Two expanded albums are making very different kinds of noise on the Billboard 200. Drake’s HABIBTI jumped 114 places to No. 2 after an expanded edition energized streaming, while Mac Miller’s The Divine Feminine rose from No. 159 to No. 10 behind a much more purchase-driven week.
The contrast is the real story behind the chart movement. Both records gained new material, both climbed sharply, and both demonstrate why an album expansion can matter long after an initial release. But their paths are notably different: Drake’s result was almost entirely powered by listeners playing the project, whereas more than half of Miller’s 32,000 album-equivalent units came from traditional album sales.
The results are based on the U.S. tracking week ending October 8, with the complete Billboard 200 dated October 17 scheduled for release on October 13.
Drake’s HABIBTI makes a streaming-led return to No. 2
HABIBTI moved from No. 116 to No. 2 with 71,000 album-equivalent units, a 506% week-over-week increase. Nearly 70,000 of those units came from streaming. Put simply, virtually the project’s entire chart total was driven by on-demand listening rather than purchases.
That rebound followed the October 2 arrival of HABIBTI (FOMO), an expansion released through OVO and Republic Records. It adds four tracks:
- “Solar Eclipse”
- “Quebec”
- “Cold Shoulder”
- “Classic PT2”
Don Toliver appears on two of the added songs, while Yebba joins Drake on “Cold Shoulder.” Drake and Toliver also released an official video for “Solar Eclipse,” giving one of the new additions a distinct visual push alongside its arrival on the album.
In chart terminology, an album-equivalent unit is the measurement that combines album purchases with activity converted from streaming. It is useful because it captures more than one way audiences engage with an album, but it can also hide major differences in how a total was achieved. Drake’s 71,000-unit week is overwhelmingly a streaming result, indicating that the expanded track list was met with substantial listening volume.
The project had already proven capable of reaching the uppermost end of the chart. The original version of HABIBTI previously peaked at No. 2. Released as part of a three-album batch in May, it opened with 114,000 units, landing between Iceman at No. 1 and Maid Of Honour at No. 3.
The 114-place rise does not mean the project suddenly became a new release; it shows how a refreshed edition can reshape an album’s weekly performance. Extra songs provide a reason for existing listeners to revisit a project and a clean entry point for listeners who may have missed its initial run. A video with a featured guest can add another focal point, too, although the chart figures do not break out the contribution of any one song or video.
Mac Miller’s anniversary edition takes a sales-first route
The Divine Feminine followed a different, equally striking path. The album climbed 149 places, from No. 159 to No. 10, with 32,000 album-equivalent units. That was a 218% increase from the prior week.
Its breakdown matters: 18,000 units came from album sales, while streaming accounted for another 14,000. In other words, purchases supplied the majority of the total. That stands in direct contrast to Drake’s result, even though both albums benefited from expanded editions.
The 13-track anniversary edition adds three songs that were not available on the original 2016 album:
- “Grand”
- “Channel 13”
- “Butterflies”
These are described as previously unreleased recordings from the album sessions. The original The Divine Feminine blended rapping and singing and featured a guest lineup spanning hip-hop and R&B. Anderson .Paak appears on “Dang!,” Ariana Grande features on “My Favorite Part,” and Kendrick Lamar closes the original track list with “God Is Fair, Sexy Nasty.”
For listeners and physical-media buyers, the new edition is also available as a three-record set. The bonus tracks are placed on Side E, while Side F carries an etching. That presentation gives the anniversary version a defined physical identity rather than merely adding tracks to the digital version.
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Why the two chart jumps should not be treated as identical
It would be easy to reduce both moves to the same headline: add songs, return to the Top 10. The underlying numbers tell a more useful story.
Drake’s performance is dominated by streaming, which means the expanded edition’s impact appears primarily in repeat listening and broad platform consumption. His total of nearly 70,000 streaming units out of 71,000 overall leaves little ambiguity about the main engine of the week.
Miller’s performance is split much more evenly, but sales are the larger component. The 18,000 sales units suggest that the anniversary edition’s expanded music and multi-record presentation gave fans a reason to buy the album in a way that directly affected its chart placement. Streaming still played a major role, supplying 14,000 units, but it did not carry the result alone.
Neither approach is inherently more meaningful than the other. They reflect separate forms of listener participation. Streaming-led success measures the scale of active listening across services. Sales-led success highlights the willingness of listeners to acquire an edition outright. In this case, both approaches were sufficient to transform the chart outlook for catalog-adjacent releases in a single week.
A return for an album that already had a major chart history
The Divine Feminine is not a newcomer to high chart positions. The original album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in 2016 and reached No. 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Its latest appearance in the Top 10 therefore reconnects the project with a level of commercial prominence it held at release, while putting previously unheard material alongside songs that have remained central to its identity.
Anniversary editions can be complicated objects for listeners. The original sequence may hold a specific place in an album’s legacy, while bonus tracks invite a second version of the experience. Here, the three additions are clearly separated by their status as unreleased session material, and the vinyl configuration places them on a later side of the set. That makes the relationship between the original album and its newly issued material easier to understand: the 2016 track list remains the foundation, with a compact addendum from the same creative period.
What the week says about expanded albums
The two Top 10 moves show that “expanded edition” is not one commercial formula. New tracks may lead people to stream a familiar album at massive scale, as with HABIBTI. They may also create demand for a newly configured purchase, as with the anniversary edition of The Divine Feminine.
For artists and labels, the practical implication is that the added music needs a clear reason to exist. Drake’s version pairs four fresh songs with recognizable collaborators and a video. Miller’s edition offers three previously unreleased tracks connected to a landmark 2016 album, plus a specific three-record physical format. Those are different propositions for different audiences, and the sales-versus-streaming splits show why the distinction is worth paying attention to.
For fans, the more immediate takeaway is simple: a chart jump can be driven by more than one kind of enthusiasm. One audience may be replaying new songs throughout the week. Another may be choosing to own a new edition. This week, both routes carried expanded albums back into the Billboard 200’s Top 10.
