Juice WRLD (left) replaced rapper Pop Smoke (right) atop the Billboard 200 chart after debuting his posthumous album, Legends Never Die.
Juice WRLD’s new release topped the U.K. charts on Friday and now it landed at No. 1 in the U.S. with the biggest sales week of 2020. The album scored equivalent sales of 497,000.
Juice WRLD (pictured) replaces another late rapper, Pop Smoke, at number one. Pop’s debut album Shoot for the Stars falls to No. 2, marking the first time two posthumous releases have scored the top 2 spots.
Legends Never Die is Juice WRLD’s second number one album in the U.S., following the success of last year’s Death Race for Love, which topped the Billboard 200 in March, 2019.
The new album is the first release of new music from the rapper since his overdose death in December.
The original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton: An American Musical falls to number three, while Lil Baby‘s My Turn and Hollywood’s Bleeding by Post Malone round out the top five.
