NF's new album 'Therapy Session' makes impressive debut on Billboard

Therapy Session has firmly established NF as one of the faces of Christian hip hop today. 

His sophomore album on Capitol CMG Label Group debuted on Billboard this week, and its numbers trump all Christian hip-hop releases this year besides Lecrae's surprise mixtape Church Clothes 3, which sold 29,207 album-equivalent units in Week 1. Therapy Sessions old 29,184.

NF's platform grew dramatically between the releases of his freshman and sophomore LPs on Capitol CMG. Mansion, which dropped March 31, 2015, sold 10,169 units in Week 1. See how the albums' first weeks on Billboard compare to each other below.

Therapy Session debut Billboard rankings (Mansion debut rankings in parenthesis):

Billboard 200: No. 12 (No. 62)

Top Albums Sales: No. 8 (No. 42)

Digital Albums: No. 7 (No. 22)

Rap Albums: No. 1 (No. 9)

Top Christian Albums: No. 1 (No. 1)

These rankings are even more impressive when Prince's effect on them is factored in. The legendary singer's death the day before the release ofTherapy Session skyrocketed his discography up the charts.

While Therapy Session's No. 12 spot on the Billboard 200 ties it withChurch Clothes 3 for the highest ranking in Christian hip hop this year, it's the seventh-highest non-Prince project on the chart.

Billboard 200 - Top 15 on the week of May 14, 2016:

Beyonce - Lemonade

Prince - The Very Best of Prince

Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain (Soundtrack)

Prince - The Hits/The B-Sides

Rihanna - ANTI

Prince - Ultimate

Prince - 1999

A$AP Ferg - Always Strive and Prosper

Chris Stapleton - Traveller

Justin Bieber - Purpose

Kanye West - The Life of Pablo

NF - Therapy Session

twenty one pilots - Blurryface

Adele - 25

Original Broadway Cast - Hamilton: An American Musical

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