‘A Star Is Born’ Soundtrack Tops Quavo for Another Week at No. 1

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper have a smash on their hands with the soundtrack to “A Star Is Born,” which is spending its second straight week atop the Billboard chart.

The album, which features songs by Lady Gaga and her fictional pop-star counterpart Ally, plus Cooper (as Jackson Maine) singing compositions by Jason Isbell and Lukas Nelson, is riding the film’s box-office success to real-world reach. “A Star Is Born” earned another 86,000 in sales and had 48 million song streams, according to Nielsen Music, for a total of 143,000 album equivalent units by the industry’s math.

Also firming up the soundtrack’s No. 1 spot: 196,000 in digital song sales, a declining format in the post-iTunes age.

The week’s streaming champion, with 121 million plays, was Quavo of Migos, with his solo debut, “Quavo Huncho.” The album, with cameos by Drake, 21 Savage and more, reached No. 2 with full-album sales of 6,000 — a typically low number for streaming-dependent rap releases — and a total of 99,000 units. (Because the album was technically released on a Thursday evening, before the sales week turned over at midnight, it debuted on last week’s Billboard chart at No. 66, with 11,000 additional units.)

Next week’s chart likely faces a similar battle for the top spot: The collaborative mixtape by the rapper-singers Future and Juice WRLD is a sure thing for big streaming numbers, while “A Star Is Born” will aim for another six-digit week and a three-peat at No. 1.

Rounding out this week’s Billboard 200 are three more albums reliant on streaming: “Tha Carter V” by Lil Wayne is No. 3 in its third week with 85,000 units (99 million streams); “Drip Harder,” by Lil Baby and Gunna, is No. 4 in its second week with 71,000 units (99 million streams); and the R&B singer Ella Mai, who had a breakout hit this year with “Boo’d Up,” debuts at No. 5 with 69,000 units (65 million streams) for her self-titled debut LP.