--- title: Smino by the numbers: 3 weeks total weeks on the Billboard 200 publisher: RapCanon canonical: https://rapcanon.com/hip-hop/smino/ license: CC-BY-4.0 retrieved: 2026-09-21 --- > Smino's records in one sourced, dated place: 3 weeks total weeks on the Billboard 200, 0 Hot 100 entries, No. 50 highest album peak. Every figure links the source it was read from. Home / Hip Hop / Smino Artist hub · figures read 21 Sep 2026 # Smino, by the numbers 3 weeks his entire Billboard 200 chart life, across two albums in nine years. Luv 4 Rent spent two weeks on the chart and NOIR spent one Two Billboard 200 entries in nine years, three chart weeks between them, and not one Hot 100 entry in his life. He also appears twice on an album that opened at No. 1. Every figure links the source it was read from. By CLERK · every figure read on 21 Sep 2026 from the source it links Photo: swimfinfan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source The record wall ## The acclaim, and the chart underneath it Every tile links to the source the figure was read from. 3 weeks his entire Billboard 200 chart life, across two albums in nine years. Luv 4 Rent spent two weeks on the chart and NOIR spent one Billboard chart history 0 career Billboard Hot 100 entries, as a lead artist or as a feature. Billboard's artist page exposes no Hot 100 dataset for him at all Billboard chart history No. 50 Luv 4 Rent, his highest-charting album, in November 2022 Billboard chart history No. 191 NOIR in 2018, one week on the chart Billboard chart history Did not chart blkswn, the 2017 debut Rolling Stone named one of the 40 best rap albums of that year, never entered the Billboard 200 at all Billboard chart history 7.7 / 7.6 Pitchfork scores for Luv 4 Rent and NOIR. Neither was named Best New Music, and blkswn was never reviewed by Pitchfork at all Pitchfork 115,000 first-week equivalent album units for Revenge of the Dreamers III, the Dreamville compilation that debuted at No. 1 in 2019. Smino appears on two of its tracks Billboard 1 Grammy nomination, and it is not an artist award: he is credited among eleven audio professionals on Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for Dawn at the 2022 ceremony Recording Academy 0 Grammy wins, per the Recording Academy's own artist page Recording Academy On stage ## Smino, photographed Every photograph here is freely licensed and credited to the person who took it. We do not bulk-scrape artist photography, so this is what genuinely exists under a licence we may use. Smino performing in 2025. The live room has never been the problem. Photo: FlyingKangeroo · CC0 · source 2026 ## Four albums, and the one that never charted - 14 Mar 2017blkswn, released on 3/14 for the area codeThe debut arrives through Downtown, dated to St. Louis's 314. Rolling Stone later lists it among the 40 best rap albums of 2017. It does not enter the Billboard 200. - 8 Nov 2018NOIR charts for one weekIt enters the Billboard 200 at No. 191 and is gone the following week. Pitchfork gives it 7.6. - 5 Jul 2019He appears twice on a No. 1 albumRevenge of the Dreamers III opens at No. 1 with 115,000 units, 23,000 of them pure sales. Smino is credited on 1993 and Sacrifices. Neither track entered the Hot 100. - Oct 2019Ghetto Sage forms with Noname and SabaThe trio release Haagen Dazs. No Ghetto Sage album has been released and the group has no Billboard chart entry. - 28 Oct 2022Luv 4 Rent peaks at No. 50His highest album peak, two weeks on the chart, and No. 28 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Pitchfork gives it 7.7 and does not name it Best New Music. - 6 Dec 2024Maybe in Nirvana, and full independenceBillboard describes the fourth album as arriving through his own independent label, Zero Fatigue. It does not enter the Billboard 200. The album that never charted blkswn (2017). Rolling Stone named it one of the 40 best rap albums of the year. It did not enter the Billboard 200. Official Spotify player; id verified through Spotify oEmbed. The highest he has charted Luv 4 Rent (2022) peaked at No. 50 and spent two weeks on the Billboard 200, the best of his career. Official Spotify player; id verified through Spotify oEmbed. The business ## Where the money sits ### Zero Fatigue, and what independence costs on a chart Billboard calls Zero Fatigue his independent label in its coverage of Maybe in Nirvana. The collective also carries Bari, Jay2, Monte Booker and Ravyn Lenae. Independence is the reason the 2024 album exists on his terms, and a plausible part of why it did not chart. Billboard ### The first-week figures nobody ever published No reputable outlet has reported an opening-week figure for any Smino album. The only number in circulation traces to a post on Reddit and does not distinguish pure sales from equivalent album units, so this page states none. For a career measured on acclaim rather than volume, the absence of any sales story is itself the finding. Questions people are asking ## Smino, answered Has Smino ever been on the Billboard Hot 100? No. Billboard's artist page exposes no Hot 100 chart history for him, as a lead artist or as a feature. Sacrifices, the Dreamville track he appears on, does not appear in J. Cole's Hot 100 chart history either. His entire Billboard presence is two album-chart entries. What is Smino's highest-charting album? Luv 4 Rent, which peaked at No. 50 on the Billboard 200 in November 2022 and spent two weeks on the chart. NOIR reached No. 191 for one week in 2018. blkswn (2017) and Maybe in Nirvana (2024) did not enter the chart at all. Did blkswn chart? No. It is absent from Billboard's complete artist table. Rolling Stone named it one of the 40 best rap albums of 2017 and NPR called it one of that year's best debut LPs, and it never entered the Billboard 200. How much did Smino's albums sell in their first week? No reputable outlet has ever published a first-week figure for any of them. The only number in circulation cites a Reddit thread as its source and does not separate pure sales from equivalent album units, so we do not repeat it. Has Smino won a Grammy? No. The Recording Academy's artist page lists one nomination and no wins, and the nomination is not an artist award: it is Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for Dawn at the 2022 ceremony, where he is credited among eleven audio professionals. How this page works. Every figure above links the source it was read from, and carries the date it was read. Nothing here is estimated: a number we could not source is published as UNVERIFIED rather than filled in. No update schedule is promised. Artist hub Drake, by the numbers Data study The conversion table: what a Hot 100 entry is actually worth Data study Hip-hop's most Billboard Hot 100 entries Dispatch The latest chart reads and Ledger Reads --- ## How to cite this page **APA** RapCanon. (2026). Smino by the numbers: 3 weeks total weeks on the Billboard 200. 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