Hip Hop Album Sales: Fetty Wap, Drake & Future

    Fetty Wap lands at the top spot with his debut eponymous album. Drake and Future’s What a Time To Be Alive stands at the #2 spot. That project, along with those from Mac Miller and Andy Mineo saw significant percent decrease from their first week sales. Bryson Tiller’s Trapsoul debuts at #11. Big Boi’s collaborative project with Phantogram, Big Grams, debuts at #38. Casey Veggie’s Live & Grow lands at #93 its opening week with 5,803 total album equivalent sales.

    Fetty Wap Garners First #1 Album

    Fetty Wap’s Fetty Wap album gives the Paterson, New Jersey rapper-singer his first #1 album after making history with his singles. In July, he tied Lil Wayne by having two songs in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In August, Fetty Wap became the first artist to chart his first four singles in the top 10 on the Hot Rap Songs Chart. The album saw 128,654 total album equivalent sales and received 39,291,161 streams.

    Drake and Future Stay Alive With Mixtape/Album

    Drake and Future’s collaborative project, What a Time to Be Alive, lands at the #2 spot on the chart. With 106,520 total album equivalent sales, the mixtape/album saw a 71.6 percentage sales drop this week. The project received 54,115,992 streams and is now available on Spotify after spending its debut week as an Apple Music exclusive.

    Mac Miller and Andy Mineo See Percentage Drops

    Mac Miller and Andy Mineo both landed in the top 10 of last week’s chart with Go:od AM and Uncomfortable respectively, but both saw significant drops in this week’s album sales. Miller is #18 and saw 20,602 total units of activity, a 76 percent drop. Mineo’s Uncomfortable sits at the #86 with 6,111 total album equivalent sales, an 83 percent difference.

    Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 10/01/2015

    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 Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap – 128,654 (75,484) [39,291,161]

    #2 Drake and Future – What a Time to Be Alive – 106,520 (61,375) [54,115,992]

    #5 The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness – 81,427 (35,732) [37,012,335]

    #11 Bryson Tiller – Trapsoul – 31,755 (23,667) [8,668,890]

    #17 Future – Dirty Sprite 2 – 22,437 (7,128) [17,154,054]

    #18 Mac Miller – Go:od AM – 20,602 (11,634) [11,511,281]

    #21 Drake – If Youre Reading This Its Too Late – 18,786 (5,129) [16,279,521]

    #32 J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive – 13,458 (4,426) [10,306,541]

    #33 Travi$ Scott – Rodeo – 13,262 (4,615) [9,405,788]

    #38 Big Grams – Big Grams – 11,277 (9,626) [1,840,328]

    41 thoughts on “Hip Hop Album Sales: Fetty Wap, Drake & Future

      1. Exactly. But don’t forget chris brown also becoming irrelevant despite him crawling to SO many artists. That bitch ends up beating women and ripping off drake.

      2. How does one artist relate to the other? Are you referring to sales? Of course Drake would be at the top because he just dropped a project and Kendrick hasn’t dropped a project since March so they aren’t really comparable.

      3. @OVO Chris Brown didn’t become irrelevant, he didn’t crawl to anyone for hits, and he didn’t rip off Aubrey. @Dan Drake is a pop star who bought copies of his own albums.

      4. When was the last time brown had a top ten hit on his own? He crawled to artists like kid ink for hits and he jocks drake.

      5. Kid Ink can’t even get a hit song by himself, he crawled to Chris Brown. Plus, Chris never jocked Aubrey at all.

      6. Explain worth it then. That made the top 20. Chris brown hasn’t had a hit in a long ass time despite copying drake. He copied drake since his degrassi days in 2001.

      7. That’s a girl group song and Kid Ink crawled to them for a hit. He doesn’t have any hit songs by himself. Chris Brown been had hits and he never copied Aubrey at all. You can’t copy someone who wasn’t making music when they were on a successful TV show.

      8. How is Drake making Kendrick irrelevant? Kendrick’s still having decent sales. Hell, TPAB’s 2nd week sales ate WATTBL’s 2nd week sales for lunch. Hell, even after the third week they haven’t caught up. If anything, Drake’s making himself irrelevant via oversaturation. Seriously, he’s planning to release ANOTHER album at the end of the year.

    1. fuck drake with your fucking pop. this shits not is rap.
      rap is pac. biggie. eminem, k dot, jay z .
      drake is the new pussie pop star.

    2. what did i tell y’all? what the fuck did i tell y’all?! fetty wap scored a #1 album and went over 100,000. joe budden was so scared of going toe to toe with fetty, so he pushed his album back. lol, wasn’t like he was gonna sell more anyway. all you haters kill yourselves now. fetty is officially here to stay.

      1. Wait a minute the guy who had the #1 song in the country and 2 hits in the top ten only sells 75k physical units and 125k if you do the “fuzzy math”

        Future did those numbers with no top ten hits.

        This is a flop. This is why artists are dropping albums immediately fetty took to long to drop trap queen is so old to push sales many months later

      2. He jumped into the top 5 again despite your hate with 679. He topped charts with a great sales amount for a debut album.

      3. For another shitty pop song that’s just a Trap Queen knockoff. His sales are shit for a debut album and he actually sold 75K.

      4. Plus, unlike your groupie ass, I have a job, so I don’t care about Fetty Crap’s bank account. He’ll be broke and irrelevant eventually.

      5. Just remember: Chingy’s debut album went platinum. Look at how relevant he is now. Fetty is just another flavor of the year artist who’ll be forgotten by the start of next year.

      6. He already has 3 top 10 hits. Fetty will not be going away anytime soon. Chingy was pop and hiphop artists live forever unless they choose pop.

      7. That doesn’t prove anything. Fetty Crap will be going away soon. He’s pop just like Chingy and nobody lives forever, so your last statement makes no sense.

    3. Janet Jackson (BMG) 100-110k albums, 103-113k SPS
      Tamar Braxton (Epic) 35-40k, 39-44k
      Clutch (Weathermaker) 19-22k, 20-23k
      Sevendust (7Bros) 18-21k, 19-22k
      Trivium (Roadrunner) 14-17k, 15-18k
      Avicii (Island) 11-14k, 14-17k
      Collective Soul (Vanguard) 11-14k, 12-15k
      Winery Dogs (Loud & Proud) 8-10k, 8-10k
      Eagles of Death Metal (UMe) 8-10k, 8-10k
      Queensryche (Century Media) 8-10k, 8-10k

      1. More like an epic success as she’s still selling more than most artists after more than 30 years in the game. Washed up? Not a chance.

      1. Im with you man. Just tell me what the album sold for the week and total album sales. I use to look for DX for this information. If I find another site that can tell me that I’ll let you know.

    4. Drake owns 2015, just like he owned 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. If Drake was putting out albums back in 1995-2000 each one would have gone double diamond by now. He’s hip-hop’s all-time great. Never compromised his style. Often imitated but never duplicated. Salute to the 6God and the whole OVOSound crew for bringing real hip-hop and soul back to the mainstream.

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    5. I know the writers read these comments, so why not give the readers what they ask for every week and also put TOTAL ALBUM SALES?

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