The Weeknd's "Starboy" First Week Projections
The Weeknd’s Starboy is headed straight to No. 1.
The album, which features Kendrick Lamar, Future, and Lana Del Rey, is on track to sell between 350,000-400,000 equivalent album units (225,000-275,000 traditional) in its first week, according to HITS Daily Double. These numbers would easily put him at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
His last album, 2015’s Beauty Behind the Madness, was also impressive, opening with 412,000 units (326,000 in pure album sales).
