LOGIC SCORES FIFTH #1 RAP ALBUM WITH NO PRESSURE
O PRESSURE – the No I.D.-produced, farewell album from Grammy®-nominated, multi-platinum artist Logic – tops Billboard’s Rap Album charts this week, and enters the Billboard 200 at #2, with 221,000 equivalent album units. Of that sum, 172,000 are in album sales, supported by a massive array of D2C-driven merchandise/album bundles at www.Logicmerch.com.
What an incredible journey. Thank you all so much for being part of it. I made this album from my heart as a farewell and a thank you. pic.twitter.com/hBbAZndJpK
— BobbyBullet (@Logic301) July 24, 2020
NO PRESSURE — which Logic describes as his “farewell” effort as his “retirement” is announced — racks up his biggest week for an album since Everybody opened at #1 with 248,000 units on the chart dated May 27, 2017.
From NO PRESSURE, music videos premiered last week for “DadBod” and “Aquarius III.”
NO PRESSURE is Logic’s seventh Top 10 effort, stretching back to his debut album chart entry, Under Pressure, which debuted and peaked at #4 on the chart dated Nov. 8, 2014. In between, Logic released four albums: The Incredible True Story (#1 chart debut in 2015); Everybody (#1 chart debut in 2017; YSIV (aka Young Sinatra 4, #1 chart debut in 2018); and Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind (#1 chart debut in 2019). Logic’s Bobby Tarantino II mixtape entered at #1 in 2018.
After six years of major career accomplishments, including four #1 albums, NO PRESSURE brought Logic back in the studio with renowned producer No I.D., who actually signed Logic to Def Jam and produced his groundbreaking RIAA gold debut album of 2014, Under Pressure. Working again with No I.D., and 6IX, NO PRESSURE is the full circle career moment for Logic, making the music he loves with ‘no pressure.’
In March 2019, “Supermarket,” the dazzling debut novel by Bobby Hall (aka Logic), entered the New York Times Paperback Fiction list at #1, making him the first-ever hip-hop MC to author a New York Times fiction bestseller. Logic’s accompanying Supermarket “