The Weeknd’s Breakout Project Returns In America

In just a few days, The Weeknd will release his first movie, Hurry Up Tomorrow. He wrote and produced the film, stars in it, and also created the soundtrack. In fact, his latest album of the same name started off as just a filmed project, but was released several weeks ago as a full-length — and it has already become hugely popular. As the world gets ready to reexperience The Weeknd’s latest album in a new form, the project that started it all for the Canadian hitmaker is a commercial win in America once more.

House of Balloons Returns to the Charts

The Weeknd’s debut mixtape House of Balloons, is a Billboard chart success again as it returns this frame. The project returns to a pair of rankings in the U.S. this frame.

The set breaks back onto the Top R&B Albums chart at No. 23. It also just barely manages to reenter the Billboard 200 at No. 197. The first of those rankings looks only at the most-consumed R&B projects, while the Billboard 200 is the most competitive of Billboard’s album lists. It shows which titles are being consumed by the greatest number of people across the country.

Nearly 8,500 Units Shifted

According to Luminate, during the last tracking frame in America, House of Balloons moved just under 8,500 equivalent units. That number is made up of streaming activity, the sale of individual tracks from the mixtape, as well as pure purchases of the complete effort. Streams were largely responsible for the title’s success, as fewer than 100 tunes were purchased from the full-length, while about 500 of the 8,500 units it shifted were actual purchases.

House of Balloons on the Billboard Lists

House of Balloons may have started The Weeknd’s career, but it is not one of his most successful releases, at least not when looking at the Billboard tallies. The mixtape, which dropped in 2011, has climbed as high as No. 14 on the Top R&B Albums chart. It has never reached the top half of the Billboard 200, instead peaking at No. 113, and it has only spent a few months total on both of these lists, but not consecutively.

The Weeknd’s Five Charting Albums

House of Balloons is one of five album-like projects by The Weeknd to appear on the Billboard charts. It’s the lowest-ranking of the bunch and the only one that appears on just two tallies. Hurry Up Tomorrow, Starboy, After Hours and Beauty Behind the Madness also live on multiple lists, as all three make a home on the Billboard 200, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and Top R&B Albums, at least.