Lil Baby & Lil Durk Rule | Scanning the Charts 📉

Scanning the Charts (6/19/21): Lil Baby & Lil Durk Rule launch at no. 1 on the Billboard 200 with The Voice of the Heroes.  

Well, SCANNING THE CHARTS is just what it says it is.  I, the quirky founder and do-it-all at The Musical Hype scans through the Billboard Charts and picks out things that catch my eye. This column isn’t extensive, but rather short and sweet.  This week, I picked out FIVE notable observations from the Billboard 200 📉,  and FIVE observations from the Billboard Hot 100 📉, with 🎙 Lil Baby and 🎙 Lil Durk rule launching at no. 1 on the Billboard 200 with their collaborative album, 💿 The Voice of the Heroes.

Billboard 200 📉

💭 After 🎙 Taylor Swift ascended back to no. 1 last week with 💿 Evermore, she’s knocked out of the top spot – all the way down to no. 8 – by 🎙 Lil Baby and 🎙 Lil Durk.  The two popular rappers see 💿 The Voice of the Heroes move a robust 150,000 units – well, robust for times such as these!

💭 As for breakthrough 🎙 Olivia Rodrigo, she may still be ‘sour’ that her totally-not-sour debut album 💿 SOUR remains stuck at no. 2 after its own robust no. 1 start with the biggest numbers of 2021.

💭 K-Pop act 🎙 TOMORROW X TOGETHER get some top-five love as 💿 The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE launches at no. 5.  Amazingly, the next debut in the top-50 of the chart can’t be found until no. 39, where 🎙 Rise Against debuts with 💿 Nowhere Generation.

💭 The rest of the top 100 has a few debuts.  🎙 Japanese Breakfast lands at no. 56 with 💿 Jubilee.  Country musician Brett Young enters truly modestly at no. 79 with 💿 Weekends Look a Little Different These Days (apparently so do album sales 😬).  Rapper 🎙 Lloyd Banks – yes, of 🎙 G-Unit notoriety – gets into the mix, albeit at a tepid no. 84 with 💿 The Course of the Inevitable.

💭 I guess not all posthumous albums have much staying power. 🎙 DMX is nowhere to be found on this week’s Billboard 200 after 💿 Exodus launched at no. 8 just last week.  He deserves better y’all!

Billboard Hot 100 📉 

💭 🎙 BTS are still the act to beat on the Hot 100, spending their third consecutive week on top with 🎵 “Butter”.

💭 🎙 Olivia Rodrigo remains in the runner-up slot with 🎵 “good 4 u”. At least she’s consistent, right?

💭 Shout out to 🎙 Bad Bunny who earns the top debut on the Billboard Hot 100 with 🎵 “Yonaguni” at no. 10.

💭 As to be expected, there are some debuts from 🎙 Lil Baby & 🎙 Lil Durk sprinkled throughout the Hot 100.  The highest arrives at no. 16 with 🎵 “Hats Off” featuring 🎙 Travis Scott.

💭 Two more notable debuts: 🎙 Roddy Ricch bows at no. 20 with 🎵 “Late at Night” while 🎙 Billie Eilish arrives at no. 27 with 🎵 “Lost Cause”.  

Lil Baby & Lil Durk Rule: Scanning the Charts 📉 No. 24 [📷: BIGHIT Music, Brent Faulkner, HYBE, The Musical Hype, Quality Control Music]