It’s the first posthumous No. 1 since December 2018. Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, giving the late rapper his first chart-topping effort.
The set was released on July 3 via Victor Victor Worldwide/Republic Records and bows with 251,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S.
in the week ending July 9, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. Shoot for the Stars is billed as Pop Smoke’s first studio album, following a pair of mixtapes: Meet the Woo, V.1 and Meet the Woo, V.2.
The latter became his first top 10 when it debuted and peaked at No. 7 on the Feb. 22-dated chart. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S.
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