On the music charts this week, the rapper Wiz Khalifa lands his first No. 1 album, while Taylor Swift sails to the top with her new single, “Shake It Off.”
Wiz Khalifa, a Pittsburgh rapper who first came to wide attention a few years ago with his song “Black and Yellow” — which, in different versions, became 2011’s Super Bowl rallying cry for both the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers — has twice before reached No. 2 on Billboard’s album chart. But with his latest, “Blacc Hollywood” (Rostrum/Atlantic), he has gone to No. 1 for the first time, with 90,000 sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
“Shake It Off,” Ms. Swift’s latest hit, was introduced through a widely publicized Yahoo stream last week, and has shot to No. 1 on Billboard’s singles chart, which tracks a combination of sales, radio play and online streams. The song sold 544,000 downloads and had 18.4 million streams in the United States, with 98 percent of those streams for its video on YouTube and Vevo. (The song is not yet available on audio platforms like Spotify.) “Shake It Off” is a big hit at Top 40 radio, although as part of Ms. Swift’s self-described “very first documented, official pop album,” it was mostly ignored by country radio programmers.
Meanwhile, Nicki Minaj’s latest single, “Anaconda,” rose 37 spots to No. 2 on the singles chart, with 120,000 downloads and a total of 32.1 million streams. Released several weeks ago, the song took off last week on the strength of its provocative video, which actually performed better than “Shake It Off.” According to Vevo, “Anaconda” received 19.6 million views in its first 24 hours, a new record for that platform.
Also on this week’s album chart, the “Guardians of the Galaxy” soundtrack fell to No. 2 with 64,000 sales after two weeks at No. 1, and the country singer Chase Rice opened at No. 3 with “Ignite the Night” (Columbia Nashville/Dack Janiels), which sold 44,000. Mr. Rice first became famous in 2010 as a runner-up on the CBS show “Survivor: Nicaragua,” but he has gradually been building his credentials in Nashville. He has now released three albums, and he co-wrote Florida Georgia Line’s breakthrough hit “Cruise,” which reached No. 4 on the pop chart last year.
Vol. 51 of the pop series “Now That’s What I Call Music!” fell two spots to No. 4 this week with 33,000 sales, and another compilation, “Nashville Outlaws: A Tribute to Mötley Crüe” (Big Machine) — featuring country stars like Rascal Flatts and Big & Rich — opened at No. 5 with 31,000. Disney’s “Frozen” soundtrack is No. 6 with 29,000 sales, bringing its 39-week total to 3,330,000, by far the best sales of any album this year.
Ace Frehley, the former Kiss guitarist, got a boost from the publicity surrounding Kiss’s induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year, reaching the Top 10 for the first time in his long solo career. “Space Invader” (eOne), Mr. Frehley’s latest album, opened at No. 9 with 19,000 sales.
In keeping with Kiss’s longstanding tradition of its current and former members trading barbs in public, a press release from Mr. Frehley’s label on Wednesday noted that “Space Invader” has also sold better in first-week sales than Kiss’s recently released “Kiss 40” album,” which moved just over 7,000 copies when it came out in May.