Juice WRLD's 'Legends Never Die' Marks Biggest Posthumous Album Debut

hollywoodreporter.com:

Late rapper Juice WRLD is making history months after passing away at the age of 21. The rapper's first posthumous albumLegends Never Die,released on July 10, opened with the largest first week sales of 2020, as it earned 497,000 equivalent album units in the U.S.

in the week ending July 16, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. The record debuted No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and was released via Grade A/Interscope Records.

Juice WRLD's album now ranks as the biggest posthumous debut since Notorious B.I.G.'s Life After Death[690K] and 2Pac's R U Still Down[549K] in 1997.The rapper's album also secured the biggest week for a Hip-Hop album or by a male artist in nearly two years following Travis Scott’s Astroworld released in 2018, according.