Many artists saw surges in sales right before the New Year as people reflected on their favorite albums of 2015. Fetty Wap’s numbers grew 69 percent, Bryson Tiller saw a 59 percent increase in sales and Rae Sremmurd went from #148 to #47 for an 85 percent jump. Adele’s 25 album remains in the #1 position of Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart in its sixth week, selling 363,000 album equivalent units. Chris Brown sees a 70 percent drop in Royalty‘s second week on the list, but is still in the Top 10 at #8.
Drake & Future Reclaim Chart Position
Drake and Future reach #14 in this week’s chart with a 63 percent surge in sales for What a Time to Be Alive. The album sold 40,544 album equivalent units prior to the New Year’s holiday. Each rapper’s individual project from 2015 also saw sales increases. Future’s Dirty Sprite 2 is the #18 album of the week, selling 34,341 album equivalent units for a 45 percent increase. Drake’s If Youre Reading This Its Too Late surges 43 percent to land at #29 with 27,670 sales.
J. Cole Fans Prepare For His Homecoming
J. Cole has been releasing his series of behind-the-scene documentaries leading up to the release of his HBO homecoming documentary Saturday (January 9). His 2014 Forest Hills Drive was released at the tail end of 2014 and was certified platinum in 2015. This week, the album lands at #30 with a 26 percent increase in sales with 25,909 album equivalent units sold.
Kid Ink Debuts With Surprise Project
Kid Ink surprised fans with the Christmas release of Summer In The Winter. The album debuts at #50, selling 15,885 album equivalent units and being streamed 1.5 million times. Kid Ink’s 2014 album, My Own Lane, debuted at #3 on the chart in 2014. His Full Speed project peaked at #14.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 12/31/2015
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.
#5 Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap – 70,434 (18,517) [18,178,125]
#6 The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness – 69,153 (24,747) [23,675,888]
#8 Chris Brown – Royalty – 54,723 (36,067) [13,022,572]
#10 Bryson Tiller – Trapsoul – 52,823 (24,869) [24,063,282]
#13 G-Eazy – When It’s Dark Out – 44,712 (21,925) [14,597,709]
#14 Drake and Future – What a Time To Be Alive – 40,544 (10,888) [18,160,934]
#18 Future – Dirty Sprite 2 – 34,341 (13,845) [15,365,445]
#29 Drake – If Youre Reading This Its Too Late – 27,670 (11,227) [12,565,133]
#30 J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive – 25,909 (10,701) [10,987,164]
#43 Travi$ Scott – Rodeo – 18,749 (4,741) [7,653,283]
How hard is it to get the totals,damn.
Not one of the artist listed will have a true 5 mic classic album under there belt shows how far rap has fallen in the last few yrs SMH
Yup!
Drizzaveli got classics for days! What the fuck are you on? Wait until “Views from the 6” drops, album of the decade right there. And he will finally shut your hating asses up. #DrakeIsLoveDrakeIsLife
Drake “If Your Reading This…” is a classic and J Cole “Forrest Hill” is probably a classic. The problem is the current hiphop climate thinks classics are born overnight. It takes times for classics to be appreciated. Many people hated on albums that are now considered classics at the current time. Tribe Called Quest’s “Midnight Maurarders” had a 2 star rating in RollingStone. The Beatles first album was lambasted by critics as dumb pop. When people look back Drake, they will see the clear influence – Bryson Tiller, Weekend and Fetty Wap – would unlikely be on here if not Drake popularizing his brand of sing-songy rap. Great artists are more appreciated with age.
Kind of a bad comparison since Drake and Cole’s albums are praised by critics from the gate while you listed past albums that were bashed by critics and later viewed as classics.
classic fake pop singing bitch, pull your cock outta his ass ovo kid, he a fucking joke who can’t write his own material, steals from others, gets slapped into the hospital like the bitch he is FUCK DRAKE FUCK OVO #DRAKEISFAKEDRAKEISWACK
Please. IYRTITL is not a classic and Drake did not popularize singsongy-rap, that style has been around since the 90s with Bone Thugs. Many rappers have done this style before Aubrey, he didn’t popularize shit,.
hip hop dx ya’ll gotta understand, ya’ll not posting total sales and posting digital numbers niggaz not gonna care to look at that. we want album sales
Men what are the square bracket numbers and the middle numbers in curved brackets? Im confused. Where are the album totals? You guys should have a legend or some kind of marker for this.
Black music is dead. Everyone on the charts are white.
didn’t know fetty wap, weeknd, chris brown, bryson tiller, future and travis scott were white.
I hope Drake dies a slow, painful death.