Metro Boomin’s Album ‘Not All Heroes Wear Capes’ Debuts At Number 1 Moving 100,000 Units

Metro Boomin wasn’t able to stay retired a full year, came back and now he’s at the number 1 spot on the Billboard chart. A few Metro beats landed on high-profile albums for Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj, Metro didn’t formally announce that he was stepping out of retirement until Halloween, when he announced his solo debut album, Not All Heroes Wear Capes. After a full-week of its release, the album has made its way to the top of the Billboard 200 chart.

After moving nearly 100K equivalent album units in one week, Metro Boomin’ earns his first number one album on the Billboard 200 with Not All Heroes Wear Capes. He moved 99K equivalent album units by the week ending on Nov. 8th. The majority of the units moved were driven by streaming. Metro earned 92K from streaming album units which is the equivalent to 125.3M units, 7K from track equivalent albums, and 5K from pure album sales. 

Metro had the biggest debut this week, but Takeoff’s The Last Rocket debuted at the #4 spot after moving 49K in its first week with 5K of those units coming from pure album sales. Takeoff is the third and final member of the Migos to enter the Billboard 200’s top 10 without the assistance of his group. Quavo’s debut album peaked at #2 while Offset’s joint effort with Metro Boomin’ and 21 Savage peaked at #4.

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