Lil Baby’s latest effort, Harder Than Ever, has made its Billboard 200 debut at #3 for the week ending May 24.
Elsewhere on the chart, South Korean boy band BTS and their latest album Love Yourself: Tear knocked Post Malone’s Beerbongs & Bentleysout of the #1 spot, which was bumped to #2.
Further down the list, NAV’s Reckless entered in the Top 10, Playboi Carti’s Die Lit took a 57 percent dive, and 19-year-old newcomer Juice WRLD and his Goodbye & Good Riddance project made its entrance at #15.
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Big Moves For Lil Baby
With 71,108 total album equivalent units sold, 4,524 pure album sales and a streaming count of 97,187,972, Lil Baby’s newest project Harder Than Ever landed at the #3 in its first week. Released by Quality Control, Harder Than Ever serves as the follow-up to 2017’s Too Hard mixtape.
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Lil Baby recently teamed up with Drake for “Yes Indeed,” which is the second single from the project.
NAV Makes Top 10 Debut
NAV and his new effort, Reckless,hit the chart at #8 with 36,401 total album equivalent units, 3,903 pure album sales and a streaming count of 47,685,520.
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The project comes roughly 10 months after Perfect Timing, his collaborative mixtape with celebrated producer Metro Boomin. It debuted on the Billboard 200 at #13 with 30,000 total album equivalent sales in its first week.
Playboi Carti Takes A Tumble
Playboi Carti’sDie Lit plummeted 57 percent but still ended up at #10 in its third week. With 26,378 total album equivalent units sold, 544 pure album sales and a streaming count of 38,078,809, the album fell seven spots from the week ending May 17.
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The platinum-selling rapper’s self-titled mixtape was released last year and moved 28,000 units in its first week.
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Top 10 Billboard 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 05/24/2018
Note: The first number below is this week’s “total album equivalent units” count, an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams implemented by Billboard’s new rating system. A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.
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- Post Malone — Beerbongs & Bentleys — #2 — 122,954 (15,215) [151,302,953]
- Lil Baby — Harder Than Ever — #3 — 71,108 (4,524) [97,187,972]
- Cardi B — Invasion Of Privacy — #5 — 48,102 (3,501) [60,808,160]
- J. Cole — KOD — #7 — 41,318 (6,207) [51,062,890]
- NAV — Reckless — #8 — 36,401 (3,903) [47,685,520]
- Various Artists — Black Panther: The Album — #9 — 28,248 (5,466) [30,179,199]
- Playboi Carti – Die Lit — #10 — 26,378 (544) [38,078,809]
- Post Malone — Stoney — #11 — 25,994 (1,891) [33,730,829]
- Migos — Culture II — #12 —25,924 (1,380) [34,133,448]
- Juice WRLD — Goodbye & Good Riddance — #15 — 23,538 (1,052) [32,413,835]
