Jill Scott lands at the top of the charts in the debut week of her album, Women. Eminem joins the top five with the Southpaw soundtrack. Future, Meek Mill and Tyrese all remain in the top 10 of the Billboard Top 200 chart. Hopsin also appears in the top 20 strictly off album sales with his independent release, Pound Syndrome.
Future Lands At #2
Future’s Dirty Sprite 2 was dethroned by Jill Scott’s Women. The Atlanta rapper’s project debuted at the top spot last week.
Eminem’s “Southpaw” Debuts At #4
The soundtrack for Southpaw reaches the #4 spot on this week’s chart. The project, executively-produced by Eminem, features original music from the Detroit rapper. The film brought in $16.7 million its first weekend.
Meek Mill Remains in Top 10
Meek Mill’s sophomore effort, Dreams Worth More Than Money, lands at #8 on this week’s chart. This is the Philadelphia rapper’s fourth week in the top 10 after debuting at #1.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 7/30/2015
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.
#2 Future – Dirty Sprite 2 – 53,003 (30,950) [23,057,177]
#4 Eminem and Others – Southpaw: Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture – 49,252 (32,307) [7,893,909]
#8 Meek Mill – Dreams Worth More Than Money – 31,082 (12,743) [16,288,917]
#10 Tyrese – Black Rose – 25,016 (22,481) [1,938,852]
#12 Drake – If Youre Reading This Its Too Late – 21,011 (7,040) [14,503,053]
#18 Hopsin – Pound Syndrome – 17,149 (17,149) [0]
#24 Nicki Minaj – Pinkprint – 14,848 (2,946) [9,519,079]
#25 Major Lazer – Peace is the Mission – 14,375 (1,895) [6,808,152]
#27 J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive – 13,799 (6,187) [7,573,611]
#31 Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise – 12,537 (2,701) [8,086,027]
Eminem is not pushing big units these days
It’s a soundtrack, not an Eminem album.
Em’s last solo album debuted at #1 and was the 2nd highest selling album of 2013 (behind Timberlake’s). He’s doing just fine.
Nah, big A is right. Eminem isn’t moving units these days. Doesn’t matter if it’s a soundtrack. If Eminem’s name is attached to it, all his dickriding fans should’ve went and copped it. If Drake put out a soundtrack to a movie, guarantee it would go Gold in a week. #DrakeIsLoveDrakeIsLife
No, big A is wrong. Eminem is still moving units these days, he just hasn’t released an album since 2013. The Southpaw soundtrack is not his album and doesn’t count towards his discography. Learn the difference between a studio album and a soundtrack; soundtracks don’t sell like studio albums. If Drake worked on a movie soundtrack, it would sell the same units as Southpaw.
Big A is right. Eminem produced the album and released it under his shady label. Even if its not officially eminem’s album, it should have done well more than a measly 40k
No, he’s wrong and so are you. Eminem didn’t produce the Southpaw soundtrack and it wasn’t released on Shady Records. Again, it’s a SOUNDTRACK, which doesn’t sell as much as STUDIO ALBUMS and Southpaw is NOT Eminem’s album. Think next time or is that too much work for you, so you just make up lies.
The frozen soundtrack was a multiplatinum success so that’s no excuse for southpaw to flop. Also, now you are lying as southpaw WAS on shady records.
That’s a different situation since that’s one soundtrack and it’s from Disney. Southpaw isn’t as big as Disney, so it didn’t flop. And it’s you who’s lying as Southpaw wasn’t on Shady Records.
Southpaw (Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture) is the official soundtrack to the 2015 movie Southpaw. The album, performed by various artists, was released under Shady Records on July 24th 2015. -Wiki
Anyone can make up shit on a Wiki.
Then what label did it come out on if it wasn’t Shady Records? And who executive produced it if it wasn’t Eminem?
I didn’t say he didn’t executive-produced it, I said he didn’t produced it. Two different things.
U know nothing
Actually, YOU know nothing, Danny boy, since you foolishly believe that Southpaw is a studio album from Eminem (when he’s only on four tracks).
On iTunes, it says “2015 Shady Records/Interscope Records”. Think anyone can edit that?
Either way, you’re wasting time trolling.
How am I trolling? Look it up, dumbass!
Just look at your comments on this article and the two articles about Dr. Dre. You’re trolling and you don’t even know it.
50k is impressive for a soundtrack. His last official release, MMLP2, sold 800k in the first week.
What about SHady XV? That didn’t sell either…
Shady XV went gold, which is pretty good for a compilation album.
“Drake destroyed Meek! Drake destroyed Meek!” Yet Meek is moving more weekly units than Drake is.. :/
drake album been out since February Meek came out last month
I know that, Einstein. If Meek got destroyed by Drake, shouldn’t his sales drop dramatically and Drake’s sales increase?
What’s the deal with Hopsin’s number? It’s clearly available for streaming…and had to get at least ONE stream.
yea right? i had to laugh at that though
Hopsin’s album had 0 stream counts? What? I streamed it…
Gunplay moving 350k for the week.
More like 3500 1st week. Gunplay doesn’t have the hype, marketing, and audience to move 350K.
More like 3,500 in one small store alone. 350k 1st week minimum.
Nope. 3500 for total sales everywhere. Like I said, Gunplay can’t sell 350K because he doesn’t have the marketing and fans. It’s impossible for him to sell that much.
Also impossible for dr dre to do even 350k total.
No, it’s actually possible for Dre to sell 350K. He’ll sell even more than that to platinum since his previous albums went platinum.
Can’t wait for dre to drop his new album out. Actually bought chronic and all of the NWA stuff on itunes (already have 2001 on cd.)
My father, Dre, kicked the shit out of me when I was young. I hate his music and he’s abusive to everyone.
Trolling under a different name to hate on Dr. Dre makes you even more pathetic than you already are, Danny boy.
I have nothing to do with it. Anyway, Dr Dre can’t sell 350k anymore since even the biggest star, eminem could only sell under 40k for his southpaw album.
That comment is all you. Besides, Dre actually CAN sell 350K. Eminem’s last album, MMLP2, went double platinum. Southpaw soundtrack is not his. There’s a difference between a studio album and a soundtrack.
Does anyone know if dre’s instrumental album, the planets, is still in the works?
damn i remember hearing about that. i dont know but it seemed like it was going to be really dope. maybe the sheeple aren’t ready for that kind of shit. i dunno
Early projections for Compton puts it at 300K or more the first week.
Almost all of it as a result of dr dre placing an order for 290k.
That’s impossible. One person can’t place that many orders. You hating isn’t gonna prevent this album from succeeding.
Dr dre’s quality has gone downhill since his days at death row. Why should crappy albums succeed?
Actually, the quality of Dre’s music has gone uphill. Crappy albums succeed all the time, like Cash Money’s shitty records.
is anyone mad dre never wrote any of his songs?
Not really. People knew that for the longest time. And Dre’s more of a producer than he is a rapper.
He also produces his songs so it’s not a real problem but drake doin nothing if he uses ghostwriters
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