Music star Rihanna has congratulated A$AP Rocky after his new album made its debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Billboard reported that Rocky’s ‘Don’t Be Dumb’ made its debut at No. 1 on Sunday, January 25, making it his third chart-topper and his first since 2015.
For Rihanna, it’s the good present to the beginning of 2026, and she or he didn’t draw back from letting the world know the way proud she is of Rocky and his new feat.
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“Simply me right here to let yall know my child daddy bought the NUMBER 1 ALBUM!!! Aaahhhhhh hah! ???? DONT BE DUMB!!!” she wrote on X.
Simply me right here to let yall know my child daddy bought the NUMBER 1 ALBUM!!! Aaahhhhhh hah! ???? DONT BE DUMB!!! https://t.co/79nVi1dqfK
— Rihanna (@rihanna) January 25, 2026
Based on Billboard, ‘Don’t Be Dumb’ earned 123,000 equal album models in the USA within the week ending January 22.
Streaming drove a bit of the full, with 76,000 SEA (streaming equal albums) models translating to 78.02 million on-demand official streams, finally handing Rocky his largest ever streaming week.
Additionally, album gross sales accounted for 47,000 models.
The album reportedly benefited from a number of bodily releases that got here with over a dozen vinyl variants totaling 40,000 bought, together with CDs and cassettes bought through his webstore, deluxe boxed units bundled with clothes, and staggered additions of bonus tracks to the digital and streaming editions.
A few week in the past, throughout an look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday, ASAP Rocky opened up on the primary time he met Rihanna and the way that encounter left him feeling a “little embarrassed.”
The 37-year-old rapper and actor mentioned that his first encounter with Rihanna, 37, occurred a number of years in the past, including that it was outdoors a New York Metropolis nightclub, Individuals reported.
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“I wasn’t well-known on the time. She was clearly Rihanna. And I couldn’t get in! The bouncers didn’t wish to let me in,” Rocky, born Rakim Athelston Mayers, recalled. “I used to be with my buddy, the late, nice Virgil Abloh and Matthew Williams, and we kinda was moving into it with the bouncers and she or he got here out and we locked eyes instantly. I used to be identical to, in a daze.”
Rocky additionally said that Rihanna didn’t step in to allow him acquire entry to the membership. He mentioned Rihanna seeing him moving into it with the bouncers left him feeling some kind of manner.
“I used to be just a little embarrassed that she caught me bickering with the guard and stuff like that,” he mentioned.
