Future Earns Sixth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'WIZRD'

Future collects his sixth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD debuts atop the tally with 126,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Jan. 24, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 15,000 were in album sales. The album was released on Jan. 18 via Freebandz/Epic Records.  

It’s his sixth No. 1 album in just three-and-a-half years, the quickest accumulation of six leaders since Elton John in the '70s. 

Future has tallied his six No. 1 albums in a remarkably quick amount of time -- just three years, five months and three weeks. His first leader was DS2 on Aug. 8, 2015. He then scored No. 1s with What a Time to Be Alive (with Drake; Oct. 10, 2015), Evol (Feb. 27, 2016), a self-titled album (March 11, 2017), HNDRXX (March 18, 2017) and now WIZRD.

The last artist to earn six No. 1s in such a short span was Elton John. All seven of the Rocket Man’s No. 1s came in a space of just three years, three months and three weeks in the early 1970s. (His first six No. 1s, in fact, were separated by only two years, 10 months and 24 days.) John’s first No. 1 was Honky Chateau on July 15, 1972, and his seventh, and so far last No. 1, was Rock of the Westies on Nov. 8, 1975.  

Back on the new Billboard 200, A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s Hoodie SZN falls from No. 1 to No. 3 in its fifth week on the tally (49,000 units; down 13 percent) after two weeks on top. The Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack dips 2-4 (39,000 units; down 25 percent), and 21 Savage’s I Am > I Was declines 3-5 (37,000 units; down 19 percent).