Chart Check [Billboard 200]: Lil Baby’s ‘WHAM’ Debuts At #1 As Rapper Promises Follow-Up Album Will Drop in February

As predicted, Lil Baby has kept his Billboard 200 no. 1s streak intact with the arrival of his latest album ‘WHAM (Who Hard As Me).’

Lil Baby’s ‘WHAM’

First-Week Sales (SPS): 140,000

First-Week Sales (Pure): 50,000

First-Week Billboard 200 Position: #1

Boasting guest appearances from Rod Wave, Young Thug, Future, GloRilla, 21 Savage, Travis Scott, and more, the star-studded project – which arrived to digital shelves on January 3 – serves as the follow-up to 2022’s chart-topping ‘It’s Only Me.’

With total sales of 140,000, the first-week figures of ‘WHAM’ were bolstered by standard and extended versions (both discounted to $4.99 on his webstore and on iTunes).

Marking his third consecutive topper on the Billboard 200, the album’s chart-topping arrival follows the #1 debuts of 2020’s ‘My Turn’ and 2022’s ‘Me.’

What’s more, Baby also enjoyed a #1 run with the Lil Durk-assisted collaborative effort ‘The Voice of Heroes.’

Overall his seventh top 10 hit on the all-genre hitlist, look below to see who joins the rapper on this week’s TGJ Chart Check: Billboard 200.

Billboard 200 This Week

The news comes the same week Baby took to Instagram to trumpet the success of ‘WHAM’ and confirm its follow-up, ‘Dominique,’ is just weeks away from potentially enjoying a similar chart triumph.

“See yall Again in a couple weeks. ‘Dominique’ The Album 2-?-25,” he teased on Instagram.

[photo source: Billboard]