Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 9/30/2013

    Drake’s new album, Nothing Was The Same, debuted at #1 overall this week, topping Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart. The collection moved 658,637 units, a number close to the projected figure. Yesterday (October 1), it was reported that Nothing Was The Same was projected to sell between 660,000 and 670,000 copies its first week in retailers, according to the huffingtonpost.com

    Nothing Was The Same has the second-highest first week album sales figures of the year. Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience sold 968,000 units during its first week in retailers in March. Timberlake is expected to approach similar figures with this week’s release of The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2. Those figures are set to be included in next week’s report. For now, Drake’s Nothing Was The Same remains the album with the second-highest first week sales of 2013. 

    Drake’s Nothing Was The Same Moves Over 650,000 Units

    Drake’s Nothing was the Same is the only Rap/R&B album in the Top 10 this week. The release, which features guest appearances from Jay Z, Sampha, Majid Jordan and Jhene Aiko, is the third #1 album for the Ontario rapper-singer. It follows 2010’s Thank Me Later, which sold 447,000 copies its first week and 2011’s Take Care, which sold approximately 631,000 units its first week. Before Nothing Was The Same was released, Drake spoke about expectations regarding the project. “Best advice I ever got is: No expectations lead to no disappointments,” Drake said. “So I have no expectations…Really, just more than September 24, I’m just excited whenever people get the music. The numbers, the sales, all that stuff, it’s cool. I’m sure I’ll get into it on the day like, ‘How much did we sell,’ trying to figure it out, but aside from that, I’m just excited for people to hear the full body of work.”

    2 Chainz Remains In Top 15 With B.O.A.T.S. II #MeTime

    2 Chainz’ B.O.A.T.S. II #MeTime opened at #3 in its first week. Last week, the album dropped to #7 and this week to #15. This week, Chainz moved over 16,000 units. 2 Chainz also appears on the #1 album overall, as the T.R.U. rapper is featured on Drake’s additional deluxe version track, “All Me,” which also includes Big Sean. Chainz and Drake have had a history of collaborating, as the pair worked together on 2012’s “No Lie” and more recently on B.O.A.T.S. II’s “I Do It.” Chainz and Drake are the Top 2 sellers in Hip Hop this week. 

    Jay Z’s Magna Carta…Holy Grail Hits A Milestone

    Jay Z’s Magna Carta…Holy Grail passed the double platinum threshold this week. The album sold a million copies to Samsung before it was released due to Jay Z’s #NewRules deal which gave away a million digital versions of the album prior to the project’s physical release date. Now, the album has reached a new milestone, selling over a million more copies. After 12 weeks, Jay Z landed at #27 on the charts, moving approximately 14,000 units this week. 

    Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 9/30/2013 

    #1. Drake – Nothing Was The Same – 659,000 (659,000) 

    #15. 2 Chainz – B.O.A.T.S. II #MeTime – 17,000 (115,000)

    #19. MMG – MMG Presents: Self Made Vol. 3 – 16,000 (66,000) 

    #21. The Weeknd – Kiss Land – 15,000 (137,000)

    #26. Tamar Braxton – Love & War – 14,000 (183,000)

    #27. Jay Z – Magna Carta…Holy Grail – 14,000 (1,004,000)

    #47. Janelle Monae – The Electric Lady – 9,000 (72,000)

    #49. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 9,000 (1,089,000)

    #62. Juicy J – Stay Trippy – 7,000 (114,000)

    #67. Elvis Costello & The Roots – Wise Up Ghosts And Other Songs – 6,000 (25,000)

    #66. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city – 6,000 (1,046,000) 

    * data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousand for units above 10,000, nearest hundred for units below 10,000. Each week, HipHopDX presents top albums in Hip Hop/related, and five notables.

    Will Justin Timberlake top Drake’s sales next week? Stay tuned to HipHopDX.

    Last Week’s Album Sales.

    RELATED: Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 9/22/2013

    692 thoughts on “Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 9/30/2013

    1. haha all you camel nutriders drake shitted on all the sales on this chart. Drake made everyone on this chart irrelevernt drake runs the music game no1 putting up numbers like drake. Undoubtedly the king of this rap shit

      1. Yo anonymous, the numbers don’t lie you bitchass! bahahahaha.
        you read the article motherfucker? 2nd highest album sales of 2013. Bigger than greats like Hov, Ye, Cole and definitely bigger than whatever shitty rappers YOU dickride.
        ballers, I put numbers on the boardssssssss!
        ‘jealousy in the air tonight I can tell…’

      2. Hey Mr drake runs rap bitch boy celebrate now CAUSE when November gets here drake will be irrelevant thanks to Marshall Mathers 2 so really eminem runs rap u bird brain baby just wait eminem going to sell 1 million first week and blow nothing will ever be the same out the park LOL then u will be crying like alittle butt hurt pussy bitch besides eminems hit single berzerk shits on both drakes current singles from his third album face it drakes no king in 2013 LOL everyone knows drake could never out sell eminem the first week he didn’t do it in 2010 with thank me later and he definitely won’t this year that’s the truth buddy LOL numbers don’t lie its true eminem is the true king of rap and Marshall mathers 2 will shit all over nothing was the same so enjoy yourselves until November u drake dickriders cause drake will be forgotten when eminem drops his album eminem runs rap don’t get it twisted eminem is KING!!!!!

      3. Sorry @Enjoy but Em’s latest material is worst then even Drakes…SMH I thought I’d never say such a thing but it’s true when comparing two pop stars which they both are now.

      4. All y’all who dickride me are stupid ass hell. Only girls and homos bought my album because they like the way I sing.

    2. Impressive numbers for Drake. It sure made up for all of the flops from Cash Money this year.

      LMAO at the freaks who thought he would sell a million 1st week. H e didn’t even come close.

      1. you cant compare apples to oranges like that

        Drake is a pop star. Kendrick is a rapper.

        Soccer Moms listen to Drake. they play Drake on the radio in office buildings. they play drake in wal mart.

      2. Sorry to tell ya K. Dot tries to sing on almost every song he’s put out. He’s pop too so stop fronting.

      1. No, it just means your a hater who couldn’t afford to buy the album. I just didn’t buy it but not a hater like you are.

      1. Say that 10 years from now when the yung heads call him old like Jay-Z. he probably won’t even be around he wants to be an actor again. Dude is wack with subpar, boring music.

    3. HELL YEAH, NIGGAS, DRIZZY STAY RUNNING THE GAME. SINGING ABOUT MY EX GIRLFRIENDS AND RAPPING ABOUT KILLING NIGGAS EVEN THOUGH I’M SOFTER THAN A FUCKING MARSHMALLOW. YMCMB: WE STARTED FROM THE BOTTOM NOW WE HERE.

    4. Good #’s for Drake and now Jay-z went platinum faster then any other rapper recently. So all the Macklemore and K. Dot fans can slow down with the sales stuff for now. It’s gonna be funny when the Eminem fans come in and proclaim he’ll sale more then everyone even though his new stuff is mediocre as well.

      1. Half of Jay-Z’s sales were well below market value to Samsung.

        Selling 659,000 at retail in the first week is the same in gross revenue as Jay-Z is at now with 1,000,000 sales (13 weeks), with 500,000 at $5 (Samsung) and the other 500,000 at retail.

        Jay-Z knows he can’t go platinum unless he can cook the books, which is what he did by selling 500,000 units for $5.

        J Cole could sell a CD for $1 and go platinum first week…

      2. Is this a joke? You’re talking about Jay-Z; the nigga can put out an album with no music in it and it’ll go platinum.

      3. eminem’s been terrible since the eminem show:

        encore-trash album, was drugged the fuck up
        relapse-stupid ass, annoying accent all through the album
        recovery-pop trash, yelling through the album, weezy kills him on his own album
        mmlp2 will be no different.

      1. What’s gonna be a wrap? Drake and Eminem’s music will play, Universal will get more money.

        Oh, you internet nerds get to chit chat about sales? You’re circling that on your calendar instead of something productive in your life? Wow, lol, you go right ahead and be proud of that.

      2. dont feed the trolls…theyre everywhere in the comments section

        drakes album isnt just gunna suddenly lose momentum when eminem drops hes about to have the biggest song in the country he’ll do steady numbers for a while

    5. Nothing was as shocking as Carter IV selling 968K first week, ain’t no one saw that coming. Twitter Stans predicted NWTS would do 1M first week, so I’m glad it didn’t even come close. Drake ain’t getting in that Pantheon of Greatness

      1. He’s already there and his star is still rising higher. Haters look fucking ridiculous still desperately trying to deny dude’s talent.

    6. But I thought they said Drake was going platinum first week? LMAO should I go back and find some quotes from these dickriders?

      1. Sorry y’all, but real hip hop heads don’t give a sh*t about album sales. If I like and artist I don’t base my decision to buy the album based on projected sales or media hype. You clowns chat and comment about sales, projected this and projected that, who sold more last week. Y’all are idiotic. If you like an artist, buy his/her sh*t and stop feeding into the competition.

      1. People assume that when he says, “Starting from the bottom”, he means he came from the hood or a low income environment. Starting from the bottom could mean his foray into the rap game you idiots

      2. Y’all are morons. Let’s say he was making 40,000/year on that TV show. He’s now making like 10 million a year. If I went from making $40,000 to 10 million, I’d gladly proclaim I started from the bottom. It’s not like Drake was raking in boatloads of money from a cheaply produced Canadian TV show. This wasn’t Beverley Hills 90210 people! Also he and his mom rented the basement suite of the place in Forest Hill, they didn’t own a mansion dumbasses.

      3. ^^dont feed the trolls…anyone who thinks started from the bottom means that you came from a 50$ a month tenement apartment is an idiot

      4. thank you, at anonymous who explained what started from the bottom meant. i’ve been trying to tell these fools what that meant, but they kept denying it. haters are so stupid.

      1. naw 66k in 2 weeks is an epic failure for a major label release with that many artists featured

        fuck outta here with that several hundreds of thousands downloaded it. everyone said that shit was trash

    7. #1. Drake – Nothing Was The Same – 659,000 (659,000)

      How many did the label buy? lol I don’t anyone who bought it

      1. Drake is one of the most popular artists int he world right now, not just hip-hop… I’m not a fan but you cant discredit his sales. I cant see why his label would ever need to do that

    8. TOP 5 WORST TROLLS ON HHDX

      1.the ja rule troll
      2.the gucci troll
      3.dentaldamboy
      4.the Anally Pussified Anon Guy (Anonymous & :^) who says “Everything You Say Is BULLSHIT LIES” and “Haha Good Joke”
      5.quote-man
      6.The trollhunter troll

      1. havent seen fake tracklist guy in a while

        and hes no so bad, at least he puts some effort into his posts

      2. Uh, what the fuck happened to me, I most certainly am not dentaldam, here’s one for you:

        Does anyone else ever wonder what color Drake’s bhole & weiner are. I sure do, I just jerked it to that cool duck face he always makes, I want his weiner all up in between my actual buttcheeks. I wanna smell his doodie stick fresh out of a butthole, I am so fucking gay for Drake right now.

    9. jay-z is a beast damn the album came out in july plat in the streets and on the internet and he not even into that

    10. “J Cole could sell a CD for $1 and go platinum first week”

      He made of generated a million, but he hasn’t sold a million.

    11. “When Drake sells 50 million records like Hov, come back and talk”

      That’s statistically impossible and you know it.

      1. Cosign. It’s better to compare the trajectories of their first 3 albums. Drake’s first album suceeded big time while Jay Z’s first flopped big time. Drake topped the charts each time while jay Z only begin topping the charts with his 3rd album.

      2. Proof? Also, I want proof that Drake and Manziel kissed. Because Im calling bullshit until I see a youtube link or something.

    12. FUCK THESE OTHER LAME RAPPERS LIKE BITCH MADE GAY-Z, NAS, J-QUIL, KENDICK LAME-AR, RAKIMBERLY, KRS-TINA TUBE SOCK SHAKUR, NOTORIOUS B.I.G. M.A.C. ETC. FUCK’EM ALL. I’M THE GREATEST RAPPER THIS WORLD HAS EVER SEEN AND YOU KNOW IT. YMCMB- WE RUN THE GAME BY THE CLITORIS.

      1. That’s my dream…to fuck these rappers! They ain’t never had boy pussy like mine. OOOHHH TUPAC, TUPAC, TUPAC!!!

    13. Drake’s sales seem suspect. Been saying this since his last album. Nicki Minaj is way more popular and prominent in mainstream, pop culture then he is and had like 5 successful singles, but her album only sold 200K+ first week. Drake has 3 singles that did moderately well, isn’t really that big in mainstream culture, but yet he some how sells 600K+?? Huh? He is either buying his own records like Jay-Z did, or someone is buying a large quantity of these things for him. I’m not impressed.

      1. Drake is way more popular than nicki minaj musically. Nicki is more known for looks and her ass, and her second album wasn’t good at all.

      2. This is why first week sales are so damn misleading. If you actually look at the stats, Drake and Nicki Minaj’s last albums went platinum in about two months from when they were released. Take Care had much higher sales in the first week but both albums got to the million mark in relatively the same amount of time, even though Take Care is now at 2 million. Also, having successful singles does not necessarily lead to selling a lot of albums. Most people like to hear Nicki Minaj when they are at the club or something but not in their personal time. Drake albums are much different in that you have to actually sit down with it and listen, which is why people buy the album. Same thing with Kendrick, GKMC went platinum and I would say he is probably way less popular than a lot of rappers who have never gone platinum before.

      1. Oh, I am also gay, me & Drizzy met up one time, we had a good time chilling & then he kissed me & I actually felt my butthol pucker up, I wanted him so bad but all we did was make out & then he jerked me off & I have never seen him again. I am so sad without him.

      2. if he’s a homosexual, then why is he swimming in more pussy than you will ever get in your lifetime? answer that nigga!

    14. Drake run the Rap Game, he will outsell Kendrick and Jay within 10 weeks.

      He may rap mainstream but Drake is still thug life, real, from the streets and thats why people love him

      1. come on man. no real drake fan says he’s a thug from the streets. not true at all. drake is running the game though.

    15. The reason he sold so many CD’s is because being gay is the cool thing these days, it’s what’s “in”, he has such a huge gay fanbase & it is paying off for him.

      1. Which it will flop in november with at most 300k copies sold. Any number above it will mean that Dr Dre and Feminem bought copies each. Drake never had birdman and wayne buy his albums other than 1 or 2 just to symbolize family bond.

      2. How come when drake or wayne sells a lot of copies, you accuse birdman of buying copies but not dr dre for eminem’s new album?

        Oh wait a minute, you’re a hater and haters gonna hate. Swag bitches. Get some.

      3. Lets be real, most of Drake’s albums were bought by woman…Its a soft R/B album with some verses here and there. Eminem will sell 700K or more and no eminem or dr dre buy the albums, thats the dumbest thing I ever heard. I guess they bought most of MMLP which sold 1.76 million first week…

      4. You do the same shit, fag. You’re no better than other niggas. Also, no one wants that gay ass swag (secretly we are gay).

      1. Drake continues to piss off his haters after he disrespected the fuck out of Wu-Tang. Dude was born to be king.

      2. no, he’s the king of this rap game. he keeps getting more popular with each album and you haters still can’t take it. go bump your old ass, low quality 90s music in your dimly lit apartment, bitches.

      3. He ain’t king of shit but his own deluded mind. He’s a shitty pop artist. I rather listen to 90s rap than Drake’s pussy ass shit.

      1. Mad? more like in fucking Love, me & my friends have dance parties all the time & we just dance to Drake all night long, naked

    16. Congrats to Drake. He has the highest 1st week sales of hiphop this year. No one can challenge him (Im not counting Feminem because 1, he’s pop and 2, he and dr dre will buy at least 100k copies each.)

      1. Eminem (who I call Feminem) is full on wack ass pop. Drake blends hiphop with R&B. Feminem doesn’t count and if he does sell more than drake, Feminem and Dr Gay will be buying most of the albums. Eminem couldn’t even reach Wayne’s Tha Carter 4 opening week sales with his recovery opening week sales.

      2. haha, Eminem is pop? But Drake isn’t? This is an R/B album though so it shouldn’t be in the Hiphop category anyway. Yea Drake spits some bars on it but its 75% R/B. Eminem will sell more than 700K.

      3. Remember, rap is seperate from hiphop. Drake did a hybrid hiphop/R&B album which counts as hiphop. Feminem, however, had pop beats so it counts as pop. It may sell 700k only because eminem will buy most of the albums.

      4. Wrong again, dentalbitch. Drake is R&B/pop rap. Eminem is hip-hop. His new album’ll sell 700k at the least and it’ll all be bought by his fanbase.

      5. Wrong again bitch. Drake is Hiphop/R&b. Eminem is wack ass pop rap. His new album will only sell that many because eminem will buy most of the copies.

        How come you always say birdman buys copies everytime a ymcmb artist does well in accounted copies sales but not blame Dr Dre when Eminem sells that many?

      6. No. Drake is R&B/pop rap. Eminem is hip-hop. His new album will sell 700k because of his huge fanbase. Keep lying.

      7. What fanbase? Your delusional dickriding ass? Eminem’s for virgins while drake is for those who fuck tons of bitches.

      8. What fanbase? Eminem has one of the biggest, most diverse fanbases in hip-hop. That fanbase is the reason why all of his albums sell well. You’re still wrong again, dentalbitch.

    17. so…he’s gay because he sings about fuckin’ bitches?

      contradiction.

      (waits for the repetitive, corny “how does his dick taste” jokes)

      1. His butthole tastes amazing, We jerked each other off last week, he is more of a beater than a smooth jerk but he gets excited so it’s common

      1. They sure did, Gay Pride is taking over & the fanbase has shown it. So happy to have Drake as the face of the gay artist inside all of us.

      1. I like both Eminem and JT’s music so its a win win for me. Drake is a gay ass pop rapper/singer. I haven’t seen images of manziel and Drake kissing but I wouldn’t be surprised if they are true.

    18. EMINEM IS GARBAGE, HIS NEW MUSIC IN ON QUALITY WITH CHIEF KEEF

      SHOULD STAY RETIRED

      RAP HAS A NEW KING

      DRIZZY

      1. iagree. berzerk is one of the worst songs of the year. even eminem’s own fans don’t like it. drake, on the other hand, continuously puts out good music.

    19. YOU DRAKE HATERS GOT TO SHOW NUMBERS

      WHAT IS KENDRICK DOING….

      WHAT IS MMG FLOP MADE DOING

      CAMEL TOOK A L TOO

      1. My butt is sore from finger banging it to his new CD, all my male friends got together for a night of dancing last night, drake is so hot right now

    20. THIS NIGGAS ALBUM IS GONNA STAY ON THE CHARTS FOR A GOOD WHILE, SO HATERS SAVE SOME OF YOUR LAME JOKES FOR WEEKS AHEAD.

      HATING ASS FAGGOTS

    21. THIS IS A NEW ERA , PEOPLE DONT REALLY BUY ALBUMS ANYMORE, IF DRAKE WAS IN BACK 5 YRS AGO HE WOULD SELL 1 MILL 1ST WEEK. STILL MONSTER NUMBERS IN THIS NEW AGE..

      WHEN ONE OF THESE NEW NIGGAS SELL LIKE DRIZZY TALK TO ME

      1. I would love to see video of Jay getting washed, please give me a link, is Drake in it, is he washing Jigga, anybody else in the video, LINK NIGGA!

      2. Drake did not release as many albums as jay z and the recording industry was a lot stronger back then as well. Today, Jay Z’s fallen fucking hard.

      3. 1.5 million copies were bought by 2 people. 1 million by the samsung ceo and 500k copies by Gay Z himself.

      4. 50 million>3.5 million

        Drake still ain’t shit compared to Hov.

        Also, dentalbitch, you made that shit up in your head.

    22. REAL MUSIC IS BACK

      ALL THAT TRAP, FAKE GANGSTA, REPETITIVE SHIT AIN’T SELLING NO MO’…THE NIGGAS GOING GOLD & PLATINUM ARE THE ONES MAKING GOOD MUSIC.

    23. I LOOK AT MY WRIST AND ITS ALREADY PLATNIUM

      DRKAE SPEAK THAT REAL

      NIGGA LIKE ROSS AND MEEK ALWAYS TALKING BOUT MONEY AND THEY DONT SELL NOTHING. LAME ASS NI99AS

      1. more haters resorting to the faggots and women demographic excuse. thing is drake has fans who BUY albums while other nobody, washed up rappers only sell 50 k at most.

      2. And you’re still a faggot bitch who dickrides popular artists and don’t care about quality. Drake is still weak; he’s basically like Justin Bieber.

      3. I know quality music. If drake sells more albums, that means his album must be terrific. hy did Illmatic bomb, because it was shit.

      4. You’re a dumbass pop fan. MC Hammer sold 10 million records and he’s shit. Sales don’t make an album good, the QUALITY makes it good.

      5. MC Hammer is a terrific rapper. He’s fallen off of course but his music is still terrific. I listend to Can’t touch this, a dope dope song.

      6. hater should kill themselves. for real. up there with paparazzi when it comes to the most worthless existences.

      1. Sucks to be a dickrider, huh? Defending something that has no effect on your life and defending someone who doesn’t know you exist. Besides, there’s something called OPINIONS. Everyone has them. If you don’t like it, too bad.

      2. Opinions? My statements are facts. Drake is a terrific rapper. Also, I have Drake’s phone number and we talk all the time.

      3. that was the weakest comeback possible lol…

        and yeah everyone does have an opinion, it’s how you express it. I don’t like a lot of stuff, doesn’t mean I care enough or want to sit on websites and bash it. either you’re 12, or you need to grow up.

      1. After Samsung, Jay Z was the next biggest customer of HGMC buyying 500k copies. The album actually only went gold.

      2. gay z is a bitch. he did need samsung to promote his trashy album. if it weren’t for samsung, no one would’ve known about the album.

      3. @youngsta Nope. People knew Jay Z was working on another album without Samsung. He still went platinum without them.

        @dentalbitch Translation: I’m a dickriding bitch who makes up lies to make my favorites look like gods.

      4. Translation: Whatever Im going to describe dentalboy actually describes me. I will then impersonate dentalboy and say whatever he describes me actually describes him because all i do is hate.

      5. dentalbitch is desperate. He dont have any good arguments, so he makes up more lies and resorts to childish insults. How pitiful.

    24. Truth is if this was the 90’s Drake would have been laughed out of the industry after his first mixtape!

      1. this ain’t the 90’s bitch…Tupac’s first two albums wouldn’t even have been on the shelves in 2013, he’s still a legend.

      2. Wrong. If this was the 90s, Drake would be called the legend of rap. this album is the illmatic of the entire lifetime or rap. Drake is going double platinum with this one by next week. while all you YMCMB haters are going wood

    25. drake kills it again! he sold more in a week than old ass jay z and kanye. things aren’t looking good for old ass eminem either, so all you bitch ass haters can go hang yourselves. drake is running this rap shit. another grammy on the way.

      1. As much as youngsta annoys me, he is right in this case. He sold 658k copies which is better than the 528k copies of Jay Z’s MCHG and the 320k copies of yeezus.

      2. Eminem will outdo Drake. Drake ain’t running rap, especially since he makes r&b records, and he ain’t winning no Grammys.

      3. You are discounting the fact that Jay-Z practically gave a million listeners his album for free throw Samsung, or did you missed that part of the article that he’s currently DOUBLE PLATINUM because of that?

      4. Some of you guys are idiots. I’m not a fan of MCHG at all, but Jay’s been doing the same first week numbers his entire career, except maybe Reasonable Doubt and Volume 1. So selling the same amount as he did 10-13 years ago is falling off? Wow. If you wanna say his skills have fallen off, cool. But as far as his impact in the mainstream he’s doing as well as he ever did.

    26. “What fanbase? Eminem has one of the biggest, most diverse fanbases in hip-hop. That fanbase is the reason why all of his albums sell well. You’re still wrong again, dentalbitch.”

      And proof of that?

      1. Eminem buys his albums, he pays people on the street to attend his concerts, and eminem has a million differ accounts.

      2. Eminem showed me his millions of accounts, videos of him paying people on the streets and him purchasing albums of recovery while collaborating with wayne.

      3. All of that is a lie you made up, dentalbitch. Eminem never met your retarded ass at all. You live at home with your mom and jack off to YMCMB posters.

      4. Couldn’t handle the truth could ya? Eminem did meet me and told me that he knew ymcmb is better than eminem. I live with my girlfriend at a nice home across from ymcmb headquarters.

      5. What truth? It’s all an exaggerated lie. Eminem never met you and he knows he’s better than YMCMB. Again, you live at home with your mom and jack off to YMCMB posters.

      6. These are not lies. Eminem did meet me. He even asked to take a picture with me but i refused because he tried to rape birdman one time. And me and my girlfriend have a penthouse across YMCMB headquarters

    27. Congratulations Drake but Gucci is gonna outsell your album with a milli. Why:

      – gucci is in jail, being a real ass motherfucker will garantee you to sell records.
      – niggas have to wait 183 days so they dying to here a new Gucci record.

      FREE GUCCI MANE!

      1. Gucci not coming home for years dog. 183 days is only for violating parole. Once they sentence him for the guns hes doing HARD TIME

    28. Drake runs rap for real. Soree I dissed ya nigga. I was going through a rough time. Plus all my movies flop so naturally I feel like shit and need to vent.

    29. Drake is called on by all ur fav rappers to help them musically –> kendrick lamar is just one of many !!!

      1. A couple albums dropped, those are still on the shelf
        I bet them shits would have popped if I was willin’ to help

    30. PUSHA T ALBUM DROPPIN, CANT WAIT FOR THE FLOP

      BESIDES KANYE, EVERYBODY IN GOOD MUSIC IS A FLOP. WEAK AZZ LABEL

    31. Jay Z would have done better than drake opening week if he had not given a million albums away on samsung.

    32. There is nothing gay about Drake & Manziel kissing, they are just friends & it’s ok to kiss your friends sometimes & hold hands. You guys think everything is gay.

    33. As an accountant for YMCMB I can confirm that Drake’s album actually went platinum this week. We just had some last minute sales that were unaccounted for. They will show up next week, where he will be 2x platinum by that time. Gay-Z album continue to flop look how long it been out and still didnt reach platinum. he had to pay samsung to buy his albums because no one is checking for gay-z no more. Lil weezy and birmdan ended his career.

      1. I am not trolling. I am merely speaking on behalf of YMCMB as it is my job to do so being an accountant for YMCMB

      2. I am not trolling. I am speaking on behalf of YMCMB and promoting the album which is about to go double platinum next week.

      1. I make insightful comments yet people spend their time replying to dentalbitch, so icy fag, Quote bitch, ja troll, and others rather than those who make insightful comments.

    34. Justin Timberlake (RCA) 350-375k
      Lorde (Republic) 105-115kk
      Tyler Farr (Columbia Nashville) 24-27k
      HAIM (Columbia) 19-22k
      Hillsong Young & Free (Hillsong) 12-15k
      Nelly (Republic) 12-15k

    35. Real hiphop heads aren’t buying drake albums. I’m telling you that right now. It’s these soft ass tweens groupies that think his shit is cool. Dude is a corny ass rapper and a worse R&B singer.

      1. dont worry. real hip hop heads buy no albums, they are a creation of the internet while drakes album just sold 650000 in a week in 2013.

      2. Real hip hop heads aren’t buying anybody’s albums. They stay bitchin all day while downloading everything for free.

    36. Hahaha… Dick rider!! drake is not rap or Hiphop. Hes a pop star for corny tweens. Y’all niggas got it twisted.

      1. no he isnt. you are whats wrong with hip hop. stalking a guy that you claim to hate and even worse, deeply bothered about people liking his music. why dont you put an end to this piece of shit you call a life?

      2. This coming from someone who dedicates their life defending someone who doesn’t even know they exist and sees their fans as walking ATMs. You stans are the real problem.

    37. I see niggas on this site cant keep Ross name out they mouths. Even when the article has nothing to do with ross, one anonymous nigga still brings him up. Nigga you need to stop worrying about whats in Ross pockets and how many album sales he does and get your money up. Niggas on this site too worried about another niggas money. Like gossiping hoes on this site.

      Bawse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      1. This article does have something to do with Ross though. His weak ass album sold 16k second week for a grand total of 66k

        They probably wont even sell 100k total!

        LAWWWSEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

        How you sell 50k less first week than Self made 2???

    38. Drake’s fucking the baddest bitches, sells millions of albums and got the best looks in the rap game. Nigga basically uns rap.

    39. Haha why y’all comparing HOVs sales with drakes? Compare drakes sales to Kendrick, 2chainz, wale, big sean, Macklemore, and so on… The new comers. Jayz has nothing to prove. 15+ yrs in the game, and still moving significant numbers In today’s market? NOBODY From the 90’s and early 00’s is pushing significant numbers for the exception of eminem and jayz. Even NAS pushes some units. Jayz fall off? With a platinum record? After GIVING AWAY 1million copies? Come on now…. ( I forgot to mention lil Wayne. He’s from the 90’s. Still moving 500k plus. Nowadays that’s a big accomplishment. )

    40. 2pac told biggie, ” rap for the bitches, niggaz buy what bitches like” this is exactly what drake does. Makes enough songs on his album that women will like. And women buy records. How do you think Justin Timberlake moves units.

    41. YALL DUDES LOVE SAUSAGE FEST

      DRAKE IS SMART, PLEASE THE WOMEN FIRST AND STILL HAVE A LOT OF MALE FANS

      THE WOMEN LOVE DRIZZY. WHEN HIS TOUR START NOTHING BUT BAD BITCHES IN THERE

      1. We get it. You love Drake, you want his dick so far up your ass, semen drips from your nose. Go ride his dick in privacy.

      2. um, the fact that drake appeals to women, the women love drake and will go to his concerts, and all you internet nerds loving sausage fest gangsta/hardcore rap where they don’t make songs for the ladies at all. shall i go on?

    42. Bitch u on cheap drugs like DMX how could you split your ass and talk so much lies on hiphopdx, son u spray like teargas. ONE OF U BITCHES MENTION ME AGAIN IM GONNA KILL U MOFUCKRS, I DO MY JOB AND GET MY PAPER. Getoff my dick bitch…

    43. the comments on this article just proves Drake has the lamest fans in all of hip-hop. I’m not even hating on Drake he got some good music and hes talented but holy shit I’ve never seen so many stans/fan boys in one place!

      1. that’s because drake is one of the best things to happen to hip hop, nigga. he deserves every single ounce of praise he gets.

      2. “but holy shit I’ve never seen so many stans/fan boys in one place!”

        ^ especially when Drake’s target demographic is women 14-35

      3. Youngsta, when I find you, I am gonna beat the GAY and WACK out of your bitch ass. Drake is the best thing to happen to hip hop? He’s practically a fuckin R&B singer, you fuckin cocklicker, he doesn’t represent real hip hop. You are the biggest faggot on this site, I swear.

    44. Im better than Drake, Bitch ass Kanye hes wack like his beats. The Dr cooks the best crack…These Trolls dont even know the name of my band..But they all an me like they wana suck dick…my dick, my, dick, my dick, my dick…Thats the remix Im putting in my next ulbum. Dont Buy Drake CD he was raping with sperm in him mouth. Buy mine Bitch I need to get some coke…

    45. How the fuck 2 Chainz sell more than MMG this week? Thats pretty bad when you consider how bad he flopped and hes outselling them second week?

      1. Silly question.

        Solo albums from Hot artists will always sell more than compilations, just look at Emenims solo albums compared to his compilation.

        On the bright side 2-Chainz & MMG could have released those projects as free mixtapes and still get 40-80K depending which artist on MMG. :).

        I don’t feel bad when these millionaires don’t sell a lot of records because a compilation like
        Self Made 3 will eventually sell 100K copies for $10 which covers its budget and allows the individual artists to eat off the singles sales and the show money.

    46. drake running this game whether you haters like it or not. eminem’s gonna flop.

      eminem’s been terrible since the eminem show:

      encore-trash album, was drugged the fuck up
      relapse-stupid ass, annoying accent all through the album
      recovery-pop trash, yelling through the album, weezy kills him on his own album
      mmlp2 will be no different.

      1. MMLP2 will outdo NWTS. Drake ain’t running shit.

        BTW, Wayne didn’t kill Eminem at all; it’s the opposite.

      2. Fuck you bitch go to bed, I got lots of money I dont give a fuck. Bitches like u get smacked by my fans world wide, I dont even have to know you to make u vanish bitch.

      3. cosign, feminem sucks his voice is annoying he raps about the same shit, he raps about raping and murder and shit when you know he wouldn’t say shit to the face of a real nigga like drake

      4. Hey assfucker Youngsta. Eminem has sold 50 MILLION records just in the US ALONE, YOU RETARDED MORON. He has 2 DIAMOND albums. AND, Eminem doesn’t sing, like faggot Drake, so he doesn’t have those little girl fans. Eminem has also sold ANOTHER 50 MILLION WORLDWIDE. Slap the SHIT outta yourself RIGHT FUCKIN NOW.

    47. All y’all niggas getting mad that Drizzy top of the rap game right now.

      This album WILL sell 1m within 4 weeks.

      Drake has proved time and again that he is TOP TIER commercial rap artist. He blends his music with R&B which is much better than Eminem who raps about shit he has never done (killing, raping etc).

      Drake is a real nigga, started from the bottom, now he selling 659k copies in a time where breaking 100k is considered decent.
      He has PROVED he can be handle himself in the rap game (stay schemin)

      Y’all just mad this nigga be chilling and keeping it real making hella money off the back of his lyrics that are undoubtedly better than any of you poor ass niggas who post on here. Also he getting all of that sweet sweet pussy on top.

      Don’t be mad niggas, just accept Drake is the King and once Gay-Z fucks off (he’s an old ass nigga he will leave soon) then Drake will be the GOAT for the next 20 years.

      1. Hey stupid fuck..AKA youngsta…AKA..some young faggot who knows nothing,

        Drake’s career is in it’s prime right now. Eventually, he’ll slowly start to become colder and colder just as most artists do. Think of Kanye around Graduation time. That’s like where Drake is now; at the PEAK. Drake is also more than just a rapper. He’s a fuckin singer as well, a very shitty singer, so he actually is really a Pop artist. So to do numbers like this is expected because he has such a wide fan base; more than what the normal “rapper” has. You’re an idiot.

        Sincerely,

        The Muthafuckin’ Man (who will punch you in the face sometime in the future if he sees you).

    48. Im the realest, lookatall these hoes dick rydin me, even here at hiphopdx I got trolls on my balls like pubic hair

    49. I’m a bitch ass pop fan who dickrides every mainstream artist under the age of 30 because I have no individual thought and taste. I have no life.

    50. 3 artists hit platinum and drake heading that way.

      And all that’s running through my head is ‘I can’t wait for Shady to blow all of their sales to date away in his first week out!’

    51. I wasn’t often feeling Drake’s stuff in the past, but NWTS is one hell of an album. ’40’ ‘s production is tight. The pop element is kept to a minimum . Yeah Drake sings, so does Kendrick Lamarr all over his album. As a whole, NWTS will define an era. In a few years time people will call it a classic

    52. numbers dont lie. Numbers provide facts and the best sales of the year go to drake proving he is the face of rap the hottest in the game right now. Learn to acknowledge facts instead of spewing your bullshit opinion. Old hasbins like camel z and feminem have both fell off they make trash music drake makes the biggest hits drake is the king of rap.

      1. ..Until a month from now when The Marshall Mathers LP 2 does at least 800,000+ minimum first week.

        Nice try though.

    53. If u bought Jay 2 Chainz Drake or MMG u need to look in the mirror n be real to urself u supporting a camel lookin nigga that fell off , a retard that cant spell rap never mind do the shit, the softest bitch-made ‘nigga’ in the game n a fat fuck who used to lock brothers up n laugh .

      Shits fucked up only album on there deserving the sales is Kendricks GKMC that nigga got serious bars gotta respect it.

      Respect to the roots Black Thought the best MC u never heard of

    54. yo yo yo, wassup on that real casual vibe my people, this your boy DICKY PETERS. Still stayin as cool as Sway without that dumbass hat. So let me toot it up in here for real like I just lost control with the Milk of Magnesia and busted up the plumbing: this article says the same old thing he did it to survive, aight that’s cool. What’s cooler? MY UPCOMING MIXAPE entitled ” DING DONG DICKY part ewwwno (1)”

      I know I know, everybody’s been sayin so much about me being unsigned hype and the tape is gonna drop in April, no June, no never. But it izzz cummins my people.

      dat boy tricky dicky out.

      1. illegitimately large johnson dysfunction bein that it shoot like a double clutch.

        EO EO I JUST PUT YOU DOWN SOFTLY H* NOW COP MY MAN TRICKY DICKS UPCOMING LIL TAPE DAT BISCH IS GON DO WORK.

        T TR TRI TRIC TRICK TRICKY DICK THE NIXON CHRONICLES VOL 2——unsigned hype is real

    55. just remember drake haters you are a small minority of virgin internet nerds. The mainstream and general music fans acknowledge drake as one of the best out today. Its just you hipster nerds that hate on one of the greatest rappers of our generation. Drake fans get pussy live life while you internet nerds live in jealousy and hate.

    56. I rep stinky tricky dicky and dat dude K Gates. I do not rep big big NENE LEAKES, go big girl what you ton do what you gon do…..

    57. lol at everyone threatening me behind a keyboard. y’all ain’t gonna do shit. beating up a minor? say hello to your new cellmate then.

      1. Hey boo,

        you know I love you youngster, why don’t you take me out again in your auntie’s PT cruiser drop top wit da chrome hubcaps. you remember dat boo? we was da talk of da town…SmOoChEs

      2. Typical stan comment. No one cares about his wallet besides you stans. How come Mark Zuckenberg, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, etc. don’t get the same criticism?

      3. wow, there’s a few people threatening me saying they’re going to beat the shit out of me, and I’M the e-thug? okay then.

      4. No, they didn’t. Nobody’s hating and no one cares about another person’s pockets besides you groupie stans. You have no valid argument.

      5. So what? It doesn’t make him a better person. You know who else makes a lot of money? Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Donald Trump, even those Jersey Shore retards.

      6. “Hey stupid fuck..AKA youngsta…AKA..some young faggot who knows nothing,

        Drake’s career is in it’s prime right now. Eventually, he’ll slowly start to become colder and colder just as most artists do. Think of Kanye around Graduation time. That’s like where Drake is now; at the PEAK. Drake is also more than just a rapper. He’s a fuckin singer as well, a very shitty singer, so he actually is really a Pop artist. So to do numbers like this is expected because he has such a wide fan base; more than what the normal “rapper” has. You’re an idiot.

        Sincerely,

        The Muthafuckin’ Man (who will punch you in the face sometime in the future if he sees you).”

        guess you weren’t looking hard enough.

      7. “BIZZALLS:
        Youngsta, when I find you, I am gonna beat the GAY and WACK out of your bitch ass. Drake is the best thing to happen to hip hop? He’s practically a fuckin R&B singer, you fuckin cocklicker, he doesn’t represent real hip hop. You are the biggest faggot on this site, I swear.”

        guess you weren’t looking hard enough.

      8. Man the fuck up instead of whining about it like a sensitive bitch. I guess that’s what Drake can do to you. Grow some balls.

      9. No, they’re not. They’re pieces of shit human beings. Two of them are talentless, spoiled cunts who got famous off of sex tapes, one’s a shitty Disney star turned fake ghetto white girl, one’s a douchebag Justin Timberlake/Vanilla Ice wannabe, one’s a douchebag billionaire, and the rest are a group of sleazebags with no talent.

      10. Two of them show real emotion on their tv shows and both can sing pretty well as well. Hilton will sell a million copies of her newest album on ymcmb and Kardashan might release an album on GOOD music (which it was on ymcmb.)

        Cyrus grew off her disney image and went no. 1 with wrecking ball, Bieber is a terrific human being, Donald Trump is a boss, and Jersey Shore is another terrific show.

      11. It’s obvious you’re dentalbitch because everything you said is BS. Paris and Kim K are talentless rich cunts who’ll never have successful music career. Miley’s a fake Rihanna imitation. Bieber and Trum are assholes, and Jersey Shore is the crappy bottom-of-the-barrel TV show degrading humanity. You don’t even believe everything you say.

      12. Paris is signed to ymcmb, thats successful enough. Kardashian did well with her first single. Miley Cyrus is different from rihanna, bieber only acts out if someone pissed him off, Trump is a real boss, and Jersey Shore is the new The real world.

      13. This obviously isn’t youngsta. He only praises people under the age of 30; Paris and Kim K are in their early 30s and Donald Trump is like, what, in his 60s? Yeah, this is the work of dentaldamboy.

    58. “Nelly (Republic) 12-15k”

      That’s gotta be pathetic if you can’t do even rich gang sales. Nelly used to sell 714k with nellyville in its 1st week. He’s the definition of falling off hard.

      And that’s a shame is because even though Im not a fan of him today, I used to listen to his music all the time when I was a kid. When I was around 7-10 years old, I loved nelly’s music. Even today he still shows up ocassionally with Jut a Dream or the remix to ccruise,

      1. Can you name an artist besides JayZ & Nas who hasn’t fallen off hard?

        The average run for an artist on top is about 5 years max all the big artist like Snoop, T.I., Luda, 50Cent, DMX, etc have fallen off and in about 5 years artists like Nicki, will have fallen off too.

      2. Yes I know artists do have a peak and then fall off but Nelly’s fall has been remarkable. How do you go from over 700k (nellyville) to just 15k (MO)? Name an artist who sells that low after having a high peak like that? Snoop Dogg’s peak came 20 years ago but Nelly’s was just 10 years ago. TI and Luda still sold over 100k opening week with their latest albums along with 50. Even DMX’s low sales came from being on an independent label where as Nelly still is on a major.

      3. Yes his last album did indeed flopped. It still sold 65k copies opening week. I wasn’t expecting anything more than 40k but barely over 10k?

    59. My question is why do people hate JayZ?

      I respect you if you just don’t like his music. But some people call him a sellout?

      why is it that so many blacks will only celebrate you as long as you dont get too much success? I’ll tell you. because those of us who think that way are the REAL enemy. you allow someone to program the idea in your head that blacks can’t be but so successful before they are considered a sell-out. it’s like a tax bracket. you good until you pass a certain success level. then you are a sell-out. Yall don’t even realize that this is a slave mentality.

      I’ve never seen a white person call Eminem a sellout lol

    60. TRICKY DICKY PETERS (dat down south boy):
      yo yo yo, wassup on that real casual vibe my people, this your boy DICKY PETERS. Still stayin as cool as Sway without that dumbass hat. So let me toot it up in here for real like I just lost control with the Milk of Magnesia and busted up the plumbing: this article says the same old thing he did it to survive, aight that’s cool. What’s cooler? MY UPCOMING MIXAPE entitled ” DING DONG DICKY part ewwwno (1)”

      I know I know, everybody’s been sayin so much about me being unsigned hype and the tape is gonna drop in April, no June, no never. But it izzz cummins my people.

      dat boy tricky dicky out.

    61. I see niggas on this site cant keep Ross name out they mouths. Even when the article has nothing to do with ross, one anonymous nigga still brings him up. Nigga you need to stop worrying about whats in Ross pockets and how many album sales he does and get your money up. Niggas on this site too worried about another niggas money. Like gossiping hoes on this site.

      Bawse!!!!!!!!!!!

    62. Don’t feel bad when you look at the lack of sales for most artists, we are in an era where you can get your music for free with the click of a button without ever leaving your home.

      HipHop has been shifting for a while now and leaning more towards whites and Hipsters with less emphasis on the streets and culture specific material.

      Platinum is dead, there were no new Platinum artists from 2006-2010 untill Drake came through and since then there have been 3 others (Mckelmore, Nicki, Kendrick)….and only one of those artists is an African-American….this is the new direction of HipHop.

      The whites don’t have to buy your CDs anymore, they can buy Emenim, Mac Miller, Drake, & Macklemore, people they can identify with from their own culture….

      Kendrick Lamar is a white/Hipster favorite despite him being an African-American bit afterall he’s a Dr Dre protege and Dr Dre is batting a thousand with his Aftermath protgs. Plus Kendrick shrewdly used musical elements to appeal to whites and Hipsters on their specific vibration by including white female pop singing on multiple songs off his album along with the pop JMSN…it worked to perfection and platinum certification.

      I don’t suggest other artists to throw Fergie on your album or start doing duets with Skylar Grey just to sell some extra records to the pop audience, I suggest to just keep dropping music despite what it sells and cater to your demographic audience and get your $$$$ from touring, endorsements and investments.

      Salute to 2-Chainz,, MMG, Ace Hood, Juicy J, Snoop, French, & Big Sean, and the other major label artist who didn’t sell a million albums but still got enough motion to get rich.

      1. Sorry y’all, but real hip hop heads don’t give a sh*t about album sales. If I like and artist I don’t base my decision to buy the album based on projected sales or media hype. You clowns chat and comment about sales, projected this and projected that, who sold more last week. Y’all are idiotic. If you like an artist, buy his/her sh*t and stop feeding into the competition.

      2. The people who are overly concerned with sales are usually the freakish nerds who lurk and troll HipHop forums, the normal people focus more on the music itself.

        I could care less about sales because I’m a part of the culture and I recognize that Vanilla Ice is a multi-platinum artist who sold 10 million copies of his debut rap album and Rakim dOesent have a platinum plaque for any of his solo albums…….that’s what sales means to me.

        Unlike other genres HipHop has the most disposable music due to the mixtape dynamic, our fans are spoiled from the abundance of quality free music they can get for free without the guilt of pirating.

        However sales in HipHop is always a outlet for losers/loners to celebrate Emenims sales and laugh when Talib Kweli only does 100K….it’s the nature of the beast.

    63. TOP 5 WORST TROLLS ON HHDX

      1.the ja rule troll
      2.the gucci troll
      3.dentaldamboy
      4.the Anally Pussified Anon Guy (Anonymous & :^) who says “Everything You Say Is BULLSHIT LIES” and “Haha Good Joke”
      5.quote-man

      1. Once again, I am a little angry that you have discluded me, I was 3rd just the other night & now you have me as dentaldam & I sure am not fucking dental. Drake is a fagy homo gaywad quuerbait & he loves all things penises & bholes.

    64. Drake is not gay, him & Manziel are just friends & sometimes friends can kiss & touch a little & it’s not fucking gay.

    65. encore-trash album, was drugged the fuck up
      relapse-stupid ass, annoying accent all through the album
      recovery-pop trash, yelling through the album, weezy kills him on his own album
      mmlp2 will be no different.

      1. Encore’s the only trash album out of the three. The other two are okay if you can get over the accents, the screaming, and the production.

    66. Ross has been on 3 of the most popular Top 40 hits in HipHop this year staying relevant while he maneuvers on an entrepanurial level.

      Wale (MMG) has the 5th best selling HipHop album of 2013 with a Gold selling single (Bad)., on tour with
      J. Cole getting his bread

      Meek Mill is still the hottest rapper in the streets and constantly on tour due to peeps love of his club bangers and high energy songs.

      Stalley just released his first retail E.P and his mixtape has been getting heavy critical acclaim.

      Ross can pretty much cash out and promote his artists, he’s made the HipHop Forbes list for the last 5 years and never had to go platinum to do it and this is an era where since Ross debut in 2006 the only new rappers to go Plat are Macklemore, Kendrick, Nicki, & Drake which shows you the direction of the culture in terms of sales.

      Self Made 3 was not going to do numbers in a year where Big Sean, 2-Chainz, and Juicy J could only do 70K with solo projects that had strong singles but the game is more white oriented and more hipster oriented and artists who cater to those demographics seem to be at the top of the charts.

      The only people attributing MMGs dip to Ross UOENO lyrics or his image are white geeks online who lurk HipHop forums for G-Unit singles and the new Skylar Grey songs.

      Hiphop is shifting gears, just look at the singles charts and the fact that the only African-American born artist to sell platinum since 2006 is Kendrick Lamar.

      1. Damn, MMG stan. Still making up bullshit and bringing up race in something that has nothing to do with it? Get a life.

      2. Rick Ross might never have the success of EM or 50…and definitely is not lyrically a better artist than EM…Deeper than Rap sure as hell was better than RELAPSE, Before I self Destruct, Curtis, ENCORE….man I swear everything FIF and EM have done on their past two albums was garbage compared to Ross…

        Say what you want to about him bein fake or wutever…in the end its all about the quality of music…and the quality of ROSS’ shit cannot be denied.

      3. Wouldnt the most popular top 40 hits be the ones that charter higher than 20?????? stop making shit up you gotta be getting paid for this shit, sound like a publicist

    67. The streets use to tell us when an album was a classic like illmatic, OBFCL, Ready to Die, Get rich or Die trying. Now you have Hipsters and people who have only been listening to hip hop for 5 years and the so called Hip Hop Nerds, since it’s the cool thing now, tell us what is a classic. Some of these people are Hipsters and Hip Hop Nerds and their insight of Hip Hop Culture is through concerts and Laptops from their safe Condos. And might never understand why people in Oakland love E-40, Gucci Mane in Altanta. And don’t even have black friends that might give them a real understanding of black culture, so now we have less knowledgeable journalists who have the means and connections writing about Hip Hop.

      These good old days of the Source and XXL are gone when they got their information from the streets. Not from Hipsters who love East Coast rap and Jay Z, but can never understand a Devin the Dude and Scarface from the South.

    68. “His weak ass album sold 16k second week for a grand total of 66k”

      Forget the numbers for a second. There were at least 3 good songs on there.

    69. Do we have confirmation that “youngster” is dating BIG BIG NENE LEAKES? please someone clear this up.

      P.S. I have seen him driving her around in his auntie’s drop top PT cruiser.

    70. “I make insightful comments yet people spend their time replying to dentalbitch, so icy fag, Quote bitch”

      Your mother’s the bitch, and your her ho. Little sensitive asshole, crying over comments.

      1. sad thing is, he cant even sell his records with the hottest single back then, how is he gonna do it with no single?

      2. Back in 2002, he did have hit singles that helped the album out. In 2010, Just a dream couldn’t help 5.0 do any better than brass knuckles. Its not like nelly was completely ignored on the radio, he had the cruise remix single which suceeded.

        MO isn’t even doing rich gang numbers LOLOL!! Nelly didn’t just fall off, he fell off hard.

    71. damn there is more fans than haters on this page. The real trolls are the drake haters you guys are really the trolls in my eyes so keep trolling haters

      1. I am just so confused & gay for Drake, All I ever think about is his crotch area, beans & franks & his weiner all day long, I want him in mah bhole.

    72. I don’t how this is a Hiphop list when the only Hiphop album listed is the Jay-Z album. All that shit on the list is Rap shit or with Drake and Janelle Monae, it’s R&B. That Macklemore shit is Pop. The fuck is wrong with people??? And since when the fuck was that racist clown Elvis Costello considered Hiphop?! Jfc! That list is a fuckin JOKE!! The mainstream/commercial world is equally a joke. Wow…

    73. I don’t even know why i’m looking at this bullshit. I don’t give a single fuck which album sells the most, it really doesn’t matter

      1. …y’all can’t because I got it on my phone and I got a little kiss action with them myself. MUAH!

      1. says the dude who tries his everything to downplay drake’s success and drops at least hundreds of comments on every single sales and drake article. if one human cares about sales, it’s you.

    74. Hello rock hard wonders. I got NENE LEAKS in da passenger seat of my PT Cruiser drophead. You all are jealous, bow down to the man and I may let you be in my crew.

    75. em is washed up, his new music sucks.

      DUDE IS OUT HIS PRIME OF RAP, HE IS NOT GOOD ANYMORE. JUST GIVE UP

      1. ok, I GIVE UP, now hop in the back of my PT CRUISER and lets speed off into the sunset baby!!!!

      2. bad meets evil, his last work was fire, it wasnt a classic but it was a great album, the shady 2.0 verse of eminem was literally the best bet cypher verse of all time, he did this in 2011,which were the last things he has done until now with mmlp2 so how has eminem fallen

    76. all you 50 cent dickriders can say what you want but Game is a fuckin LEGEND!

      i mean he still sold 3 million on doctors advocate without the help of 50, dre and em and he did what he had to do. He was kicked outta g unit cause 50 didnt want someone in his group that could compete with him for top spot he was jealous of all the attention game was gettin.

      The only reason 50 wants the other guys in his group is cause there wack and cant sell shit meaning they cant fuck wit him

      1. Ha, game is dead He played in my town Coffs Harbour NSW Australia in a pub that maybe holds like 500 people 2 weeks ago. Don’t tell me he done it for the love.

      2. game is over for dude. dropped one album where he lived off the buzz of the 3 trillion diss tracks aimed at g-unit while 50 was still seeing money from this idiot’s sales.

    77. You YMCMB haters are fucking idiots. Because I’m an accountant for Cash Money Records, I spend a lot of time with Birdman. He told me that in 1996, Biggie was looking to get out of his contract with Bad Boy so he could sign with Cash Money. If Cash Money is right for Biggie, then it’s clearly the top record label. Unfortunately, Jay-Z and Diddy found out about Biggie’s upcoming departure and had him shot!!

      Also, Birdman as always a role model for Pac. Most of you don’t know this, but the song Hit Em Up was originally supposed to be Split Em Up, a song where Pac brags about fucking Faith, leading to her breakup with BIG. But Birdman explained to Pac that real gangsta’s talking about killing people, so that’s how Hit Em Up took on such a violent tone.

      YMCMB for life. We got the game by the clit!

      1. This is 100% true. I found the same bit of information last night when I was digging for news stories in my asshole.

    78. “What Im saying is true”

      If you’re saying your a bitch made punk complaining about posts then yeah, you go on with your truth telling self.

    79. “3 out of 16? lol thats like 71% songs that are not good”

      Before I Self Destruct had only 2 good songs out of 16. Most albums are lucky if they have one song people will want to hear for more than a few weeks.

      1. the same itunes chart you laughed at when 50 cent had the number 1 song LOL go on quoteman keep contradicting yourself

    80. “Sales don’t Matter” = completely false

      legends and icons are given those titles because of sales. the best reflection of fan support, no matter what year it is.

      1. I do not pay for music so that logic does not apply to me. I do not judge an album or artist by what they have sold, I could not care less about any of that. So if I am to say “sales don’t matter” then that would be a correct statement from me personally. That is my opinion, as is your opinion that sales do in fact matter.

    81. thank you.

      artists get dropped from labels because of poor album sales, so of course they matter. And the ones not selling albums are signed to 360 deals so the label eats off their touring and merch. basically making them slaves for a few years.

      1. Artists don’t need a label to make music you idiot, some of my favorite artists are independent and I listen to their music on free mixtapes.

    82. Hey all 😉 I got my PT CRUISER DROPHEAD hooked up by XZIBIT (one of the g.o.a.t. IMO) so now that bad bisch has a hot tub in the back. Essentially it’s a PT CRUISER DROPHEAD LIMO WITH A JIZZCUZI (hehe)

      …..and do you know who is in the back chillin in that Jacuzzi? BIG NENE LEAKES. get like me! one live gangsters!

    83. drake is killing the game right now he is on top and the haters hate so much because they know that drake is the face of hiphop.

    84. quick question though how come so many people are quick 2 compare drake sales to jay z’s and forget that wayne also has an album that came out in march that flopped big time….

      1. GTFOH. That wasn’t a side project, that was a full-fledged studio album. They promoted the hell out of that album, so you’re wrong.

      1. HHDX writers are a bunch of Ja haters. they dont post the positive news about Ja, just last week hed given out over 25mill to the homeless all over the world. on the other hand HHDX is trying to boycott the mans career that why u will always see the same made up article at related. (RELATED: Ja Rule Admits Losing To “50 Cent” ) while anyone with common knowledge knows HHDX is twisting the facts around “RELATED: 50 Cent Admits Losing To Ja Rule The Great” is what the headlines should be. rule heads know. Ja Rule sold millions

    85. Lol the fact that someone like this with such a bitch ass voice is appealing and sells high numbers, shows me that this new generation is filled with bitch niggas LOL

      1. it’s all just due to the fact that you so-called heads don’t support, so it’s only right that yall have taken away your power in hip hop.

      2. Gays run the world including the music industry, especially the Pop side of it. Oh my, how ironic Drake is sitting atop the Pop industry right now, hmmmm…

      1. No Gza? No Guru? No Krsone? No Scarface? Jay, Nas, Em…are alreay the top three….you can debate the rest. For the record, Gunplay is way better than phat boy. keep it moooving…

    86. “the same itunes chart you laughed at when 50 cent had the number 1 song”

      For a day lol And that was thanks to Eminem and Adam Levine.

      1. Quoteman is the same dude who thinks its better to be a gold selling artist for a whole career like Ross than to have gone plat 3 times in the past then became a gold selling artist like Jeezy!!!

    87. “It means a lot, especially more than iTunes”

      All Billboard does is post song rankings. Itunes generates money.

      1. When he does go Gold like the last two albums some geek will slither out of the woodwork and say: Yeah he went Gold dude but it only barely went Gold dude.

        LOL, if he makes 6 million again next year some geek will slither out of the woodwork and say:
        Yeah dude he barley made 6 but Diddy made 60 dude.

        It’s hilarious how Ross trolls these kids with the help of people like Jadakiss, Nas, and Kanye.

    88. Yeah Ross has been consistent enough to sell Gold in 2006 and still be Gold in 2012.

      Artist like Jeezy, Tip, & Luda used to be platinum before 2006 but now they are Gold also.

      Some artists lose fans over a period of time some gain fans.

      There were no new platinum rappers starting in 2006 when Ross debuted untill 2010 when a Canadian mullatto named Drake went platinum and then Nicki, McKelmore & Kendrick followed.

      Due to piracy rappers learned that record sales weren’t going to feed their families so they branched out and created other revenue streams to get paid.

      1. keep changing your name everytime you post dude we cant tell its you LMAO. you the only one on here typing paragraphs defending ross

    89. “i’d take number 1 for a day over 9 for 1 day then 17 the next”

      Anybody can be #1 for a day. That’s nothing. You think Jimmy was excited My Life was #1 for 24 hours? Did it make him want to release the album any faster? You know the answers already.

    90. “whole career like Ross than to have gone plat 3 times in the past then became a gold selling artist like Jeezy!!!”

      That’s because you can’t live in the past. Jeezy went platinum three times. Big deal. DMX used to go platinum too. Now he’s going wood. You have to look at what artists are doing now cause that’s all that matters. Are record execs talking about Jeezy’s platinum albums from the past? Of course not. That money has long been spent.

    91. “his last album did 6700 in 2 years!”

      At least he got it out. Where’s Street King? Where’s Banks, or Yayo’s albums? It’s easy to take shots at an artist who doesn’t have the resources at hand to deliver the kind of album we know he can deliver. In comparison, 50 still had Interscope for his last album, and that thing has sold a grand total of 0 in 4 years lol It’s that bad folks.

    92. “I dont even like 50 cent why you always bring him up”

      To show that even 50 Cent is struggling. Maybe not money wise, but career wise, just like Ja Rule and many others.

      1. struggling? hes in the top 5 richest rappers with jay, diddy, dre and birdman struggling isnt in his vocabulary

    93. Cyberdyne is initially a benign manufacturing corporation at 18144 El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, California. Its products are unknown, but from the equipment in its factory and its high tech-sounding name, it seems possible that Cyberdyne might have been some sort of smaller parts producer for larger manufacturers of high tech equipment.

    94. Cyberdyne eventually develops Skynet, a network of supercomputers that employ artificial intelligence in order to replace human beings as commercial and military aircraft pilots, and for the control of other military systems, including nuclear missiles. The system goes online on August 4, 1997

    95. On August 29, 1997, Skynet becomes self-aware. In a panic, humans attempt to shut it down, but Skynet retaliates by launching a nuclear attack against Russia, knowing that the Russian counterattack will eliminate its enemies in the United States, initiating an indeterminately long period of global warfare.

    96. It is revealed that Cyberdyne is still in existence as of 2003. In 2003, Dr. S K convinces M W to sign a paper to donate his body to P A, a project of the genetics division of Cyberdyne Systems.

    97. “50 still had Interscope for his last album, and that thing has sold a grand total of 0 in 4 years lol It’s that bad folks”

      ^ word?

      Where’s the PROOF? Where the spreadsheet at? The corporate memo?

      YOU were trying to tell the people Ja AND Irv were broke the other day, NOW you telling us ANOTHER artist on a DIFFERENT label’s business?

      WHERE
      IS
      THE
      PROOF

      BISD sold ZERO the last 4 years?

    98. “hes in the top 5 richest rappers”

      Not currently. Jay Z and Diddy have more money and will exceed a billion before it’s over. If 50 is doing so well why can’t he get his album out? Where’s his new deal? Where’s G Unit? Why did Stallone say he was the worst actor he’s ever been in a movie with?

      1. what you mean not currently. no one is denying jay and diddy have more but besides them Dre and Birdman no one else is anywhere close to 50’s money, hence one of the top 5 richest rappers moron

    99. “i’d take number 1 for a day over 9 for 1 day then 17 the next”

      It was actually #11 today. Fell a whole two spots.

    100. Eazy-E kept it so real and sick that he died and overdosed on AIDS. Don’t fuck with the corporation executives y’all.

      Tupac was about that Thug Life and kept it so street that he got clapped in the streets of Las Vegas. Biggie and Big L were so big in the streets, they got clapped in the NYC nigga.

      Chief Keef is so fucking street, he released baby gangsta tears when he found out he was going to the little kids’ slammer for 30 days. Keeps it so black that he has bad credit, doesn’t pay rent on time, gets no education, and never shows up on time. Keeps it 3hunna, just like Gucci Mane when he slappin’ bitch ass hoes.

      DMX kept is so real he did crack and went into the slammer 69 times, 69 places, 69 different positions.

      Too Short kept it so real he ran from the cops while under the influence. He’s a player.

      50 Cent kept it so real and kept his bitches in check, his ass got checked and charged with domestic violence.

      Lil Wayne keeps is so real, he’s able to be a Blood, Crip, and a Punk Rocker all at once (doesn’t get realer than that shit). He also performs homoerotic hood rituals with Birdman every weekend. That shit is fucking trill.

      Meek Mill keeps it so street, he fucks with a former officer to get him off the streets. William Roberts meating Robert Williams. Street connections baby.

      I mean, when does keeping it real ever go wrong……..?

    101. “16 when i just looked”

      Not like it matters, but songs don’t drop multiple times during a day. It was #11 yesterday. Don’t know or care about today. Fact is the song is generating some buzz.

      1. when i looked yesterday it was 17 and when i looked earlier today it was 16 and it says 16 right now in my itunes

    102. “no one else is anywhere close to 50’s money”

      There are television actors making more than 50. His net worth was impressive years back, but now due to his irrevelance, nobody cares. He’s scraping the bottom of every barrel to make money. Boxing promotion lol STV movies lol A cartoon lol Somebody with his money should have his own TV show.

    103. Jim Caviezal said working with 50 was painful and very awkward. Said he almost quit acting after being subjected to so many mumbled lines that nobody, not even Stallone could understand.

    104. Robert Deniro said the worst experience he ever had on the set of a film was with 50 on the set of Righteous Kill. Al Pacino denies 50 was even in the movie.

    105. He’s clearly an old school actor who believes in respect and doing things one way. Jay was disrespectful and was called out on it. He’s earned the right to be grumpy.

    106. When a legendary actor calls you six times and you can’t take five minutes out of your life to return one of them, that is called being disrespectful. If he didn’t want to record a song Deniro wanted, all he had to do was call back and say no, or have an assistant do it.

      1. Now Quoteman is gonna hate on a man for creating and or producing 3 new tv shows for premium cable channels because he can only afford basic cable

    107. Hiphop album sales 2013 (updated)
      ——————————
      TOP 10
      ——————————
      JAY Z – Magna – Carta Holy Grail : 1,004,000
      DRAKE – Nothing Was The Same : 659,000
      JCOLE – Born Sinner : 604,000
      LIL’ WAYNE – I Am Not A Human Being II : 560,000
      KANYE WEST – Yeezus : 541,000
      A$AP ROCKY – Long. Live. A$AP : 414,000
      WALE – The Gifted : 319,000
      KID CUDI – Indicud : 247,000
      MAC MILLER – Watching Movies With The Sound Off 189,000
      TYLER, THE CREATOR – Wolf : 160,000

      ——————————
      TOP 20
      ——————————

      TYGA – Hotel California : 154,000
      FRENCH MONTANA – Excuse My French : 136,000
      2 CHAINZ – Based On A True Story 2 : 115,000
      JUICY J – Stay Trippy : 114,000
      BIG SEAN – Hall Of Fame : 104,000
      TECH N9NE – Something Else : 92,000
      JOE BUDDEN – No Love Lost : 78,540
      MMG – Self Made Volume 3 : 66,000
      EARL SWEATSHIRT – Doris : 64,000
      ACE HOOD – Trials & Tribulations : 55,000

      Hip hop album sales 2012 (updated)
      ——————————
      TOP 10
      ——————————

      MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS – The Heist : 1,089,000
      KENDRICK LAMAR – Good Kid, m.A.A.d City : 1,046,000
      NICKI MINAJ – Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded : 885,000
      2 CHAINZ – Based On A T.R.U. Story : 626,000
      RICK ROSS – God Forgives, I Don’t : 548,000
      T.I. – Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head : 499,000
      G.O.O.D. MUSIC – Cruel Summer : 458,000
      WIZ KHALIFA – O.N.I.F.C. : 406,000
      NAS – Life Is Good: 372,000
      MEEK MILL – Dreams And Nightmares : 368,000

      ——————————
      TOP 20
      ——————————

      TYGA – Careless World : Rise of the Last King : 352,000
      FUTURE – Pluto : 336,000
      B.O.B. – Strange Clouds : 290,000
      THE GAME – Jesus Piece : 281,258
      MAYBACH MUSIC GROUP – Self Made Vol. 2 : 279,000
      PROJECT X – Original Soundtrack : 274,000
      LECRAE – Gravity : 234,500
      CHIEF KEEF – Finally Rich : 192,000
      MACHINE GUN KELLY – Lace Up : 189,000
      LUPE FIASCO – Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1 : 186,000

    108. Hip Hop album sales 2011 (updated)
      ——————————
      TOP 10
      ——————————

      LIL WAYNE – The Carter IV : 2,296,000
      DRAKE – Take Care : 2,049,000
      JAY-Z & KANYE WEST – Watch The Throne : 1,573,000
      WIZ KHALIFA – Rolling Papers : 815,000
      BAD MEETS EVIL – Hell: The Sequel EP : 773,113
      YOUNG JEEZY – TM 103: Hustlerz Ambition : 689,000
      J. COLE – Cole World: The Sideline Story : 675,000
      LUPE FIASCO – Lasers : 517,813
      PITBULL – Planet Pit : 509,000
      WALE – Ambition : 482,000

      ——————————
      TOP 20
      ——————————

      MAC MILLER – Blue Slide Park : 390,000
      BIG SEAN – Finally Famous : 368,000
      BEASTIE BOYS – Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2 : 353,030
      GAME – The R.E.D. Album : 278,000
      MAYBACH MUSIC GROUP – Self Made Vol. 1 : 246,269
      TYLER, THE CREATOR – Goblin : 239,000
      LONELY ISLAND – Turtleneck & Chain : 238,799
      TECH N9NE – All 6’s & 7’s : 230,500
      CHILDISH GAMBINO – Camp : 224,000
      YELAWOLF – Radioactive : 177,000

    109. “gonna hate on a man for creating and or producing 3 new tv shows for premium cable channels because he can only afford basic cable”

      I could buy you a thousand times over small fry.

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