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    A Decade of Drill Rap

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    Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | StitcherIn the early 2010s, a novel sound emerged from Chicago’s rap scene. Drill music was immediate and brash, relentlessly local and yet easily accessible. It became a template that would be borrowed from widely.It has iterated several times in the years since. Lil Durk, one of the Chicago scene’s earliest stars, is having a career peak now with the recent release of his album “7220,” his first to top the Billboard album chart. New York drill, which found an sonic identity with the work of Pop Smoke, who was killed in 2020, is expanding as well, as heard in the music of Fivio Foreign, who on his debut album “B.I.B.L.E.” is seeking to translate the sound for a broader audience.On this week’s Popcast, a conversation about drill’s origins, its many global permutations, its intermittent embrace by the hip-hop mainstream and the directions it may still head in.Guests:Joe Coscarelli, New York Times pop music reporterDavid Drake, longtime chronicler of Chicago hip-hopConnect With Popcast. Become a part of the Popcast community: Join the show’s Facebook group and Discord channel. We want to hear from you! Tune in, and tell us what you think at popcast@nytimes.com. Follow our host, Jon Caramanica, on Twitter: @joncaramanica. More

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      Lil Durk and Morgan Wallen Return to the Top of the Album Chart

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      The country star’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” has had tremendous staying power, landing at No. 2 in its 66th week out.The Chicago rap mainstay Lil Durk returns to No. 1 on the Billboard album chart, with his latest LP, “7220,” beating out new releases by Jack White and Fivio Foreign after its debut a month ago.But the greater accomplishment this week may be the continued staying power of Morgan Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album,” which is No. 2 in its 66th week out.Released in January 2021, “Dangerous” held the No. 1 spot for its first 10 weeks, and has remained in the Top 10 every week but one, last December, when it was pushed out by holiday albums. Incredibly, 49 of its 66 weeks have been in the Top 5; quite a few of those were spent while Wallen was in a form of industry purgatory — removed from many radio playlists, ignored by the Grammy Awards — after he was caught on video using a racial slur. He apologized (more than once), though Wallen’s fans never gave up on him, and he has largely returned to the mainstream with a major tour.For its latest week, “Dangerous” had the equivalent of 46,500 sales in the United States, according to Luminate, the tracking service behind the Billboard charts. That means Wallen came within about 500 copies of retaking No. 1: Lil Durk’s “7220” was credited with 47,000. (Luminate’s publicly reported numbers are rounded.) Wallen may even have contributed to holding himself at second place: he is featured on “Broadway Girls,” the most popular cut on “7220.”In a slow sales week, however, neither total is impressive. The 47,000 equivalent sales figure for “7220” — which incorporates its 69 million streams and about 1,000 copies sold as a complete package — is the lowest for a No. 1 album in more than three years, since “Hoodie SZN” by the rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie notched its third time at the top in February 2019 with similar numbers.Also this week, White’s “Fear of the Dawn” opens at No. 4 with 42,000 equivalents, including 24,000 copies sold on vinyl.The “Encanto” soundtrack is No. 3 and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Sour” is No. 5. Two hip-hop albums open in the lower half of the Top 10: 42 Dugg and EST Gee’s “Last Ones Left” is No. 7, and Fivio Foreign’s debut studio album, “B.I.B.L.E.,” starts at No. 9. More

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      Red Hot Chili Peppers Top Chart With ‘Unlimited Love’

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      The band reunites with its former guitarist, John Frusciante, and the producer Rick Rubin for its latest album.Everything aligned for Red Hot Chili Peppers’ latest album, “Unlimited Love,” which has opened at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, the band’s second time at the top.The Chili Peppers reunited with its former guitarist, John Frusciante, for the album. He has been in and out of the band since 1988 — with his most recent departure coming after the tour for “Stadium Arcadium” (2006), the group’s last album to go to No. 1. “Unlimited Love” also put the band back in the studio with Rick Rubin, who has produced most of the Chili Peppers’ albums since 1991, but not its most recent, “The Getaway” (2016, with Danger Mouse).And if there were an award for most unusual promotional appearances, it might go to a recent one by Flea, the band’s inimitable bassist, who offered a lunging, psych-funk solo instrumental version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the Lakers-Nuggets game on April 3. (Did it result in sales or streams of “Unlimited Love”? Who knows, but it’s a must-see for any Chili Peppers fan.)In its first week out, “Unlimited Love” had the equivalent of 97,500 sales in the United States, according to the tracking service Luminate, formerly known as MRC Data. That total includes 19 million streams — modest for a No. 1 album these days — as well as 82,500 copies sold as a complete package, among them a hefty 38,500 copies on vinyl. (On next week’s chart, Jack White’s “Fear of the Dawn” is also expected to arrive with a big vinyl number.)Also this week, “7220,” by the Chicago rapper Lil Durk, is No. 2. The “Encanto” soundtrack is No. 3, Morgan Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” holds at No. 4 in its 65th week on the chart — every week but one of that time in the Top 10 — and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Sour” is No. 5. More

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      Lil Durk and Ghost Shake Up the Billboard Chart

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      After an eight-week run at the top for the “Encanto” soundtrack, new albums from the rapper and the Swedish metal band take over.After eight straight weeks leading the Billboard album chart — and nine at the top overall — the “Encanto” soundtrack has finally been bumped from No. 1 by new releases from the Chicago-born rapper Lil Durk and the costumed Swedish metal band Ghost.Lil Durk, a mainstay of the Chicago rap scene who has relocated to the Atlanta area, and lately reached a new audience through a crossover with the country star Morgan Wallen, tops the chart with his album “7220.” It had the equivalent of 120,500 sales in the United States in its opening week, including nearly 165 million streams. Those numbers are tallied by Luminate, the new name for MRC Data, the tracking service that is owned by Billboard’s parent company.It is Lil Durk’s second time at No. 1, after “The Voice of the Heroes,” a joint album with Lil Baby, last June.At No. 2 is “Impera” by Ghost, whose members perform in elaborate satanic regalia. The lead singer, Tobias Forge, appears in black robes and skeletal makeup as a demonic antipope called Papa Emeritus IV — his influences include black metal and Andrew Lloyd Webber — backed up by a crew of Nameless Ghouls. (Forge’s identity became widely known only after four former Nameless Ghouls sued him for back pay in 2017; the case was later dismissed.) “Impera,” Ghost’s fifth studio album, had the equivalent of 70,000 sales, mostly from copies sold as complete albums, in formats like CDs and vinyl LPs.“Encanto” falls to No. 3, and Wallen’s “Dangerous” is No. 4. The British singer Rex Orange County opens at No. 5 with “Who Cares?” More

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      ‘Encanto’ Tops Chart for Ninth Week. Will It Be the Last?

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      The soundtrack, which includes TikTok-fueled hits like “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” may soon be ousted by “7220,” a new release by the Chicago rapper Lil Durk.This week, Disney’s “Encanto” soundtrack notches its ninth, and possibly last, time on the top of the Billboard chart.The “Encanto” album, with songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, like “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” and “Surface Pressure,” that were amplified through TikTok into streaming blockbusters, holds the No. 1 spot with the equivalent of 72,500 sales in the United States, including 93 million streams, according to the tracking service MRC Data.That is the longest run on the Billboard 200 chart since Morgan Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album,” which ruled for 10 weeks last year. But the numbers for “Encanto” have been slipping for weeks, and it may have finally met a challenger that could oust it: “7220,” by the Chicago rapper Lil Durk, which was released on Friday and is expected to make a splash on the next chart.Also this week, “What It Means to Be King,” a posthumous album by King Von, who died in late 2020 at age 26, opened at No. 2 with the equivalent of 59,000 sales, including 79 million streams.Wallen’s “Dangerous” holds at No. 3 in its 61st week on the chart; of those, 60 have been spent in the Top 10. Kodak Black’s “Back for Everything” is No. 4 and Gunna’s “DS4Ever” is No. 5. More