Pop Smoke‘s debut album Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon is formally the Billboard Top Rap Album chart’s longest-running No. 1 album.
Sources have announced that the project stayed in the charts for 20 weeks dated March 27; it raked in 40,000 equivalent album units. The late rapper is now ahead of previous record-holder Eminem.
Other artists who are behind Smoke are Drake with Take Care at 16 weeks, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis with The Heist at 13 weeks, Kendrick Lamar with DAMN. at 11 weeks and JAY-Z with The Blueprint 3 at 10 weeks.
The rapper’s record is the second-longest No. 1 album in the history of the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and the longest-running since 1990.