Latto’s ‘Sugar Honey Iced Tea’ First-Week Sales Predictions Are In
Latto’s first-week gross sales predictions for her new album Sugar Honey Iced Tea are in, and the rapper won’t be thrilled with the outcomes.
Chart Data has reported that the album is about to debut at No. 14 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Latto moved 29K in album-equivalent models together with her new undertaking, which got here in barely above predictions from earlier within the week.
Check out the record beneath.
US albums chart replace (FINAL; through @HITSDD):
#1 @taylorswift13 85K
#2 @ChappellRoan 71K
#3 @MorganWallen 62K
#4 @billieeilish 56K
#5 Zach Bryan (Bar Scene) 48K
#6 @charli_xcx 47K
#7 @NoahKahan 38K
#8 Morgan (Dangerous) 38K
#9 Twisters 34K
#10 Zach Bryan (Zach) 33K
#14 @Latto 29K…— chart knowledge (@chartdata) August 17, 2024
Despite the anticipation surrounding the undertaking’s current launch and its all-star supporting solid — which incorporates Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion and Ciara — business consultants didn’t count on for Sugar Honey Iced Tea to make a very large splash on the Billboard 200 chart.
Though the undertaking appears on observe to land at No. 14 on the chart, it was projected to do barely worse earlier this week.
According to HITS Daily Double, the album was initially projected to earn simply shy of 27,000 equal models, ok for a No. 17 debut.
The information delighted the rabid fanbases of each Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice, with whom Latto has been embroiled in feuds over the past 12 months and a half.
“LMFAOOOOOOO FLOPPED LIKE EVE[R]Y ALBUM SHE HAS EVER DROPPED,” one Nicki fan account mocked on social media, whereas one other stated: “that’s it? HELP.”
A 3rd person wrote in assist of Ice Spice: “20 songs with big features and not outselling ice?”
Ice Spice followers may need counted their chickens a bit too early, although, as Sugar Honey Iced Tea surpassed Ice Spice’s debut album Y2K!, which not too long ago moved 28,000 equal models in its opening week, a determine that was seen by some as underwhelming given the large success of singles like “Princess Diana,” “Barbie World” and “Boy’s a Liar Pt. 2.”
That undertaking, peaked at No. 18 on the Billboard 200, 4 spots beneath the place Latto’s landed.
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Nicki Minaj, alternatively, proved final 12 months that she stays the highest-selling feminine rapper within the sport when Pink Friday 2 debuted at No. 1 with nearly 230,000 first-week models.
Latto and Ice Spice have been going backwards and forwards for some time now, with the Atlanta rapper showing to make use of Sugar Honey Iced Tea to take one other shot at her rival.
On “S/O to Me,” Latto raps: “Bye sis, funny thing about it, you can’t look me in my eye, sis,” which performs on Ice Spice’s first identify, Isis.
The second verse on the music additionally sees her spit: “Shoutout to myself / Who the hardest out? Bitch, it’s Latto by herself / Ice is just water when it melts / Wipe you down, I got plenty towels on the shelf.”
