Future is on his way to having another chart-topping album on his hands. The rapper returned this week with his latest project, High Off Life that included appearances from Drake, Lil Baby, Lil Durk, DaBaby, NBA Youngboy, Young Thug, and more. Fans have been eagerly awaiting the album’s arrival ever since he kicked off the campaign with “Life Is Good” which helped the album go gold in a few hours of its release.

As fans continue to rack up the streams on their favorite songs, HitsDailyDouble has officially shared the first-week projections for High Off Life as well as Polo G‘s The GOAT. Both artists are well on their way to having a massive debut on the charts. Future’s new album is expected to do 175K-180K in its first week with  17-20k coming from pure sales. This is still a big increase from The WZRD which earned the number one spot on the Billboard 200 with 125K units.

As for Polo G, the young Chicago rapper is also aiming for a massive first week, especially for his stature in the game. The GOAT is projected to do 85K to 95K in the first week with 15K to 18K coming from pure album sales.

With both albums out now, let us know which album you’re listening to more this week. Future? Polo G? Sound off in the comments.

It appears NBA Youngboy is on his way to having the #1 album in the country next week. According to early projections from HDD, the newly-released 38 Baby 2 album is projected to move 70-75k copies in the first week with about 1-2k coming from pure sales. That should be enough to debut number one on the Billboard 200 next week.

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In comparison, NBA’s most recent project, Still Flexin, Still Steppin’, which dropped last month, sold 98,000 equivalent album units, making for another little drop off. Prior to that, NBA released his first #1 album with AI Youngboy 2 back in the Fall of 2019, which sold 110,000 equivalent album units in its first week. So for two projects in a row, NBA has seen a decrease in first week numbers, but don’t think that’s going to bother him all that much.

Out now, 38 Baby 2 features a lone appearance from DaBaby who appears on the song “Thug of Spades,” which is reportedly the highest performing track off the album on streaming services. Be sure to stream the project right here if you haven’t done so already.

PARTYNEXTDOOR and Joyner Lucas both released their highly-anticipated new albums last week but, according to the first-week sales projections, neither will have a strong enough week to take The Weekndout of the top spot on the charts.

Despite all the excitement surrounding PARTYMOBILE and ADHD, it would appear as though neither one of those projects will have what it takes to dethrone The Weeknd as the Canadian crooner seems poised to spend another week at No. 1. According to Billboard, After Hours is likely to earn an additional 100,000 album units in its second week out. While it is still early to tell, that should be enough to keep him at the front of the pack.

His competition includes the new releases from Dua Lipa, Pearl Jam, and 5 Seconds Of Summer. All of those are set to debut higher than PND and Joyner.

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As it pertains to PARTYMOBILE, which features Drake and Rihanna, the latest OVO Sound release is looking at a start of approximately 45,000 album units moved. Joyner Lucas will likely finish right behind the singer with 30,000 sales figures.

Do you think these are good numbers for PARTYNEXTDOOR and Joyner Lucas? With The Weeknd looking set for another week at the head of his kingdom, who do you think will end up dethroning him?

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Donald Glover became one of the most sought after entertainers in Hollywood in the past few years but still, he’s found time to make music under the moniker Childish Gambino. The anticipation for the follow-up to 2016’s Awaken, My Love! has been real, though “This Is America” and “Feel Like Summer” held us over since 2018.

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On Sunday, his surprise new album 3.15.20 arrived on streaming platforms with no notice or acknowledgment really. The week prior to releasing the project, he debuted the project on his website but that was swiftly taken down. The peculiar roll-out could have played a factor in the project’s first-week sales projections. According to Hits Daily Double, Childish Gambino’s new project is currently pacing to sell 25-28K in its first week and aiming to debut at number 11 on the Billboard 200. Out of those numbers, 4-5k is likely to come from pure sales. This is a major drop from the first week sales for Awaken, My Love! which did 101K in its first week. However, Gambino did decide to release the project in the most unconventional manner in the midst of a pandemic.

The Weeknd‘s After Hours sales projections have increased with the possibility that he scores his largest debut to date, surpassing Beauty Behind The Madness. His new album is expected to sell 400-425K with 245-265K coming from pure sales.  

In the midst of this global pandemic, The Weeknd decided to come through the other day and release his highly anticipated album After Hours, which looks to be on its way to being the #1 album in the country.

According to Hits Double Daily, After Hours is on track to move more than 400,000 album equivalent units in its first week. Of those units, more than 200,000 are expected to come from traditional album sales. If these projections hold true, After Hours could very well be the biggest debut of 2020, surpassing BTS' Map of the Soul: 7, which earned 422,000 units in its first week.

It was a good week in new music releases, which spanned across several genres with album drops from A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Justin Bieber, Tame Impala, $uicideboy$, and more all coming through with full-length bodies of work. With so much to divulge, fans were busy on their streaming service of choice hitting the replay button on their favorite offerings of the week and, today, a projection for who will score the highest-performing album from last week has been released.

Hits Daily Double rarely misses with this sort of information and, today, they’re reporting that Justin Bieber and his new album Changes will land on top of all other new releases in the upcoming sales race. Moving up to 320,000 equivalent album units (with the majority of which coming from merch bundles), Justin Bieber will comfortably debut at the top spot on the next chart, dethroning Roddy Ricch. The Compton product will probably find his way back there at some point in the near future, though.

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Following up Biebs will be A Boogie wit da Hoodie, who continues to prove why he’s one of the most highly-touted artists out of the Bronx right now. Up to 130,000 equivalent album units will be streamed of his Artist 2.0 display, which gives him the strongest rap debut of the week. $uicideboy$ are set for 21,000 units while, on another side of the spectrum, Tame Impala has the third-highest start with approximately 90,000 units moved.

Which album were you rocking with the most this weekend?

It was a big week for music and a lot of it came as a surprise. Mac Miller’s estate shared his first posthumous album, Circles, after announcing its imminent arrival just a week before. Eminem shocked us by dropping his own album, Music To Be Murdered By, with literally zero heads-up. While Dreamville has been teasing the deluxe expansion of Revenge of the Dreamers III for some time, it was only revealed a few days ago that it would be coming on Friday. With people flocking to these exciting releases and trying to divide their time between all of them, one might wonder what the Billboard charts will look like next week. 

The sales projections are in courtesy of HitsDailyDouble, and it appears Eminem is going to come out on top. With estimated sales of 300,000-325,000, he is on track to secure his tenth consecutive No. 1 album. Pure sales make up about 110,000-125,000 of that, as CDs, vinyls and cassettes are all available to order through his webstore. According to HipHopNMore, Em’s last album Kamikaze – which was also a surprise drop – opened slightly better than Music To Be Murdered Bymu with 434,000 sales. 

As nice as it would be to see Mac snag the No. 2 spot on the Billboard 200, Circles is up against another major release: Halsey’s Manic. While Circles is projected to move 175,000-200,000 units, Manic is hovering in the 185,000-210,000 range. There’s still a whole week of fan activity that can alter these numbers. We saw hip hop dominate last week with the streaming battle between Roddy Ricch‘s “The Box” and Justin Bieber‘s “Yummy”, so perhaps Circles will perform a similar feat. It has sold 50,000-75,000 in pure sales so far and physicals can still be purchased on Mac’s webstore.