{"id":2304,"date":"2021-06-13T12:53:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T19:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:35","slug":"lil-baby-lil-durks-the-voice-of-the-heroes-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-albums-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2304","title":{"rendered":"Lil Baby &#038; Lil Durk\u2019s \u2018The Voice of the Heroes\u2019 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\">Plus: Tomorrow x Together bows in top five.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-baby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lil Baby<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-durk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lil Durk<\/a>\u2019s collaborative album,&nbsp;<em>The Voice of the Heroes<\/em>, 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;chart, scoring the former his second leader and the latter his first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album bows with 150,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending June 10, according to MRC Data, driven nearly entirely by streaming activity of the its songs. The hip-hop set, which was released on June 4, also boasts guest turns from a quartet of acts who have all had their own No. 1 albums:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/travis-scott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Travis Scott<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/meek-mill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Meek Mill<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/young-thug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Young Thug<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rod-wave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rod Wave<\/a>.<\/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). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new June 19, 2021-dated chart (where\u00a0<em>Voice<\/em>\u00a0debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on June 15. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Voice<\/em>\u2019s 150,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending June 10, SEA units comprise 144,000 (equaling 197.71 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s 18 tracks), album sales comprise slightly more than 4,000 and TEA units comprise a little over 1,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lil Durk is the sixth act to get their first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 in 2021, following&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/olivia-rodrigo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/moneybagg-yo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Moneybagg Yo<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rod-wave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rod Wave<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/morgan-wallen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/playboi-carti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Playboi Carti<\/a>. (The lattermost debuted at No. 1 on the Jan. 9-dated chart with his Dec. 25, 2020 release,&nbsp;<em>Whole Lotta Red<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rodrigo\u2019s former No. 1\u00a0<em>Sour<\/em>\u00a0is steady at No. 2 for a second week, earning 143,000 equivalent album units (down 23%). Two more former leaders are next, as Wallen\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>\u00a0rises 4-3 with 50,000 units (down 4%) and J. Cole\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Off-Season<\/em>\u00a0dips 3-4 with 44,000 units (down 25%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Korean pop quintet&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/tomorrow-x-together\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tomorrow x Together<\/a>&nbsp;notches its first top 10 album on the Billboard 200, as&nbsp;<em>The Chaos Chapter: Freeze<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 5 with 43,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 39,000, SEA units comprise 4,000 (equaling 6.42 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s eight tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Like most K-pop releases, the CD edition of the album was issued in multiple collectible packages (four, including a Target-exclusive edition), each with assorted internal paper goods and randomized elements (photocard, postcard). A hefty 96% of the album\u2019s sales came from the CD editions, while the remaining 4% were from the digital album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomorrow x Together had previously gone as high as No. 25 with 2020\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Minisode1: Blue Hour<\/em>&nbsp;(Nov. 21, 2020-dated chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moneybagg Yo\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>A Gangsta\u2019s Pain<\/em>&nbsp;falls 5-6 on the new Billboard 200 with 38,000 equivalent album units earned (down 10%) while&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dua-lipa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dua Lipa<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Future Nostalgia<\/em>&nbsp;slips 6-7 with 35,000 units (though up 2%).&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Evermore<\/em>&nbsp;falls 1-8 with 31,000 units (down 85%) after its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/9583265\/taylor-swift-evermore-billboard-200-chart-return-number-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">74-1 jump a week ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top 10 is rounded out by two former No. 1s:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-weeknd\" target=\"_blank\">The Weeknd<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>After Hours<\/em>\u00a0(holding at No. 9 with 29,000 equivalent album units; down 1%) and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/luke-combs\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Combs<\/a>\u2019\u00a0<em>What You See Is What You Get<\/em>\u00a0(a non-mover at No. 10 with 28,000 units; down 2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2304\" data-postid=\"2304\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2304 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Tomorrow x Together bows in top five. Lil Baby&nbsp;and&nbsp;Lil Durk\u2019s collaborative album,&nbsp;The Voice of the Heroes, debuts at No. 1 on the&nbsp;Billboard 200&nbsp;chart, scoring the former his second leader and the latter his first. The album bows with 150,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending June 10, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-now","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","no-post-comment","no-post-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/lil-baby-lil-durk-06132021-billboard-1548-1623609521-compressed2.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2755,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions\/2755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}