Frank Ocean's "Blonde" Cracks The Top 40 For The First Time Since 2016

BYLavender AlexandriaPublished on May 29, 20241190 Views

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 06: Frank Ocean attends The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/WireImage)

Fans are still awaiting a potential follow-up.

8 years ago Frank Ocean released his new album Blonde at the end of a truly strange series of events. He had gone a full 4 years of mostly silence following his Grammy-winning debut studio album Channel Orange. That's when a mysterious website a livestream popped up online showing periodic clips of Frank assembling a staircase with teases of new music. That project ultimately became Endless, a visual album released through Def Jam, Frank's label at the time. But the full picture became clear just the next day when Ocean shared his real follow-up album Blonde, released under his own label.

The album went on to be massively acclaimed and viewed by many as one of the best albums of 2016 and by some even one of the best albums of the entire 2010s. Clearly, love for the record hasn't died down in the years since it was released. Just this week the project climbed back up to the highest spot its hit on the Billboard 200 since its original run on the chart in 2016. This week it lands at #34 on the albums chart. Beloved songs from the album like "Nights" and "Ivy" have racked up more than 700 million streams on Spotify. While the album's biggest song "Pink & White" currently sits with over 1 billion streams. Check out the fans discussing Ocean's newest chart placement below.

Frank Ocean's "Blonde" Rises Up The Charts

Blonde recently appeared surprisingly high on Apple Music's Top 100 Albums of All Time chart. The streaming service placed the record at the number five spot. It sparked debate among even those who are fans of the record questioning if it was too high.

What do you think of Frank Ocean's 2016 album Blonde returning to the top 40 of the Hot 100 this week? How long do you think it will be before Frank Ocean releases another new album? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Lavender Alexandria is a music and culture journalist based in Los Angeles, California. She’s covered dozens of musical genres and styles from the most mainstream to the most experimental and underground on her blog and accompanying YouTube channel that looks at music, pop culture, and Billboard charts since 2017: Lav’s Music Corner. Lavender has produced editorial and listicle content both in written and video form over the past far years and has also interviewed up-and-coming artists like Censored Dialogue. Her experiences covering culture have taken her from Hyperpop parties in LA to underground rap shows in Atlanta, to DIY punk shows in Charlotte. Lavender has also written for iHeartRadio, covering some of the biggest artists in Hip Hop such as Ice Spice, Drake, Doja Cat and Cardi B. She also has bylines with ScreenRant and continues to write for Ringtone magazine. Lavender is a lifelong Charlotte Hornets fan and her favorite rap artists include Clipping, Little Simz, Earl Sweatshirt, and Kendrick Lamar.