For the fourth time in four tries this decade, Lil Baby has the No. 1 album in the country. The rap star's latest, WHAM (which stands for Who Hard as Me), bows atop the Billboard 200 this week (dated Jan.

Lil Baby is back on top. The Atlanta rapper’s latest release WHAM earned a first place debut on the Billboard 200 chart, making it the first No. 1 album of 2025. This marks the 30-year-old’s fourth No. 1 album, following It’s Only Me in 2022, The Voice of the Heroes with Lil Durk in 2021, and My Turn in 2020.

Lil Baby's 'Wham' is the first new No. 1 album of the year as Bad Bunny trails closely behind with 'Debí Tirar Más Fotos' at No. 2.

Lil Baby takes over the No. 1 spot of the Billboard 200 with ‘WHAM' and Bad Bunny closely follows at No. 2 with ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos,’ and also announces a residency. Keep watching for more! Tetris Kelly: Lil Baby debuts at No.

After a tumble from the mountaintop with his last album, Baby sets his eyes on a return to the top with his fourth album ’WHAM.’

With features from the likes of Young Thug, who offers up his first verse since being released from jail late last year, to Travis Scott and 21 Savage, who many think might’ve used his guest verse to throw some subliminal at Kendrick Lamar, WHAM is officially the year’s first major rap release, setting the tone for the months ahead.

Fast-forward to December 20, 2024, when Lil Baby took to Instagram to reveal WHAM’s official cover art 15-song tracklist. The post showed more than half a dozen featured artists, like Young Thug, GloRilla,