YoungBoy Never Broke Again Scores First No. 1 on Billboard 200 With 'AI YoungBoy 2'

Post Malone, Wale & Lil Tjay also appear in this week’s top 10.

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YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s AI YoungBoy 2 is opening on top of this week’s Billboard 200, garnering a total of 110,000 equivalent album units. Of that number, 3,000 were in album sales, 1,000 were in track equivalent units and 106,000 were in streaming equivalent album units, with the latter equating to 144.7 million on-demand audio streams earned for the album’s first week. This feat marks the 20-year-old rapper’s first No. 1 on the chart, following the record’s 2017 predecessor that peaked at No. 24.

Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding steps down one slot after a three-week reign, along with by Summer Walker’s Over It at No. 3 and DaBaby’s KIRK at No. 4. Debuting at No. 5 is Lil Tjay’s True 2 Myself with 45,000 equivalent album units, followed by Taylor Swift’s Lover falling at No. 6 and Wale’s Wow… That’s Crazy opening at No. 7 with 38,000 equivalent album units.

Billie Eilish’s WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? goes down to No. 8, with Chris Brown’s Indigo and Young Thug’s So Much Fun closing out this week’s top 10.

Elsewhere in music, take a listen to this week’s Best New Tracks featuring Gucci Mane, Westside Gunn and More.

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