Atlanta Rapper Future Sets Billboard Record For No. 1 Albums

Atlanta rapper Future, performing in concert at Philips Arena in 2013, has made Billboard history with back-to-back No. 1 albums.

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The next week, it was knocked from the number one spot . . . by ANOTHER album by Future. The follow-up album, titled “HNDRXX.” This is the first time this kind of thing has happened. An article on Billboard.com spelled it out this way:

Future is the first act in the nearly 61-year history of the chart to achieve back-to-back No. 1 debuts in successive weeks. The rapper is also the first artist to succeed himself at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 at all (counting not only debuts) since 1968. He’s additionally the first soloist ever to claim the honor.