pink tape by Lil Uzi Vert debuted at no. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart, earning 167,000 equivalent units in the US for the week ending July 6. This is the rapper’s third chart-topping album Highest debut of the year for any rap or R&B/Hip-Hop album. Lil Uzi Vert’s record takes a rap album to no. 1 on the Billboard 200 for the first time in 2023It marked the longest wait in a calendar year for an album in the genre to top the chart since 1993. That year, the chart had not yet seen a #1 rap album. black sunday Cypress Hill debuted at no. 1 on the chart as of 7 August 1993.
Lil Uzi Vert, Metro Boomin before him
The last rap album to top the Billboard 200 before pink tape Was heroes and villains by Metro Boomin, which spent one week at the top of the chart on December 17, 2022. The 29-week gap between Metro and Uzi is the longest without a #1 rap album on the Billboard 200 since 1992–93, when 34 weeks separated them. Cruel by Ice Cube (one week at number 1, 5 December 1992) and the first of two weeks at no. 1’s black sunday of Cypress Hill.
between heroes and villains And pink tape There have been six different No. 1 albums by Lil Uzi Vert. SOS by SZA has maintained the No. 1 spot for 10 consecutive weeks, One thing at a time 15 (always non-consecutive) and four albums a week at the top were recorded by Morgan Wallen during this period. name chapter Tomorrow X together, temptation, coax sera bonito by Karol Midnight E by Taylor Swift 5 star Stray kids.
Rap Albums Year After Year at No. 1 on the Billboard 200
But what are the rap albums that hit number one on the Billboard 200? Here is a year-by-year list.
1987: Beastie Boys, Il licensed
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1989: Tone Lok, Lok-Ed After Dark
1990: MC Hammer, hammer please don’t hurt them
1991: Vanilla Ice, to the extreme
1992: Kriss Kross, completely destroyed
1993: Cypress Hill, black sunday
1994: Snoop Doggy Dogg: doggy style
1995: 2pack, me against the world
1996: 2pack, all Eyez on Me
1997: Soundtrack, gridlocked
1998: DMX, it’s dark and hell is hot
1999: DMX, flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood
2000: DMX,…and then there was x
2001: 2pack, until the end of time
2002: Big Tymers, hood rich
2003: 50 Cent, get rich or Die Tryin’
2004: Outcast, Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
2005: 2pack, loyal to the game
2006: Kishore, reality check
2007: NAS, hip hop is dead
2008: Rick Ross, trill
2009: Rick Ross, deeper than rap
2010: Ludacris, battle of the Sexes
2011: Nicki Minaj pink Friday
2012: Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
2013: ASAP Rocky, live long asap
2014: Schoolboy Q oxymoron
2015: Drake, if you’re reading this it’s too late
2016: Futures, Development
2017: Migos, Culture
2018: Eminem, Revival
2019: 21 SavageI am > I was
2020: Jackboys, jackboys
2021: Playboy Karts, whole lotta red
2022: Sugarcane, DS4Ever
2023: Lil Uzi Vert, pink tape
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