I also had no clue that this was pushed by the mannequin challenge until last week. But seriously, very happy to see them hit number one. The early singles didn't really seem to catch on and this album is too good for it to just go unnoticed, or for for them to be seen as a "flash in the pan"
I'm happy for them that they got another one but I'm really fucking happy for Gucci on his first number one record.
from a stereogum article "Rae Sremmurd’s Sremmlife 2 is up from #21 to a new peak of #5 with 39,000 units and only 3,000 in sales. That’s right: Streams of one particular track have rocketed Rae Sremmurd back up the album chart — 43.3 million streams, to be exact." hahahah amazing