Future is one of the hottest artists of the moment and that buzz was solidified after it was announced that his last two albums, the self-titled release and HNDRXX, debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 chart. This makes the Atlanta rapper the first artist in the six-decade history of the chart to have two new chart-topping albums in consecutive weeks.
The feat has many historic implications, according to a report from Billboard. Not only is Future the first to replace himself on the charts since 1968, he’s also the first solo act to ever do so. Only eight other acts have held the number one and two spots at the same time on the chart since 1963, which is when Billboard first introduced the current iteration of the 200 chart.
The artist’s self-titled, short-notice release dropped on February 17 and the impact was felt immediately, including from some speculation that the Freebandz boss took shots at rising Brooklyn rapper Desiigner, who some say stole Future’s style for his own use.
Seven days later, HNDRXX dropped to similar fanfare (also with a surprise announcement just days before the album arrived) and it too soared to the top of the Billboard 200. The release is Future’s fifth chart-topping debut for an album.
As noted by Rolling Stone, the debut of HNDRXX on the Billboard 200 gives Future five consecutive #1 albums, which include DS2, EVOL, the What A Time To Be Alive collaboration with Drake, and the self-titled album. The self-titled album sold 144,000 album equivalent units in its first week and HNDRXX came in with 121,000 copies moved in its opening week.
Persistent rumors and reports that Future would be dropping an album for the third straight week proved unfounded, and were eventually shot down by Future himself.
Future sucks. Don’t care if he suddenly went emotional, his flow and delivery are annoying and vapid, the fact that he finally made an album with emotionally resonant content, 7 years into his career, does nothing to change that opinion.
Well this is how you know billboard sales dont mean shit other than the mass who buy music are dumb teenagers with their parents money. No ones going to listen to this garbage a year from now.
Lets put in perspective, In July 1988, 736 weeks after it debuted on Billboard’s album chart, Pink Floyd’s 1973 classic The Dark Side of the Moon finally left the weekly Top 200 listing. Twenty-five years after that chart record was set, it still hasn’t been broken.
When this leaned out walking poopsicle can do that then you’ll hear trumpets of babylon.
Thank you.. you obviously get it.. 100% agree
No one cares about your real hip-hop opinions. The 90’s are over
No hip hop is over…Future sucks and these “fans” are idiots…
But he didn’t say one thing about real hip hop or the 90s.
then again, your name is Panda. sounds like a Desiigner fan hating that Future hasn’t been fully replaced yet by your Future 2.0..
The hive is alive
This is no criticism, well it actually is but all his music sounds the same.
Didn’t even give his fans enough time to really purchase the first one. Poor marketing
200,000 records in 2 weeks is history these days smh!!!! future is an artist i listen to for select bangers not because of substance… so do i like futures music… some of it…. am i cool with his success of course …. but just sayin this new generation is all fucked up cause they come from an era where any bum ass nigga wit a camera phgone can get some kinda exposure thru this internet so they dont know who a good mc and who not cause its 30 new fuck niggas a day on world star who filmed a video with their cam phone talkin bout they a rapper… the intertent and an avenue for people to post whatever they feel makes any nobody think they somebody!!! feel bad for yall niggaz no 2pac no Nas no michael jordan all yall got is feminine ass leggin wearin niggaz that claim they gangsta to look up to!!!
DMX was the first rapper in history to have released two number one [3] albums in the same year, both of which debuted on Billboard 200.[3] – WIKIPEDIA
A passive google search…