Future and Metro Boomin’s first joint album opens big at No.1 in charts
Future and Metro Boomin, two of the biggest stars of Atlanta hip-hop, have scored the best opening of the year so far with their joint album We Don’t Trust You, though Beyoncé is on deck for next week’s chart with potentially even bigger numbers.
We Don’t Trust You opens at No.1 with the equivalent of 251,000 sales in the United States, a better opening than Ariana Grande’s Eternal Sunshine had two weeks ago (with 227,000). According to the tracking service Luminate, the vast majority of fans’ consumption of We Don’t Trust You was through streaming platforms, with 324 million clicks in its opening week — more than any album since Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version), which arrived with 375 million in November.
We Don’t Trust You, featuring guest spots by the Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar and Travis Scott, among others, is the first of two announced LPs by rapper Future and Metro Boomin, a star producer who has been behind dozens of hit songs over the past decade, and who has gone to No.1 on the album chart three times before in his own right. The next joint album by Future and Metro Boomin is expected on April 12.
Beyoncé’s 27-track Cowboy Carter seized headlines even before its release on Friday, and fans started clicking as soon as they could. Spotify announced that Cowboy Carter became the service’s most-streamed album in a single day so far this year. It is expected to arrive with big numbers on next week’s chart, helped by sales on vinyl and CD — though fans complained that a number of tracks on the digital version were absent from the physical editions, including Ya Ya, one of the album’s most-streamed songs.
Also this week, Olivia Rodrigo’s seven-month-old Guts jumps 16 spots to No.2, thanks to the release of a deluxe version with five added tracks. Grande’s Eternal Sunshine falls to No.3 after two weeks at the top, Morgan Wallen’s One Thing At A Time is No.4 and Noah Kahan’s Stick Season is No.5.