Lil Uzi Vert is expected to debut atop Billboard 200 with the new album “Pink Tape”.
This week, Lil Uzi Vert finally released his long-awaited new album “Pink Tape“, and the projected chart numbers for the project are here. The rapper’s third studio album is expected to debut at the top of the Billboard 200 with 200k-250k projected sales.
Early estimates put Lil Uzi Vert’s ‘Pink Tape’ on track to sell between 200k-250k first week 🔥💿
It would open as the biggest sales week of the year for hip hop and the FIRST #1 rap album of 2023. pic.twitter.com/uluvqbt2N0
— Hip Hop All Day (@HipHopAllDayy) July 1, 2023
Uzi Vert will become the first rapper to top the Billboard chart this year, as no hip-hop album debuted at #1 in 2023. The project was streamed 53.4 million times on its opening day on Spotify, which is the biggest for a rap album this year, and the 11th biggest of all time.
After a few days of the release, there’s a decline in the projected sales for the Pink Tape. According to HDD, the album will now move 165k equivalent units in the first week. The numbers will still ensure that Uzi Vert earns the first rap #1 album of 2023.
Rap albums with the 𝗠𝗢𝗦𝗧 opening day streams in Spotify history 🔥🤯
153m – Certified Lover Boy
132m – Scorpion
100m – Mr Morale & The Big Steppers
98m – Her Loss
95m – DONDA
75m – Legends Never Die
66m – Tha Carter V
64m – ASTROWORLD
62m – The Off Season
61m – More Life
53m…— Hip Hop All Day (@HipHopAllDayy) July 1, 2023
Lil Uzi’s previous album “Eternal Atake” also debuted at the top of the US Billboard 200 in March 2020, with 288,000 album-equivalent units (including 9,000 pure album sales). The album earned 400 million US streams in its first week, which was the fourth-largest streaming debut at the time of its release.
The rapper’s new project is packed with 26 tracks, with guest appearances from Travis Scott, Nicki Minaj, Bring Me The Horizon, Don Toliver, and BABYMETAL.
