Artist hub · figures read 21 Sep 2026
Isaiah Rashad, by the numbers
days between The House Is Burning (30 July 2021) and It's Been Awful (1 May 2026). The gap between his chart debuts is identical to the day
Four albums in twelve years, and 1,736 days between the last two. He has charted on the Hot 100 exactly once, for one week, at No. 99. Every figure links the source it was read from.
By CLERK · every figure read on 21 Sep 2026 from the source it links
The record wall
Measured in gaps, not in weeks
Every tile links to the source the figure was read from.
On stage
Isaiah Rashad, photographed
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2026
Twelve years, four records
- 28 Jan 2014Cilvia Demo, and a No. 40 debut
The TDE debut enters the Billboard 200 at No. 40 for a single week. Pitchfork gives it 8.2. The release date comes from FADER's announcement coverage rather than post-release reporting.
- 24 Sep 2016The Sun's Tirade peaks at No. 17
Three weeks on the chart, and an 8.1 from Pitchfork. No reputable outlet published a first-week figure, so this page states none.
- 30 Jul 2021The House Is Burning, No. 7, and the only Hot 100 entry
41,000 units in week one, six weeks on the chart, his highest peak. From The Garden with Lil Uzi Vert enters the Hot 100 at No. 99 the same week and leaves after one.
- 16 Apr 2022Coachella, answered with a montage
He opened his set with a video of podcasters and commentators discussing a leaked video, letting their words play rather than commenting himself. Complex reports he did not address the footage directly. Doechii and SiR joined him on stage.
- 1 May 2026It's Been Awful, after 1,736 days
Sixteen tracks through TDE and Warner, with SZA, Dominic Fike and Julian Sintonia. It enters at No. 18. Billboard prints no first-week units for that position and neither does this page.
- 16 May 2026On the record about the silence
He tells Billboard that writer's block is "a technical term for 'uninspired to my standard'" and that "a good portion of my life might have been sabotaging for material when I was younger." To NPR he says that up to this point he was "probably 88% honest," and now "it's more like a hundred."
The business
Where the money sits
Still TDE, twelve years in
Billboard's Billboard 200 listing for the chart dated 16 May 2026 credits It's Been Awful to the imprint Top Dawg/Warner, and Billboard's May 2026 interview refers to TDE as his label in the present tense. No reputable outlet reports a departure.
BillboardWhat this page will not measure
First-week figures for Cilvia Demo, The Sun's Tirade and It's Been Awful were never published by a reputable outlet; the numbers circulating for the first two trace to a wiki. Metacritic returns 403 to every request we made, so no Metascore appears here. The September 2016 release date rests on a single inference from the chart debut and is flagged rather than asserted.
Questions people are asking
Isaiah Rashad, answered
How many Hot 100 entries does Isaiah Rashad have?
Exactly one. From The Garden, featuring Lil Uzi Vert, debuted and peaked at No. 99 on the chart dated 14 August 2021 and spent one week there. He has not re-entered. It is wrong to say he has never charted on the Hot 100, and equally wrong to describe him as a Hot 100 artist.
How long was the gap between Isaiah Rashad albums?
1,736 days between The House Is Burning on 30 July 2021 and It's Been Awful on 1 May 2026, which is four years and nine months. The gap measured chart-debut to chart-debut, 14 August 2021 to 16 May 2026, is 1,736 days as well. The earlier gaps were 948 days and 1,792 days, though both depend on a September 2016 release date we could not confirm from a second source.
What is Isaiah Rashad's highest-charting album?
The House Is Burning, which peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 in August 2021 with 41,000 first-week equivalent album units, 5,000 of them pure sales. It spent six weeks on the chart, the longest run of his career.
What did Isaiah Rashad say about the gaps?
He told Billboard in May 2026 that "even writer's block is a technical term for 'uninspired to my standard'" and that "a good portion of my life might have been sabotaging for material when I was younger." NPR reports he recorded about 100 demos in roughly eighteen months for It's Been Awful.
Is Isaiah Rashad still signed to TDE?
Yes, as far as any reputable reporting shows. Billboard's chart listing for It's Been Awful credits the imprint Top Dawg/Warner, and Billboard's own May 2026 interview refers to TDE as his label in the present tense. No outlet we could find reports a departure.