Lil Durk’s new album is poised to make a big splash on the charts, and perhaps even mark a new sales milestone for the Chicago rap star.
HITS Daily Double reports that Almost Healed, which dropped on Friday (May 26), is projected to move between 125,000 and 150,000 album-equivalent units in its first week.
With those figures, the project is expected to debut at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart and secure the week’s biggest debut.
Almost Healed has already made its presence felt on streaming services, occupying seven of the top 10 spots on Apple Music’s U.S. chart and helping Durk earn his biggest streaming day on Spotify with over 41.5 million streams — more than double his previous best.
Additionally, Durkio’s “All My Life” collaboration with J. Cole recently debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking his joint highest-charting single next to 2020’s “Laugh Now Cry Later” with Drake, which also peaked at No. 2.
.@lildurk‘s ‘Almost Healed’ challenging for #2 debut on the US albums chart with 125-150K units first week (via @HITSDD). pic.twitter.com/iRsf3XElhk
— chart data (@chartdata) May 27, 2023
For comparison, Lil Durk’s last album, 7220, earned 120,500 album-equivalent units in its first week in 2022 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. 2021’s The Voice of the Heroes — Durk’s joint album with Lil Baby — garnered 150,000 first-week units and also topped the Billboard 200.
Aside from promising sales figures, the OTF frontman’s new album features plenty of smoke for his various opps, and fans had plenty to say on social media regarding his threatening bars.
On the 21 Savage-assisted “War Bout It,” many connected Durk’s chorus to him taking aim at Quando Rondo and mocking his alleged lack of reaction to a friend’s death.
“Since he died, just come outside and go to war about him/ He say, ‘No,’ I’m thinkin’ he let a ho got him/ He say, ‘No,’ I say, ‘Let’s go to war about it’/ Where he go? You better know the morgue got him,” he raps on the menacing track.
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Rondo is an affiliate of NBA YoungBoy — another Durk rival — and close friend of Lul Tim, who is the alleged gunman in the murder of King Von outside an Atlanta hookah lounge in November 2020.
Lil Durk sat down with Akademiks earlier this week for an all-encompassing interview where he reflected on Von’s death.
“That shit fucked everybody up,” he said. “A real gangster got taken out by a nerd type.”
