Lil Baby Teases “Dominique” Release Date As “WHAM” Dominates The Charts
Despite the inconsistent reviews from fans and critics on Lil Baby‘s new album WHAM, it still put up big numbers. The official first week sales revealed that the Georgia hitmaker sold 144,000 equivalent units. Impressively, he outpaced previous projections of 115-125,000 and 130,000. Moreover, he was able to beat out Bad Bunny for the top spot on the Billboard Hot 200, with the Puerto Rico native moving 118,000. With this being official, Lil Baby now has four consecutive albums to go number one. On top of this, WHAM (Who Hard As Me) is leading the way on the R&B and Hip-Hop Album and Rap Album lists.
With all of these accolades, it’s clear that his most loyal fans are here for the 2025 version of their guy. He’s clearly taking notice of that and he’s wasting no time on capitalizing on it. After learning the performance of his latest effort, Lil Baby took to Instagram to tease his next endeavor. If you haven’t heard, the Quality Control artist has been talking about dropping two LPs this year.
Lil Baby Is Giving His Die-Hard Fans What They Want
The title of this prospect is Dominique, which is his legal first name. Given that, he’s said previously that this was going to be a more personal album. “Dominique is more the serious me, more personal. That’s a part of the new journey I’m on. I hate the word vulnerable, but I’m gonna be more open to my fans and my audience.” However, it wasn’t always his mission to drop two. He was telling people that WHAM was going to be a double album.
But he decided to change his mind, even though he claimed he included Dominique songs on this tape because “I know my fanbase really want to hear them certain songs.” He tossed around the idea of dropping the “vulnerable” follow-up in February, but now he’s confirming that we are less than a month away from it. “See yall Again in a couple weeks “Dominique “ The Album 2-?-25” he wrote on social media. Fans are currently expressing lots of excitement online despite this short turnaround and it will be interesting to see what sort of rollout we will get if any.
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He’s taken the previous experience and used it to become a jack of all trades at HotNewHipHop. Zach has thoroughly enjoyed tackling some of the trending topics in sports, with a larger focus on hip-hop and pop culture. Some of those include Bronny James’s draft stock, a multitude of angles swirling around the Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef, as well as Diddy’s arrest and lawsuits. Separate from the headlines that everyone wants to hear about, he was fortunate enough to help spread Zaytoven’s current thoughts at the time around mid-December in 2023.
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