Gone but not forgotten, Pop Smoke continues to make history.
This week, the late Brooklyn rapper’s debut album, Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon, broke the record for most weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums chart. The posthumous debut album has spent 20 (non-consecutive) weeks at No. 1. The album has now surpassed Eminem’s Recovery, which previously held the record with 19 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2010-11.
Other albums that have dominated the rap albums chart—which only began in 2004—include Drake’s Take Care (16 weeks), Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (14 weeks), and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s The Heist (13 weeks). Before 2004, rap albums were counted on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, but even then Pop’s album has had the longest run since MC Hammer’s Please Hammer Don’t Hurt Em notched a 29-week reign in 1990.
Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon was released last July, five months after Pop Smoke was murdered in a home invasion in Hollywood Hills. The album spawned four Top 20 hits with “The Woo,” “Mood Swings,” “For The Night,” and “What You Know About Love,” all of which are double Platinum or better.
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