Two of the top 3 spots on the Billboard Hot 200 belong to Hip Hop albums. A$AP Rocky’s At. Long. Last. A$AP is the Harlem, New York rapper’s second album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 200. Boosie Badazz scored his highest charting album by landing at #3 this week and Ed Sheeran’s X bumps up one spot.
A$AP Rocky Scores Second Straight #1 Album
A$AP Rocky is two-for-two when it comes to albums landing on the top spot of Billboard charts. Rocky followed up the success of 2013’s Long Live A$AP by debuting #1 on the charts again with his latest offering, At. Long. Last. A$AP. The album was streamed over 25 million times according to soundscan and Rocky fans snatched over 116,000 albums from store shelves.
Boosie Badazz Debuts At #3
Boosie Badazz’s sixth studio album, Touchdown to Cause Hell, landed at the #3 spot on Billboard’s Hot 200, which makes the album his highest charting project ever.
The album is the rapper’s first project since being released from prison last March. Boosie Badazz (formerly known as Lil Boosie) sold over 59,000 copies of Touchdown to Cause Hell in its first week and it was streamed over 2 million times, according to Soundscan.
“Furious 7” Still In The Top 10
The soundtrack to the uber successful Fast & Furious 7 movie has remained in the top 10 since one month after its release. The album debuted at # 12 on the chart, fell to #17 a week later, before ascended up the chart 15 spots to #2 .
The album peaked at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 albums chart during its fourth week. The soundtrack’s success is largely due to the hit single “See You Again” by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 05/31/2015
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. A$AP Rocky – At. Long. Last. A$AP. – 146,478 (116,731) [25,606,242]
#3. Boosie Badazz – Touchdown to Cause Hell – 63,932 (59,392) [2,512,274]
#7. Ed Sheeran – X – 35,440 (18,146) [8,562,882]
#10. Various – Furious 7 – 29,684 (5,926) [7,599,732]
#16. Drake –If Youre Reading This Its Too Late – 24,459 (9,966) [14,382,408]
#19. Nicki Minaj – Pinkprint – 20,299 (4,177) [9,651,197]
#32. Jamie Foxx – Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses – 13,565 (11,239) [1,312,523]
#35. J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive – 12,921 (6,405) [6,104,280]
#36. Kendrick Lamar –To Pimp A Butterfly – 12,863 (7,743) [5,184,730]
#37. Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise – 12,756 (3,507) [6,780,146]
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Damn DX, do we have to say this every week!! This data is pointless without TOTAL ALBUM SALES. Lose the streaming numbers if u have to.
Right…They’re about to lose me with this reporting format…I HATE IT!
Kendrick Lamar is going Diamond!!!Fuck platinum
Love Story is by far still the album of the year and still selling well I don’t see why the numbers are not on here and I agree with my man we need total album sales on here replace the streams with total album sales if you have too!!
How is Boosie pushin 60,000..he’s horrible
All the ASAP Rocky fans thought the samething but once they actually gave it a shot and listend to it they were shocked like I was.Im a huge ASAP Rocky fan but I got to give it to Boosie he had the better album no lie.Asap sells 100k the first week because he’s mainstream.Go listen to Td2Ch I’ll save you the trouble just download these three tracks and I’m sure you will see why Boosie deserve more credit than his getting “Black Heaven” “Mercy on my Soul” ” Hip Hop Hooray” & “On Deck” that’s four
Ed Sheeranis hiphop? news to me
this sale reporting format is so so Fuckd. .put up the overall sales dx
Agreed 100%
Drake’s killing the game. Salute the 6God!
LOL good joke.
NOT SO FAST OVO DRAKES NEW ALBUM MAYBE THE HIGHEST SELLING HIP HOP ALBUM OUT RIGHT NOW BUT DRAKE AIN’T KILLIN SHIT J.COLE IS AND THAT’S A TRUE FACT WHO WON TOP RAP ALBUM AT THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS THIS YEAR J.COLE LOL DRAKE HAS NEVER WON ANY TROPIES AT THE BILLBOARD AWARDS SURPRISINGLY AND HE’S BEEN NOMATIED FOR 20 AWARDS J.COLE ABOUT TO GO PLATINUM IN ANOTHER 3-5 MONTHS AND WILL BE THE FIRST ALBUM TO GO PLATINUM IN 25 YEARS WITHOUT A FEATURED ARTIST SORRY TO RAIN ON YOUR DRAKE PARADE BUT DRAKE HAS YET TO DO THAT SO TECHNICALLY DRAKE NEEDS TO ASK FOR HELP NIGGAS GOTTA DO IT FOR HIM AND THEMSELVES THAT PRETTY MUCH SUMS IT UP DRAKE NEEDS A HAND FROM OTHER POPULAR ARTISTS TO GO FROM 0 TO 100 WHILE J.COLE JUST USED SAMPLES, PRODUCED HIS OWN ALBUM, AND WENT SOLO ON IT J. COLE FT. J.COLE ON EVERY TRACK DRAKE MAYBE THE KING BUT HE AIN’T THE GOD NIGGA COLE THE GOD JANUARY 28TH U SALTY HATERS SO CALL ME WHEN DRAKE PRODUCES HIS OWN MUSIC AND MAKES A PLATINUM ALBUM ON HIS OWN WITHOUT ANY GUESS FEATURES HATS OFF TO COLE FOR DOING IT BY HIMSELF DREAMVILLE, ROC NATION, COLE WORLD 4LIFE
Asap rocky alla album is shit. That mos def yasiin bey joint is pointless crap beats crap flow.. Ed sheeren is hip hop? Lol no he make waterd down blues
They tryna make it seem relevant when all the sales look like cannabis or inmortal tech shit….no diss but streams aint nothing niggas selling less that 10,000 physical copies…go pop and the real dont fuck with you…streaming lol who paying for that??
How man units has the new murs album moved?
Fo sho whats all this streaming shit. Whats the real numbers how many niggas went gold or platnium can some one let me know
That New Boosie go hard af.
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