“Faith,” the second album by
Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke to be
released since he was shot and killed in February 2020 at the age of 20, tops
the Billboard chart this week, just as the previous one did.
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But the difference in listenership was stark: “Faith” opened
with 88,000 equivalent album units, including 113 million streams and 4,000 in
sales, according to MRC Data, Billboard’s tracking arm, while “Shoot for the
Stars Aim for the Moon,” from July 2020, was nearly three times more popular in
its opening week, earning the equivalent of 251,000 albums sold, with 268
million streams and 59,000 in sales (including now-restricted merchandise
bundles).
“Faith” received tepid album reviews, with some questioning
its posthumous assembly and the inclusion of more than 20 guests (Dua Lipa,
Kanye West, Chris Brown) across the album’s 20 tracks.
A deluxe edition adding
four more songs was released Wednesday, the day before the chart week ended.
Pop Smoke, born Bashar Jackson, once
a leader of Brooklyn’s rising drill movement, was killed last year during a
home invasion in the Hollywood Hills after inadvertently revealing his address
on Instagram. Los Angeles police officers said at a hearing in May that five
teenagers had plotted to rob the rapper, coming away only with a watch that
they sold for $2,000.
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