{"id":2361,"date":"2021-07-25T15:12:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T22:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:34","slug":"pop-smokes-faith-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-albums-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2361","title":{"rendered":"Pop Smoke\u2019s \u2018Faith\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: John Mayer bows at No. 2 with \u201cSob Rock.\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pop Smoke<\/a>\u2019s second posthumous album,&nbsp;<em>Faith<\/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, garnering the rapper his second leader. The guest-laden collection was released on July 16 and starts with 88,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending July 22, according to MRC Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The standard 20-track&nbsp;<em>Faith<\/em>&nbsp;features more than 20 guest stars, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chris-brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chris Brown<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Future<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dua-lipa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dua Lipa<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/kanye-west\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kanye West<\/a>. A deluxe version of&nbsp;<em>Faith<\/em>, with four bonus tracks, was released on July 21.<\/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 July 31, 2021-dated chart (where\u00a0<em>Faith<\/em>\u00a0debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on July 27. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Faith<\/em>\u2019s 88,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending July 22, SEA units comprise 83,000 (equaling 113.34 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s tracks), album sales comprise 4,000 and TEA units comprise 1,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pop Smoke previously topped the Billboard 200 with&nbsp;<em>Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon<\/em>, which opened at No. 1 on the list dated July 18, 2020, and spent two nonconsecutive weeks atop the chart. The set, which was billed as the rapper\u2019s first studio album, went on to be the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9508037\/mrc-data-2020-recap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">No. 3 most popular album of 2020<\/a>, according to MRC Data. It also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/awards\/9576742\/2021-billboard-music-awards-winners-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">won the 2021 Billboard Music Award<\/a>&nbsp;for Top Billboard 200 Album. On the latest Billboard 200,&nbsp;<em>Shoot<\/em>&nbsp;jumps 11-9 with 28,000 units (up 5%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All told,&nbsp;<em>Faith<\/em>&nbsp;is Pop Smoke\u2019s fourth charting album, and third top 10. He also landed in the region with the mixtape&nbsp;<em>Meet the Woo, V.2<\/em>&nbsp;(debuting and peaking at No. 7 on the Feb. 22, 2020, chart) and&nbsp;<em>Meet the Woo, V.1 Mixtape<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 105 peak on March 7, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pop Smoke was\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/9471110\/pop-smoke-posthumous-success-analysis\/\" target=\"_blank\">killed<\/a>\u00a0on Feb. 19, 2020, at age 20, after being shot during a home-invasion robbery in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/john-mayer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Mayer<\/a>&nbsp;notches his 10th top 10 album on the Billboard 200, as the singer-songwriter\u2019s latest studio release,&nbsp;<em>Sob Rock<\/em>, debuts at No. 2 with 84,000 equivalent album units earned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Sob Rock<\/em>\u2019s starting sum of 84,000 units, album sales comprise 61,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 22,000 (equaling 28.59 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s tracks) and TEA units comprise 1,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayer previously visited the top 10 with:&nbsp;<em>The Search for Everything<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 2 in 2017);&nbsp;<em>The Search for Everything: Wave One<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 2, 2017);&nbsp;<em>Paradise Valley<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 2, 2013);&nbsp;<em>Born and Raised<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 1, 2012);&nbsp;<em>Battle Studies<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 1, 2009);&nbsp;<em>Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 5, 2008);&nbsp;<em>Continuum<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 2, 2006);&nbsp;<em>Heavier Things<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 1, 2003); and&nbsp;<em>Room for Squares<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 8, 2003).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/olivia-rodrigo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>\u2019s former leader&nbsp;<em>Sour<\/em>&nbsp;slips 1-3 on the Billboard 200 with 77,000 equivalent album units (down 7%), while&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/doja-cat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Doja Cat<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Planet Her<\/em>&nbsp;dips 2-4 with 59,000 units (down 2%).&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/morgan-wallen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>&nbsp;falls 3-5 with 44,000 units (down 1%),&nbsp;<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 former No. 1&nbsp;<em>The Voice of the Heroes&nbsp;<\/em>descends 4-6 with 36,000 units (down 13%), and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/polo-g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Polo G<\/a>\u2019s chart-topper&nbsp;<em>Hall of Fame<\/em>&nbsp;dips 5-7 with 33,000 units (down 10%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dua Lipa\u2019s\u00a0<em>Future Nostalgia<\/em>\u00a0falls 6-8 with 29,000 equivalent album units earned (down 1%), Pop Smoke\u2019s\u00a0<em>Shoot for the Stars Aim for the<\/em>\u00a0<em>Moon<\/em>, as noted above, rises 11-9 with 28,000 (up 5%) and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bo-burnham\" target=\"_blank\">Bo Burnham<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Inside (The Songs)<\/em>\u00a0falls 9-10 with 25,000 (down 8%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2361\" data-postid=\"2361\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2361 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: John Mayer bows at No. 2 with \u201cSob Rock.\u201d Pop Smoke\u2019s second posthumous album,&nbsp;Faith, debuts at No. 1 on the&nbsp;Billboard 200&nbsp;chart, garnering the rapper his second leader. 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