Damn!
Lil Uzi Vert has simply scored the primary No. 1 debut for a rap album this yr with their newest launch, Pink Tape.
Billboard studies the Pink Tape earned 167,000 equal album models with 11,000 in album gross sales in its first week. It’s 154,000 SEA models equaled to 210.39.00 million on-demand streams of its 26 tracks turning into the biggest streaming week of rap or R&B/hip-hop title this yr.
18 of the album’s songs have debuted within the Billboard Top 100 charts and makes Uzi the 14th artist in historical past to tally 100 profession Hot 100 hits.
The Pink Tape ended the longest hole between No. 1 rap albums on the charts in practically 30 years. The final rap chart-topping debut was Metro Boomin’s Heroes & Villains final December.
The launch marks Uzi’s third chart-topping debut on the Billboard 200 charts following 2020’s Eternal Atake and the 2017 debut album, Luv Is Rage 2. The Pink Tape additionally marks Uzi’s fourth high 5 debut which incorporates Lil Uzi Vert vs. The World 2 and Pluto x Baby Pluto, their joint album with Future, which each missed the mark and debuted No. 2 in 2020.
Pink Tape is Lil Uzi Vert’s third solo and main label album, which spawned the hit single, “I Just Wanna Rock” and collaborations from the likes of Nicki Minaj, Travis Scott, Don Toliver, and extra.
