Metro Boomin scores his third No. 1 album with the release of “Heroes & Villains,” a 15-song, star-studded project featuring narration from Morgan Freeman and including verses from the late Takeoff, along with John Legend, 21 Savage, A$AP Rocky, Future, Gunna, Travis Scott, Don Toliver, the Weeknd, Chris Brown and Young Thug.
“Heroes & Villains” debuts atop the Billboard 200 chart, knocking Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” to No. 2 in the process, with the equivalent of 185,000 albums sold in the U.S., according to the tracking service Luminate.
It’s not just the top of the album chart that finds Swift dislodged this week; she was also felled from her long hold on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart with “Anti-Hero.” In that case, though, it wasn’t Metro Boomin displacing her, although he did land some new songs high up. Rather, it was Mariah Carey, making her now-annual December visit to the No. 1 spot with the perennial “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”
On the album chart, Metro previously debuted at the summit with 2020’s “Savage Mode II” (a joint album with 21 Savage) and 2018’s “Not All Heroes Wear Capes.” This is his fifth time scoring a coveted spot on the top 10 of the list, following “Double or Nothing” (with Big Sean) and “Without Warning” (with 21 Savage, Offset), both 2017 releases.
Metro called the achievement “bittersweet” in an Instagram post dedicated to the occasion, referring to the tragic murder of his mother back in June. “You were always the proudest of all your children and have always been my #1 supporter with everything in life,” he wrote.
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