Pop Smoke Becomes The Only US Rapper To Debut At #1 In Ireland This MILLENNIUM! (Not Even Drake Has Done This)

GurelliaLing

Jul 10, 2020

Pop Smoke becomes the only US rapper this millennium to claim an Irish Number 1 debut album with Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon

Pop Smoke’s debut album Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon enters this week’s Official Irish Albums Chart at Number 1.
The Brooklyn rapper’s posthumous collection was the most streamed album of the week and becomes the first debut album by a US rapper to top the Official Irish Charts this millennium. The only other rappers to claim Number 1 debut albums in Ireland since 2000 are Brits Stormzy in 2017 with Gang Signs & Prayer, and KSI earlier in 2020 with Dissimulation.

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Pop Smoke also becomes the first act in over four years to claim a posthumous Number 1 album. The last was David Bowie in January 2016 with Blackstar. Leonard Cohen also topped the charts posthumously in November and December 2016 with You Want It Darker, although the collection first went to Number 1 ten days before his death.

Pop Smoke’s second mixtape Meet The Woo 2 returns to the Top 50 this week at Number 29, a new peak.

Also this week, British soul singer Paul Weller claims the bestselling album of the last seven days with On Sunset at Number 4, his first Top 5 album in 15 years.

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GurelliaLing

Jul 10, 2020

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