Gunna‘s The Final Wun tops this week’s new music poll.
In a ballot printed Friday (Aug. 8) on Billboard, music followers selected the Atlanta rapper’s sixth studio album as their favourite new launch of the previous week.
The Final Wun introduced in almost 57% of the vote, beating out new releases from artists like MGK (Misplaced Americana), Laufey (“Snow White”), Jonas Brothers (Greetings From Your Hometown) and Ethel Cain‘s (Willoughby Tucker, I’ll All the time Love You).
The 25-track album, the follow-up to final yr’s Certainly one of Wun, consists of the singles “Received’t Cease” and “Him All Alongside,” and options collaborations with Offset, Wizkid, Asake, Burna Boy and Nechie.
Given the finality instructed by the venture’s title, followers have speculated that this can be Gunna’s final launch below YSL Data/300 Leisure. His relationship with the label — based by Younger Thug — has develop into more and more difficult within the wake of the high-profile YSL RICO trial.
“It’ll come to me simply by life and simply residing,” Gunna instructed Uproxx in June, describing his inventive course of. “So for this album particularly, it’s no theme. It’s in present time of what’s occurring with me.”
Gunna final topped the Billboard 200 with 2022’s DS4EVER. All of his solo albums have landed within the prime three on the chart and reached No. 1 on the Prime Rap Albums chart.
MGK’s Misplaced Americana secured second place within the ballot with 13% of the vote. The rootsy folks album marks the artist previously referred to as Machine Gun Kelly’s first full-length Americana venture, following a run of hip-hop and pop-punk releases. The “Different” class got here in third, incomes almost 9% of the vote.
Try the total outcomes of this week’s ballot beneath and go to Billboard’s Friday Music Guide for extra must-hear releases.