Seventeen weeks in and still standing, M$NEY has officially become the most enduring of Asake’s four studio albums on the global Billboard rankings
The opening week set the pace. Seventeen weeks later, M$NEY is running on a completely different momentum.
Breaking records on debut is one thing. Sustaining a presence on a major international chart week after week, long after the release buzz has settled and the algorithm has moved on to the next thing, is different gravy. M$NEY is now Asake’s longest-charting album on that ranking.
The Billboard World Albums chart tracks the best-performing albums outside of the United States, drawing from a broad combination of streaming data, digital downloads, and physical sales across international markets. Staying relevant on it for seventeen consecutive weeks means the album has continued to find listeners, not just retain the ones it already had at launch.
That distinction matters. A lot of albums perform strongly in the first few weeks after release because of pent-up fan demand, playlist placements, and the natural momentum of a new project landing. What separates an album like M$NEY from ones that simply debut well is that it has kept regenerating attention. People are still playing it. New listeners are still finding it. Seventeen weeks in, it has not exhausted itself.
A New Personal Best in a Catalogue Full of Them
Asake’s run since 2022 has been one of the more remarkable stretches any Nigerian artist has put together in recent memory. Mr. Money With The Vibe, Work of Art, and Lungu Boy all performed strongly on international charts and cemented his reputation as one of the most commercially consistent artists the Afrobeats space has produced. Each project built on the last, and each one extended his reach further than the one before it.
But none of them had the chart legs that M$NEY has shown on Billboard. Seventeen weeks is a personal best, and it arrives on an album that was already making history before the second week of its release. The fact that it has held on this long suggests that the project connected with people on a level that goes deeper than the hype of a record-breaking debut. It found its way into the kind of regular rotation that keeps albums alive on charts long after the conversation around them has quieted.
Chart longevity at this level is one of the cleaner indicators of genuine global reach. It means M$NEY has been a staying presence. At seventeen weeks, M$NEY is still on the chart. The question now is how much further can it go?