On the Charts: Post Malone Breaks Streaming Record With ‘Beerbongs & Bentleys’

Post Malone set a new record for most streams in a week and established the best-selling week of 2018 with ‘Beerbongs & Bentleys.’

Post Malone set a new record for most streams in a week and established the best-selling week of 2018 as the rapper’s Beerbongs & Bentleys opened atop the Billboard 200.

The album opened with 461,000 total copies in its first week of availability, with the majority of that total the result of a record-breaking 288,000 streaming equivalent albums, or SEAs. In total, tracks from Beerbongs & Bentleys were streamed over 431 million times this week to cruise past the previous record holder, Drake’s More Life, which accumulated nearly 385 million…