{"id":674048,"date":"2026-11-03T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674048\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T21:12:09","slug":"anderson-paak-cordaes-heavy-is-the-crown-reigns-on-rap-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674048\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson .Paak & Cordae’s ‘Heavy Is the Crown’ Reigns on Rap Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAnderson .Paak<\/a> and Cordae<\/a> combine forces on their first collaborative set to reign on Billboard\u2019s Top Rap Albums<\/a> chart with Heavy Is the Crown. For each artist, the project becomes a first leader on the list.<\/p>\n

\n\tHeavy Is the Crown launches with 30,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States for the tracking week of Oct. 23-29, according to Luminate. Album sales contributed 19,000 units to the total, streaming activity brought in 11,000 units, and there was a negligible amount of track-equivalent sales activity. (One unit equals the following levels of consumption: one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 1,000 paid\/subscription tier or 2,500 ad-supported tier of official on-demand audio and video streams for a song on the album.)<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore the Crown coronation, Anderson .Paak reached Top Rap Albums with Yes Lawd!, under Nxwrries, his duo with producer Knxwledge, which reached No. 3 in November 2016, and Oxnard, which peaked at No. 5 in December 2018. The performer, whose music spans hip-hop, R&B and other genres, has also been a consistent R&B presence with his own albums, including Malibu and Ventura and via his Silk Sonic collaboration with Bruno Mars, whose An Evening With Silk Sonic album debuted at No. 1 on the Top R&B\/Hip-Hop Albums<\/a> chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Cordae, Heavy Is the Crown follows The Lost Boy, a No. 6 success in August 2019, and From a Birds Eye View, which earned a No. 4 best in January 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere, the new collaborative album opens at No. 2 on Top R&B\/Hip-Hop Albums and No. 11 on the all-genre Billboard 200<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAirbender\u201d leads the album\u2019s 11 tracks in terms of songs performance, with a No. 21 debut on Hot Rap Songs<\/a>. With 2.4 million official U.S. on-demand streams, it was the album\u2019s most-streamed song of the week. The entrance secures Anderson .Paak\u2019s first entry on Hot Rap Songs, while Cordae lands his fourth; he first arrived when he and Jack Harlow featured on Eminem\u2019s \u201cKiller,\u201d a No. 16 hit in August 2021, and followed with a NF collaboration (\u201cCareful,\u201d No. 20 in April 2023) and a teamup with Lyrical Lemonade and Juice WRLD (\u201cDoomsday.,\u201d No. 15 in July 2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anderson .Paak and Cordae combine forces on their first collaborative set to reign on Billboard\u2019s Top Rap Albums…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,1805,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-674048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-hiphop","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}