Metro Boomin’s darkish synths and bouncy 808s have laid the inspiration for Atlanta to stay a dominant pressure in rap’s mainstream all through the final decade. The tremendous producer reunited with Future on Friday (April 12) to ship their second joint mission of the yr with the double-disc We Nonetheless Don’t Belief You.
Billboard seems again at Younger Metro’s rise from rising producer to scorching industrial titan. Metro Boomin fittingly made his Billboard Scorching 100 debut because of producing Future’s “Trustworthy,” which reached No. 55 in 2013.
The St. Louis native climbed the Scorching 100’s apex in 2017 for his manufacturing on Migos and Lil Uzi Vert’s slippery “Dangerous & Boujee” anthem that took the hip-hop world by storm.
He would strike chart gold once more when hitting No. 1 with The Weeknd’s “Heartless” in 2019, and most just lately with an help from Kendrick Lamar’s atomic bomb on the rap recreation as heard on We Don’t Belief You‘s “Like That” in March, which gave Metro his first No. 1 hit as a billed artist.
Metro Boomin has produced 16 high 10 hits on the Scorching 100 to this point, and that quantity may rise as soon as tallies are available in from We Nonetheless Don’t Belief You.
The 30-year-old isn’t any stranger to collaborating with artists, which has helped him put up seven high 10s on the Billboard 200, together with Double or Nothing with Huge Sean, Savage Mode II alongside 21 Savage and his Heroes & Villains album. The latter soared to No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and helmed the highest spot for 18 weeks on the High Rap Albums chart, the third most of any within the chart’s historical past.
Metro Boomin and Future’s We Don’t Belief You album debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 251,000 whole album-equivalent items within the week ending March 28, per Luminate. Seventeen of the album’s songs hit the Scorching 100 of their first week of eligibility, and the Atlanta duo occupied half of the chart’s high 10.
The ebook isn’t anyplace near being written for Younger Metro, who will possible proceed his ascension in 2024 with one other album promised for later this yr.
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