Lil Nas X’s debut album Montero flies straight in at Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart. The US rapper’s first album was the most-streamed of the week to take the top spot, finishing ahead of Drake’s Certified Lover Boy (2) by almost 300 chart sales.
Montero is the fifth rap album to top the Irish Charts so far in 2021, following Number 1s from J. Cole, Dave, Kanye West and Drake.
Five rap chart toppers in 2021 ties with 2020 and 2018 as years with the most Number 1 rap albums in Irish Chart history. Dublin’s James Vincent McMorrow scores his third Top 10 album and first in five years with his fifth studio album Grapefruit Season at 8, while Bob Dylan’s Springtime in New York, a new collection of songs from the archives, debuts at
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