Griselda Records has been touted as one of the best Hip Hop labels out there and the Billboard 200 chart is beginning to reflect it, especially for a unit who prides itself squarely on delivering new music to a rabid fan base.
The first-week sales for Benny The Butcher’s well-received Burden Of Proof album are in and the Hit-Boy produced project debuted at No. 29 on the Billboard 200 chart with roughly 19,000 equivalent album units earned, according to Billboard.
For context, the Griselda unit from Benny to Westside Gunn, Conway The Machine and Armani Caesar have all released projects in 2020. Westside released Pray For Paris and Who Made The Sunshine this year, with PFP peaking at No. 29, while Conway’s major-label debut From A King To A God peaked at No. 126.
Burden Of Proof was released on October 9, led by the single “Timeless” featuring Lil Wayne and Big Sean, and featured guest appearances from Rick Ross, Freddie Gibbs, Dom Kennedy, Conway, Westside, Pain In Da Ass and The Mad Rapper.
Hit-Boy Credits JAY-Z For Arranging Benny The Butcher & Freddie Gibbs' 'One Way Flight' Collab
Among the more talked about tracks from Burden Of Proof was the Gibbs-assisted “One Way Trip” track, which Hit-Boy said had a little input from JAY-Z. Benny is signed to a management deal with Hov’s Roc Nation imprint along with Westside.
“I ain’t gon bull shit you,” Hit wrote on Twitter (October 15). “I emailed Jay-Z and he helped me arrange ‘one way flight’ featuring @FreddieGibbs veteran level shit. That spacing is the shit!”
Stream Benny’s lauded debut below.
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lemme get this straight. this site clowns 6ix9ine for sales, then were congradulation benny for selling less than of that? 19k even 10 years ago, you’d get dropped from the label
Benny is an independent artist who built his own shit from the ground up… SnitchNine is an industry backed mumble rapper who has a machine behind him and millions in marketing budgets, clearly there’s a big difference!!
Except for Benny is backed by Roc Nation and Interscope … nice try though. I been a Griselda fan since the OG Flygod record … this was Benny’s weakest album to date. The mainstream beats and features don’t work for a Griselda project.
????????? Loll got em had me racking my brain. I was like Eminem didnt give benny a solo so whos responsible for this success. U just so happened to spell it out before i had to look thanks. No disrespect to the Butcher of course
Benny is managed by Roc Nation and he doesn’t have any connections to interscope… All his music is released independently through Griselda and BSF with no industry budgets backing him… If you really were a GXFR fan since the OG Flygod days you would know this!!
Imagine still defending 6ix9ine two months after he flopped.
Benny music is fans of lyrical street hip hop. That is a very small market. He will never sell like forced mainstream acts like Drake and 69 with gimmicks to appeal to ladies, kids and suburb kids trying to be cool
Glad Griselda is finally getting that mainstream love. And without compromising their style. Respect!
Griselda=R.A.W…..Real Artist Winning???
It’s crazy how you can have a whole career making more than a doctor only selling 19,000.
It’s their merch game. Griselda’s grind is crazy.
I like Benny the Butcher album, Conway the machine I feel it needs some anthem records. His raps are good but needed better hooks for me to remember any of his songs though I do like that lemon record with Meth. I haven’t listen to Westside Gunn’s yet.