Key Takeaways:

• STAR LINE, Chance the Rapper’s first full-length launch since 2019, debuted at No. 22 on the Billboard 200.
• The album options collaborations with Lil Wayne, Jazmine Sullivan, and Vic Mensa, amongst others.
• Chance will assist the mission along with his “And We Back Tour,” kicking off in September.

Chance the Rapper has formally returned to the charts with STAR LINE, his long-awaited second studio LP. Released independently on Aug. 15, the mission debuted at No. 22 on the Billboard 200.

The whole combines streaming exercise, track-equivalent albums (TEA), and pure gross sales. Hits Daily Double reported that STAR LINE moved roughly 22,310 models total, together with about 6,550 in conventional purchases. That determine aligned with Billboard’s music/chart-beat/conan-gray-first-number-one-top-album-sales-chart-wishbone-1236050722/”>Top Album Sales chart, the place the mission entered at No. 7 with “nearly 7,000” bought — giving Chance his third Top 10 on that tally.

While Chance didn’t crack the Billboard 200’s Top 20, the efficiency displays a stable displaying in a aggressive launch window. Fellow hip hop and R&B names like Gunna and SZA stay chart fixtures, however Chance managed to edge into the Top 25 with out main label backing.

STAR LINE arrived six years after Chance’s debut studio album, The Big Day. The new set contains a stacked visitor record: Lil Wayne, Jazmine Sullivan, Jay Electronica, Smino, BabyChiefDoIt, Joey BADA$$, Young Thug, and longtime Chicago collaborator Vic Mensa. Sonically and thematically, it drew inspiration from Marcus Garvey’s Black Star Line motion, in addition to Chance’s travels to numerous nations and artwork gala’s worldwide. According to music/music-news/chance-the-rapper-talks-star-line-influences-lollapalooza-1235399651/”>Rolling Stone, he described the file as “steeped in travel and personal change,” reflecting life classes gathered over the previous a number of years.

“Going to Ghana, reconnecting with a lot of my family, going through relationships changing, getting divorced — there’s a lot of things that happened between my last project and this day,” he advised the publication.

Fans will quickly get the chance to listen to the songs dwell. Chance kicks off his “And We Back Tour” on Sept. 26 in Houston, with dates working by way of October earlier than a finale in Los Angeles. Take a take a look at the total tour schedule beneath.