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For First Time Since 2021, Hip-Hop Has Nos. 1 & 2 Simultaneously on Billboard 200

Thanks to Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign's 'Vultures 1' and Yeat's '2093,' hip-hop scores its first top-two domination on the Billboard 200 since 2021.

The pair makes for the first time that hip-hop has twin titles atop the chart since Oct. 30, 2021, when Young Thug’s Punk and Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, nabbed the top two spots. But, despite no one-two lockdown in 2022 or 2023, hip-hop still maintained top standing among listeners, with R&B/hip-hop as both years’ most-streamed genre by total album consumption, according to Luminate. Largely due to the dominance of albums such as SZA’s R&B set SOS and Morgan Wallen’s country collection One Thing at a Time, hip-hop couldn’t capture the flag until July, when Lil Uzi Vert’s Pink Tape finally ended the shutout.

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