Young Thug achieves his third number 1 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart (dated Oct. 30) as his latest album, Punk, debuts on the top spot.
When it comes to Young Thug, there is always something to look forward to. His characteristic melodies, rap skills, and endlessly inventive creative visions have cast Thugger’s undoubted influence on music since he first came out in the early 2010s.
On October 15th, Thug dropped PUNK, his second studio album. He continued to follow his unrestrainedly experimental intuition by getting even more honest in his lyrics, as he stepped into a role as a storyteller.
PUNK will officially take Drake’s Certified Lover Boy spot as the highest-selling album of the week. PUNK sold almost 90,346 album-equivalent units in its first week, outselling CLB by about 7,000 album-equivalent units. The two projects have been at each other for the top spot on the Billboard 200 ever since PUNK was released. One day after PUNK’s release, HitsDailyDouble projected that Thug’s new album would move 85,000 to 95,000 units in total activity, with 2,000 to 5,000 expected to be derived from pure sales.
CLB has been at the top of the charts for weeks now, leading the HITS Top 50 for four consecutive weeks. It was then moved down to No. 2 sot after PUNK dropped, and Young Thug’s numbers and overall performance come as no surprise.
The 20-track Punk features lots of guest stars, including A$AP Rocky, J. Cole, Doja Cat, Drake, Future, Gunna, Juice WRLD, Post Malone, Mac Miller, Nate Ruess, and Travis Scott.
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