1 spot on Apple Music’s charts based on pre-orders alone. So when he announced Top in August, it got fans so hyped that it already reached the No. He also gave fans the impression that he was taking a break from music after dropping the 38 Baby 2 mixtape in April. Heran Mamo: About a 3, because YoungBoy’s been dropping projects like breadcrumbs every quarter of 2020 so far. 1 albums in a 12-month span is an impressive feat for any artist to pull off, including ones with more general-audience name recognition than YoungBoy, but the amount of fan excitement he’s been able to produce over the past year shouldn’t be a surprise for those following his rise in the industry. YoungBoy may not have the primary badges of mainstream success in 2020 - his voice isn’t anywhere near pop radio, and he’s not lighting up late-night television or awards shows - but he’s a massive hip-hop star nonetheless, a new-school streaming giant with a particularly rabid YouTube following. Whether he’s diving into relationship woes or internal battles, his rawness is alluring, and a reason why people are intrigued by his music.
With each release, I think YoungBoy gives listeners a reason to latch onto him even more. To some, he’s reckless, while others venerate him for his street heroics. YoungBoy’s rabid fanbase plays to his strengths as a raging superstar with unfiltered charm. Like it or not, content still seems to be king, so even with the mass output from YoungBoy in recent years, I’m skeptical of his fans tiring any time soon.Ĭarl Lamarre: Four. An increasing number of artists have managed to carve out a core fan base and flip it into massive streaming stats. 1 albums on the Billboard 200, but we’ve seen plenty of chart-toppers since 2019 that appeared surprising - Nav, NF, Nav again - that maybe shouldn’t have been all that shocking. I don’t think that too many people expected YoungBoy to put up back-to-back-to-back No. On a scale of 1-10, how surprised are you that YoungBoy has been able to maintain this level of fan excitement given his prolific output? 1 album (and fourth top two album) in the past 12 months, it also earns his best first-week numbers to date, with 126,000 equivalent album units moved. 1 Album in Less Than a Year on the Billboard 200…ġ. YoungBoy Never Broke Again Achieves Third No.