King Von’s posthumous project What It Means to Be King has earned the late rapper his highest-charting album ever.
The follow-up to 2020’s gold-certified Welcome to O’Block, which debuted at No. 13 before peeking at No. 5 following Von’s death, debuted this week at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 59,000 equivalent album units earned, 55,000 of which came from 79 million official streams, Billboardreports. An additional 4,000 units came from official album units.
Released last week, the 19-song project includes guest features from G Herbo, Tee Grizzley, Moneybagg Yo, Fivio Foreign, Dreezy, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, and Lil Durk.
Elsewhere on the chart, DaBaby and YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s collaborative project Better Than You debuted at No. 10 with 28,500 equivalent album units earned, 27,500 of which came from 40.35 million on-demand official streams. An additional 1,000 units were from official album sales.
Better Than You marks DaBaby’s fourth top 10 album on the Billboard 200. Meanwhile, YoungBoy has now earned nine top 10 albums, with six of his last seven full-length offerings peeking inside the top 2 positions on the chart, four of which have gone straight to No. 1 (2019’s AI YoungBoy 2, 2020’s 38 Baby 2, 2020’s Top, and 2021’s Sincerely, Kentrell). YoungBoy’s latest solo offering, Colors, bowed out at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
Unfortunately neither project had much of a chance of unseating the Encanto soundtrack, which finished atop the Billboard 200 for a ninth nonconsecutive week.
