YoungBoy Never Broke Again claims his third No. 1 album in less than a year on the Billboard 200 Chart with his newest release, and well-titled Top. The 20-year-old rapper’s album was released on September 11 via Never Broke Again/Artist Partner Group/Atlantic.
According to Nielsen Music/MRC Data, the release earned 126,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first week. Of those album units, 106,000 are from SEA (streaming equivalent albums) units, equaling 156.32 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs in its first week. Album sales comprise 19,000 and just under 1,000 are in TEA (track equivalent albums) units.
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All three of YoungBoy’s No. 1 albums have come within the last 11 months. The first album to top the list was AI YoungBoy 2 which reached No. 1 on the chart dated October 26, 2019. 38 Baby 2 was the second album to reach No. 1, on May 9, 2020. September 26, 2020, is the date of the chart where Top reached No. 1.
BTS reached three No. 1s in 10 months and 25 days, with their albums, Love Yourself: Tear, Love Yourself: Answer, and Love Yourself: Persona. This is only a slightly shorter amount of time than YoungBoy. Since his debut on August 26, 2017, YoungBoy has placed 15 albums on the Billboard 200 Chart, including four EPs. He is the only artist to have charted as many albums of newly recorded material in that span of time.