After an unquestionably fruitful performance across Billboard’s charts, Peso Pluma scores his first top 10 on an album chart as Génesis, his third studio set, debuts at No. 10 on the Regional Mexican Albums ranking (dated July 1). The debut comes after less than one day of activity, following its off-cycle release late on Thursday, June 22 — the final day of the chart’s tracking week.
The set is bound to move up the tally on the July 8-dated list, once it has its first full chart tracking week captured. (Albums are typically released on a Friday.)
Génesis was released via Double P, and according to Luminate, the set starts with a little over 3,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending June 22. Streaming accounts for the majority of the 14-track album’s first-week results, which equates to 4.3 million official on-demand streams of the album’s songs.
Génesis follows Sembrando (EP), Pluma’s first appearance on an albums chart, which took him to No. 13 on Regional Mexican Albums (May 13-dated tally) and No. 48 on Top Latin Albums (May 6). Génesis concurrently debuts at No. 35 on Top Latin Albums, a ranking that will likely change next week after the album’s first official tracking week.
Pluma’s first top 10 album arrives following a strong performance across the Billboard charts, placing 20 songs throughout in just over a year, an impressive achievement for a regional Mexican artist.
Further, the 24-year-old changed the regional Mexican music conversation as he took over Hot Latin Songs with 16 simultaneous songs on the May 20-dated list, the most ever for a regional Mexican artist in the chart’s 37-year-old history. Plus, he logged a historic top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 thanks to Eslabon Armado’s “Ella Baila Sola,” as the collab became the first regional Mexican top 10 in the chart’s 64-year history.
“Ella” has also paid additional dividends for both Eslabon and Pluma, becoming the first regional Mexican tune to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 chart (April 29). The song has since, remained atop the tally for six weeks, and counting.
Génesis was preceded by three songs on the multi-metric Hot Latin Songs list: “Rosa Pastel,” with Jasiel Nuñez, peaked at No. 24 (May 6), “77,” with Eladio Carrión, reached No. 34 (May 20), while “Bye” holds at its No. 7 high for a third week.
Peso Pluma’s first top 10 album foray on the Billboard charts comes on the heels of his first U.S. tour, Double P Summer tour, which kicked-off July 20 in Inglewood, Calif., and will wrap on Oct. 20 in Anaheim, Calif.
