor’s Model) climbs 12-10 with 14,000 (up 29%).
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