For the first time in several weeks, there are no Hip Hop albums with top 10 positioning on the Billboard Hot 200. Up until this week, A$AP Rocky’s At.Long.Last.A$AP album, which was released just shy of a month ago, had consistently found a spot in the top 10. Months after its surprise release, Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly is continuing to climb up the Billboard Hot 200. Fayetteville, North Carolina lyricist J. Cole is another artist whose album moved up several spots this week.
A$AP Rocky’s “At.Long.Last.A$AP” No Longer In The Top 10
A$AP Rocky’s second studio album fell to #12 this week, knocking it out of the top 10 for the first time since its May 26 release. Due to its fall from #8 last week to #12 this week, there are no Hip Hop albums in this week’s top 10. The Harlem, New York wordsmith did manage to move well over 15,000 units.
Kendrick Lamar Climbs To #37 With “To Pimp A Butterfly”
Over the past two weeks, Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly has continued to climb up the Billboard Hot 200. Two weeks ago, the album was at #48. Last week, the album climbed to #43. And this week, it’s reached the #37 spot on the chart. K-Dot is one of a handful of artists scheduled to perform at the 2015 BET Awards, which will air on June 28.
J. Cole’s “2014 Forest Hills Drive” Moves 7,000 Units
J. Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive is another album, which climbed a handful of spots this week. Last week, the album fell to #47, but climbed to #43 this week after selling a little over 7,000 units.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 06/21/2015
Note: The first number below is this week’s “total album equivalent units” count, an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams implemented by Billboard’s new rating system. A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.
#12. A$AP Rocky – At.Long.Last.A$AP – 25,643 (15,504) [10,792,733]
#16. Drake – If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late – 22,523 (9,139) [12,953,921]
#20. Various Artists – Furious 7 Soundtrack – 20,236 (3,442) [6,056,141]
#25. Nicki Minaj – The Pinkprint – 17,603 (3,257) [9,188,303]
#34. Major Lazer – Peace Is The Mission – 15,093 (2,796) [6,122,840]
#37. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly – 14,777 (10,658) [4,462,631]
#39. Jason Derulo – Everything Is 4 – 14,555 (4,363) [4,414,787]
#41. Skrillex & Diplo – Skrillex & Diplo Present Jack – 13,668 (1,801) [5,586,585]
#43. J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive – 13,460 (7,254) [5,898,803]
#53. Pitbull – Globalization – 11,865 (2,102) [4,379,752]
With no total sales, these numbers do not make any sense. Awful new rules!
Its like these guys do not even read the comments, we have been saying this for more than a month now.
Mr Editor The People Hav Spoken We Want Total Album Sales Not This ******
You mean the fake accounts you keep setting up. Go to Mase and buy you some followers. Losers.
LOL at Major Lazer, Jason Derulo and Skrillex & Diplo being a part of the list.
we WANT TOTAL SALES
Including streams is wack, nobody cares about them. Bring back total sales
I came here to see if Troy Ave was on the top #3000……oh well
6 months later and J. Cole still in the top 50 #ColeWorld
now in the top 30
This post says album sales but you guys only show the streams? We don’t care about streams
Show the total sales dick heads… I know it’s 2015, but streaming figures are not relevant as of now considering the statistics seem skewed. Pretty sure more than 7,000,000 people streamed J. Cole and K Dots shit. SYGU
I’ve never heard of Skrillex & Diplo…lol..and what is Major Lazer…im tired of Kendrick, Nicki and jcole…hiphop not the same, I can remember 1987-1997 there would be like 15-20 dope songs on a top 20 rap charts or 10 dope albums on a top rap albums chart..these new cats are weak..
It’s Sure That K.Dot Is Truly The Next Best Thing.