Will Teddy Swims’s New Album Go Unhealthy Bunny at the Billboard 200?

The Contenders is a midweek column that appears at artists aiming for the highest of the Billboard charts, and the methods in the back of their efforts. This week, for the impending Billboard 200 albums chart dated Feb. 8, we have a look at a number of recent albums, led by way of the sequel set from certainly one of remaining 12 months’s largest chart step forward tales. 

Teddy Swims, I’ve Attempted The whole lot However Treatment (Pt. 2) (SWIMS Int./Warner): Few artists loved a mainstream breakout in 2024 like Teddy Swims, whose megaballad “Lose Keep watch over” no longer solely crowned the 2024 year-end Billboard Sizzling 100 after first attaining the chart in overdue 2023, however which nonetheless ranks within the checklist’s best 10 this week. That music got here from Swims’ debut album I’ve Attempted The whole lot however Treatment (Pt. 1), which reached No. 17 at the Billboard 200 and spawned a 2d hit within the extra uptempo No. 26-peaking “The Door.”  

Now, the big-voiced Georgia singer-songwriter is again with that set’s follow-up, logically titled I’ve Attempted The whole lot however Treatment (Pt. 2). The brand new album is to be had in 8 vinyl variants, together with one signed by way of Swims, in addition to usual and signed CD editions, and an ordinary virtual obtain. The set additionally options two extra chart hits in “Unhealthy Goals” (No. 57) and Giveon collab “Are You Even Actual” (No. 59), with Swims acting the latter on The This night Display Starring Jimmy Fallon Jan. 23, simply prior to the album’s liberate. 

Unhealthy Bunny, Debí Tirar Más Fotos (Rimas): Talking of Fallon: His contemporary co-host Unhealthy Bunny will have to give you the largest problem to Swims scoring his first No. 1 at the Billboard 200 subsequent week. Debí Tirar Más Fotos climbed to the chart’s apex — after debuting at No. 2 in an incomplete debut monitoring week — and moved a reasonably staggering 203,500 gadgets in its 2d body, because the seriously acclaimed album persisted to catch fireplace on streaming via phrase of mouth and thru a handful of viral hits, maximum significantly quasi-title tune “DtMF,” which shot to No. 2 at the Sizzling 100.  

This week, the set has cooled down a little bit from its blazing get started, however stays a significant pressure throughout streaming – claiming six of the highest 25 spots on Apple Track’s actual time chart and 5 of the highest 25 on Spotify’s Day by day Best Songs USA, together with “DtMF” nonetheless reigning at No. 1. No tracks from the Swims set are lately even within the best 50 on both chart, this means that it’ll must promote an amazing choice of bodily copies to threaten Unhealthy Bunny’s blockbuster on subsequent week’s chart – a large ask for this sort of nonetheless quite new artist.  

Kane Brown, The Prime Street (RCA Nashville): An extended-established hitmaker with a brand new set this week is nation megastar Kane Brown, who has hit the Billboard 200’s best 5 with each and every of his best 3 albums, together with 2018s’ chart-topping Experiment. His new set The Prime Street – to not be puzzled with contemporary “Prime Street” nation hits by way of Zach Bryan and Koe Wetzel & Jessie Murph – options 18 tracks, together with already-minted hits “Miles on It” (with EDM megastar Marshmello) and the Phil Collins-interpolating “I Can Really feel It.” The album is to be had in 9 vinyl variants (together with signed editions), in addition to 3 d2c-only virtual album variants with other duvet artwork, and at leat 4 CD variants, additionally together with signed editions.  

IN THE MIX 

Central Cee, Can’t Rush Greatness (CC4L/Columbia): U.K. MC Central Cee has been one of the crucial globe’s most up to date rappers for lots of the 2020s album, however is solely now freeing debut album Can’t Rush Greatness – therefore the identify. The 17-track set options U.S. rap stars 21 Savage, Lil Durk and Lil Child, the latter on remaining 12 months’s best 20 Sizzling 100 hit “BAND4BAND.” The album will have to circulation smartly, and has already led to a minor web fury with its tune “5 Celebrity” — which contained rhymes perceived as a diss against fellow U.K. hip-hop hitmaker Aitch, who answered the similar day of its liberate along with his personal “A Man Referred to as?” 

FKA twigs, Eusexua (Younger/Altantic): Wildly acclaimed for over a decade now, U.K. electro-soul singer-songwriter FKA twigs is again this week with the much-anticipated Eusexua, her first LP since 2022’s Caprisongs. The album is to be had in six vinyl variants, signed and unsigned CDs, cassette and two virtual obtain variants, one a d2c unique with an advantage tune. Twigs without a doubt hasn’t misplaced her fastball as a critics’ darling, as Eusexua is already one of the crucial 12 months’s strongest-reviewed units, together with an extraordinary 9.1 score from Pitchfork.