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NEW RELEASES: BABY'S GOT A BIGGIE

October 17, 2022

Quality Control/Motown's Lil Baby is a lock for #1 on this week's HITS Top 50 as his third LP, It's Only Me, dominates Apple Music and Spotify. The album will open in the range of...

Lil Baby’s It’s Only Me (Quality Control/Motown) is a lock for #1 on this week’s HITS Top 50. The follow-up to his RIAA-certified, quadruple-platinum My Turn—the biggest album of 2020—it pulled in around 70m first-day U.S. streams.

By Saturday morning, Baby's new album owned the entire Top 23 on Apple Music. Simultaneously, the Grammy-winning MC posted seven tracks from It's Only Me in the Top 20 at Spotify U.S. and was the #1-most-streamed artist on Spot U.S. Friday.

It's Only Me should open as the seventh- or eighth-biggest debut in 2022 thus far.

Lil Baby (Quality Control/Motown): 185-210k
Red Hot Chili Peppers (Warner): 55-65k