Juice Wrld is on pace to set some records.
According to projections shared by HitsDailyDouble, the highly anticipated posthumous release is set to become Juice’s second No. 1 album. At the moment, it’s expected to move between 400,000 to 440,000 units in its first week.
If those numbers pan out, Legends Never Die would be the biggest first-week debut of 2020, surpassing The Weeknd’s After Hours. The project is also on pace to garner more than 400 million streams within its first week, topping the previous 2020 high held by Lil Uzi Vert and his Eternal Atake album. Uzi’s album, which HipHopDX has hailed as one of the best of 2020 so far, cleared 376 million streams in its first week in March.
In terms of posthumous releases, if projections are true, Juice’s Legends Never Die would surpass the sales totals of Pop Smoke’s Aim For The Stars Shoot For The Moon and Michael Jackson’s This Is It. Pop’s AFTSSFTM is set to debut on top of the Billboard 200 chart with over 248,000 units earned. Jackson’s This Is It sold 373,000 copies during its first week in 2009.
Chicago native and CEO of Juice’s Grade A Productions label, Lil Bibby, is aiming for an even bigger high and thinks Juice’s fanbase can get them there.
“I know the 999 family can get this closer to 500k,” Bibby wrote.
Juice’s debut has already set a new high for debut releases on Spotify. The album picked up 74.6 million streams on Friday alone per ChartData. These historic numbers make it the third-highest debut stream day in Spotify’s history, trailing only behind streaming juggernauts like Drake’s Scorpion (132 million streams) and Post Malone’s Beerbongs & Bentleys (79 million streams).
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The release of Legends Never Die is a somber one for those close to Juice and fans. Bibby has already promised that Juice had enough material to cover a few more posthumous releases and the Grade A label head still wants to fulfill one of Juice’s wishes.
“I don’t think the albums are going to stop,” Bibby told XXL. “There’s plenty of music.”
He added in regards to the potential of an Ocean collab, “I gotta make that happen soon. I gotta Frank Ocean-Juice Wrld track.”
juice wrld was truly gone too soon. Rick Ross supported him and that is the best support you can get from one of tbe realest rappers ever.
Lets kick 50’s ass in sales.
Rick Ross as a real rapper? Okay, put your pijamas on and brush your teeth. It’s 7 PM, boy.
Wait – what the Fudge- this Queen…. My NERVES! Maybe covid…..sooo tired- alread???
#BLM.
RIP to him and everything, but I’m sorry he ain’t no “legend”. He was around for about a minute smh
he was the best freestyler of this gen and i aint seen no one EVER do it like him he was a legend before he died it dont matter how long you was blown up for cuz he been doin it for way longer than 2 years
Bored of overrated ppl dying then ppl jumping on dix n overrating even more. Ppl love dead ppl too much. Focus on the living. Tired of expensive lavish showy funerals where ppl appear, who did not care atall bout person for several decades. It’s just too fake.
Let’s list them. Xxxtentation. Juice wrld. Lil peep or pump. Back in the day they were Worth being sad about. Tupac, biggie. But juice music wack. And women get forgotten who die. There’s at least two. No posthumous nun for them. Whole thing stupid
When your time comes, I hope no one speaks as ill as you have spoken of the dead. Regardless of the situation you need to respect those who have passed and not judge.
RIP. Juice had some real lyrics and was battling some evil demons inside. Sad to see him go, would’ve loved to see him overcome them. Anyone who loved someone with substance abuse problems knows how this is. Sad