Lil Uzi Vert earns third #1 album with Pink Tape.
The first week numbers for Lil Uzi Vert’s new album “Pink Tape” are here, which charts at the top of Billboard 200. As projected, Uzi’s new third studio album Pink Tape moved 167,000 equivalent units in the US in the week ending July 6, which earned him his third top spot.
Billboard 200: #1(new) @LILUZIVERT, Pink Tape 167,000 [210.39 million on-demand streams | 11,000 pure sales].
— chart data (@chartdata) July 10, 2023
This was the biggest sales week for R&B/hip-hop albums this year, and it also became the first rap album to be debuted at #1 on US Billboard 200 in 2023. The last time a rap album debuted at the top of the charts was last year’s Metro Boomin’s star-studded project “Heroes & Villains”, which spent one week atop the chart dated Dec. 17, 2022.
.@LILUZIVERT officially earns the first #1 rap album of the year on the Billboard 200 with ‘Pink Tape’. pic.twitter.com/BKZ2deepSM
— chart data (@chartdata) July 10, 2023
.@LILUZIVERT ends the longest gap between #1 rap albums on the Billboard 200 this century.
The last #1 rap album was 30 weeks ago, @MetroBoomin‘s ‘HEROES & VILLAINS’. pic.twitter.com/rjsb0d4CWc
— chart data (@chartdata) July 10, 2023
Lil Uzi’s new album arrived with 26 songs, and guest appearances from Nicki Minaj, Travis Scott, Don Toliver, Bring Me The Horizon and more. The project follow-up to Uzi’s 2020 album “Eternal Atake”.
In addition, Uzi also teased another new project called “Barter 16”, a possible collab album with Young Thug. “Sitting here thinking /bout how I went #1 on a experimental tape,” he wrote. “My apologies Barter 16 mixtape on the way.”
