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Nav’s “Bad Habits,” released through Republic Records and the Weeknd’s label, XO, opened with the equivalent of 82,000 sales in the United States, including 79 million streams and 24,000 copies sold as a full album, according to Nielsen.
Nav’s numbers were helped by bundling deals that offered his fans copies of “Bad Habits” along with tickets to his upcoming tour, and also by the release of a deluxe version of the album, as Billboard noted.
Also this week, Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next” holds at No. 2, Juice WRLD’s “Death Race for Love” fell to third place after two weeks at No. 1, and Atlanta rapper Rich the Kid opened at No. 4 with “The World Is Yours 2.”
XXXTentacion’s year-old album “?” jumped 22 spots to No. 5, thanks to sales of merchandise bundles connected to the album’s anniversary; XXXTentacion, whose real name was Jahseh Onfroy, was killed last year at age 20.
Mötley Crüe’s soundtrack to “The Dirt,” a drama based on a proudly debauched tell-all book on the band, opened at No. 10, the first time that Mötley Crüe has reached the Top 10 since its last studio album, “Saints of Los Angeles,” went to No. 4 in 2008.
Next week, 17-year-old pop artist Billie Eilish is expected to have one of the biggest No. 1 openings of the year with her debut album, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.