After debuting at #3 this last week, Yelawolf’s Love Story dropped a dozen spots to #15 on the Billboard 200 in the second week of the album’s availability. Drake, meanwhile, rode out the second week of the physical release of his latest album in the Top 10 at #5 after the CD-sales boosted him back to #4 last week.
The soundtrack to Furious 7 continues putting up big numbers but holds onto its spot in the Top 3 thanks to big streaming numbers and the sale of single songs from the album, both of which count towards the recently implemented total activity column on Billboard’s chart.
Just below Yelawolf at #15, Insane Clown Posse’s new album, The Marvelous Missing Link: Lost, debuted in the Top 20 at #17 after selling nearly 18,00 copies in its first week, a higher sales count than several albums in the Top 10. R&B upstart Kehlani appears on the chart for the first time of her career with her You Should Be Here project rising to #36. More than a dozen spots lower, Raekwon’s new solo album, F.I.L.A., made a splash at #60 after selling just under 8,000 units in its first week on shelves.
Drake Falls To #5
Months after the original digital release, Drake released an extended CD version of his latest album last week and saw the record jump up the charts as a result. In the second week of the CD being available on shelves, Drake saw If Youre Reading This Its Too Late’s activity count stutter 24% compared to last week. Drake sold another 18,441 copies of the album this week and still has the highest streaming count of any artist on the chart.
Yelawolf Falls From #3 To #15
With last week’s Love Story rollout serving as the best first-week performance of his career, Yelawolf’s second album for Shady Records tumbled down the chart to #15 this week. The album sold 14,772 copies at most recent count and was streamed more than 2.8 million times over the last week.
ICP Break Into Top 20 With New Album
Insane Clown Posse’s notoriously cultish fans showed out last week and bought up 17,819 copies of the group’s new album, The Marvelous Missing Link: Lost. The album, the duo’s thirteenth, ended up with more pure album sales than several records in the Top 10.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 04/26/2015
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.
#3. Various – Furious 7 – 53,287 (14,337) [10,711,156]
#5. Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late – 36,675 (18,441) [17,458,357]
#15. Yelawolf – Love Story – 19,527 (14,772) [2,847,883]
#17. Insane Clown Posse – The Marvelous Missing Link: Lost – 17,938 (17,819) [66,617]
#18. Nicki Minaj – Pinkprint – 17,645 (4,237) [8,960,095]
#19. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly – 17,379 (10,676) [7,085,611]
#21. Empire Cast – Original Soundtrack From Season 1 – 16,579 (12,646) [2,415,406]
#23. Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise – 15,820 (5,076) [8,146,815]
#32. Mark Ronson – Uptown Special – 14,082 (2,271) [3,972,090]
#36. Kehlani – You Should Be Here – 13,460 (12,099) [439,368]
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how come Yelawolf cant sell like those other 2 white boys
Yelawolf don’t make bubble gum music
couldnt tell you..all i hear in hiphops white priv..still looking for it.
So explain how ICP is on this chart then?
That T Wayne Freestyle dope. Glad to see its finding huge success. It’s a shame lil wayne shares the name with t wayne as lil wayne was shit since being disloyal. And Trap Qubeen rocks.
You’re just gonna cosign every terrible rap song otu there, are you? Nasty Freestyle and Trap Queen sucks ass and balls. And T-Wayne ripped off Wayne.
T-Pain plus Lil Wayne equlas T-Wayne
Not this T Wayne. This completely seperate. That t wayne since disbanded. I’m cosigning new talent. Wack talent is someone like kendrick.
No, you’re cosigning wack talent, which is T-Wayne. Kendrick is not wack at all.
T wayne just broke into the top 10. Bet that makes you pissed doesn’t it?
No. Just disappointed that people are making shitty songs famous. The only reason Nasty Freestyle succeeded was because of Vine and nothing else. T-Wayne is the newest one-hit wonder rapper who everyone will forget about by the next 6 months.
Trap queen dope too. Letty will have a big future as a rapper.
No, Trap Queen is also trash like Nasty Freestyle. Fetty Wap won’t have any future as a rapper as he’ll be forgotten about and irrelevant by the next few months.
If You’re Reading This It’s Too Drake
How the hell did ICP sell that much? I have never EVER heard a decent song made by them, so I just can’t understand this…
I was near an FYE just outside Detroit and I seen a bunch of juggalos around and wondered what was going on, I guess ICP was doing in stores and they make different covers of their albums so off 10,000 fans you could sell 20-30K copies. I was in the smoke store and some goofy juggalo said what up nigga, I just looked at him weird and got my ports.
They didn’t make different covers this time. They DID have a limited edition cover if you preordered off of their web store. They also had contests/In-stores/etc, meaning they actually ENGAGE with their fans, who are already super loyal.
Is pretty sad that we as JUGGALO’s embrace all ppl equally and this Sam guy has the nerve to call another human being “some goofy Juggalo ” once more it proves to the world that Juggalo Family is not below any of you H8ERS
God bless and hope you the best Sam
ICP….20 years Deep n still killing shit.I know all u fucks hate it….
Im happy for ICP, Im just not into Insane Clown Posse anymore. I was into them when they were doing the gangster shit. Their old albums had a gangster rap circus theme around it. I feel the same way about Twiztid. Both groups are multi faced, and I still really enjoy the songs from the Psychopathic Rydas group that theyre in. Dumpin, Ryden Dirtay, and Eat Shit and Die albums never leave my whip. Ever. That First Twiztid record was the hardest rap record by two white guys ever also. Hands down.
I think Kendrick’s album deserves a better spot…but in the society we are in,where whack shitty songs sell…well,it’s just a shame.These days only stupid songs and albums call the shots.It’s probably the reason why I’m hearing someone say that bitchass T Wayne got talent more than Kendrick…man,are you crazy?It’s why Kendrick or J.Cole can’t be given any attention…look around,white people have snatched the sound.
The real rap god continued to wreck the charts. Bums like kendrick yelawolf and all the other so called real hip hop rappers are irrelevant. It is an undeniable fact that drake is the face of rap.
Wrong, Drake is not wrecking anything an he’s not a god in anything rap. Kendrick and Yelawolf aren’t bums and are not irrelevant if they’re still on the charts. Your last sentence is a lie as Drake is not the face of anything. Hop off the dick.
That gangbanger hip hop drake does is the same as all the rest of the mainstream SELLOUT hurt bag lost for their own idea over compensated on the radio from corperate mind eaters with to much Cheddar. Of course the clowns have a big following they keep true to they’re work and won’t let the man (Walt Disney) in power change how they mix or distribute there media if it wasn’t for them a lot of the mainstream Crwrappers wouldn’t be around they even gave hope to them when they were feeling hard times.
50 cent quietly went 10x platinum with Animal Ambition, yall dont see Curtis or his fans bragging about it.GGGGGGG-UNNNIT. Its 2003 all over again. 50 cent about to release that organic music, yall need to understand that Street King Immortal actual recording process takes time, because this is the actual last album for Aftermanth/Shady/Interscope.
Watch out for Street King Immortal
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