2 on Country Albums, selling 46,000 in its first week. His last album, Hard 2 Love, debuted and peaked at No. It also crowns the Country Albums chart - his first leader on that tally. 7 with two different albums, 2007’s Easy Tiger and 2011’s Ashes & Fire.Ĭountry singer Lee Brice starts at No. Rocker Ryan Adams snags his highest-charting album on the Billboard 200 as his new self-titled release starts at No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and R&B Albums. The chart’s second-highest debut is Jhene Aiko’s full-length debut album, Souled Out, which enters at No. 1 tumble by more than 70 percent in their second week. Traditionally, those titles that debut at No. It had a smaller-than-normal sales decline because its sales were buoyed by redemptions of the album sold with tickets to the band’s upcoming tour. 26, 2013, when seven titles also stepped in (led by Miley Cyrus’ Bangerz). The seven debuts are the most the top 10 has seen since Oct. Lecrae leads a parade of new entries in the top 10 of the Billboard 200, where six more titles arrive. He reached the all-genre Billboard 200 for the first time in 2008 with Rebel, which peaked at No. He has released seven studio albums, and made his chart debut in 2005 with Real Talk (No. While Lecrae, 34, might not quite be a household name - he’s yet to chart a single on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 - he has sold 1.4 million albums and 2.9 million track downloads. In terms of the latter achievement, it follows Chris Tomlin’s Burning Lights (in 2013), TobyMac’s Eye on It (2012), LeAnn Rimes’ You Light Up My Life - Inspirational Songs (1997) and Bob Carlisle’s Butterfly Kisses (Shades of Grace) (1997). Thus, Anomaly is the first title to crown both Gospel Albums and the Billboard 200, and just the fifth set to lead both Christian Albums and the Billboard 200. (Most Christian hip-hop releases are eligible to appear on both sales charts.)Ĭhristian Rapper Lecrae on Hip-Hop’s ‘Inconsistency’ and Ferguson 1 on the Gospel Albums chart and his fifth leader on Christian Albums. ( Gravity was also Lecrae’s highest-charting album - and only top 10 - until Anomaly‘s arrival.)Īnomaly is the Grammy winner’s sixth No.
It’s also the first chart-topper for Lecrae’s label, Reach Records.Īnomaly‘s launch is Lecrae’s best sales week, trumping the 72,000-unit start of 2012’s Gravity, which debuted and peaked at No. It sold 88,000 copies in the week ending Sept. 1 album on the Billboard 200 as his new Anomaly opens atop the list.
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