Luke Bryan tops Billboard 200 albums chart

“Kill the Lights” entered the tally at No. 1, Billboard late Sunday, with 345,000 equal album models, the commerce journal’s time period for a determine that mixes gross sales of bodily and digital albums and streams on providers comparable to Spotify and Apple Music. This gives him the third largest opening week for a release in 2015, following Drake and Kendrick Lamar.

On the other hand, with 295,000 equivalent album units moved, 276,000 of which were pure album sales, the “Compton” album marked Dr. Dre’s successful return after almost 16 years of hiatus.

However, Jim Farber of the New York Daily News gave Like Bryan his worst review.

The same will likely be true of the race for #1 on the Billboard 200, which ranks albums based on the sum of pure sales, track sales/10 and track streams/1500.

After a painfully long wait for fans, Luke Bryan‘s latest record Kill the Lights was finally available August. 7, downloading automatically into iTunes libraries around the world for those who took advantage of Bryan’s exclusive preorders.

The “Compton” album is not a soundtrack to the N.W.A. biopic “Straight Outta Compton“, which earned $56 million during its weekend debut at the U.S. and Canada box office from August 14 to 16.

The Telegraph goes on to summarize that despite all the new rappers coming on board, Dre has “still got it”. Taylor Swift’s 1989 drops from No. 3 to No. 5. The record’s No. 1 debut on the Top 200 marks the highest debut for a country album on that chart since Bryan’s own Crash My Party debuted at No. 1 in 2013. Let us know in the Comments section.