Memphis born-and-bred rapper Pooh Shiesty is burning up the charts with his highly anticipated mixtape debut.
Shiesty Season officially sits as the #4 project on the Billboard 200 while Pooh’s singles “Neighbors” (#51) and “Box of Churches” featuring 21 Savage (#81) both made their debut on this week’s Hot 100. Shiesty Season also debuted atop Billboard’s Top Rap Albums> (#1), Rolling Stone’s Top 200 (#3), Spotify’s Top US Albums (#1) while remaining at #1 on both Apple Music’s All Genres and Hip-Hop/Rap charts.
Upon release, all 17 of the mixtape’s tracks appeared in the Top 50 on Apple Music’s Top Songs All Genres. The triumphant first week arrives as the Lil Durk-assisted “Back In Blood” celebrates its sixth week on the Hot 100 (currently #17) and it’s sixth week on Rolling Stone’s Top 100 (peaked at #1) after peaking at #1 on Apple Music’s All Genre & Hip-Hop/Rap charts (currently #2 on both). Pooh also sits atop Rolling Stone’s Artist 500 (#6) and Breakthrough 25 (#2) along with Billboard’s Artist 100 (#8).
If that wasn’t enough, Billboard recently tapped Pooh as the first artist to launch their newest franchise, Hip-Hop/R&B Rookie of The Month, after being named as one of their “15 Hip-Hop & R&B Artists to Watch in 2021.” Audiomack has spotlighted him as their latest UpNow Artist as “Back In Blood” continues to be the #1 streamed song on the platform (catch his recent live piano medley performance of “Back In Blood” and “Guard Up” as a part of their Fine Tuned series). He was also tapped as one of Complex’s “Rappers to Watch in 2021” and Rap Radar’s “10 Artists to Watch in 2021.”
Pitchfork praised Shiesty Season, going on to say it “punches well above its weight class as his solo debut and cements his position as top dog of the New 1017,” while HipHopDX acknowledged the widespread excitement surrounding the debut project claiming it “feels more like a highly anticipated follow-up rather than his first trip around the block.”.
Pooh continued to celebrate his release week and unleashed the “See Red” visual which has already seen over 2.7 million streams on YouTube.
“‘See Red’ is one of my favorite songs on Shiesty Season,” says Pooh.
“It’s one of those tracks that make you want to get in your car and just drive fast.”
You can find Shiesty Season on various digital streaming platforms including Apple Music and Spotify via 1017 Global Music.
You can follow @PoohShiesty on Instagram.
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