Chris Brown is the 37th Top Artist of 2016, according to Hits Daily Double. His last album, Royalty, was released in 2015, and sold over half of its total sales that year according to Billboard.
Despite that, CB has pushed more units than Lady Gaga (fresh off of her Joanne release) this year.
Wait, Joanne didn't even make the Top 50? But I thought it was doing well given the current sales climate and much more successful than ARTPOP respectively? At least that's what MissedTheTrain told me.