{"id":1879,"date":"2020-07-12T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T21:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:41","slug":"pop-smokes-shoot-for-the-stars-aim-for-the-moon-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-albums-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1879","title":{"rendered":"Pop Smoke&#8217;s &#8216;Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon&#8217; Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It\u2019s the first posthumous No. 1 since December 2018.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pop Smoke<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;albums chart, giving the late rapper his first chart-topping effort. The set was released on July 3 via Victor Victor Worldwide\/Republic Records and bows with 251,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending July 9, according to Nielsen Music\/MRC Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Shoot for the Stars<\/em>&nbsp;is billed as Pop Smoke\u2019s first studio album, following a pair of mixtapes:&nbsp;<em>Meet the Woo, V.1<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Meet the Woo, V.2<\/em>. The latter became his first top 10 when it debuted and peaked at No. 7 on the Feb. 22-dated chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on\u00a0multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new July 18-dated chart (where\u00a0<em>Shoot for the Stars<\/em>\u00a0debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on July 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News of&nbsp;<em>Shoot for the Stars<\/em>\u2019 No. 1 arrival comes shortly after five people were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/9416118\/pop-smoke-murder-investigation-arrests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arrested<\/a>&nbsp;on July 9 in connection with Pop Smoke\u2019s murder on Feb. 19. The 20-year-old Brooklyn artist (real name: Bashar Barakah Jackson) died at his Hollywood Hills home of a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/8551644\/pop-smoke-cause-of-death-gunshot-los-angeles-coroner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gunshot wound<\/a>&nbsp;after suspects with masks entered the residence and shot him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Shoot for the Stars<\/em>\u2019 launch of 251,000 equivalent album units is powered by 190,000 SEA units (equating to 268.44 million on-demand streams of the 19 tracks on the album), 59,000 in album sales (supported by an array of merchandise\/album bundle offers) and 3,000 in TEA units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sixth Biggest Week of 2020:<\/strong>\u00a0All told,\u00a0<em>Shoot for the Stars<\/em>\u2019 haul of 251,000 units marks the sixth-biggest week of 2020 for any album, and the third-largest for a hip-hop album. It trails the debut weeks of The Weeknd\u2019s\u00a0<em>After Hours<\/em>\u00a0(April 4-dated chart; 444,000 units), BTS\u2019\u00a0<em>Map of the Soul: 7<\/em>\u00a0(March 7; 422,000), Lil Uzi Vert\u2019s\u00a0<em>Eternal Atake<\/em>\u00a0(March 21; 288,000), Eminem\u2019s\u00a0<em>Music to Be Murdered By<\/em>\u00a0(Feb. 1; 279,000) and Lady Gaga\u2019s\u00a0<em>Chromatica<\/em>\u00a0(June 13; 274,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fourth Largest Streaming Week of 2020<\/strong><em>: Shoot for the Stars<\/em>\u2019 bow of 190,000 SEA units &#8212; and 268.44 million streams &#8212; is the fourth-largest streaming week of 2020. It\u2019s surpassed only by the debut week of Lil Uzi Vert\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Eternal Atake<\/em>&nbsp;(March 21-dated chart; 278,000 SEA units; 400.42 million streams), the second week of&nbsp;<em>Eternal&nbsp;<\/em>(March 28; 239,000 SEA units; 348.72 million streams) and the debut frame of Drake\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Dark Lane Demo Tapes<\/em>&nbsp;(May 16; 201,000 SEA units; 269.10 million streams).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First Posthumous No. 1 Album Since December 2018:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon<\/em>\u00a0is the first posthumous album to reach No. 1 since XXXTentacion\u2019s\u00a0<em>Skins<\/em>\u00a0opened atop the chart dated Dec. 22, 2018 (with 132,000 equivalent album units). The hip-hop artist died on June 18 of that year. Pop Smoke and XXXTentacion are two of four hip-hop artists with posthumous No. 1s. They follow The Notorious B.I.G. and 2Pac, who each have three posthumous leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, the original Broadway cast recording of&nbsp;<em>Hamilton: An American Musical<\/em>&nbsp;surges to a new peak, as the album vaults from No. 14 with 102,000 equivalent album units earned (up 294 percent). Of that sum, 32,000 are in album sales (up 592 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album is basking in the glow of the July 3 Disney+ streaming premiere of the filmed version of the Broadway stage show, with most of the original Broadway cast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Hamilton<\/em>\u2019s unit haul of 102,000 for the week, 67,000 are in SEA units (equating to 90.41 million on-demand streams for the set\u2019s tracks &#8212; easily the biggest streaming week ever for a cast recording), 32,000 are in album sales, and 4,000 are in TEA units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The set previous peaked at No. 3 on the July 2, 2016-dated chart, following the 2016 Tony Awards, where the show won 11 trophies, including best musical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With&nbsp;<em>Hamilton<\/em>\u2019s rush back up the chart, it sets a couple new personal bests, as well as an eye-popping feat for cast recordings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Highest-Charting Cast Album Since 1969<\/strong>: With\u00a0<em>Hamilton<\/em>\u00a0surging to No. 2, and surpassing its previous high of No. 3, the cast album is the highest charting cast album since the original cast recording of\u00a0<em>Hair<\/em>\u00a0spent 13 weeks at No. 1 in 1969 (on the April 26 through July 19-dated charts). Until this week,\u00a0<em>Hamilton<\/em>\u00a0was tied with the original Broadway cast recording of\u00a0<em>The Book of Mormon<\/em>\u00a0as the highest charting cast album since 1969, as\u00a0<em>Mormon<\/em>\u00a0peaked at No. 3 in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>250 Weeks on the Chart:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Hamilton<\/em>&nbsp;celebrates its 250th week on the Billboard 200 chart. The set has never left the tally since its debut at No. 12 on the Oct. 17, 2015-dated list. That\u2019s the longest run by any cast album since the highlights edition of the original London cast recording of&nbsp;<em>The Phantom of the Opera<\/em>, which has logged 331 weeks on the list between 1990 and 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Long, Long Climb to the Top Two:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Hamilton<\/em>&nbsp;reaches No. 2 in its 250th chart week (all consecutive) &#8212; the slowest climb to the top two ever on the chart in terms of&nbsp;<em>weeks on chart<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hamilton<\/em>&nbsp;was released on Sept. 15, 2015, so it reaches the top two (and a new peak) just shy of the fifth anniversary of the album\u2019s release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last album to take longer to reach the top two, in terms of counting between\u00a0<em>release date and peak date<\/em>, is Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers\u2019\u00a0<em>Greatest Hits<\/em>. The album re-entered at its peak of No. 2 on the Oct. 21, 2017-dated chart following Petty\u2019s death on Oct. 2, 2017. The album was released on Nov. 16, 1993. When it re-entered at No. 2, it was the 235th week on the chart for the album, as it had not been charting consistently since 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Largest Week, by Units, for a Cast Album:<\/strong>&nbsp;With 102,000 equivalent album units earned,&nbsp;<em>Hamilton<\/em>&nbsp;tallies the biggest week for any cast recording since&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;and Nielsen Music\/MRC Data began tracking albums by units in December 2014.&nbsp;<em>Hamilton<\/em>&nbsp;beats its own record, as it previously held the biggest week, by units, for a cast album since December 2014 &#8212; when it net 62,000 units on the July 2, 2016-dated chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Biggest Sales Week for a Cast Recording Since \u2026&nbsp;<em>Hamilton<\/em><\/strong>: With 32,000 copies of the album sold in the latest tracking week,&nbsp;<em>Hamilton<\/em>&nbsp;tallies the largest sales week for a traditional cast album since&nbsp;<em>Hamilton<\/em>&nbsp;itself moved 37,000 copies over the Christmas week of 2016 (reflected on the Jan. 14, 2017-dated charts). (Since then, one album categorized as a cast album sold more, but it\u2019s not a traditional musical show recording: Bruce Springsteen\u2019s one-man Broadway show&nbsp;<em>Springsteen on Broadway<\/em>&nbsp;saw its album open with 38,000 copies sold on the Dec. 29, 2018-dated chart.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Hamilton<\/em><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&#8211; A Rare Hot-Selling Cast Album:<\/strong>&nbsp;Since Nielsen Music\/MRC Data began electronically tracking sales in 1991, only five traditional musical cast recordings (six if you count&nbsp;<em>Springsteen on Broadway<\/em>) have ever sold at least 32,000 copies in a single week.&nbsp;<em>Hamilton<\/em>&nbsp;has now done it six times, the original Broadway cast recording of&nbsp;<em>The Book of Mormon<\/em>&nbsp;did it twice in 2011, the original Broadway cast recording of&nbsp;<em>Rent<\/em>&nbsp;managed it once (with its debut week of 43,000 in 1996), the original London cast recording of&nbsp;<em>The Phantom of the Opera<\/em>&nbsp;did it twice (once in 1992 and once in 1993) and then the&nbsp;<em>Highlights<\/em>&nbsp;edition of the original London cast recording of&nbsp;<em>Phantom<\/em>&nbsp;did it eight times between 1992 and 1996. (And then there\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Springsteen on Broadway<\/em>, which opened with 38,000 sold in 2018.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far,\u00a0<em>Hamilton<\/em>\u00a0has sold 1.97 million copies in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back on the new Billboard 200 chart, Lil Baby\u2019s&nbsp;<em>My Turn<\/em>&nbsp;falls from No. 1 to No. 3 with 62,000 equivalent album units earned (down 11 percent), while DaBaby\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Blame It On Baby<\/em>&nbsp;slips from No. 3 to No. 4 with 36,000 units (down 8 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post Malone\u2019s previous leader&nbsp;<em>Hollywood\u2019s Bleeding<\/em>&nbsp;dips 4-5 with just under 36,000 units (down 8 percent).The Weeknd\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>After Hours<\/em>&nbsp;shifts down 5-6 with a little more than 29,000 equivalent album units (down 7 percent), Harry Styles\u2019 former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Fine Line<\/em>&nbsp;backtracks 6-7 with 29,000 units (down 7 percent) and Polo G\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Goat<\/em>&nbsp;falls 7-8 with 28,000 units (down 8 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lil Uzi Vert\u2019s former leader\u00a0<em>Eternal Atake<\/em>\u00a0descends 8-9 with 27,000 equivalent album units earned (down 11 percent), and Lil Durk\u2019s\u00a0<em>Just Cause Y\u2019all Waited 2<\/em>\u00a0closes out the top 10, tumbling 2-10 with 27,000 units (down 36 percent, after its surge back up the chart a week ago, from No. 56, following its deluxe reissue with bonus tracks).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1879\" data-postid=\"1879\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1879 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the first posthumous No. 1 since December 2018. 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