Billboard 200 8/11/18 - Drake week 5

[Gary]

Post Malone's 'Stoney' Tops Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' for Most Weeks in Top 10 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart
8/9/2018 by Trevor Anderson

Barry Brecheisen/WireImage
Post Malone performs at Lollapalooza 2018 in Grant Park on Aug. 3, 2018 in Chicago.

His debut LP logs a record 77th week in the top tier.
Although Post Malone's Stoney slips 8-9 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart (dated Aug. 11), it logs an unprecedented 77th week in the top 10. The set overtakes the previous champ, Michael Jackson's Thriller, which recorded 76 weeks in the top 10 in 1983-84, for the longest stay in the top 10 since the chart began in October 1965.
As Stoney tops Thriller, here's a look at the current leaderboard for the albums with the most weeks in the top 10 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart:
Weeks in Top 10, Title, Artist, Year(s) in Top 10
77, Stoney, Post Malone, 2016-18
76, Thriller, Michael Jackson, 1983-84
64, Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston, 1985-86
63, The E.N.D., The Black Eyed Peas, 2009-10
59, The Heist, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, 2012-14
58, Recovery, Eminem, 2010-11
58, Can't Slow Down, Lionel Richie, 1983-84
56, Control, Janet Jackson, 1986-87
55, Rapture, Anita Baker, 1986-87
54, 24K Magic, Bruno Mars, 2016-18

[Gary]

Aug 9, 2018 17:19:57 GMT -5 korbel16 said:

Aug 9, 2018 17:01:27 GMT -5 Naos said:

...how did drake not beat that but post Malone did..

Drake's prior albums were all sales based, the current one should stay a while

[Gary]

On the BB200 Drake's best showing to date in the Top 10 category is 'Views' with 35 weeks

[owenlovesmusic]

Congrats to Post. That's a huge achievement.

[brady47]

Question: When an artist bundles ticket sales + album, is the album free (i.e. the price of the ticket stays the same), or is the album price incorporated into the ticket sale price (ex: Pink's Beautiful Trauma)?

I'm assuming the latter, but someone told me otherwise so not sure

[iHype.]

Aug 9, 2018 22:55:49 GMT -5 brady47 said:

Question: When an artist bundles ticket sales + album, is the album free (i.e. the price of the ticket stays the same), or is the album price incorporated into the ticket sale price (ex: Pink's Beautiful Trauma)?

I'm assuming the latter, but someone told me otherwise so not sure

It's the former. Whether you redeem the album or not, the ticket price is the same. 

Furthermore, the fact getting the album is optional rather than something they HAVE to honor, like giving you a ticket you paid for, is why I believe ticket bundling is just really free bonus product. Not an add-in they want it to be viewed as so it continues counting on the charts.

[brady47]

Aug 10, 2018 2:55:25 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Aug 9, 2018 22:55:49 GMT -5 brady47 said:

Question: When an artist bundles ticket sales + album, is the album free (i.e. the price of the ticket stays the same), or is the album price incorporated into the ticket sale price (ex: Pink's Beautiful Trauma)?

I'm assuming the latter, but someone told me otherwise so not sure

It's the former. Whether you redeem the album or not, the ticket price is the same. 

Furthermore, the fact getting the album is optional rather than something they HAVE to honor, like giving you a ticket you paid for, is why I believe ticket bundling is just really free bonus product. Not an add-in they want it to be viewed as so it continues counting on the charts.

Oh wow - thanks for the explanation. I was kind of impressed with Pink's Beautiful Trauma sales, but I guess the tour bundle has a lot to do with it.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^That requires requires a follow-up question that I already asked in the Hits thread, but will paraphrase. Aren't the ticket album bundle usually optional, meaning, you can either purchase the ticket by itself or pay a bit more for the bundle?