Lil Durk’s new album is poised to make a giant splash on the charts, and maybe even mark a brand new gross sales milestone for the Chicago rap star.
HITS Daily Double experiences that Almost Healed, which dropped on Friday (May 26), is projected to maneuver between 125,000 and 150,000 album-equivalent items in its first week.
With these figures, the undertaking is anticipated to debut at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart and safe the week’s largest debut.
Almost Healed has already made its presence felt on streaming companies, occupying seven of the highest 10 spots on Apple Music’s U.S. chart and serving to Durk earn his largest streaming day on Spotify with over 41.5 million streams — greater than double his earlier finest.
Additionally, Durkio’s “All My Life” collaboration with J. Cole lately debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking his joint highest-charting single subsequent to 2020’s “Laugh Now Cry Later” with Drake, which additionally peaked at No. 2.
.@lildurk‘s ‘Almost Healed’ difficult for #2 debut on the US albums chart with 125-150K items first week (by way of @HITSDD). pic.twitter.com/iRsf3XElhk
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For comparability, Lil Durk’s final album, 7220, earned 120,500 album-equivalent items in its first week in 2022 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. 2021’s The Voice of the Heroes — Durk’s joint album with Lil Baby — garnered 150,000 first-week items and in addition topped the Billboard 200.
Aside from promising gross sales figures, the OTF frontman’s new album options loads of smoke for his numerous opps, and followers had a lot to say on social media relating to his threatening bars.
On the 21 Savage-assisted “War Bout It,” many related Durk’s refrain to him taking purpose at Quando Rondo and mocking his alleged lack of response to a buddy’s loss of life.
“Since he died, just come outside and go to war about him/ He say, ‘No,’ I’m thinkin’ he let a ho got him/ He say, ‘No,’ I say, ‘Let’s go to war about it’/ Where he go? You better know the morgue got him,” he raps on the menacing monitor.
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Rondo is an affiliate of NBA YoungBoy — one other Durk rival — and shut buddy of Lul Tim, who’s the alleged gunman within the homicide of King Von exterior an Atlanta hookah lounge in November 2020.
Lil Durk sat down with Akademiks earlier this week for an all-encompassing interview the place he mirrored on Von’s loss of life.
“That shit fucked everybody up,” he stated. “A real gangster got taken out by a nerd type.”
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