DJ Khaled beats Imagine Dragons to the top in chart battle

Written by . Published: July 03 2017

Dj Khaled has edged out Imagine Dragons to grab the top spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart.


The rap producer's Grateful sold 149,000 total copies in its debut week - just 3,000 more than Imagine Dragons' Evolve, which comes in at two on the new countdown.

Grateful is Khaled's second number one album in as many years - he topped the charts with Major Key in 2016.

Kendrick Lamar's Damn stays put at three and Prince's Purple Rain returns to the top five at four thanks to the album's remastered reissue.

Meanwhile, 2 Chainz's Pretty Girls Like Trap Music is at five.

In the singles chart, Justin Bieber has notched up another record with three consecutive weeks at numbers one and two - his collaboration with Daddy Yankee and Luis Fonsi on Despasito rules the chart for an eighth week, while DJ Khaled's I'm The One, which also features the Baby singer, stays put at two for a third week.

That means Bieber breaks his own Billboard Hot 100 record of two successive weeks at one and two with Sorry and Love Yourself in February, 2016.

The last male to achieve the feat for at least three weeks before Bieber was Pharrell Williams, who spent five weeks at one and two in 2013.

DJ Khaled also has two hits in the new Hot 100 top three as his Wild Thoughts rises to three, while Bruno Mars' That's What I Like falls for four, and Ed Sheeran's former 12-week number one, Shape of You, rounds out the new top five.