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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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Tory Lanez Earns Third No. 1 Album With "The New Toronto 3"


Tory Lanez has much to celebrate after learning that “The New Toronto 3” landed him his third No. 1 album—the first album to chart in the series.

We’re sure that wherever Tory Lanez is currently under quarantine, bottles are popping. The Canadian artist has been taking the music world by storm these last few years with his mixtape series and collaborations. He recently delivered The New Toronto 3, his critically acclaimed mixtape that he’s still promoting with new singles and visuals. Tory Lanez apparently knocked it out of the park with this one, because The New Toronto 3 landed the 27-year-old his third No. 1 album.

Tory Lanez Earns Third No. 1 Album With "The New Toronto 3"
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According to Billboard, The New Toronto 3 “earned 64,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 16, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.” Of the mixtape series, this third installment is reportedly the first one to make its way to the Billboard chart. If you’re surprised by the record taking the top spot, so is Tory. In a statement he shared with Billboard, the singer didn’t expect The New Toronto 3 to do as well as it did.

“It’s a mixtape, I don’t even know how!” Tory Lanez told Billboard, semi-jokingly. “I didn’t promote it. I put it the cover to it like a week before it came out. I thought it was gonna sell like 10,000.” Last year Tory did an interview and said he would one day be one of the biggest artists in the world, and he well on his way. What did you think of The New Toronto 3? Was it deserving of a No. 1 achievement?

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Lil Wayne Secures No.1 Album On Billboard Charts With "Funeral"

Lil Wayne had an impressive week on the charts.

Lil Wayne earned his fifth number 1 overall album on the Billboard 200 chart this week with Funeral.

According to XXL, the new project sold 139,000 equivalent album units during its first week of release, 38,000 of which came from traditional album sales. Funeral has been streamed over 134 million times.

Funeral falls far short of Wayne's last project, Tha Carter V, which earned 480,000 equivalent album sales during its first week; however, The Carter V was an album seven years in the making and one of the most anticipated albums of the 2010s. Both projects have gone number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Wayne recently spoke with Zane Lowe and mentioned having 20 albums in the vault: "That's always beautiful to look back at the finished product and what we came out with, what we ended up with," the 37-year-old rapper told Lowe. "And also, the results of the finished product is always rewarding, as well. I have beautiful fans. But my fans all, they also know that once it's put out, they already know I'm moving on. They already know I got 20 more albums already in my back pocket."

Other rappers to chart this week were Roddy Rich, Eminem, Post Malone and more. Check out the full list here.