A$AP Rocky’s long-awaited fourth studio album, “Don’t Be Dumb,” moved roughly 123K album-equivalent units in its first week.
Earlier this month, A$AP Rocky finally delivered his long-awaited fourth studio album, Don’t Be Dumb. The project boasts features from the likes of Tyler The Creator, Doechii, Brent Faiyaz, and more. It landed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart following its release, moving roughly 123K album-equivalent units in its first week. Now, DJ Akademiks reports that it’s on track to move around 50K album-equivalent units in its second week.
Don’t Be Dumb was originally expected to move at least 200K album-equivalent units in its first week. This is because a press release noted that he’d sold 130K vinyl copies of the album. Ultimately, however, only 45K of those vinyl sales counted towards the first-week sales.
Regardless, Rocky and his supporters have some serious celebrating to do. One of his biggest cheerleaders, his partner Rihanna, even took to Twitter/X earlier this week to show her support for the LP.
“Just me here to let yall know my baby daddy got the NUMBER 1 ALBUM!!! Aaahhhhhh hah! DONT BE DUMB!!!” the songstress wrote.
It looks like there may be more where that came from, too. During a recent appearance on The Joe Budden Podcast, Rocky teased a deluxe version of the album chock-full of exciting features. He was even asked whether or not he’d be bringing “out of retirement” for the project, though he didn’t exactly provide viewers with a straight answer.
“She be encouraging me bro,” he said with a laugh. “Her style is so crazy, because you wouldn’t expect her to fuck with the people she f*cks with. She f*cks with Alchemist and Knxwledge.” At the time of writing, a release date for Don’t Be Dumb has not yet been announced.