A No. 55 debut that is actually a record
Most No. 55 debuts are forgettable. This one is arithmetic that almost nobody in music history has managed.
The Hot 100 has run since 1958. In 68 years, only 25 artists have put 100 or more songs on it, counting both lead and featured appearances. Gunna is the fourth to cross the line in 2026 alone, following J. Cole, Ariana Grande and Rod Wave — a run that tells you both how rare the club is and how the streaming era is finally letting a few careers stack entries the way album-era careers never could.
“Pop It” did not need a huge first week to make history. It needed one more entry, of any size, and it got there on a balanced start: 4.6 million streams against 4.7 million radio impressions, opening at No. 16 on Rap Airplay alongside the Hot 100 debut. This was a record built by accumulation, not by one blockbuster week.
Eight years from a guest verse to 100
Gunna’s first Hot 100 entry was not his own song. He arrived in June 2018 as a featured artist on Lil Baby’s “Life Goes On,” which also featured Lil Uzi Vert. Later that same year, his collaboration with Lil Baby, “Drip Too Hard,” climbed to No. 4 — the peak he has matched since but not yet beaten.
The 100 entries since include four top 10 hits in total: “Drip Too Hard,” “Lemonade,” “Pushin P” and “Fukumean,” which matched his career-best No. 4. The shape of the catalogue matters here. Gunna’s total was not built on one era or one album cycle; it was built across solo records, joint records and guest verses, year after year, which is exactly the kind of run the 100-entry club measures.
The chart record arrived with a CEO move
The timing is the second story. “Pop It” was released on October 9 — the same day Gunna launched SB THE LABEL in partnership with Atlantic Music Group, taking the CEO seat at his own imprint. Its first roster is three Atlanta acts: Casper Bluff, Nechie and Dracc.
The rollout joined the two moves together. The Spike Jordan-directed “Pop It” video features the label’s new signees and puts Coco Gauff — one of the biggest names in tennis — on court alongside Gunna. So the single that carried him to 100 entries is also the first public look at the company he is building to develop other artists.
That is what makes this more than a chart footnote. The 100th entry closes one argument — about the size of the catalogue Gunna has already built — on the same release that opens his next chapter, as a label head, ahead of Splurge, his seventh studio album. Splurge does not yet have a confirmed release date, and “Pop It” is its lead single, which means the club membership he just earned is also the platform the new album launches from.
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- That Grape Juice, “Gunna Becomes 25th Artist to Chart ONE HUNDRED Hot 100 Hits With ’Pop It’,” Oct. 2026, reporting Billboard — “Pop It” debuts at No. 55 on the Hot 100 dated October 24; 100th career entry; 25th artist in the chart’s 68-year history; 4.6 million U.S. streams and 4.7 million radio airplay audience impressions; released October 9; lead single from the forthcoming seventh studio album Splurge; SB THE LABEL launch in partnership with Atlantic Music Group; video featuring Coco Gauff; radio openings including No. 16 on Rap Airplay; career start on Lil Baby’s “Life Goes On” (2018); four top 10 hits — “Drip Too Hard,” “Lemonade,” “Pushin P” and “Fukumean” (career-best No. 4); fourth artist to reach 100 entries in 2026, after J. Cole, Ariana Grande and Rod Wave.
- AllHipHop, “Gunna Joins 100-Hit Club With ’Pop It’ Chart Debut,” Oct. 2026, reporting Billboard — independently confirms every load-bearing figure above (No. 55, chart dated October 24, 25th artist in 68 years, 4.6 million streams / 4.7 million radio impressions for the October 9–15 tracking week, Luminate data, the J. Cole / Ariana Grande / Rod Wave 2026 sequence, the 2018 “Life Goes On” start and “Drip Too Hard” at No. 4), and adds the SB THE LABEL detail: Gunna as CEO, first roster Casper Bluff, Nechie and Dracc, and the Spike Jordan-directed video with the signees and Coco Gauff.
- Billboard, “Every Artist With 100 or More Billboard Hot 100 Hits” (chart-history list, as mirrored Oct. 2026) — Gunna listed at 100 Hot 100 hits, tallied in October 2026 with “Pop It”; first chart appearance June 2018 as a featured act on Lil Baby’s “Life Goes On”; first lead-role hit “Drip Too Hard,” No. 4.
- 24Hip-Hop, “Gunna Reaches 100 Hot 100 Entries as ’Pop It’ Gives Splurge an Early Lift,” Oct. 2026 — corroborates the No. 55 / October 24 chart, the October 9–15 streaming and radio figures, the No. 16 Rap Airplay opening, the SB THE LABEL partnership and roster, and the Coco Gauff video, citing The FADER’s account of the release.
- Photo: Frank Schwichtenberg via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 — Gunna performing live at Openair Frauenfeld 2019 (Commons file “Gunna - Openair Frauenfeld 2019 09.jpg”); licence and authorship read off the Commons API extmetadata by the desk, 2026-10-25. To be captioned honestly as a 2019 file photo.
