Lil Baby Scores Fourth Consecutive No. 1 Album with WHAM

Lil Baby lands his fourth consecutive No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as WHAM debuts atop the list dated Jan. 18, 2025. The album earned 140,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. during its first week, ending Jan. 9, according to Luminate. This marks the rapper’s fourth straight chart-topper following It’s Only Me (2022), The Voice of the Heroes with Lil Durk (2021), and My Turn (2020).

In total, WHAM becomes Lil Baby’s seventh top 10 entry on the Billboard 200, starting with 2019’s Harder Than Ever, which peaked at No. 3. The release of WHAM on Jan. 3 was announced in late December.

The 15-track standard edition of WHAM features collaborations with 21 Savage, Future, GloRilla, Rylo Rodriguez, Travis Scott, Young Thug, and Rod Wave. An extended edition with four additional tracks dropped exclusively on Lil Baby’s label webstore on Jan. 7 before a wide release on Jan. 10. Both editions were offered digitally and in CD format, with discounts in Lil Baby’s and Motown’s webstores and on iTunes.

Of its 140,000 units, 90,000 came from SEA units, equating to 119.77 million on-demand streams, while 50,000 were pure album sales, and TEA units accounted for a negligible amount. WHAM also debuted at No. 1 on Top Album Sales and No. 3 on Top Streaming Albums.

Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS Debuts at No. 2

Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS enters the Billboard 200 at No. 2 with 122,000 equivalent album units earned in its opening week. Of this total, 113,500 units stem from SEA (equaling 152.16 million on-demand streams), 8,000 from album sales, and 500 from TEA. The 17-track album was released on Jan. 5, following an announcement on Dec. 25, and was only available for streaming and as a digital download, with a $4.99 discount in the artist’s webstore and iTunes.

The album’s release was supported by singles “EL CLúB” and “PIToRRO DE COCO,” which charted on the Billboard Hot 100.

Billboard 200 Top 10 Highlights

SZA’s SOS slides to No. 3 (113,000 units, down 13%), Kendrick Lamar’s GNX drops to No. 4 (67,000 units, down 4%), and Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet moves to No. 5 (51,000 units, down 9%).

Other notable placements include:

• Wicked soundtrack at No. 6 (45,000 units, down 7%)
• Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft at No. 7 (43,000 units, down 5%)
• Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time steady at No. 8 (40,000 units, down 1%)
• Gracie Abrams’ The Secret of Us at No. 9 (38,000 units, down 5%)
• Tyler, The Creator’s CHROMAKOPIA at No. 10 (37,000 units, down 3%)

The Billboard 200 ranks the most popular albums in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, including album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA), and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). For the full chart, visit Billboard’s website.