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<blockquote data-quote="UPROXX" data-source="post: 66280" data-attributes="member: 81"><img src="https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/rod-wave-1.jpeg?w=1024&amp;h=436&amp;crop=1" alt="rod wave beautiful mind" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Getty ImageIt looks like Rod Wave’s recent <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/rod-wave-battery-choking-girlfriend-children/" target="_blank">arrest for battery</a> didn’t cool off his musical hot streak as his latest album, <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/rod-wave-beautiful-mind-praised-fans-symphonies/" target="_blank">Beautiful Mind</a>, becomes his second to debut at No. 1 on the <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/rod-wave-beautiful-number-one-billboard-200-albums-chart-1235129066/" target="_blank">Billboard 200 chart</a>. The Florida crooner last topped the list with his 2021 album, SoulFly. Even more impressively, he’s done all this without the benefit of algorithm-boosting features; the album’s only <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/rod-wave-beautiful-mind-tracklist/" target="_blank">two guest appearances</a> come from Jack Harlow and December Joy. He racked up 115,000 equivalent album units with 113,000 from streaming.Meanwhile, Megan Thee Stallion’s new album, <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/megan-thee-stallion-traumazine-opening-up-expressing/" target="_blank">Traumazine</a>, bows at No. 4, marking her fifth consecutive top-ten debut and pretty much perfectly highlighting the whole “<a href="https://uproxx.com/music/abusive-rappers-stop-supporting-xxxtentacion-kodak-black-famous-dex/" target="_blank">misogyny in hip-hop</a>” problem (the guy accused of strangling his girlfriend in front of their children outsells one of rap’s most outspoken survivors of domestic violence? You couldn’t write it in a prestige drama on HBO). She accumulated 63,000 equivalent album units with 54,000 streaming units and 8,000 album sales.Also in the top ten are Bad Bunny, whose <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/bad-bunny-un-verano-sin-ti-popular-album/" target="_blank">Un Verano Sin Ti</a> was finally dethroned (again) after <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/bad-bunny-un-verano-sin-ti-billboard-200-no-1-8-weeks/" target="_blank">eight weeks at No. 1</a>, although his equivalent album units earned only dropped less than 1%. Beyonce’s <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/beyonce-renaissance-review/" target="_blank">Renaissance</a> is No. 3, down 29%. No. 5 is YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s The Last Slimeto (there’s another guy whose treatment of women hasn’t deterred him from success). Morgan Wallen, Harry Styles, The Weeknd, Future, and Olivia Rodrigo round out the top 10.Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.<a href="https://uproxx.com/music/rod-wave-beautiful-mind-no-1-billboard/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="UPROXX, post: 66280, member: 81"] [IMG alt="rod wave beautiful mind"]https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/rod-wave-1.jpeg?w=1024&h=436&crop=1[/IMG] [UWSL]Getty Image[/UWSL] It looks like Rod Wave’s recent [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/rod-wave-battery-choking-girlfriend-children/']arrest for battery[/URL] didn’t cool off his musical hot streak as his latest album, [I][URL='https://uproxx.com/music/rod-wave-beautiful-mind-praised-fans-symphonies/']Beautiful Mind[/URL][/I], becomes his second to debut at No. 1 on the [URL='https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/rod-wave-beautiful-number-one-billboard-200-albums-chart-1235129066/'][I]Billboard[/I] 200 chart[/URL]. The Florida crooner last topped the list with his 2021 album, [I]SoulFly[/I]. Even more impressively, he’s done all this without the benefit of algorithm-boosting features; the album’s only [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/rod-wave-beautiful-mind-tracklist/']two guest appearances[/URL] come from Jack Harlow and December Joy. He racked up 115,000 equivalent album units with 113,000 from streaming. Meanwhile, Megan Thee Stallion’s new album, [I][URL='https://uproxx.com/music/megan-thee-stallion-traumazine-opening-up-expressing/']Traumazine[/URL][/I], bows at No. 4, marking her fifth consecutive top-ten debut and pretty much perfectly highlighting the whole “[URL='https://uproxx.com/music/abusive-rappers-stop-supporting-xxxtentacion-kodak-black-famous-dex/']misogyny in hip-hop[/URL]” problem (the guy accused of strangling his girlfriend in front of their children outsells one of rap’s most outspoken survivors of domestic violence? You couldn’t write it in a prestige drama on HBO). She accumulated 63,000 equivalent album units with 54,000 streaming units and 8,000 album sales. Also in the top ten are Bad Bunny, whose [I][URL='https://uproxx.com/music/bad-bunny-un-verano-sin-ti-popular-album/']Un Verano Sin Ti[/URL][/I] was finally dethroned (again) after [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/bad-bunny-un-verano-sin-ti-billboard-200-no-1-8-weeks/']eight weeks at No. 1[/URL], although his equivalent album units earned only dropped less than 1%. Beyonce’s [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/beyonce-renaissance-review/'][I]Renaissance[/I][/URL] is No. 3, down 29%. No. 5 is YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s [I]The Last Slimeto[/I] (there’s another guy whose treatment of women hasn’t deterred him from success). Morgan Wallen, Harry Styles, The Weeknd, Future, and Olivia Rodrigo round out the top 10. [I]Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.[/I] [url="https://uproxx.com/music/rod-wave-beautiful-mind-no-1-billboard/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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