Lil Child’s ‘WHAM’ Debuts at No. 1 at the Billboard 200 Chart

Lil Child collects his fourth No. 1 album at the Billboard 200 chart, all tallied consecutively, as WHAM opens atop the chart dated Jan. 18. The set earned 140,000 identical album devices within the U.S. within the week finishing Jan. 9, in line with Luminate. The rapper prior to now crowned the record together with his remaining 3 releases: It’s Simplest Me (2022), The Voice of the Heroes (with Lil Durk, 2021) and My Flip (2020).

In overall, WHAM marks Lil Child’s 7th most sensible 10 at the Billboard 200, stretching again to 2019’s Tougher Than Ever (No. 3 height).

WHAM’s Friday (Jan. 3) free up used to be introduced through Lil Child in overdue December.

Additionally within the most sensible 10: Dangerous Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS debuts at No. 2, securing the celebrity his 7th most sensible 10-charting set. Bunny’s album used to be launched on an off-cycle Sunday (Jan. 5) and, thus, it arrives at the chart with simplest 5 days of task (because the chart’s monitoring week runs Friday thru Thursday). The album’s free up date used to be introduced on Dec. 25.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. in line with multi-metric intake as measured in identical album devices, compiled through Luminate. Devices include album gross sales, monitor identical albums (TEA) and streaming identical albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks offered from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand reputable audio and video streams generated through songs from an album. The brand new Jan. 18, 2025-dated chart will probably be posted in complete on Billboard‘s website online on Tuesday (Jan. 14). For all chart information, practice @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X and Instagram.

Of WHAM’s 140,000 first-week identical album devices, SEA devices include 90,000 (equaling 119.77 million on-demand reputable streams of the streaming model of the album’s songs; the set debuts at No. 3 at the Best Streaming Albums chart), album gross sales include 50,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Best Album Gross sales) and TEA devices include a negligible sum.

WHAM used to be to be had to buy as a 15-song usual virtual obtain album and a typical CD (the latter solely offered by the use of the artist’s reputable webstore). On Jan. 7, a longer version of WHAM — with 4 further songs — used to be launched solely by the use of Lil Child’s label webstore for acquire. The prolonged version used to be later issued broadly thru streaming services and products and virtual outlets on Friday (Jan. 10). Each virtual variations of the album had been discounted to $4.99 within the webstores of the artist and his label (Motown), in conjunction with within the iTunes Retailer.

The usual model of WHAM options visitor turns from 21 Savage, Long term, GloRilla, Rylo Rodriguez, Travis Scott, Younger Thug and Rod Wave.

Dangerous Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS begins at No. 2 at the Billboard 200 with 122,000 identical album devices earned. Of that sum, SEA devices include 113,500 (equaling 152.16 million on-demand reputable streams of the set’s 17 songs; it debuts at No. 1 on Best Streaming Albums), album gross sales include 8,000 and TEA devices include 500. The album used to be simplest to be had as a typical 17-song set by the use of streaming services and products and to buy as a virtual obtain (additionally discounted to $4.99 in Dangerous Bunny’s reputable webstore and the iTunes Retailer).

DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS used to be preceded through a couple of entries from the album at the Billboard Sizzling 100 songs chart: “EL CLúB” and “PIToRRO DE COCO.”

3 former No. 1s practice at the Billboard 200: SZA’s SOS falls 1-3 at the (113,000 identical album devices earned; down 13%), Kendrick Lamar’s GNX strikes 2-4 (67,000; down 4%) and Sabrina Chippie’s Quick n’ Candy slips 3-5 (51,000; down 9%).

The Depraved movie soundtrack dips 4-6 (45,000 identical album devices; down 7%); Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Arduous and Comfortable falls 5-7 (43,000; down 5%); Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Factor at a Time is a non-mover at No. 8 (40,000; down 1%); Gracie Abrams’ The Secret of Us is stable at No. 9 (38,000; down 5%); and Tyler, The Writer’s former chief CHROMAKOPIA is desk bound at No. 10 (37,000; down 3%).

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