POST MALONE’S beerbongs & bentleys SCORES 2018’S BIGGEST ALBUM DEBUT WITH 461K IN CONSUMPTION

 

SETS MULTIPLE STREAMING RECORDS

 

ALBUM CERTIFIED PLATINUM UPON RELEASE

 

08 May 2018 (Toronto, ON) – History-making multiplatinum Dallas, TX artist Post Malone has achieved the biggest album debut of 2018 with his second full-length, beerbongs & bentleys released April 27 through Republic Records/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company. Marking his first entry atop the respective chart, he captures #1 on the Billboard Top 200 and shatters the first day and one-week streaming records on Spotify—Canada and Global. Total consumption exceeded 461K with 153K traditional sales in under one week. Get the album HERE and exclusive beerbongs & bentleys bundles available now at shop.postmalone.com.

 

Meanwhile, he crushed both the Canadian and Global streaming records for most first-week audio streams, stirring up 431 million-plus streams stateside and 675 million-plus streams worldwide, eclipsing the previous record of 384 million streams set by Drake’s More Life in 2017. As well, 7 of Post’s songs charted on the top 200 on the Spotify Canada upon release. It emerges as the first album with over 400 million audio streams in a single week.

 

Post notched three songs in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. Additionally, beerbongs & bentleys already received a platinum certification in Canada the same day of its release, making it one of only 2 platinum albums released in 2018. Lastly, Stoney returns to the Top 10 making Post the first artist with two albums in the Billboard Top 200 simultaneously since Linkin Park in August 2017.

 

May 20 sees him descend upon the 2018 Billboard Music Awards with a total of 13 nominations—including Top Male Artist, Top Hot 100 Artist, Top Rap Artist, and Top Billboard 200 Album in addition to two nominations in the Top Streaming Song (Audio) category. 

 

Post will be supporting the release of his album with two shows at Toronto’s Echo Beach May 27 and May 28 as part of his massive sold out summer headline tour with multi-platinum rapper 21 Savage and special guest SOB RBE sponsored by blu and produced by Live Nation. For a full list of tour dates, visit the website. 

 

TRACKLISTING:

1. “Paranoid”
2. “Spoil My Night” feat. Swae Lee
3. “Rich & Sad”
4. “Zack and Codeine”
5. “Takin’ Shots”
6. “rockstar” feat. 21 Savage
7. “Over Now”
8. “Psycho” feat. Ty Dolla $ign
9. “Better Now”
10. “Ball For Me” feat. Nicki Minaj
11. “Otherside”
12. “Stay”
13. “Blame It On Me”
14. “Same Bitches” feat. G-Eazy & YG
15. “Jonestown (Interlude)”
16. “92 Explorer”
17. “Candy Paint”
18. “Sugar Wraith”

 

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