Rod Wave is on top for the first time. The 22-year-old entertainer’s SoulFly debuted at No.
1 on the Billboard 200, the company reported Sunday (April 4). The album moved 130,000 equivalent album units in its first week, marking the biggest week for an R&B/hip-hop album in 2021 in terms of units earned.
SoulFly is his third charting album, following Ghetto Gospel, which peaked at No. 10 in 2019 and Pray 4 Love, which debuted and peaked at No.
2 in 2020. SoulFly is just the second R&B/hip-hop album to hit No. 1 the last five months since Playboi Carti’s Whole Lotta Red, which spent a week at No.
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