Lil Nas X created quite the storm of buzz around his debut studio album ‘Montero.’
Preceded by its chart-topping title-track, the LP also benefitted from follow-up bops ‘Industry Baby’ (which launched at #2) and recent effort ‘That’s What I Want.’
All laid a solid foundation for the ‘Old Town Road’ performer’s first-ever project commercially.
With the first-week numbers officially unveiled, how did it fare?
Find out below…
The latest iteration of the Billboard 200 has been unwrapped and reveals that ‘Montero’ has premiered at #2 with equivalent sales of 126,000.
Streaming fuelled the project, with the 147.16 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks accounting for 102,000 of the LP’s total sum.
Based on industry-wide patterns, the numbers would have placed the project in contention for the top spot on a quieter week.
However, with the reverberations of Drake‘s ‘Certified Lover Boy’ still making waves, it was Drizzy who snatched #1 position in the album’s third week. Its sales were to the tune of 171,000.
Still, a solid showing from Nas.
What’s more, with ‘Montero’ being jammed packed with possible hits (including those with the likes of Doja Cat and Megan Thee Stallion), it has ample potential to maintain a presence in the upper echelon of the charts.
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Yall dont know how difficult it is to have a number one debut album.
megan
Lil nas x
Adele
Gaga
Katy Perry
Taylor swift
Rihanna
Dua lipa
Doja
Sam Smith
None of these people’s debut albums hit number one.
Most are industry plants tho! 💀
Mediocre sales for someone with his amount of massive promo and streams. I expected him to scrape 200k at minimum. Maybe 240K at max. This goes to show that the public isn’t feeling him, only his trolling stunts.
I said 100k or he’s a flop so this is commendable for a record without a physical release, all streams
Good job, hope riding Satan’s demon d*** was worth it ☺️
He is going to dominate the Grammys next year
Record of the year (call me by your name)
Best music video short form
Best pop solo performance
Best pop collaboration (industry baby with jack harlow)
Best pop vocal album
Album of the year
Stfu with your bs projections you said doja was gonna have number 1 album and that Camilla don’t go was going to be a hit
Gurl, we are discussing people with albums.
Normani has only one solo song, be quiet.
Normani literally releases 1 song every 2 years
😂😂😂😂
Don’t Go Yet IS a hit so stfu
if it does dominate its only proof that Satan runs Hollywood
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Good glad this little annoying ass didn’t get a number 1album aww 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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So a song that’s sitting at 88 is a hit ok delusion ass
That’s what I said.
I’m so glad he didn’t hit #1 🙈🤣
Ikr 😬
ZERO s/e/x appeal.
It’s sad the amount of people who actively seek out and champion the downfall of others. Anyway…
This is great news for him and what it means for gay culture in general. He’s knocked down doors and broken down barriers and is just starting. I’ll have to admit that at one point I underestimated him. He proved me and everyone else who doubted him WRONG as he was supposed to do! Great Job, Lil Nas X
Definitely broke down barriers for the Satanists and Gays 😈🏳️🌈
Agreed.
Just getting started? Chile this is his peak since he has zero talent to back up all the stunts. Eventually people will get sick of the nonsense
It’s all been done before and those barriers were already broken down by people like Freddie Mercury and George Michael, people who really suffered when homophobia was still rife. This privileged brat in 2021 hasn’t suffered or done shît and it’s disrespectful to those who paved the way for him to be able to pull these stunts. Plus he has no talent to back it up.
Freddy Mercury wasn’t openly gay, at least the public didn’t know about it. Same for George Michael, he was just caught by an undercover cop and then made his coming out. Lil Nas X is black and a rapper so part of a very homophobic culture.
Come back when you stop being a d*****.
So you’re saying blacks are extremely homophobic. Gotcha.
Justice is served! Go suck king Drake’s d