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Paul McCartney easily took the top spot on the Billboard 200 this week when his new albumEgypt Stationblew past 153,000 equivalent album units — a forceful 147,000 of which were traditional album sales. Eminem’sKamikaze,now two weeks old,slotted in at Number Two with 136,000 units. But just under those two, and …

Fueled byrecord-breaking streaming numbers, Drake‘s Scorpion opened atop the Billboard 200 with the best sales week of 2018 so far. Scorpion sold over 732,000 total copies in its debut week, with the vast majority of that sum drawn from streaming equivalent albums (SEAs): According to Billboard, Scorpion tracks generated 746 …