Kevin gates im him sales

Louisiana rapper, Kevin Gates debuted top 5 on the Billboard charts this week with his sophomore album, I'm Him. The album sold 71,422 copies in its first week to have him at number 4 position on the Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart this week. Congrats to him.

The album is a 17 track album, promoted by two singles- Push It, and Facts. There are guest no appearances on the album, Gates carried the whole album himself.

Sales data is courtesy of Hits daily Double

Somewhere along the way, Kevin Gates got buff. It wasn't a magical Gucci Mane transformation, but the once dad-bodded Louisiana rapper is now fit enough to be the subject of a Men’s Health video, where he outlined an exhaustive regime that includes rigorous dieting and 2 a.m. weight training. That same dedication he brings to working out—or to practicing oral sex on mangos, as he revealed when that Men’s Health segment inevitably took one of those weird, sexual turns that Gates always seems to invite—permeates just about everything he does, including his music.

I'm Him is Gates’ official follow-up to his revelatory 2016 album Islah, although that ignores all the very good EPs and mixtapes he released in the interim. Parsing the distinction between albums and mixtapes is usually a fool’s errand, especially for an artist like Gates who mostly works without guest features, name producers, and other big-budget trappings. But I’m Him differentiates itself from his non-album releases in one key way: The hooks are magnificent, his most boisterous and fine-tuned since Islah.

Lots of rappers sing, of course, but few seem to enjoy it as much as Gates. Even the most naturally tuneful SoundCloud rappers from the last few years sing as if out of solemn obligation. Gates bellows with a zeal rarely heard since Fetty Wap’s 2015 singles run; even when he's singing about pain and regret, he offers the go-for-broke gusto most of us save for a hot shower. “By My Lonely” runs a scant two minutes, but its hook is so monumental the track hits like an epic.

Gates has carried a full-length project by himself before, but that doesn't make it any less remarkable hearing him do it again. Seventeen songs with no guest features should be a recipe for exhaustion, yet there's hardly a trace of fat on I’m Him, and most tracks clock in at about the length of a Ramones song. “Push It” belongs in a Rocky montage, while “What I Like” pits Gates’ voice against a blown-out bass rumble. There are fewer sex songs on the album than usual, too, which is nice. Wonderful as it may be, Gates' voice is not the aphrodisiac he thinks it is.

He includes two bravely sentimental standouts. “Betta For You” is an apology to the daughter he vows to do right by (“Your mother had you waterbirth and I skipped out, I was scared/I was afraid to be a failure, prayed my faith would prevail,”) while on “Fly Again’ he offers a grandiose love letter to his wife. “We the reciprocal of one another, come from the same star/We got the same moles under our nose and we got the same scars,” he raps, his voice dripping with sincerity.

If I’m Him feels just a hair less essential than some of Gates’ previous releases, it’s because there isn’t all that much new to see. Gates folds a bit of DaBaby’s irritable yammer into his flow on “Facts” and on “Pretend” he flirts with a dancehall patois, both of which he more or less pulls off. But innovation has never been integral to a Kevin Gates project. The draw remains, as always, hearing one of rap’s most well-rounded personalities be his unabashed self, whether that means being a hardhead, a hornball, an unguarded romantic, or all of the above.

While J. Cole has been getting all the praise for going platinum with no features this past decade, Kevin Gates has been doing it on the low with little to no fanfare.

On his debut album, Islah, the New Orleans rapper went platinum on his solo tip, with a fraction of Cole’s fanbase. In fact, one all three of his most commercially successful projects, Gate is rolling solo dolo with no features to assist, that’s the mark of a true star.

From his breakout mixtape, Stranger than Fiction, to his latest release, 2022’s Khaza, we take a look at the rankings for Kevin Gates’ first week album sales.

By Any Means – first week album sales

Released: March 17, 2014

Label: Bread Winners’ Association, Atlantic, Dead Game

First week album sales: 17,000

Billboard 200 position: 17

Singles: “Don’t Know”, “Posed To Be In Love”, “Amnesia”

Features: Doe B, Plies, Rico Love, 2 Chainz.

Luca Brasi 2 – first week album sales

Released: December 14, 2014

Label: 26,224

First week album sales: Bread Winners’ Association, Atlantic, Dead Game

Billboard 200 position: 38

Singles: “I Don’t Get Tired”

Features: August Alsina, Boogie Black, Rico Love, K Camp, Rich Homie Quan.

Murder for Hire 2 – first week album sales

Released: May 27, 2016

Label: Bread Winners’ Association, Atlantic

First week album sales: 27,000

Billboard 200 position: 12

Singles: N/A

Features: OG Boobie Black.

Released:

Label: Bread Winners’ Association, Atlantic

First week album sales: 40,000

Billboard 200 position: 8

Singles: “Big Lyfe”, “Bad For Me”, “Intro”

Features: N/A

I’m Him – first week album sales

Released: September 27, 2019

Label: Bread Winners’ Association, Atlantic

First week album sales: 72,000

Billboard 200 position: 4

Singles: “Push It”, “Facts”

Features: N/A

Luca Brasi 3 – first week album sales

Released: September 28, 2018

Label: Bread Winners Association, Atlantic

First week album sales: 78,000

Billboard 200 position: 4

Singles: “Money Long”, “Great Man”, “Me Too”, “Adding Up”

Features: N/A

Islah – first week album sales

Released: January 29, 2016

Label: Bread Winners’ Association, Atlantic, Dead Game

First week album sales: 112,000

Billboard 200 position: 2

Singles: “Kno One”, “Really Really”, “2 Phones”, “Time for That”

Features: N/A

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