The Hip Hop friendly soundtrack to Furious 7 bowed at the top of the Billboard 200 this week with a total activity count of more than 111,000 units. A few spots down in the Top 10, Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly has fallen to its lowest position since release at #7, but managed to gather the necessary sales for a Gold plaque nonetheless.
Drake, meanwhile, regained some of the ground he lost last week and crept back into the Top 10 at #8 in the process. Wale’s successful first-week outing with The Album About Nothing gave way to a double-digit fall to #11 this past week, while Flo Rida managed to debut in the Top 10 with his new album, My House.
Lower down the list Action Bronson fell from #55 to #89 in his third week on the chart.
Kendrick Lamar Drops To #7
Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly has finally gone Gold from pure album sales. Last week, Lamar crept past the half a million total album equivalent units mark, but with his latest numbers he’s now officially sold 513,216 copies of his latest offering. K. Dot’s latest maintained strong streaming activity most recently with the second-highest number on the chart at more than 14 million streams over the last week.
Drake Back In The Top 10
Drake is back at #8 after slipping several spots to #14 two weeks ago. If Youre Reading This Its Too Late pushed more than 13,000 copies last week and was streamed a chart-topping 25.5 million times. The latest figures bring Drake’s total sales count up to 822,659 since the album’s release in February. Despite his nearing the platinum sales milestone, If Youre Reading This Its Too Late is still a digital-only affair, but a physical collector’s edition is set for release April 21.
Wale Falls From #1 To #11
After nabbing his second consecutive #1 album with The Album About Nothing, Wale fell just outside of the Top 10 most recently. Wale is currently sitting at #11 after selling another 25,470 copies of his fourth album. The latest figures bring The Album About Nothing’s total sales count to 113,680.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 04/12/2015
Note: The first number below is this week’s “total album equivalent units” count, an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams implemented by Billboard’s new rating system. A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.
#1. Various – Furious 7 – 111,109 (45,084) [11,644,670]
#7. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly – 41,619 (28,806) [14,309,446]
#8. Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late – 40,344 (13,137) [25,654,572]
#11. Wale – The Album About Nothing – 33,183 (25,470) [5,968,902]
#12. Empire Cast – Original Soundtrack From Season 1 – 31,988 (23,888) [4,808,971]
#14. Flo Rida – My House – 27,254 (7,572) [5,671,822]
#16. Nicki Minaj – Pinkprint – 24,884 (6,005) [12,460,807]
#17. Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise – 23,666 (8,330) [12,192,338]
#18. Ludacris – Ludaversal – 23,629 (18,290) [3,419,935]
#21. Mark Ronson – Uptown Special -21,263 (3,185) [4,715,208]
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1 week after an idiot said to me that see you again will fall off the top 10 quickly, it soared to the no.1 spot. Everyone I know is bumping it in the radios. This is quickly shaping up to be the next see you again.
Alright I concede, it was foolish for me to let my hate cloud my judgement of this song’s success.
Just respect my opinion man. I don’t like it but I know friends that do. Don’t hate on me.
It’s all good. As long as you respect other opinion and differenate predictions from biased opinions, no one is hating. Hate is too much of a negative reaction.
LOL @ Dan making a fake conversation full of lies. Trolling at its saddest.
Drake only sells because he is a white pop star just like Eminem
Drake isn’t a white pop star though. He’s a brown hiphop/R&B artist.
Glad to see wiz khalifa suceeding again.
Nope. Drake is a white pop star. And Wiz didn’t succeed, he cheated.
How did he cheat? He made a dope song and people bought it.
He did cheat. He made a shit song and bought multiple copies.
Where’s your proof?
em is is a pop star?
even wiz in an interview said em is one of the best rappers alive
black ppl say on eminems nut sack.
LOL at anon’s prediction that see you again will fall off quickly. It’s the no.1 song. Glad to see that the uptown shit song (ripped off trindad’s better song) is knocked down/
See You Again is still shit. Uptown Funk isn’t shit and didn’t rip off Trinidad James’ shitty song.
Billboard.com says that Uptown Funk is still #1. See You Again is at #10.
Whoa, no need to get mad Don (ripoff name BTW). It isn’t shit at all (and i bet if kendrick rapped those lyrics, you would be all over his nuts). Give the man some applause for goodness sake’s. Uptown Funk is shit. George CLinton was rolling in his grave.
George Clinton rolling in his grave? What kind of drugs you using?
You’re the mad one, Dan. See you Again is shit. Uptown Funk is dope, George Clinton would approve of it.
LSD, Crack, and Ectasy. My succcessful ideas, like beatles, came from using drugs and having trips.
None of your ideas are successful, teethbitch.
SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH THE TEETHBITCH!! YOU”RE THE ONLY BITCH HERE!!
You caught feelings.
Usually this is where the haters try to discredit someone’s shine by making excuses. They can’t deny the fact though that wiz is on top so they want to hide below the bridges. Congratulations Wiz. You just made the next i’ll be missing you.
Wiz ain’t on top of shit. He made another shitty song that got famous offf of a movie. That shit is nothing like I’ll Be Missing You.
You mean how Happy only became famous because of a crappy film? At least Wiz had hits before, unlike pharrell.
No, Happy got famous on its own. Pharell does have hits, more than Wiz.
Pharrell had hits before, too. As a producer and as a vocalist.
Happy first debuted with despicable me 2. The film’s success helped it. And Pharrell didn’t have a hit since. He had no solo hits by himself and producing doesn’t count.
Pharrell’s only solo hit was happy, part of a crappy film. The rest he did were not his songs. Producting shit doesn’t count.
Yes. Everything Pharrell produced does count as his hits.
NOT AS THE ARTIST DUMBASS!!
You didn’t say that, though.
So, 2003’s “Frontin'” doesn’t classify as a hit..??
See you Again is dope. From heaven, biggie approves.
Dan making up lies again.
Paul spoke to me from heaven.
That’s a delusional lie.
I was having a trip on acid when I spoke to him.
That means that it’s a lie.
How did a post about album sales turn into a trollfest about Wiz Khalifa? Oh, wait. I forgot this is DX where trolls run rampant.
i was so disappointed in bronsons album. he killed everything he dropped, until his lazy ass album came out. wow that was a buzz kill..this is why i dont get to excited when a favorite comes out with an album. got to temper expectations..kendricks album proved that to me too
Nicki Minaj album still being streamed over 10 million since its release. And also hasn’t sold less than 20,000 a week. Good job!
Drake selling more that K. Dot next week. And… go!
Since people always claiming Birdman was purchasing 70 percent of Wayne’s albums then his next one should really flop then, right? Let’s find out.