Lil Baby Overtakes 21 Savage For The Highest-Charting Rap Album On Apple Music

Lil Baby and 21 Savage have been regular presences within the Atlanta scene for almost a decade. Both have stellar entice information underneath their belts corresponding to My Turn and i’m > than i used to be. Moreover, they’ve the hits on hits which have primarily outlined mainstream rap within the 2010s.

With that mentioned, it is not earth-shattering that they’re nonetheless competing for high spots on streaming charts even to at the present time. To shut out 2025 Lil Baby and 21 Savage had been neck and neck over on the highest rap album record on Apple Music.

Baby has been combating for primary with The Leak$, which landed on December 3. As for 21, he stunned his followers and the rap neighborhood at giant with What Happened To The Streets. His 14-song effort launched nearly every week afterward December 12.

But whereas these two are good buddies, just one individual can maintain the gold medal, so to talk. For the previous couple of weeks, the “MR RECOUP” MC has been sitting atop the chart within the US. But that every one modified early in the present day because of an replace from Hip Hop All Day.

They reported this morning (Jan. 2) that WHAM has taken again that honor.

Fans have argued that The Leak$ is a stronger physique of labor than his earlier 2025 launch, WHAM. Based on this newest achievement, they could have a degree. Sales had been down in comparison with its predecessor, although. The Leak$ moved around 34,000 units, cracking the highest 17 on the Hot 200.

Compared to WHAM, that is nowhere close to as impactful. That went primary and offered properly over 100,000 copies. But to The Leak$ credit score, that was a mixtape and it was Baby’s second launch in 12 months.

While brisker, it is clearly been performing higher on streaming, with followers discovering extra consistency all through the comparatively concise tracklist.

All in all, it is a powerful feat from the “Let’s Do It” MC as 21 is still selling over 20,000 copies of WHTTS? per HITS DAILY DOUBLE. To be actual it offered over 25K, ok to be at 32 on the Hot 200 for the week of Dec. 26.