News : Lil' Dicky Hits Billboard Charts With "Professional Rapper"
News : Lil' Dicky Hits Billboard Charts With "Professional Rapper"
Lil Dicky’s debut full-length album, Professional Rapper, opens atop Rap Albums (dated Aug. 22) with 22,000 copies sold in the week ending Aug. 6, according to Nielsen Music. The comedic rapper (real name: David Burd) also enters at No. 1 on Comedy Albums and No. 7 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Lil Dicky first found viral success on YouTube in 2013 after releasing a video for the track “ExBoyfriend,” which has amassed nearly 11 million global views through Aug. 11. The album and its supporting music videos was funded in part by a Kickstarter campaign, which raised $110,000. The set features big-named guests like Snoop Dogg, T-Pain and Rich Homie Quan.
The set’s title song, which features Snoop Dogg, crowns the Comedy Digital Tracks chart, arriving with 5,000 downloads. An animated video clip for the song has logged 1.7 million worldwide YouTube views since its July 31 release.
In total, 10 cuts from the album debut on Comedy Digital Tracks, including one of his most popular viral hits, “Lemme Freak” (2,000 downloads). The song has over 6 million views on YouTube and was Lil Dicky’s first charting song, when it debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard + Twitter Emerging Artists chart (dated Oct. 11, 2014).
The release of Professional Rapper causes Lil Dicky to debut at No. 47 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart.
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Lil Dicky’s debut full-length album, Professional Rapper, opens atop Rap Albums (dated Aug. 22) with 22,000 copies sold in the week ending Aug. 6, according to Nielsen Music. The comedic rapper (real name: David Burd) also enters at No. 1 on Comedy Albums and No. 7 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Lil Dicky first found viral success on YouTube in 2013 after releasing a video for the track “ExBoyfriend,” which has amassed nearly 11 million global views through Aug. 11. The album and its supporting music videos was funded in part by a Kickstarter campaign, which raised $110,000. The set features big-named guests like Snoop Dogg, T-Pain and Rich Homie Quan.
The set’s title song, which features Snoop Dogg, crowns the Comedy Digital Tracks chart, arriving with 5,000 downloads. An animated video clip for the song has logged 1.7 million worldwide YouTube views since its July 31 release.
In total, 10 cuts from the album debut on Comedy Digital Tracks, including one of his most popular viral hits, “Lemme Freak” (2,000 downloads). The song has over 6 million views on YouTube and was Lil Dicky’s first charting song, when it debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard + Twitter Emerging Artists chart (dated Oct. 11, 2014).
The release of Professional Rapper causes Lil Dicky to debut at No. 47 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart.
Contact Lil' Dicky
Website | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Instagram | Soundcloud
Contact Billboard Music
Website | Twitter | Facebook | Google+ | Tumblr | Instagram | YouTube | Spotify
Sources : Lil' Dicky Photo | Lil' Dicky Article
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