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Notorious B.I.G.'s 'Greatest Hits' Reaches Billboard Milestone

Notorious B.I.G.'s 'Greatest Hits' Reaches Billboard Milestone

Published Thu, February 22, 2024 at 11:52 AM EST

The Notorious B.I.G.'s Greatest Hits reached a milestone earlier this week according to Forbes. The compilation has lived on the Billboard 200 chart for 350 weeks, which is big for the late Brooklyn wordsmith.

This week Greatest Hits climbed from number 173 to 153. According to Luminate, the project moved over 8000 equivalent units in the U.S. in the past tracking period, with 224 of those being actual purchases, as streaming accounted for the remaining units.

Greatest Hits is The Notorious B.I.G.’s longest-charting album on the Billboard 200. Coming in second place among the projects in his discography is Ready To Die. That set has thus far racked up 97 weeks somewhere on the ranking.

The Notorious B.I.G.’s estate released Greatest Hits a decade after his death, in 2007. It quickly became his third No. 1 on the Billboard 200. He first made it to the top only two weeks after his murder, with Life After Death. He then returned two years later, with Born Again.

Rapper the Notorious B.I.G., February 25, 1997

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