Metro Boomin’s ‘Heroes & Villains’ is the highest first-week streaming & selling producer album of all time

Young Metro earns massive success with his latest album

Metro Boomin released his latest album, Heroes & Villains, last week to a successful opening week. The album emerges atop Billboard 200 after selling 182K album-equivalent units in the first week. According to HipHop All Day, the project earns the highest first-week sales and streams by a producer.

“Heroes & Villains” records the highest first week streams and the highest first week sales of any producer album in history 🔥💿 pic.twitter.com/F3zdXEMcQj

— Hip Hop All Day (@HipHopAllDayy) December 9, 2022

On Spotify, the 15-track album was streamed 227M times, making it the 11th all-time biggest opening week for a hip-hop album on the platform. The album dropped under Boominati Worldwide & Republic with features from The Weeknd, 21 Savage, Future, and Travis Scott among others.

Biggest hip hop Spotify opening weeks of all time 💿

559m – Scorpion
497m – CLB
382m – Her Loss
366m – Donda
327m – Mr Morale
302m – Legends Never Die
290m – More Life
264m – DAMN
257m – ASTROWORLD
237m – Kamikaze
227m – Heroes & Villains (new)

Metro with a MASSIVE statement.

— Hip Hop All Day (@HipHopAllDayy) December 9, 2022