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Playboi Carti’s latest album Whole Lotta Red is Billboard 200’s first number 1 album of 2021 – and also the rapper’s first number 1 ever.
Billboard reports Whole Lotta Red moved 100,000 equivalent album units in the first week, with 10,000 from album sales and 90,000 from streaming, reaching 126.43 million streams on demand. The album is performed below HitsDailyDouble projections, which on December 26 was 125,000-135,000. Carti expressed his appreciation for his fans after it became official Red took the top spot.
!!!!! wTF. WE are # 1> my fans. >
– 💋🧛🏿♀️ (@playboicarti) 4 January 2021
Whole Lotta Red was the sequel to Carti’s debut studio album in 2018 The Lit with the new offering featuring features from Kanye West, Kid Cudi and Future, and production by Pi’erre Bourne.
Carti was able to dethrone Taylor Swift, who retained the No. 1 spot in rugby weeks Always. While Swift finished second, she was nearly knocked out to third, thanks to an increase in the Billboard 200 chart by Lil Durk’s The voice, rises from no. 46 to number 3. The jump was due to the release date of 24 December The Voice, which collected 23,000 units on the only day of activity that Billboard could count for the week.
Lil Durk achieves his third top 10 finish, but his latest project does not fall short of his best Billboard 200 result. That honor still belongs to Just Cause Y’all Waited 2, which reached a peak of 2.
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