YSL’s Slime Language 2 Album Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard

Younger Thug has quarterbacked his workforce to an enormous win within the type of a No. 1 album.

On Sunday (April 25), Billboard introduced the highest 10 of this week’s Billboard 200 chart, which revealed Younger Stoner Life’s compilation album, Slime Language 2, had debuted at No. 1. In keeping with the official numbers from Nielson SoundScan, YSL’s newest launch moved 113,00 equal album models together with 1,000 pure album gross sales. This makes it the second largest rap debut of the 12 months, following Rod Wave’s SoulFly, which debuted to 130,000 EAU.

SL2 incorporates 23 songs with options from label artists Gunna, Lil Keed, Lil Duke and extra, plus high-powered cameos from Drake, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Child, Huge Sean, Travis Scott, Meek Mill and others. The one, “Ski,” has sparked a complete social media problem. A deluxe model of the album was launched on April 23, which options extra assist from DaBaby, Jim Jones and extra.

Younger Thug’s first label compilation, Slime Language, was launched in August 2018 and debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 chart after transferring 40,000 equal albums gross sales. It featured Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Child, Tracy T and extra.

This 12 months has seen an unlimited decline in hip-hop’s domination of the No. 1 spot on the 200 chart. In 2021, the No. 1 spot has solely been spoken for by a hip-hop artist 3 times, versus this time final 12 months when all however 4 No. 1s belonged to hip-hop artists.

Different hip-hop artists within the prime 10 of this week’s Billboard 200 chart embody Rod Wave (SoulFly, No. 6), The Weeknd (The Highlights, No. 8) and Pop Smoke (Shoot for the Stars, Purpose for the Moon, No. 10).

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