Frank Ocean Hits A New Career High–Despite Not Releasing New Music For Years
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Frank Ocean Hits A New Career High–Despite Not Releasing New Music For Years

Hugh McIntyre
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Frank Ocean fans have been waiting quite a long time to hear something new from the R&B powerhouse. The singer-songwriter hasn’t released a song in years, and it’s been well over half a decade since his last album(s) dropped. Despite his relative quiet, the Grammy winner is still rising on the Billboard charts.

This week, Ocean hits a new career high point on one ranking in the U.S. His full-length Blonde lifts to a new peak of No. 33 on the Top Streaming Albums chart–Billboard’s ranking of the most-streamed projects in the country.

Blonde is up from No. 39 on the Top Streaming Albums chart this week. It’s now spent 14 weeks on the tally, and even though it’s been out for many years, it’s performing better on streaming platforms than it has in quite some time.

Ocean’s Blonde isn’t only climbing on the Top Streaming Albums chart this time around, though its step forward on that list is perhaps the most impressive. The set appears on four Billboard tallies, and it’s up on all of them.

On the Billboard 200, the all-genre ranking of the most-consumed albums in America, Blonde jumps back into the uppermost quarter of the roster. Ocean’s bestseller leaps from No. 51 to No. 43 on the tally. According to Luminate, the set moved 17,863 equivalent units, which is up more than 4% from last period.

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Blonde is also on the rise on two genre-specific charts. Ocean’s latest full-length improves to No. 13 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums tally and No. 4 on the Top R&B Albums list.

Channel Orange, the album that propelled Ocean from underground favorite to superstar, is also present on a number of charts, but its performance doesn’t mirror that of Blonde. The early set climbs on the Billboard 200, lifting to No. 73 thanks to a 3.5% increase in consumption.

While it may be soaring on that list, Channel Orange is not a grower on every Billboard tally it appears on. The studio LP is steady at No. 31 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and it actually falls one space on the Top R&B Albums roster, declining to No. 9.

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