Nielsen has released its 2015 Nielsen Music U.S. Report, which highlights how Rap and R&B fared in terms of sales last year.
Thanks to the release of such successful albums as Drake’s If Youre Reading This Its Too Late and Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly, album sales for R&B/Hip-Hop were up 2 percent overall compared to 2014, Nielsen’s report says.
Digital Album sales for R&B/Hip-Hop albums were up 19 compared to 2014.
R&B/Hip-Hop was the second-highest consumed genre per the report. It has 18.2 percent consumption, trailing only Rock in terms of sales for albums, track equivalent albums and streaming equivalent albums.
Drake’s If Your Reading This Its Too Late is the #6 Overall album of 2015 in terms of sales for albums, track equivalent albums and streaming equivalent albums with a total of 1.9 million units. It also was the #2 digital album of 2015 with sales of 985,000.
Two rap albums joined If Your Reading This Its Too Late among the top digital albums in terms of sales in 2015. Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly was the #7 album with 516,000 units sold, while What A Time To Be Alive, Drake’s project with Future, was the #9 album with sales of 508,000.
Fetty Wap’s self-titled project was #10 overall album with sales of 1.2 million.
In another sales section of the report, Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again” featuring Charlie Puth was the #3 Digital Song of the year, with sales of 3.8 million. Fetty Wap’s “Trap Queen” was #7 with sales of 2.7 million. Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood,” which features Kendrick Lamar, was the #10 single of the year with sales of 2.5 million.
In the “Music Consumption” section of its 2015 Year In Music Review, Nielsen says that the most-tweeted minute of the Grammys came on February 8 at 10:42 p.m. EST when 121,000 Tweets were sent after Kanye West approached the stage following Beck’s win for Album of the Year.
Another Rap-related item of note was that on March 30, there was a 5.5 percent increase in streams of Jay Z’s “Big Pimpin,” which coincides with TIDAL’s press launch.
IYRTITL album of the year. Views from the 6, album of this year. Kendrick who? #DrakeIsLoveDrakeIsLife
Idiot, TPAB was album of the year by far. You have to be a homosexual male to love Drake like this dude. I know he makes good music but you love his dick
No, he isn’t, dickrider. He’s far from the greatest.
not even close. one can’t be greatest of all time when some else writes your material. 3/4 of the songs off your last album were reference tracks some else wrote. drake steals lyrics and verse’s from rappin 4 tay’s song playaz club, tries to pass them off as his own, puts the verse on another rappers song, get’s busted for jacking the verse, pay’s rappin 4 tay $100,000 after he is busted jacking the verse. jacks the beat from dram’s song cha cha [hotline bling cha cha remix]. jack’s the lighting concept from hotline bling video from visual artist. FUCK DRAKE FUCK OVO #DRAKEISFAKEDRAKEISWACK
pull your cock outta drake’s ass you cum guzzling cock smoker. Kendrick writes his own original songs, drake does not. FUCK DRAKE FUCK OVO KID #DRAKEISFAKEDRAKEISWACK
Drake’s the greatest of all-time, stop hating.
bitch ass fake drake can’t even sell 2 million albums, what a fucking joke!
Drake is dope and Kendrick is dope. You dont have to hate one to love the other.
I hope this devil worshiping white trash Jew’s album flops…
6god selling dam near 2 milli no promo dropped out the sky and everyone trying coolly da homie ! King Dreezy is next level always sets the tone in this game runs the game owns the game and Views from the 6 will be best album again if the year ! Hi haterz
hes a mother fucking bitch whos fans are tone deaf bitches and cum guzzling cock smokers. its the 6th wheres this bitch made pop album? quentin miller hasn’t finished writing it yet, all hail the fraud god!! FUCK DRAKE FUCK OVO #DRAKEISFAKEDRAKEISWACK