Baby Keem is the highest roller on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as his new album, Ca$ino, debuts atop the list dated March 7. The set, released on eerie times/pgLang/Columbia Records, begins with 72,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week of Feb. 20-26, according to Luminate.
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Of the first-week total, streaming activity contributed 55,500 units, a figure equal to 56.7 million official on-demand audio and video streams of Ca$ino’s songs. The remaining 16,500 units were from traditional album sales, while a negligible amount of sales of Ca$ino’s songs rounded the third and final metric. (One unit equals the following levels of consumption: one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 1,000 paid/subscription tier or 2,500 ad-supported tier of official on-demand audio and video streams for a song on the album.)
Elsewhere, Ca$ino cashes in a No. 1 arrival on the Top Rap Albums chart for Baby Keem’s first leader there and starts at No. 4 on the all-genre Billboard 200.
Before Ca$ino, the 25-year-old Baby Keem — born Hykeem Carter Jr. — charted with his debut album, The Melodic Blue. The 2021 project debuted and peaked at No. 3 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums that September, spurred by its Grammy Award-winning collaboration with his cousin Kendrick Lamar, “Family Ties,” which hit a No. 8 best on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs the same month.
Baby Keem, Lamar and No. 8 all meet again this week as Ca$ino track “Good Flirts,” a billing of Baby Keem featuring Lamar and singer Momo Boyd, debuts at the rank. It leads 10 cuts from Ca$ino onto the 50-position chart, and its entrance matches “Family Ties” for Baby Keem’s best result on the list. Boyd achieves her Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs debut while Lamar adds a 39th top 10 of his career, a sum that includes seven No. 1s.
“Good Flirts” traces its debut nearly entirely to 7.7 million official U.S. streams. It was the week’s most streamed Ca$ino track and opens at No. 4 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Streaming Songs chart. Beyond the R&B/hip-hop space, “Good Flirts” launches at No. 34 on the all-genre, multimetric Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Back to Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. Here’s a rundown of Ca$ino’s premiere on the chart, with all songs debuting:
- No. 8, “Good Flirts,” featuring Kendrick Lamar & Momo Boyd
- No. 10, “Ca$ino”
- No. 12, “House Money”
- No. 14, “Birds & the Bees”
- No. 17, “Circus Circus Free$tyle”
- No. 18, “$ex Appeal”
- No. 22, “No Security”
- No. 26, “Highway 95 Pt. 2”
- No. 27, “I Am Not a Lyricist”
- No. 49, “No Blame”
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