Hip Hop Album Sales: Keyshia Cole, Childish Gambino, Tinashe, Flying Lotus

    This week, Keyshia Cole breaks through the Billboard Top 200 albums chart with Point Of No Return. Meanwhile, Childish Gambino’s KAUAI continues its climb, Tinashe’s Aquarius makes its mark and Flying Lotus’ You’re Dead impacts the Top 20. 

    Keyshia Cole’s Point Of No Return Arrives At #9

    Keyshia Cole’s Point Of No Return is the only Rap or R&B album in the Top 10 this week. Point Of No Return lands at #9 in its first week of availability. It sold 25,511 units this week.

    Cole spoke about the album earlier this year during an interview with Fuse. “There’s definitely more sexy songs on this album than I’ve ever done,” she said. “I’m excited to see what the people think about that, so we’ll see how receptive they are to the album. I think it’s a great album and I feel like it’s one of my best albums to date.”

    The album features several artists including Future, August Alsina and Wale.

    Childish Gambino’s KAUAI EP Jumps To #16

    Childish Gambino’s KAUAI EP improved 19 percent in its sales figures this week. It also jumped from #18 to #16, moving 19,317 units compares to last week’s 16,168 units. Overall, ‘Bino has sold 35,485 copies of the album.

    KAUAI, a seven-track project, features Jaden Smith as “The Boy.” Smith performs spoken word poetry throughout the effort.

    Of course, this is not the only recent Gambino release. The rapper-actor recently dropped his Gangsta Grillz mixtape, STN MTN.

    Tinashe’s Aquarius Lands At #17

    Tinashe’s Aquarius made its debut on the chart this week. The project, which earned a 4 out of 5 in its HipHopDX review, landed at #17 as Tinashe moved 18,821 units of Aquarius in the effort’s first week of availability.

    Another critically acclaimed project that is making its debut on the chart this week is Flying Lotus’ You’re Dead, which arrives at #19 with 17,170 units sold. Cole, Gambino, Tinashe and FlyLo round out the Top 20 on the chart, with Chris Brown’s X falling just short of it with #21. X sold 16,429 units this week, a 31 percent drop from 23,694 copies sold last week. Overall, Brown’s moved 222,609 units of the album.

    Album Sales – Week Ending 10/12/2014

    #9. Keyshia Cole – Point Of No Return – 25,511 (25,511)
    #16. Childish Gambino – KAUAI – 19,317 (35,485)
    #17. Tinashe – Aquarius – 18,821 (18,821)
    #19. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead – 17,170 (17,170)
    #21. Chris Brown – X – 16,429 (222,609)
    #22. Prince – Art Official Age – 15,013 (66,016)
    #35. Lecrae – Anomaly – 9,356 (158,688)
    #36. Jeezy – Seen It All 9,244 (211,342)
    #47. Prince & 3rdEyeGirl – Plectrumelectrum – 7,046 (33,406)
    #55. John Legend – Love In The Future – 6,045 (636,512)

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    37 thoughts on “Hip Hop Album Sales: Keyshia Cole, Childish Gambino, Tinashe, Flying Lotus

    1. Florida Georgia Line (Republic Nashville) 190-200k
      Bob Seger (Capitol) 55-60k
      You+Me (RCA) 45-50k
      Hoodie Allen (Hoodie Allen) 30-35k
      The Game (eOne) 27-30k
      U2 (Interscope) 24-27k
      Jessie J (Lava/Republic) 21-24k
      Idina Menzel (Warner Bros.) 18-21k
      Milky Chance (Republic) 16-18k
      Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness (Vanguard) 15-17k
      Swon Brothers (Arista Nashville) 10-12k
      Mary Lambert (Capitol) 8-10k
      Nico & Vinz (Warner Bros.) 6-8k

    2. You can’t take these seriously when they can’t even get game’s record label right. It’s YMCMB damn it not E1. Game also sold 120k this week.

      1. I saw the ymcmb logo on the album. He’s signed to ymcmb and it sold 120k. There is no way it would sell less than 50.

    3. 50’s a true hustler. He basically released his entire album ahead of time at a very low price yet sold more than game.

    4. damn 30k is pretty weak for Game when you look at all those features. thats about what khaled and rich gang sell on majors though.

      20k less than fiddy but 15k more than the digital only g-unit ep

    5. Where is that label called “SHEPARD LANE”?
      That label had the shit!

      Stan Sheppard had that west Coast shit rollin!

      1. The Game is not on YMCMB it is E1

        And the album came out yesterday so there is no way you have an album count in less then 24 hours

    6. The Game did 27K for an album with 15 tracks 12 features

      While G unit did 14K with only 6 tracks NO features

      This nigga is going to be dissin the shit out of G unit to get Doc 2 sales up BUT no one cares about that stuff no more…..

      If you have Lil Wayne/Tyga/Ty Dolla/Kevin Gates/Jeezy/Yo Gotti/2 Chainz/Chris Brown/French Montana/Too Short/Freddie Gibbs/Bobby Shmurda

      And try to call it an COMP Album makes no sense…You paid those cats to be on an album that only did 27K…..

    7. “eOne is indie but its not his own indie so he lost”

      He still has millions, plus 1 more major label album coming.

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