Junior H’s $ad Boyz 4 Life debuts at No. 1 on the Regional Mexican Albums chart (dated Feb. 27), securing the urban corridos act his second leader and fourth straight top five.
$ad Boyz 4 Life starts with 6,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Feb. 18, according to MRC Data, with the bulk of the album’s units deriving from streaming activity.
The Regional Mexican Albums chart ranks the most popular regional Mexican albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).
$ad Boyz 4 Life, released Feb. 12 via JHRH/Warner Latina, registered 6,000 SEA in its first tracking week, which equates to 8.3 million on-demand streams generated by the songs on the album.
The 16-track set earns the 18-year-old his second Regional Mexican Albums No. 1 and fourth top five, all of which launched in less than a year, as Atrapado En Un Sueño, his sophomore debut and first entry on any Billboard album chart, debuted and peaked at No. 2 in April 2020 with 4,000 equivalent album units.
$ad Boyz nets the Guanajato singer-songwriter’s best start in terms of overall units, let’s take a look:
Title, Equivalent Album Units, (Debut Week)
Atrapado En Un Sueño, 4,000, April 11, 2020
Cruisin’ With Junior H, 2,000, Sept. 12, 2020
Musica <3, 1,000, Sept. 12, 2020
$ad Boyz 4 Life, 6,000, Feb. 27, 2021
With $ad Boyz’s arrival at No. 1, Junior H posts three albums on the Regional Mexican Albums’ top 10, as Atrapado En Un Sueño ranks at No. 6 and Cruisin’ With Junior H at No. 9 on the current chart.
Elsewhere, Sad Boyz bows at No. 5 on the Top Latin Albums list and at No. 192 on all-genre Billboard 200, his first entry there.
