It seems as though dropping his album one week early will work out well for A$AP Rocky. His hotly anticipated new album At.Long.Last.A$AP was released one week early on Tuesday, May 26, and now it seems as though the rapper is heading for his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200.
Rocky's At.Long.Last.A$AP is expected to unseat twenty one pilot's Blurryface as the top album, according to Billboard. Between its May 26 release date and May 31 (the end of the tracking week), Rocky's latest effort is expected to move 120,000 album equivalent units, which incorporate full album sales, individual track sales and streams.
Hits Daily Double seems to imply that 110,000 copies of the album will come from actual album and track sales, with the other 10,000 coming from streaming equivalents.
The No. 1 status of At.Long.Last.A$AP won't be Rocky's first No. 1 album in the United States. His 2013 debut effort Long.Live.A$AP sold 130,000 copies in its first week, with a chart-topping start.
At.Long.Last.A$AP isn't the only new album to arrive this week, and it logically follows that it will not be the only one to hit the top 10 on the Billboard 200.
Christian worship band Hillsong United's new album Empires also arrived this week and its set to move between 45,000 and 60,000 copies. Hillsong United's new record is set to arrive just about rapper Boosie Badazz's latest effort Touch Down 2 Cause Hell. Badazz's new album is expected to shift around 50,000 album equivalent units.
