Take a Chance: Coloring Book is the first streaming-only album to crack Billboard 200 - CNET

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Chance the Rapper's upcoming Coloring Book will be the first streaming-only album to appear on the Billboard 200 chart, set to debut at No. 8 when the list is published on May 24.

The album was only available on Apple Music for its first week of release, and in that time it received the equivalent of 38,000 album purchases, said Billboard. 1,500 streams equate to one album unit in Billboard's metrics, meaning the album was streamed more than 57 million times.

While Kanye West's The Life of Pablo was a veritable juggeaut on music streaming service Tidal, a fraction of a percent of its units were album purchases rather than streams, disqualifying it from this particular honor.

Coloring Book will continue to be an Apple Music exclusive until May 27. Though there are plans to release it to other streaming services, there haven't been any announcements made regarding a physical album release.