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BossMan Dlow’s 2024 was filled with back to back hits, and he ended the year with the album, ‘Dlow Curry.’ The rapper shares how he plans to tour ‘Dlow Curry,’ his secret to creating hits, why he felt the need to create “The Biggest Pt. 2” and more!
Kyle Denis:
What’s up y’all it’s Kyle Denis, staff writer at Billboard, and I am here with Big Za himself, BossMan DLow, how are you doing today my guy?
BossMan Dlow”
Chilling bro, chilling, for sure.
How’s that New York weather treating you?
I ain’t going to lie, cold. Cold at first. I’m straight now.
You know, it’s been a very, very productive year for you. Talk to us a little bit about “The Biggest Pt. 2.” How did that song come together? And why did you think “The Biggest” needed a sequel?
I don’t know, bro, I forgot how I even heard that beat. Man, I don’t know, but it came on. I just, you know, I felt the vibe to the beat.
It woke up something in you.
Yeah, it woke me up. So I went in there, because you know I don’t write. I just go in there and just go off the tone, so when I sat down I was like “Got her lookin’ at me like/ ‘Bae, you the biggest’” I just ended up calling it that for real for real That’s how it went.
You’ve had a crazy run of hits this year, “Get In With Me,” “Mr Pot Scraper,” “Talk My Sh*t,” “Shake Dat A**” “2 Slippery,” “SportsCenter.” I could keep going. Did any of those surprise you by how big they became?
All of them to be real.
Yeah?
How big “”Get In With Me” was kind of that was the most shocking one because it was like, I put that song to the side.
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Bad Bunny’s new album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, opens at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Streaming Albums chart (dated Jan. 18), with the largest streaming week for a Latin title in over a year.
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Also in the top 10 of the latest Top Streaming Albums chart, Lil Baby’s WHAM debuts at No. 3, while last week’s leader, SZA’s SOS, falls to No. 2.
Bad Bunny’s album was released on an off-cycle Sunday (Jan. 5), and, thus, it arrives on the chart with only five days of activity (as the chart’s tracking week runs Friday through Thursday every week). The album’s release date was announced on Dec. 25. The new Top Streaming Albums chart captures the tracking frame of Jan. 3-9.
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WHAM’s Friday, Jan. 3 release was announced by Lil Baby in late December.
The 50-position Top Streaming Albums chart ranks the most-streamed albums of the week in the U.S., as compiled by Luminate. Titles are ranked by streaming equivalent album (SEA) units, where each SEA unit equals 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. If an artist has multiple albums containing the same song, SEA units for that song are generally assigned to whichever album sells the most by traditional album sales in a given week. The new Jan. 18, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Jan. 7. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS launches at No. 1 with 113,500 SEA units earned in the week ending Jan. 9 in the U.S., according to Luminate. That sum equates to 152.16 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 17 songs – the largest streaming week for a Latin album in over a year. The last Latin set with a bigger streaming week was Bad Bunny’s previous release, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va A Pasar Mañana, when it launched at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums with 239.56 million on-demand official streams for its songs (Oct. 28, 2023-dated chart).
DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS was preceded by a pair of entries from the album on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart: “EL CLúB” and “PIToRRO DE COCO.”
SZA’s SOS falls from No. 1 to No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums with 110,000 SEA units (down 12%, equaling 146.88 million on-demand official streams of its collected songs – across its standard and its SOS Deluxe: LANA editions). Meanwhile, Lil Baby’s WHAM arrives at No. 3 with 90,000 SEA units (equaling 119.77 million on-demand official streams of the 15 songs on the streaming edition of the album available during its first week).
Rounding out the rest of the top five on Top Streaming Albums, Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping GNX dips 2-4 (down 4%) and Sabrina Carpenter’s former No. 1 Short n’ Sweet moves 3-5 (down 6%).
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