Quavo Huncho couldn't snag the top spot from Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga in its first full week on the charts. The debut solo album from the Migos' Most Likely to Break Away moved 99,000 equivalent album units this week (6,000 in album sales), good for second place on the Billboard 200. Not taking the No. 1 spot wasn't for lack of trying. Quavo went all in behind the project, even stirring up beef with Nicki Minaj at the album's listening party and on the track "Huncho Dreams." Huncho followed the model of recent rap behemoths, with a sprawling 19-song tracklist meant to goose his streaming numbers and push the album up the charts. It wasn't meant to be, however, as Quavo Huncho fell short of Star's 143,000 equivalent units. The album launched an accidental controversy, with fans of Lil Peep thinking that Quavo took a shot at the late rapper. On the song "Big Bro," Quavo talks about the dangers of Fentanyl, a drug that the emo-indebted rapper overdosed on earlier this year. Check out the offending lyrics below: Is you with me or against me? I'm a OG now so you need me Think you poppin' Xanax bars, but it's Fentanyl (No-no bars, it's Fentanyl) Think you're living life like rockstars but you're dead now Quavo tweeted that he would never disrespect Peep, clearing up the issue. "Lil Peep Is A Legend A Real Rockstar," Quavo wrote on Monday. "N E V E R will speak on the deceased."<doc-sep>Quavo's debut solo effort Quavo Huncho has landed at number two on this week's Billboard 200 Chart. Billboard reported on Monday that the album initially debuted at 66 on the chart after premiering on Thursday, October 11 — the last day of the previous chart week's tracking week — via DJ Khaled's We The Best radio show on Apple Music. In its first full week of tracking sales, Quavo Huncho moved 99,000 total album equivalent units, 6,000 of which were traditional album sales. The full-length was originally set for an October 12 release date. ADVERTISEMENT Quavo's project lands just behind the A Star Is Born soundtrack, which holds the top spot on the charts after debuting at #1 the previous week. Read more about this weeks chart via Billboard here.<doc-sep>Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper have a smash on their hands with the soundtrack to “A Star Is Born,” which is spending its second straight week atop the Billboard chart. The album, which features songs by Lady Gaga and her fictional pop-star counterpart Ally, plus Cooper (as Jackson Maine) singing compositions by Jason Isbell and Lukas Nelson, is riding the film’s box-office success to real-world reach. “A Star Is Born” earned another 86,000 in sales and had 48 million song streams, according to Nielsen Music, for a total of 143,000 album equivalent units by the industry’s math. Also firming up the soundtrack’s No. 1 spot: 196,000 in digital song sales, a declining format in the post-iTunes age. [Never miss a pop music story: Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Louder.] The week’s streaming champion, with 121 million plays, was Quavo of Migos, with his solo debut, “Quavo Huncho.” The album, with cameos by Drake, 21 Savage and more, reached No. 2 with full-album sales of 6,000 — a typically low number for streaming-dependent rap releases — and a total of 99,000 units. (Because the album was technically released on a Thursday evening, before the sales week turned over at midnight, it debuted on last week’s Billboard chart at No. 66, with 11,000 additional units.)<doc-sep>
The ‘A Star is Born’ soundtrack retained the No. 1 spot for a second week. Migos MC Quavo posted impressive numbers for his debut album, QUAVO HUNCHO, but he couldn’t unseat the blockbuster soundtrack to A Star is Born from the top spot on the Billboard 200. Quavo’s first solo outing earned 99,000 units, though just 6,000 of those were from album sales. In a somewhat bizarre turn of events, QUAVO HUNCHO technically debuted the previous week because it was released three hours before the tracking charts for the week ending on October 11 concluded. In those three hours it moved 11,000 units, good for the No. 66 position. Earler in 2018, Migos' Culture II earned the No. 1 spot after selling 199,000 units. QUAVO HUNCHO slightly outperformed Quavo’s collaborative album with Travis Scott, Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho, which moved 90,000 units in its first week en route to a No. 3 debut. Much like the box office returns for the movie itself, the Star is Born soundtrack shows no signs of slowing down, with 143,000 equivalent album units this week. The soundtrack’s success is buoyed by the single “Shallow,” which has reached as high as No. 5 on the Hot 100 and occupies the lead spot on Genius' Top Songs chart as of publication. At No. 3, Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V moved 85,000 units, while Gunna and Lil Baby’s Drip Harder followed up at No. 4 with 71,000 units shipped in its second week. Rounding out the top five is Ella Mai, whose self-titled debut LP sold 69,000 album equivalent units. Genius explained the story behind QUAVO HUNCHO’s “HUNCHO DREAMS” in the video below. Read all the lyrics to QUAVO HUNCHO and the soundtrack for A Star is Born on Genius now.