Lil Baby Becomes Third Artist To Make Top 25 Top 100 Hits In One Week – Billboard
Lil Baby charts a whopping 25 songs on the latest Billboard Hot 100 dated October 29, including all 23 tracks from his new album It is only me.
In the Hot 100’s 64-year history, Lil Baby is just the third act to have his fingerprint on at least a quarter of the chart, following Drake, who set a week-long record of 27 songs on July 14. 2018, investigation, alongside the release of his LP Scorpioand Taylor Swift, who sent 26 songs to the board dated Nov. 27, 2021, as Red (Taylor’s version) simultaneously made it to the charts, with both sets opening atop Billboard’s 200 album count.
It is only me also launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, with 216,000 equivalent album units earned during the tracking week of Oct. 14-20, according to Luminate. It’s the seventh-highest sum of weekly units this year, and the third-highest for a hip-hop album, after Kendrick Lamar’s debut weeks. Mr. Morale and Big Steps (295,000; May 28) and Future’s I never loved you (222,000; May 14).
Lil Baby lands his third Billboard 200 No. 1, after 2021 The Voice of Heroes, with Lil Durk and the 2020s My turn.
Here’s a recap of Lil Baby’s entries on the latest Hot 100. All are debuts unless otherwise noted:
Classification, artist billing, title:
- No. 4, Lil Baby, “California Breeze”
- No. 8, Lil Baby feat. Friday, “Forever”
- No. 10, Lil Baby, “Real Spill”
- No. 15, Lil Baby & Nardo Wick, “Pop Out”
- No. 16, Lil Baby, “In a Minute” (was No. 40; new high)
- No. 19, Lil Baby & Young Thug, “Never Hate”
- #21, Lil Baby, “Heyy” (was #77; new high)
- No. 22, Lil Baby, “Stand Up On It”
- No. 26, Lil Baby, “Not Finished”
- No. 32, Lil Baby, “Perfect Moment”
- No. 42, Lil Baby feat. Future, “From now on”
- No. 45, Lil Baby, “Cascading Stream”
- No. 52, Lil Baby, “Everything”
- No. 54, Lil Baby, “Double Down”
- No. 57, Lil Baby & Rylo Rodriguez, “Cost of Being Alive”
- No. 58, Lil Baby feat. Pooh Shiesty, “Speaking Shyest”
- No. 64, Lil Baby, “Top Priority”
- No. 66, DJ Khaled feat. Drake & Lil Baby, “Staying Alive” (down from #49; peaked at #5)
- No. 68, Lil Baby & EST Gee, “There and Back”
- No. 69, Lil Baby, “Danger”
- No. 70, Lil Baby, “Russian Roulette”
- No. 76, Little Baby, “FR”
- No. 80, Lil Baby, “No Fly Zone”
- No. 81, Lil Baby feat. Jeremy, “Stop Playing”
- #84, Lil Baby, “Freestyle” (down from #63, his peak)
With 20 debuts, Lil Baby brings his career total to 131 Hot 100 songs, passing Chris Brown (113) and Nicki Minaj (125) for seventh. Drake leads all acts with 278, followed by the Joy Cast (207), Lil Wayne (183), Taylor Swift (168), Future (152) and Kanye West (141).
Lil Baby also increases his career totals to 13 career Hot 100 top 10s, 26 top 20 hits and 48 top 40 entries.
On the rapper’s latest accomplishment, here’s a look at each week a band made at least 20 songs on the Hot 100:
Simultaneous most popular songs:
- 27, Drake, July 14, 2018
- 26, Taylor Swift, November 27, 2021
- 25, Lil Baby, October 29, 2022
- 24, Drake, July 21, 2018
- 24, Drake, April 8, 2017
- 23, Kanye West, September 11, 2021
- 22, Bad Bunny, May 21, 2022
- 22, Lil Uzi Vert, March 28, 2020
- 22, Lil Wayne, October 13, 2018
- 21, Drake, September 18, 2021
- 21, Drake, April 15, 2017
- 20, Bad Bunny, May 28, 2022
- 20, Lil Uzi Vert, March 21, 2020
- 20, Drake, May 21, 2016
Meanwhile, Lil Baby has now listed 39 songs on the Hot 100 in 2022 alone, overtaking YoungBoy Never Broke Again (30) for the most among any act this year. Lil Uzi Vert holds the record for the most single calendar year entries among soloists, with 46 in 2020. Joy Cast holds the overall annual record, with 80 in 2010.
