Lil Baby’s ‘It’s Only Me’ Tops Billboard 200 With Biggest First-Week Sales Of His Career
Lil Baby‘s latest album It’s Only Me has topped the Billboard 200 chart with the biggest first-week sales of his career so far.
The Atlanta rapper’s third solo album debuted at No. 1 with roughly 216,000 total album-equivalent units in its first week, consisting of 209,000 SEA units (88.97 million on-demand song streams), 6,500 album sales and 500 TEA units. It boasts the third-largest streaming week for an album in 2022.
It’s Only Me serves as the third biggest Hip Hop debut this year behind Kendrick Lamar‘s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (295,000) and Future‘s I Never Liked You (222,000). It also sold more than Drake‘s Honestly, Nevermind (204,000) and Gunna’s DS4EVER (150,000) in its first week.
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In comparison, Lil Baby’s last solo album My Turn debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2020 with roughly 197,000 total album-equivalent units in its first week, going on to top the chart for five weeks and becoming one of the best performing albums that year.
His last album The Voice of the Heroes — a collaborative project with Lil Durk — debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in June 2021, earning roughly 150,000 total album-equivalent units in its first week.
It’s Only Me features the likes of Young Thug, Future, Pooh Shiesty, EST Gee, Jeremih, Nardo Wick, Rylo Rodriguez and Fridayy. During a recent interview with XXL, Lil Baby acknowledged his position as a rapper as success continues to come his way.
“The position that I’m in now and the level in my career, I consider myself a rap star for sure,” he admitted. “I think the qualities of a superstar is like a strong fan base. A sustainable amount of time ’cause you could be hot like a one-hit-wonder hot, like superstar hot. It could go quick. So, a different time bracket.
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“I would say your appearance, the way you carry yourself to the way you perform. The type of things you perform at or the type of places you will perform at and the money that you get. I feel like I need to work more on my appearance.”
He added: “I don’t want to act like a superstar, but there’s certain times I have to think like a superstar because you have to think as you are.”