DaBaby may have watched his first three albums soar to top 10 glory on the Billboard 200 (with two even topping the tally), but his fourth – the September 23-released ‘Baby on Baby 2’ – doesn’t seem poised to deliver a similar commercial performance.
See what we mean inside.
DaBaby’s ‘Baby on Baby 2’
First Week Sales (SPS): 17,200 units
Billboard 200 Debut: #34
Released as the conceptual follow-up to his 2019 debut LP, ‘Baby on Baby,’ ‘BOB2’ comes as his first studio effort released since he was met with backlash for making what many deemed to be derogatory comments about the LGBTQ+ community and people living with HIV/AIDS last year. The opus also comes as his first to enter the chart race without a Hot 100 top 40 hit to support it.
The impact of the controversy seems to live on as the project, despite being promoted via multiple music videos for its housed tracks, did not enjoy that same level of support via a media run like the three studio efforts before it. Absence of said visibility – which DaBaby (born Jonathan Kirk) claimed was due to being ‘blackballed’ by the industry – led it to sell a reported 17,200 total units last week.
That figure may have bested its predicted first-week sales, but it still comes as a nearly 87% drop from the first week of its chart-topping predecessor – 2020’s ‘Blame It On Baby.’
The new album’s debut at #34 on the Billboard 200 comes as the lowest first-week opening for any DaBaby LP and follows 2019’s ‘Baby on Baby’ (#25 premiere), 2019’s ‘Kirk’ (#1 premiere), and 2020’s ‘Blame It On Baby’ (#1 premiere). Among all his projects, only the 2020 EP ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ and the 2021 EP ‘Back on My Baby Jesus Sh*t Again’ arrived at lower positions on the Billboard 200 (#40 and #44 respectively).
Look below to see who joins him on TGJ’s updated ‘Chart Check.’
Billboard 200 This Week
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Well deserved!
450 people in the whole world bought a physical copy of 🗑
Blame your dirty mouth for your shortcomings 2. Learn to respect peoples sexual orientations and lastly dont forget to wear your helment
He Literally got Baby ratings haha
Facts hun
Don’t mess with gay people. They are hateful as hell. They will drag the s h I t outta you and drain all your energy 💅🏾
The above two comments explain everything. Gay people love revenge 💅🏾
Unless his audience was majority gay he is flopping because he is wack. Not only that he’s a woman abuser as well.
Love to see it when a woman abusing homophobe flops.
He doubled down on his comments instead of apologizing and now his numbers are doubling down the charts along with the career. He’s even having a hard time filling seats for his shows. Time to hang it up Dababy it’s over!
And we love to see it!
We come from KANGS! Leave DaBaby the black kang alone!
WAH WAH WAH WAH 😭🤣🤣🤣
he should switch to g ay p!rn now! I’d love to see it.
He should.
Since he’s out thinkin’ about gay men and slapping women around.
yeah, his mouth and hands are quite massive 😏 will be perfect for those daddy co. cks!!
RIP to his career
Good!
You slapped the f*ck out of a BW
and KARMA came for that a$$.
So happy seeing all you violent LOW IQ ex convicts finally being pushed out the limelight. It’s long overdue anyways.