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Gunna’s "Wunna" Set To Debut At No. 1


Gunna’s new album, “Wunna,” is predicted to top the Billboard 200 chart its first week.

Gunna‘s freshly dropped album, Wunna, is expected to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, which will mark the first No. 1 album of his career. Gunna only just deliveredWunna on Friday, May 22nd, and already, it’s doing numbers. According to HITS Daily Double, early estimates show that Gunna can be expected to rake in between 110,000-130,000 equivalent album units for Wunna, 2,000-5,000 in pure album sales.

Wunna serves as Gunna’s sophomore studio album, following his debut, Drip or Drown 2, in 2019. If these projections prove true, it will mark his biggest first week yet, as well as his first No. 1 album. Drip or Drown 2 was close, however, debuting at No. 2 with 90,000 equivalent album units.

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With features from the likes of Travis Scott, Roddy Ricch, Lil Baby, and Young Thug, Wunna has garnered mostly positive reception since it dropped two days ago. “I’m really just trying to tap in with me showing more of my personality, which is real life,” Gunna told Ebro on Beats 1 Radio Apple Music about the album. “You gotta tap in and let your fans know you more, so that’s where this came from. I made sure I touched every vibe. I got that real sh*t, that fun sh*t, I got that girl sh*t, and then I got that calm just Gunna flow, drip.”

Currently, Nav‘s holds the top spot on the charts with his third studio album, Good Intentions. However, according to predictions, Future will soon be nabbing the throne from Nav, as his new album, High Off Life, is expected to rack up more than 140,000 equivalent album units. 

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Drake Fans Pissed After Kenny Chesney Postpones Tour

Drake fans are calling out country singer Kenny Chesney for immediately postponing his tour after bundle sales helped him beat Drake for No. 1 album.

Team Drizzy has a bone to pick with veteran country music star, Kenny Chesney, who just pulled a slimy move after securing the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart with his new album, Here and Now. Earlier this week, it was announced that Drake's new mixtape, Dark Lane Demo Tapes, had debuted at No. 2 with 223,000 equivalent album units, roughly 10,000 units shy of Kenny's 233,000. This chart position marked the end of Drake's decade-long, nine-project streak of No. 1 debuts, which was devastating enough for fans, but the news that Kenny hadn't exactly played fair made it even worse.

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To boost his album sales, Kenny offered a ticket bundle deal for his already-cancelled Chillaxifcation Tour. While the tour had been halted as a result of the pandemic, Kenny was hopeful that he'd be able to hit the road by May 30th, thus offering the sales bundle with the hopes that the tour would be back on soon. However, days after securing the No. 1 spot, Kenny postponed the tour once more until 2021, essentially scheming his way into more album sales by offering a bundle for a tour that would not be happening anytime soon.

Drake fans are not happy, especially since the rapper's album garnered a whopping on-demand 269 million streams, while Here and Now only generated a measly 13.4 million. The theory is that Kenny would never have landed that No. 1 spot had he not engaged in the controversial act of sales bundling, which Drake did not even have to resort to in order to get high sales numbers. Check out fans' reactions below, some of which include a call on Billboard to adjust the ways they measure album sales in order to exclude the use of ticket bundles.

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Drake’s "Dark Lane Demo Tapes" At Risk Of Not Debuting At No. 1


Drake’s new mixtape, “Dark Lane Demo Tapes,” may get beaten out by country superstar Kenny Chesney’s new album “Here & Now” for the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart.

Drake‘s new mixtape, Dark Lane Demo Tapes, could potentially not be debuting at No. 1, if country superstar Kenny Chesney beats him for the top spot with his new album, Here and Now. When Drake dropped his new tape at midnight on Friday, it was, for the most part, a surprise. Although there were whispers of a new Drake project dropping the day before, he had put in zero promo work for DLDT, which is comprised of both previously released or leaked tracks, and some new, never-before-heard joints. The official numbers will be in next week, but while Drake is almost always a shoe-in for a No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart, he’s got some close competition this time in the form of a veteran country singer.

Drake's "Dark Lane Demo Tapes" At Risk Of Not Debuting At No. 1Gregory Shamus/Getty Images

According to a report from HitsDailyDouble on Saturday (May 2nd), Drake’s Dark Lane Demo Tapes is projected to move between 230,000 to 255,000 equivalent album units, while Kenny Chesney’s expected to rake in 220,000 to 235,000 with his new album, Here and Now. These close quarters mean that Drizzy is at risk of failing to top the charts if Kenny does exceptionally well, and those country music fans are persistent. In fact, a whopping 210-220k of the Tennessee artist’s units are from pure album sales.

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If Drake does end up losing to Mr. Chesney, that would break his undefeated streak of No. 1 solo debuts thus far. As pointed out by XXL, every single solo Drake project since 2009’s So Far Gone, along with his 2015 joint mixtape with Future, What A Time To Be Alive, up until now has debuted in the top spot. The official results will be announced next week, so fingers crossed for hip hop fans that Drake comes out on top.