{"id":791373,"date":"2018-12-17T20:18:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=770465"},"modified":"2018-12-17T20:18:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:18:15","slug":"on-the-charts-xxxtentacion-scores-posthumous-number-one-with-skins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/on-the-charts-xxxtentacion-scores-posthumous-number-one-with-skins\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Charts: XXXTentacion Scores Posthumous Number One With \u2018Skins\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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XXXTentacion<\/a>\u2018s first posthumous release Skins<\/em> debuted atop the Billboard 200, giving the late rapper the second Number One album of his brief career. The rapper born Janseh Onfroy was shot and killed at the age of 20<\/a> outside a south Florida motorcycle dealership in June 2018.<\/p>\n

Skins<\/em> sold 132,000 total copies in its first week of release, including 52,000 traditional copies. XXXTentacion previously topped the album charts<\/a> in March 2018 when his ?<\/em> debuted at Number One. His previous LP 17<\/em> peaked at Number Two in 2017.<\/p>\n

Skins<\/em> also marked the first posthumous Number One since Prince\u2019s The Very Best of Prince<\/em> jumped atop the Billboard 200<\/a> following that singer\u2019s April 2016 death, Billboard<\/em> notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two more new releases opened in the Top 10: Gucci Mane\u2019s Evil Genius<\/em> bowed at Number Five and 51,000 total copies and John Mellencamp scored his best Billboard 200 debut in 10 years as Other People\u2019s Stuff<\/em> entered at Number Seven and 44,000 copies.<\/p>\n

A week after a Number One debut<\/a>, Meek Mill\u2019s Championships<\/em> fell one spot to Number Two, ahead of Michael Buble\u2019s 2011 LP Christmas<\/em> at Number Three and Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper\u2019s A Star Is Born<\/em> at Number Four.<\/p>\n

Rap releases occupied the rest of the Top 10: Travis Scott\u2019s Astroworld<\/em> at Number Six, followed by Tekashi 6ix9ine\u2019s Dummy Boy<\/em> (Number Eight), Lil Baby\u2019s Street Gossip<\/em> (Number Nine) and Drake\u2019s Scorpion<\/em> (Number 10).<\/p>\n

New releases that could impact next week\u2019s album charts include Bruce Springsteen\u2019s Springsteen on Broadway<\/em><\/a>, Kodak Black\u2019s Dying to Live<\/em> and the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/em> soundtrack.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

XXXTentacion\u2018s first posthumous release Skins debuted atop the Billboard 200, giving the late rapper the second Number One album of his brief career. The rapper born Janseh Onfroy was shot and killed at the age of 20 outside a south Florida motorcycle dealership in June 2018. Skins sold 132,000 total copies in its first week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 11:35:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}