YoungBoy Never Broke Again Has Now Charted More Albums on the Billboard 200 Than Any Rapper Ever

YoungBoy Never Broke Again makes history on the Billboard 200 this week (on the chart dated Aug. 9), as he debuts his 34th album with his latest project, MASA, and surpasses E-40 for the most career entries on the chart among rappers.

Released July 25 via Never Broke Again/Motown/ICLG, MASA debuted at No. 6 with 49,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States July 25-31, according to Luminate. It also marks his 16th top 10 album, tying him with Jay-Z and Nas for the third-most after Future (18) and Drake (17).

Here’s a look at the rappers with the most Billboard 200 entries:

At just 25 years old, YoungBoy has already built a staggering Billboard résumé. His relentless output and loyal fanbase have propelled him to milestones most artists take decades to achieve — if they do at all. He first landed on the Billboard 200 in 2017 with his AI YoungBoy mixtape, and thus, charted 34 projects in just eight years since.

2018 and 2022 were especially busy years, as he landed eight projects on the Billboard 200 in each year. MASA is already his second entry of 2025, following More Leaks in March; he released that compilation while incarcerated in Baton Rouge, La., on a federal gun charge.

Unlike many artists, who tease singles for months and space out releases by years, YoungBoy takes a different approach. He circumvents the traditional album rollout and instead floods the market with new projects at a remarkable pace. Of his 34 entries, only eight are technically studio albums (including MASA), while 20 are mixtapes, three compiled various cuts and three are EPs. (See the full list below.)

Since 2010, the only artist overall to chart more albums on the Billboard 200 is the Grateful Dead (88), a total heavily fueled by the ongoing Dave’s Picks series, which repackages the band’s old live shows. YoungBoy ran up his total based on new material.

Dating even further back to 2000, the only proper artists (excluding franchises) to chart more projects than YoungBoy this century — Grateful Dead (an even 100), Bill & Gloria Gaither (47), Elvis Presley (42), Bob Dylan (40), Willie Nelson (39), Pearl Jam (38), Neil Young (37) and Prince (35) — are all generational talents who have decades’ worth of catalog releases, reissues and compilations. YoungBoy is a full generation or two removed from all those names.

Despite breaking records and reaching new career milestones, the high-volume approach may have its downsides. In a 2023 cover story for Billboard, YoungBoy called his non-stop release output “a disease,” and described it as a compulsion. “Literally, I cannot help myself. I tell myself sometimes, ‘I’m not going to drop until months from now,’ but it’s addictive. I wish I knew when I was younger how unhealthy this was for me. Whatever type of energy I had inside me, I would’ve pushed it toward something else.”

His strategy isn’t entirely unprecedented. Drake has long followed a similar flood-the-market philosophy, and it’s paid off for him. He holds many Billboard Hot 100 records, including most overall entries (360), helped by frequent releases and the fact that streaming weighs heavily in the Hot 100’s methodology. But while Drake’s reign stretches back to 2009, YoungBoy didn’t appear on the Hot 100 until 2017. And yet, by 2023, he became just the 13th artist ever to log 100 or more Hot 100 entries. He was also the youngest to do so, at age 23.

For comparison, E-40 has amassed his 33 Billboard 200 chart entries over nearly 30 years (1993-2022). YoungBoy did it in just eight.

Whether or not the pace is sustainable, the results speak for themselves. YoungBoy has already etched his name in chart history.

Every YoungBoy Never Broke Again Album to Chart on the Billboard 200 (In Order)

Title (Peak Position; Peak Year)