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Run The Jewels Earn Highest-Charting Album With 'RTJ4'

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Run The Jewels Earn Highest-Charting Album With ‘RTJ4’

By: Yohance Kyles (@HUEYmixwitRILEY)Category: News

Killer Mike and El-P’s free project still collected sales units.

(AllHipHop News) There is always a soundtrack for the times. Hip Hop duo Run The Jewels may have presented one for the global protests ignited by the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin.

Run The Jewels released the RTJ4 album on June 3 for free. With just two days of tracking, RTJ4 opened at on the Billboard 200 chart with 38,000 equivalent album units.

That 38K total was enough for El-P and Killer Mike to earn their highest-charting project as Run The Jewels. Previously, Run the Jewels 2 peaked at #50 in 2014 and Run the Jewels 3 peaked at #13 in 2017.

Other Hip Hop albums to make the Top 10 this week include Lil Baby’s My Turn (#3), Gunna’s Wunna (#4), Future’s High Off Life (#5), Drake’s Dark Lane Demo Tapes (#6), Polo G’s The Goat (#7), and DaBaby’s Blame It on Baby (#9).