A$AP Rocky is again on the prime of the charts because of his newest album Don’t Be Dumb, and no one is prouder than his experience or die Rihanna.
The Harlem rapper’s long-awaited fourth LP, which arrived earlier this month following an eight-year wait, debuted at primary on the Billboard 200 with 123,000 equal models in its first week, in line with Billboard.
Of that determine, the undertaking earned 76,000 streaming equal album models (amounting to 78.02 million on-demand streams) and 47,000 in pure album gross sales.
Don’t Be Dumb is Rocky’s third primary album and first in over a decade following 2015’s At.Lengthy.Final.A$AP. His earlier effort, 2018’s Testing, peaked at quantity 4 on the chart.
Fairly Flacko’s accomplice Rihanna wasted little time in celebrating her man’s chart success, writing on X (previously Twitter): “Simply me right here to let yall know my child daddy acquired the NUMBER 1 ALBUM!!! Aaahhhhhh hah! [zany face emoji] DONT BE DUMB!!!”
Rocky himself commemorated the achievement by merely tweeting: “LFGGG [fire emojis]!!! #DONTBEDUMB.”
Simply me right here to let yall know my child daddy acquired the NUMBER 1 ALBUM!!! Aaahhhhhh hah! 🤪
DONT BE DUMB!!! https://t.co/79nVi1dqfK— Rihanna (@rihanna) January 25, 2026
LFGGG🔥🔥🔥!!! #DONTBEDUMB https://t.co/nto4Dyr6qR
— LORD FLACKO JODYE II (@asvpxrocky) January 25, 2026
Don’t Be Dumb, which was supported by the singles “Helicopter” and “Punk Rocky,” narrowly beat out South Korean boy band ENHYPEN’s THE SIN : VANISH EP which earned 122,000 first-week models — 113,000 of which impressively got here from pure gross sales.
One other new entry on this week’s chart, NBA YoungBoy‘s Slime Cry landed at quantity six with 70,000 opening-week models. The Baton Rouge-bred famous person now has 17 prime 10 albums to his identify, placing him joint-second with Drake amongst all rappers. Solely Future has extra with 18.
A$AP Rocky could also be making one other splash on the charts very quickly with a deluxe version of Don’t Be Dumb seemingly on deck.
The previous A$AP Mob frontman has been teasing an expanded second disc in latest weeks, which might add to the handful of “facet B” songs which have already been launched (“Swat Group,” “Fish N Steak” that includes Tyler, The Creator, “Flackito Jodye” and “I Smoked Away My Mind”).
“There’s disc two with all the options,” he mentioned on a latest episode of The Joe Budden Podcast, noting that the aforementioned tracks are merely a “preview” of what’s to come back.
Rocky was additionally requested whether or not Rihanna — who hasn’t launched an album for 10 years — would make a uncommon look on the deluxe, to which he responded with a coy snort.
ASAP Rocky teases @rihanna popping out of retirement and doing a characteristic for Disc 2 of the album and speaks on her model
“Her model is so loopy trigger you wouldn’t anticipate her to love the individuals she likes. She desires to work with @Alchemist & @knxwledge pic.twitter.com/YPvLY4HBDQ
— Johnny (@johnnyflash__) January 23, 2026
