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\n\tLil Baby<\/a> collects his fourth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200<\/a> chart, all tallied consecutively, as WHAM<\/em> opens atop the chart dated Jan. 18. The set earned 140,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Jan. 9, according to Luminate. The rapper previously topped the list with his last three releases: It\u2019s Only Me <\/em>(2022), The Voice of the Heroes<\/em> (with Lil Durk, 2021) and My Turn<\/em> (2020).<\/p>\n \n\tIn total, WHAM<\/em> marks Lil Baby\u2019s seventh top 10 on the Billboard 200, stretching back to 2019\u2019s Harder Than Ever<\/em> (No. 3 peak).<\/p>\n \n\tWHAM<\/em>\u2019s Friday (Jan. 3) release was announced<\/a> by Lil Baby in late December.<\/p>\n \n\tAlso in the top 10: Bad Bunny<\/a>\u2019s DeB\u00cd TiRAR M\u00e1S FOToS<\/em> debuts at No. 2, securing the superstar his seventh top 10-charting set. Bunny\u2019s album was released on an off-cycle Sunday (Jan. 5) and, thus, it arrives on the chart with only five days of activity (as the chart\u2019s tracking week runs Friday through Thursday). The album\u2019s release date was announced<\/a> on Dec. 25.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Jan. 18, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on Tuesday (Jan. 14). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.<\/p>\n \n\tOf WHAM<\/em>\u2019s 140,000 first-week equivalent album units, SEA units comprise 90,000 (equaling 119.77 million on-demand official streams of the streaming version of the album\u2019s songs; the set debuts at No. 3 on the Top Streaming Albums chart), album sales comprise 50,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.<\/p>\n \n\tWHAM<\/em> was available to purchase as a 15-song standard digital download album and a standard CD (the latter exclusively sold via the artist\u2019s official webstore). On Jan. 7, an extended edition of WHAM<\/em> \u2014 with four additional songs \u2014 was released exclusively via Lil Baby\u2019s label webstore for purchase. The extended edition was later issued widely through streaming services and digital retailers on Friday (Jan. 10). Both digital versions of the album were discounted to $4.99 in the webstores of the artist and his label (Motown), along with in the iTunes Store.<\/p>\n \n\tThe standard version of WHAM<\/em> features guest turns from 21 Savage, Future, GloRilla, Rylo Rodriguez, Travis Scott, Young Thug and Rod Wave.<\/p>\n \n\tBad Bunny\u2019s DeB\u00cd TiRAR M\u00e1S FOToS<\/em> starts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 122,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 113,500 (equaling 152.16 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s 17 songs; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 8,000 and TEA units comprise 500. The album was only available as a standard 17-song set via streaming services and to purchase as a digital download (also discounted to $4.99 in Bad Bunny\u2019s official webstore and the iTunes Store).<\/p>\n \n\tDeB\u00cd TiRAR M\u00e1S FOToS <\/em>was preceded by a pair of entries from the album on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart: \u201cEL CL\u00faB\u201d and \u201cPIToRRO DE COCO.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThree former No. 1s follow on the Billboard 200: SZA<\/a>\u2019s SOS<\/em> falls 1-3 on the (113,000 equivalent album units earned; down 13%), Kendrick Lamar<\/a>\u2019s GNX<\/em> moves 2-4 (67,000; down 4%) and Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>\u2019s Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/em> slips 3-5 (51,000; down 9%).<\/p>\n \n\tThe Wicked<\/em> film soundtrack dips 4-6 (45,000 equivalent album units; down 7%); Billie Eilish\u2019s Hit Me Hard and Soft<\/em> falls 5-7 (43,000; down 5%); Morgan Wallen\u2019s chart-topping One Thing at a Time<\/em> is a non-mover at No. 8 (40,000; down 1%); Gracie Abrams\u2019 The Secret of Us<\/em> is steady at No. 9 (38,000; down 5%); and Tyler, The Creator\u2019s former leader CHROMAKOPIA<\/em> is stationary at No. 10 (37,000; down 3%).<\/p>\n \n\tLuminate, the independent data provider to the\u00a0<\/em>Billboard\u00a0charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with\u00a0<\/em>Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n