Lin-Manuel Miranda's Puerto Rico relief efforts

17/10/2017 11:57

        "Hamilton" creator
        Lin-Manuel Miranda's star-studded charity song to fund relief
        efforts in Puerto Rico topped the Billboard digital singles
        chart on Monday, while Christian music rapper NF topped the
        Billboard 200 album chart.
        
        Miranda's "Almost Like Praying" debuted at No. 1 on the
        Digital Songs chart, which measures online single sales, with
        111,000 copies sold, according to figures from Nielsen
        SoundScan.
        
        All proceeds from sales and streaming of the single, which
        includes vocals from Jennifer Lopez and Gloria Estefan, will go
        toward relief efforts in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
        killed at least 43 people last month and left most of the island
        without power or access to clean running water.
        
        On the Billboard 200 chart, "Perception," the latest album
        from NF, sold 55,000 album units comprising album and song sales
        and streaming activity.
        
        The Billboard 200 chart tallies units from album sales, song
        sales (10 songs equal one album) and streaming activity (1,500
        streams equal one album).
        
        Rocker Tom Petty's "Greatest Hits" album with his band The
        Heartbreakers held steady at No. 2 with 47,000 copies sold two
        weeks after the “American Girl” singer died at age 66.
        
        Other new entries on the Billboard 200 chart this week
        include rapper Lil Pump's self-titled album at No. 3 and rocker
        Marilyn Manson's "Heaven Upside Down" at No. 8.