Multi-platinum certified, Dove-award winning rapper NF has just made the biggest Christian album debut of 2025 with his latest extended play (EP), Fear. In spite of having only six tracks and running for less than thirty minutes, Fear has arrived with the best-selling opening week of any Christian album this year. The EP has earned for itself 76,000 equivalent album units sold within its first week, 48,000 of which in pure album sales–more than double the second place taker for biggest Christian album debut of 2025, Brandon Lake’s King of Hearts, which opened with 37,000 equivalent album units and 20,000 pure album sales.
Fear was supported by the songs “Sorry”, a collaboration with James Arthur, and “Who I Was”, featuring Machine Gun Kelly, released as promotional singles the day before the full EP was released. Today, both songs debut in the Billboard Hot 100 chart, which tabulates the best-selling songs in the US for each week, at numbers 70 and 62, respectively. In the Global 200, which measures the best-selling songs worldwide for each week, the songs hit numbers 192 and 151.
Several album tracks received significant chart debuts as well, most notably the title track, “Fear”. “Fear” debuted at number 35 on the Hot 100 and number 62 on the Global 200. The song also enters several other countries’ charts, including Official Charts Company (OCC) UK Singles chart, where it hits number 53, and on the Recorded Music New Zealand (RMNZ) Hot Singles chart, where it leads.
Two more songs from the EP entered the Hot 100, including “Home” at number 86, and “Give Me a Reason”, at number 85. “Washed Up” is the only track not to enter the Hot 100 chart. It is currently peaking at number 9 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, which measures the twenty-five best selling singles in the US to have not yet entered the Hot 100.
The EP itself sees a significant chart debut, hitting number 4 on the Billboard 200–the highest Christian album debut on that chart this year, followed closely by Brandon Lake’s King of Hearts at number 7 and Forrest Frank’s Child of God II at number 12. In addition to that peak, the EP is concurrently leading the Top Rap Albums, Top Album Sales chart, and UK Christian & Gospel Albums chart. On the Canadian Albums chart, the EP hits number 9, and on the UK Albums chart, number 14.