Jarad Anthony Higgins, who recorded as Juice WRLD, died on December 8, 2019, six days after his 21st birthday. This page first ran that week as a tribute. Nearly seven years later, the clearest way to measure what he built is the chart record. Three of his five albums came out after his death, and the biggest week of his career was one of them.
The short version
- The breakthrough: “Lucid Dreams” peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is certified Diamond by the RIAA.
- In his lifetime: two studio albums. Goodbye & Good Riddance (2018) peaked at No. 4, and Death Race for Love (2019) debuted at No. 1 with 165,000 units.
- After: Legends Never Die (2020) debuted at No. 1 with 497,000 units and put five songs in the Hot 100 top 10 in the same week. Only the Beatles and Drake had done that before.
- Five studio albums in all, through The Party Never Ends (2024).
All figures are from Billboard and Luminate as compiled in Wikipedia’s Juice Wrld discography and biography, which cite them.
The albums
| Album | Released | Billboard 200 peak | US pure sales | RIAA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goodbye & Good Riddance | May 2018 | 4 | 149,000 | 5× Platinum |
| Death Race for Love | March 8, 2019 | 1 | 92,800 | 2× Platinum |
| Legends Never Die (posthumous) | July 10, 2020 | 1 | 392,000 | 2× Platinum |
| Fighting Demons (posthumous) | December 10, 2021 | 2 | 47,000 | — |
| The Party Never Ends (posthumous) | November 29, 2024 | 4 | — | — |
Pure sales count copies bought, not streams, and run through 2022 in the source. No total is listed for The Party Never Ends. A dash means no figure or certification is listed.
The table shows how his audience listened. His debut sold relatively few copies but is certified 5× Platinum, because certifications count streams and pure sales don’t. Legends Never Die sold the most physical and download copies by far: about 301,000 between July 2020 and January 2021. That’s the posthumous pattern. Fans buy the object when the artist can no longer add to the catalogue.
The singles
“All Girls Are the Same” was his debut single. “Lucid Dreams” became the breakthrough, peaking at No. 2. On Billboard’s 2019 year-end charts, as covered in our rap songs of 2019, “Lucid Dreams” finished No. 48 on the Hot 100, and “Robbery,” the lead single from Death Race for Love, finished No. 100.
The record-setting week came in July 2020. When Legends Never Die debuted, five of its songs were in the Hot 100’s top 10 at once:
| Song | Hot 100 position, week of July 25, 2020 |
|---|---|
| Come & Go (with Marshmello) | 2 |
| Wishing Well | 5 |
| Conversations | 7 |
| Life’s a Mess (with Halsey) | 9 |
| Hate the Other Side (with Marshmello, Polo G and the Kid Laroi) | 10 |
“Life’s a Mess” jumped from No. 74 to No. 9 that week. The Beatles and Drake were the only acts to have placed five songs in the top 10 at the same time before.
Why the catalogue keeps working
Posthumous releases are now a standard part of the record business, and Juice WRLD’s are one of the clearest commercial cases of the streaming era. For scale, Legends Never Die’s 497,000-unit debut is bigger than every Billboard 200 No. 1 week of 2026 except BTS’s 641,000, and that’s before allowing for 2026’s rule change, which gives streams more weight (see every Billboard 200 No. 1 of 2026). His estate has released three albums in four years. The business question with any posthumous catalogue is how much unreleased material remains, and how much of it the artist would have released.
Originally published December 8, 2019 as a tribute. Rewritten October 28, 2026 around the chart record. The first version’s text had been machine-altered in a way that garbled its meaning, and it has been replaced.
Frequently asked questions
When did Juice WRLD die? Juice WRLD (Jarad Anthony Higgins) died on December 8, 2019, of a drug overdose. He was 21; his birthday had been six days earlier, on December 2.
What was Juice WRLD’s biggest song? Lucid Dreams, his 2018 breakthrough, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is certified Diamond by the RIAA. It finished 2019 at No. 48 on Billboard’s year-end Hot 100.
How many albums did Juice WRLD release? Five studio albums: Goodbye & Good Riddance (2018) and Death Race for Love (2019) in his lifetime, and Legends Never Die (2020), Fighting Demons (2021) and The Party Never Ends (2024) after his death. Death Race for Love and Legends Never Die both debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
What record did Legends Never Die set? In the week it debuted at No. 1 with 497,000 album-equivalent units, five of its songs were in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 10 at once: Come & Go (No. 2), Wishing Well (No. 5), Conversations (No. 7), Life’s a Mess (No. 9) and Hate the Other Side (No. 10). Juice WRLD was the third act ever to place five songs in the top 10 at the same time, after the Beatles and Drake.
