Meek Mill’s album debuts at #1

With over 229,000 equivalent album units in its first week (42,000 traditional album sales), the Championships album marks Meek Mill’s second biggest first-week, following his 2015’s Dreams Worth More Than Money.

Championship also logs the ninth-largest streaming week of 2018 for an album and the sixth-largest debut streaming frame of the year for an album.

Meeks’s album was released on November 30 via Maybach/Atlantic Records. Championships is Meek Mill’s first full-length album since his release from prison in April. In July, he dropped the four-song EP Legends of the Summer, which debuted and peaked at No. 9 on the July 21-dated tally.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).