21 Savage banks his fifth overall – and consecutive – No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as What Happened to the Streets? starts atop the list dated Dec. 27. The set, on Slaughter Gang/Epic Records, earned 73,000 equivalent album units in the United States for the Dec. 12-18 tracking week, according to Luminate.

What Happened to the Streets? was a semi-surprise from 21 Savage, with its official announcement on Dec. 8, four days before its release. Its track list contains features from major hip-hop stars including familiar collaborators Drake, Lil Baby and Metro Boomin as well as G Herbo, GloRilla and Latto.

Of the first-week total for What Happened to the Streets?, streaming activity contributed 48,000 units, representing 65.8 million official on-demand audio and video streams of the album’s songs. 25,000 units came from traditional album sales, while a negligible amount of track-equivalent album units. (One unit equals the following levels of consumption: one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 1,250 paid/subscription tier or 3,750 ad-supported tier of official on-demand audio and video streams for a song on the album.)

With his new album, 21 Savage achieves his fifth No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, encompassing his last five appearances on the list for a streak-extending stretch. He first ruled with I Am > I Was, a two-week leader in January 2019, returned to the summit via collaborative projects with Metro Boomin (Savage Mode II, a one-week leader in October 2020) and Drake (Her Loss – four weeks on top in November – December 2022), and logged the three-week solo champ American Dream in January-February 2024.

Elsewhere, What Happened to the Streets? arrives as 21 Savage’s sixth No. 1 on the Top Rap Albums chart and at No. 3 on the all-genre Billboard 200.

In addition to the album’s win, 13 of its tracks crash onto the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, led by the Drake teamup “Mr Recoup” at No. 4. Its entrance secures 21 Savage’s 37th top 10 on the ranking, while Drake extends his all-time record to 143 in the top tier.

Here’s a review of the What Happened to the Streets? track placements on this week’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart:

No. 4, “Mr Recoup,” with Drake
No. 11, “HA”
No. 14, “Where You From”
No. 15, “Stepbrothers,” with Young Nudy
No. 16, “Dog $hit,” with GloRilla
No. 22, “Pop It,” with Latto
No. 24, “Code of Honor,” with G Herbo
No. 26, “J.O.W.Y.H (JUMP OUT)”
No. 30, “Cup Full”
No. 31, “I Wish,” with Jawan Harris
No. 34, “Gang Over Everything,” with Metro Boomin
No. 35, “Atlanta Tears,” with Lil Baby
No. 48, “Halftime Interlude”

Pooh Shiesty enjoys an immediate welcome reception on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, as he collects his first No. 1 with the debut of “FDO” atop the list dated Dec. 27. The comeback single is the 25-year-old rapper’s first track since his release from prison in October after serving three years behind bars of a five-year sentence.

For its chart-topping debut, “FDO,” released via 1017 Global/Atlantic Records, registered 23 million official streams, 1,000 digital downloads and 392,000 audience impressions in the United States for the tracking week of Dec. 12-18, according to Luminate. Thanks to those totals in the respective metrics, “FDO” launches at No. 4 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Streaming Songs chart and No. 6 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales list. (Its first-week radio total places it below the threshold for R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, as is the norm for many new releases until airplay promotion campaigns pick up in later weeks.)

With “FDO,” Pooh Shiesty bags his first Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart No. 1 and surpasses his previous career best of No. 6, which he achieved with his first pair of entries. His own “Back in Blood,” featuring Lil Durk, peaked at the position in March 2021, and he equaled the mark the following month with a feature on Spotemgottem’s “Beat Box.” The new champ is Pooh Shiesty’s first appearance on the chart since his guest spot on Lil Baby’s “Shiest Talk,” which reached No. 26 in October 2022.

Elsewhere, “FDO” storms in atop the Hot Rap Songs chart, securing the Memphis, Tenn. rapper’s first leader and outdoing the No. 4 high of “Beat Box.” It also opens at No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100, notably, with 17 Christmas or holiday-themed tracks above it.

“‘FDO,’ I had to come with this particular song because it’s like the message,” Pooh Shiesty told XXL earlier this month. “It fit around the ‘I’m back’ typa vibe. The thought process on it, I really was getting it together as I was in there doing my time. But I couldn’t finish it because I’m getting new experiences and I’m going through new things. So, like I wrapped it up first day in the studio, with everything, the whole coming home experience. I couldn’t rap in the song on how my welcome was when I came home… I did it when I came home and everything just hit me and it came out perfect.”

Activity from “FDO” powers Pooh Shiesty onto the Billboard Artist 100 for the first time since June 2021. He returns at No. 77 on the ranking, which measures artist activity across key metrics of music consumption – album and track sales, radio airplay and streaming – to provide a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of the most popular artists. His career high remains his No. 8 result in February 2021 in the wake of his Shiesty Season album’s release.