For the first time since 2011, Diddy is back in the top five on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart thanks to his new album, The Love Album: Off the Grid. The set, released on Sept. 15 via the mogul’s own Love Records, earned 27,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 21, according to Luminate.
Streaming contributes 24,000 units of the 27,000-unit starting sum, equaling 31.7 million official U.S. audio and video on-demand streams of the project’s tracks. Traditional album sales contribute 2,000 of the remaining units, with 1,000 units of activity from track-equivalent album units. (One unit equals the following levels of consumption: one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams for a song on the album.)
The Love Album: Off the Grid gives Diddy his sixth top 10 album on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. In total, Diddy has notched seven entries on the chart, all of which reached the top five save for the MMM mixtape, which hit No. 45 in 2016. Here’s a rundown of the collection, which now stretches to 26 years and one month:
Album Title, Artist Billing, Peak Position, Peak Date
No Way Out, Puff Daddy & The Family, No. 1 (five weeks), Aug. 9, 1997
Forever, Puff Daddy, No. 1 (one week), Sept. 11, 1999
The Saga Continues…, P. Diddy & The Bad Boy Family, No. 2, July 28, 2001
Press Play, Diddy, No. 1 (one week), Nov. 4, 2006
Last Train to Paris, Diddy – Dirty Money, No. 3, Jan. 1, 2011
The Love Album: Off the Grid, Diddy, No. 5 (to date), Sept. 30, 2023
Elsewhere, The Love Album: Off the Grid starts at No. 2 on the Top R&B Albums chart and No. 19 on the all-genre Billboard 200.
As The Love Album: Off the Grid arrives, six of its tracks debut on the Hot R&B Songs chart. “Stay Long,” with Summer Walker, leads the pack at No. 13, followed by “Moments,” featuring Justin Bieber (No. 16), “Pick Up,” with Jacquees featuring Fabolous (No. 18), “What’s Love,” with NOVA WAV (No. 21), “Need Somebody,” with Jazmine Sullivan (No. 23) and “Tough Love,” featuring Swae Lee (No. 25).
In addition, the album’s new single, the rap-leaning “Another One of Me,” with French Montana and The Weeknd and featuring 21 Savage, enters multiple charts, including a No. 29 start on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay and a No. 34 bow on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.
This story originally appeared on Billboard
