Hip Hop Album Sales: Meek Mill, Kendrick Lamar & Vince Staples

    As projected, Meek Mill’s Dreams Worth More Than Money debuts at the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 200. Miguel’s Wildheart follows, debuting at the #2 spot. Kendrick Lamar climbed the charts after slipping last week. Vince Staples’ Summertime ‘o6 debuts in the top 50.

    Meek Mill Gets His First Chart-Topping Album

    Meek Mill’s Dreams Worth More Than Money debuts at the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 200, as predicted. The album 246,288 units. Mill’s first album, Dreams & Nightmares, debuted at #2 and sold 165,000 units its first week.

    Kendrick Lamar Moves Up The Charts

    Kendrick Lamar’s major label sophomore album To Pimp a Butterfly, moved up the charts to #33 after slipping to #45 last week, one slot out of the top 10 Rap & R&B albums. The album sold 14,281 units. Lamar released the video for “Alright” last week, which might have boosted his activity.

    Vince Staples Charts With Debut Album

    Vince Staples lands the #39 spot with his debut album Summertime ‘o6The double disc album sold 13,776 units its first week.

    Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 7/5/2015

    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 Meek Mill – Dreams Worth More Than Money – 246,288 (214,752) [14,046,205]

    #2 Miguel – Wildheart – 48,375 (40,500) [4,092,066]

    #16 Drake – If Youre Reading This Its Too Late – 20,803 (8,212) [12,531,495]

    #24 Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise – 16,760 (5,129) [7,332,188]

    #25 Nicki Minaj – Pinkprint – 16,535 (3,266) [8,860,543]

    #27 A$AP Rocky – At.Long.Last.A$AP. – 15,835 (8,047) [8,449,992]

    #30 Major Lazer – Peace is the Mission – 15,119 (2,481) [6,443,293]

    #31 Skrillex & Diplo – Skirllex & Diplo Present: Jack – 15,115 (2,641) [6,038,683]

    #32 Various Artists – Furious 7 Soundtrack – 14,899 (2,539) [5,355,721]

    #33 Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly – 14,281 (9,019) [4,638,911]

    22 thoughts on “Hip Hop Album Sales: Meek Mill, Kendrick Lamar & Vince Staples

    1. Only a handful of rappers can sell 200k first week nowadays. How Meek put out trash singles and still manage to achieve that feat is beyond me. Album was pretty solid though. Miguel deserves better, probably should have tried to create more buzz.

    2. Only a handful of rappers can sell more than 200k these days. How Meek put out trash singles and still managed that feat is definitely beyond me. Miguel deserves better, although I admit he had zero buzz.

      1. How many albumz did you sell in Your ‘First’ Week idiot??? please stop hating on a niggas sucess just cuz of the things he’s done or just cuz you want what he has….(Nicki

    3. Why people keep acting like meek didn’t do 165,000 his first week last go round. He basically snatched another 80, 0000 off anticipation. The freestyles he been dropping been right monster impacted fee l me

    4. lol Miguel is better than Frank Ocean at 40 000 records sold? gtfh…I only know 1 song from him and I don’t remember the name of that song…

    5. wish summertime ’06 would have sold more. albums fresh as fuck. a good look debuting at 39 though.

      1. Definitely the best album released probably for the past few months. Gets better ever time i listen to it. Summertime 06 is definitely in the running for best album this year.

    6. Instead of giving us what we asked in TOTAL ALBUM SALES these niggas put up a fucking graph…this staff is full of morons I swear

    7. Black people supporting garbage rappers like Meek Mill just because he’s Black. Meek Mill is nothing special and looks like a gorilla!

    8. Nicki sold 244k first week(196k pure album sales), that’s a little less than Meek’s numbers. She may be a factor but is not responsible for his popularity. Its not Ross too coz he has never sold that much first week. I guess people just love a screamer.

    9. summer time 06 was a double album, so technically it sold about 7,000. But he was complaining on twitter. FOH

    10. All you modafuckaz are GAY……….. Brarr… Why hatin on some one success??? Y’all go to hell and burn to ashes. Fuuuuuuccccckkkkk all you pussy ass modafuckaz. DIE….. And may success never be yo portion.

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