Juice WRLD’s posthumous album ‘Legends Never Die’ Tops Billboard 200.
The posthumous album “Legends Never Die” of Juice WRLD, which released last week, topped the Billboard 200 with moving over 497k copies this week. The sales numbers earn Juice WRLD the biggest debut sales week in 2020 so far across all genres and it also earns the biggest debut sales week for any posthumous album by any artist this century.
Legends Never Die had the biggest week for an album in 2020, according to equivalent album units earned, with 497,000 units. It surpasses the previous high set by The Weeknd’s After Hours, which debuted at No. 1 with 444,000 units on the April 4 chart. Taylor Swift’s Lover, which debuted at No. 1 on the Sept. 7, 2019 chart with 867,000 sales, was the last album to have a bigger week than Legends.
Juice WRLD’s ‘Legends Never Die’ earns the biggest first week sales for an album by any artist on the Billboard 200 this year.
— chart data (@chartdata) July 19, 2020
Juice WRLD’s ‘Legends Never Die’ earns the biggest first week sales for an album by any artist on the Billboard 200 this year.
— chart data (@chartdata) July 19, 2020
Billboard 200: #1(new) Juice WRLD, Legends Never Die 497,000 [422.63 million on-demand streams].
— chart data (@chartdata) July 19, 2020
The Weeknd’s ‘After Hours‘ slips to number 2, BTS’ ‘Map of the Soul‘, Lil Uzi Vert’s ‘Eternal Atake‘ and Eminem’s ‘Music To Be Murdered By‘ ranks at number 3,4,5 respectively. Check out the Top 10 Biggest US debut album of 2020 below.
Biggest US debuts of 2020
#1 Legends Never Die, @JuiceWorlddd 497K
#2 After Hours @theweeknd 444K
#3 MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 @BTS_twt 422K
#4 Eternal Atake 288K
#5 Music to Be Murdered By 279K
#6 Chromatica 274K
#7 Pop Smoke 251K
#8 MANIC 239K
#9 Here and Now 233K
#10 Changes 231K— chart data (@chartdata) July 19, 2020
