With his fourth appearance on Billboard‘s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, Don Toliver achieves his first No. 1 as Hardstone Psycho launches atop the list dated June 29. The set, released on June 14, earned 76,500 equivalent album units in the U.S. for the tracking week of June 14 – 20, according to Luminate.
Of Hardstone Psycho’s 76,500-unit start, streaming activity contributed 57,000 units, a sum representing 75.98 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs. Traditional album sales supplied 19,500 units, while track-equivalent album units comprise a negligible sum. Both the streaming sum and album-sales figures are new career bests for the Houston native. (One unit equals the following levels of consumption: one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams for a song on the album.)
Hardstone Psycho, issued on Cactus Jack/Atlantic Records, gives Don Toliver a first champ on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums after the rapper and singer’s three prior releases each hit the top five, but couldn’t capture the top slot. His debut full-length, Heaven or Hell, peaked at No. 5, while sophomore effort Life of a Don reached a No. 2 best and his third LP, Love Sick, attained a No. 4 high.
Elsewhere, Hardstone Psycho opens at No. 1 on the Top Rap Albums chart, where Don Toliver likewise bags his first leader, and at No. 3 on the all-genre Billboard 200.
The career-best start for Hardstone Psycho helps several of its tracks leap onto the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Current single, the prior-released “Attitude,” featuring R&B legend Charlie Wilson and rising rapper Cash Cobain, rallies 36-16 in its fourth week on the chart. In addition to nabbing a new peak, it wins the weekly Streaming Gainer prize for the largest increase in streams among the chart’s non-debuting titles. The collaboration rockets from 4.1 million U.S. streams in the past week to 8.7 million for this tracking period, a 110% surge.
Thanks to the top 20 showing, Wilson picks up his highest rank on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since “You Are” rested at No. 13 in 2011. Cash Cobain, too, seizes the highest result for his young career.
Nine Hardstone Psycho songs debut on the 50-position Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Beyond “Attitude,” another previously released single, “Bandit,” flies 35-21 in its 20th week on the list, in the vicinity of its No. 13 peak in February.
Here’s a full recap of Hardstone Psycho’s track placements on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs:
No. 16, “Attitude,” featuring Charlie Wilson & Cash Cobain
No. 18, “Brother Stone,” featuring Kodak Black
No. 21, “Bandit”
No. 23, “Tore Up”
No. 28, “Ice Age,” featuring Travis Scott
No. 29, “Kryptonite”
No. 34, “Purple Rain,” featuring Future & Metro Boomin
No. 39, “Glock”
No. 42, “4×4”
No. 48, “New Drop”
No. 49, “Backstreets,” featuring Teezo Touchdown
