After holding onto the #2 spot for three weeks in a row, Nicki Minaj’s Pinkprint fell to #3 this past week in its fourth week on the chart. A couple spots below and following a pair of buzz-building singles in 2014, Rae Sremmurd make their first chart appearance at #5 with their debut SremmLife. Meanwhile, J. Cole remained steady a few spots down the list at #7 for the second week in a row. Cole’s latest numbers bring his total album sales for 2014 Forest Hills Drive up to 658,254.
Iggy Azalea clung to a Top 20 spot with strong streaming numbers for another week in a row after returning to the chart’s top half with Reclassified recently. Lower down the list, Taylor Gang’s Berner cracked the Top 100 at #95 with 6,185 sales of his new 20 Lights project.
Nicki Minaj Falls To #3
Dropping another 29% from her previous week’s numbers, Nicki Minaj sold 33,723 copies of The Pinkprint last week and brought her total albums sold count up to 388,200. The album’s consistently strong streaming count topped the whole chart this week with just over 12 million plays.
Rae Sremmurd Debut At #5
After the success of their breakout singles “No Type” and “No Flex Zone” in 2014, Swae Lee and Slim Jimmy proved they could transfer the buzz to their album SremmLife and climbed all the way up to #5 with their first ever chart appearance. Selling 34,403 copies, Rae Sremmurd’s debut benefited from more than four million album streams in its rise to the Top 10.
J. Cole Stays At #7
Five weeks into his current run on the chart, J. Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive has yet to slip below the Top 10 and came in at #7 this week with a total activity count of 45,111. Cole’s latest 33,906 album sales add on to his total sold count and brings that number up to 658,254. A separate 52,373 song sales and just under 9 million streams helped the rapper’s third album stay put at #7 for a second week in a row.
Iggy Azalea’s Reclassified Falls To #18
Despite dropping two spots on the general list, Iggy Azalea again has the third highest Hip Hop album on the Billboard Top 200 thanks to a relatively high stream count and single song sales that help her Reclassified album up to a total activity number of 18,144. Azalea sold 3,133 albums last week but her stream count topped out at more than 4.8 million.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Hip Hop & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 01/11/2015
Note: The figures below represent this week’s “total activity,” an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams. A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.
#3. Nicki Minaj – Pinkprint – 59,573 (33,723) [12,165,982]
#5. Rae Sremmurd – SremmLife – 49,037 (34,403) [4,243,493]
#7. J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive – 45,111 (33,906) [8,953,013]
#18. Iggy Azalea – Reclassified – 18,144 (3,133) [4,800,157]
#28. Pitbull – Globalization – 13,626 (3,811) [2,796,822]
#31. Beyonce – Beyonce – 13,170 (5,076) [4,161,421]
#33. Fabolous – The Young OG Project – 12,806 (10,069) [819,053]
#34. D’Angelo & The Vanguard – Black Messiah – 12,546 (11,135) [1,449,108]
#36. Empire Cast – Empire: Music From The Pilot – 11,964 (6,978) [88,065]
#40. Eminem – Curtain Call – 10,489 (4,159) [2,963,468]
For additional Nicki Minaj coverage, watch the following DX Daily:
Meghan Trainor has been reportedly spotted buying at least 140k of her own album. When asked why, she said, “I want to hide my flop by pretending its a success.”
Hey, look. teeth boy aka Dan is making up lies again.
Dan u are a young money dickhead shut up u don’t know shit J.cole ain’t by no 400k of his FOREST HILLS DRIVE so get your stupid fucking ass off this site face FACTS u idiot j.cole won this year 658k and counting HE has a loyal fanbase that will ride or die for him and support him no matter what so shut your face about him buying his own album his fans did it don’t believe me go to Twitter fans bought multiple copies of forest hills one fan bought 15 copies and there were several pictures of best buys selling out of his album posted as well I know I’m a fan don’t hate because Drake didn’t drop a record yet and J.cole did, and found huge success without promoting it LOL Dan u loss not J.cole and Nicki will struggle for a few more weeks to go gold while J.cole is already over a half million sold so fuck u Dan LOL we won J.cole rod NATION DREAMVILLE for life
So j.Cole sold more this week then Nicki but cuz of the new system she’s higher on the charts wtf?
J cole didn’t really sell more than nicki at all. He bought at least 400k of that new album by himself. Nicki may have bought a few for her friends but thats it. Her album’s about to go gold.
pitbull too.. don’t make no more sense
Wrong, Dan. J Cole did sell more than Nicki. He’s got another gold record while Nicki isn’t even close. Cole didn’t buy any copies of his albums, his fans did. Nicki bought most copies of her albumto make up for it flopping. She is done.
LMAO so according to dan roc nation/sony spent 4 million dollars buying 400k copies of j coles new album…how would they expect to make their money back then?
Sorry guys, my parents are cousins so I’m not what you would call smart…..Azealia Banks is my favourite artists though and she sold more j cole albums than j cole!!!!!!
The figures are confusing now HHDX.
“The figures below represent this week’s “total activity,” an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams. A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.”
Where’s the overall album sales numbers? Why didn’t you specify what the non-bolded numbers were?
Come on man…..you’re asking the right questions but have you not been to the site before?? These dudes don’t know…….damn I’m just surprised there isn’t any grammatical errors in the title…..they don’t put the numbers caused hey do to understand them…..HHDX sucks
lol but they misspelled the word ALBUMS in the subtitle. In an article about ALBUM sales, how in the fuck do you misspell ALBUM. The entire staff at HIPHOP DX are complete shit eating idiots. And yes take this personally…you make hiphop look BAD
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Hip Hop & R&B Albumes For The Week Ending 01/11/2015
ALL WE WANT IS THE FUCKING TOTAL ALBUM SALES, FUCK YOUR INTERSECTIONS AND STREAMS, THIS WEBSITE IS DYING OFF, NO ONE COMMENTS HERE ANYMORE!
you clearly don’t understand how hip hop artists make money in 2015; hiphopdx on the other hand does- do your homework and stop making dumb ass comments that make you look hypocritical
are you trying to say these artists are getting PAID from streams? what they get like 2 cents for every million plays?
“J cole didn’t really sell more than nicki at all.” J Cole: 658K Nicki Minaj: 388K. Winner, Jermaine Cole.
both are doing great and stilling selling.. y the hate on Nicki/ both sold 34k physical albums after 5 and 4 weeks.. that pretty solid if you ask esp in the state of Hiphop
Copies that fans actually bought Nicki: 388k J Cole: 200k.
Copies that the artist bought Nicki: Maybe 5 or 10 for her friends J Cole: 450k.
Nicki still won.
You’re just gonna continue lying for Nicki, are you, Danny boy? The fans bought ALL copies of these albums. J Cole is at 658K while Nicki is at 388K. In reality, J Cole won and Nicki lost.
Nicki is hiphop BTW while Cole is straight up pop.
J Cole and Nicki are both winning. Icky Azaelia is actually the real loser here b/c she gets more press than any rapper right now and she can’t sell albums ………….. J Cole is killing it but Nicki is at 388,000 in just 4 weeks. She will get a gold album in either Feb or March.
“Nicki is hiphop BTW while Cole is straight up pop.” You got that backwards, Dan teethboy. It’s J Cole who is hip-hop while Nicki is staright-up pop. Nicki has pop songs like Pills and Potions, Bed Of Lies, The Night Is Young, etc., while Cole has zero pop songs, only hip-hop songs.
cole sold more albums this week and total, thats all that should matter, dont understand how he can be 4 spots behind Nicki Minaj if he sold more units this week.
No he did not.. go check billboard for official #’s both moved 34k
Because cole didn’t really sell more. He just bought more to make up for that wide gap between nicki and j cole.
Because the rack is based on “total activity”.
How did Cole not sell more than Nicki when he’s already at 660K and Nicki isn’t even at 400K? Plus, Cole didn’t buy any copies, the fans did. You make up lies to make it look like Cole is losing when he’s winning with the best selling hip-hop album of 2014.
Drake did that 660k total in one week so cole is still losing. Plus cole bought the albums.
Yeah they both moved 34,000 but Nicki had more streams. J Cole sis already past gold………… Nicki is at 388,000 in just one month. This is her bes album. She should be gold in Feb. Iggy still cant go gold and that is why Nicki is still Queen
Drake has nothing to do with J Cole consistently selling big numbers, so Cole is still winning, not losing at all. Plus, he never bought his albums, the fans did. Why can’t you accept that?
WOW J.COLE WINNING after only five weeks he sold what Drakes Nothing was the same did its first week 658K not bad at all for J.cole that’s not a flop Vamp u idiot who else in hip hop has currently sold that much going into 2015 here don’t worry HATERS AND HATERATS I’ll wait…………………..that’s right that’s what I thought no hip hop artist has sold over a half million copies coming into 2015 j.cole is the only lonely soldier to get the job done CAUSE DRAKE was to busy recovering in the hospital after P.Diddy beat him up for stilling beats that Diddy already planned to use meanwhile Lil wayne was blocked from releasing the Carter 5 because HIM and Birdman were bitching over royalties, money, and the future of Cash Money, and Nicki the Pinkprint was just trash it should be called the Stinkprint u see she’s struggling to go gold it’ll take her another 3 or 4 weeks to sell 500K I remember she could go platinum in a month and a half with her debut album now she is falling off while j.cole is cruising into the 700K range with his third album don’t get me wrong I know DRAKES VIEWS FROM THE 6 WILL SELL 883K FIRST WEEK but we all know he ain’t got balls like J.COLE to release it without promotions or without any radio hit singles and still do huge numbers Drake never asked for help LOL please Jay z, Lil wayne, and many more elite hip hop artist were all over Drakes third album helping him to make a huge success here’s how I see it 658K first week from NOTHING WAS THE SAME with Drake using features, promotions, radio hit singles, and gimmicks etc. compared to 658K after five weeks from 2014 FOREST HILLS DRIVE with J.cole not using any featured artists, big promotions, publicity stunts, and no radio hit singles just J.cole and him producing his own project proves J.cole got guts and is not afraid to take risks and can still do big numbers on the album sales chart while Drake is a pussy ass bitch boy DICKRIDER that can SELL WAY MORE THAN J.COLE COULD EVER BUT CAN ONLY DO IT WITH THE HELP OF FEATURES FROM TOP HIP HOP ELITES LIKE HIS BOSS LIL WAYNE, BIG SEAN, KANYE WEST, KENDRICK LAMAR, AND MENTOR JAY-Z to make his projects HUGE AND THE MOST SUCCESSFUL Drake is spoiled and pampered in this hip hop game face it he always ask for help this rap niggas do it for him while they do it for themselves make Drake go from 0 to 100 LOL DRAKE NEEDS A RESCUE PLANE TO HELP HIS PLANE EVEN TAKE OFF REAL QUICK LOL J.COLE IS A ONE MAN ARMY AND Y’ALL COLE HATERS KNOW IT JUST ATTEMPT IT GO CHECK THE BIRTH DATE LOSERS DRIZZY, KENDRICK, ETC THEY AIN’T THE GOD NIGGA COLE THE GOD MORE PROVE J.COLE IS WAY BETTER THAN DRAKE WILL EVER BE DESPITE THEIR HUGE SALES DIFFERENCE GAP COLE IS THE BEST DREAMVILLE RECORDS RULE WHILE OVO SOUND STINKING SUCKS TRUTH HURTS
no one is gonna read all that bruh bruh
@VAMP
I read all that… then I went back to read the header: “Azz Whole” and died laughing!!!! lmfao
@VAMPSODA. Lets keep it 100 Drake has been killing Jcole and Kendrick for the last 5 years. Drake was on both of their 1st albums. And you say say Drake is spoiled cause Jayz was on his album. JCOLE is signed to JayZ RoC nation idiot!!LOL. And everyone knew that album was coming out there was nothing secret about that shit. I’m glad he finally put up some numbers and can sit with the big dogs.
HA!! Drake isn’t killing anyone but himself. Ge the fuck outta here with that shit.
Drake and 40 are the only ones who can save hip-hop! These sales are weak. Views from the 6 will sell a million easy first two weeks.
Wrong.
Too bad Drake and 40 aren’t hip-hop.
Yes they are hiphop idiot. What are you, a wayne stan?
No, they’re R&B/pop, not hip-hop. I’m pretty sure Wayne stans and Drake stans are the same people.
Prob will I’m not a hater his last shit did like 675k
^ Yep Drake and 40 make popular music. It’s straightforward pop. Phryme, Freddie Gibbs, Joey Bada$$ etc, that’s hip-hop.
HIPHOP IS DEAD
R.I.P Hip Hop!! Not one platinum album in 2014 and Mother fuckers are Bragging about going gold!!
Well PAC gold is better than going wood any day for a hip hop artist it’s ashame that gold artists don’t get the recognition for selling a shit load of albums like platinum artists shit gold ain’t a flop your riaa certified if u go gold and u get a shinny plaque to hang on the wall COME ON MAN to be riaa certified period is like your album going into the hall of fame doesn’t matter and it shouldn’t matter whether u go gold or platinum it’s a win it just means platinum artists have a big achievement award to celebrate on so it’s only a dissapointment when u don’t get a riaa certification for your album thats a flop so congrats to J.cole for going gold before 2014 ended he truly saved hip hop for 2014 which was probably one of the worst hip hop sells years in history thanks Cole for putting a win and a riaa certified plaque up for 2014 as well 2014 lives because it’s a Cole World hate it or love it because u know it’s true 2014 would have faded into a era of flopping if 2014 FOREST HILLS DRIVE wasn’t dropped before 2014 was over end of story 2014 gets a win
Jcole will always be the runner up. I noticed he’s singing like Drake on some of his Album too.
Yes, because Drake was the first rapper to sing.
DX what’s your email!? I’ve been taking screen shots of all your fucking spelling and grammar errors…I can load those into photoshop and highlight your mistakes. I mean I basically feel like I come to this site to just proof read your articles…so let me help you you fucking jackasses…hint one fix the 3rd subtitle, the word is Albums, not Albumes you stupid pieces of shit, can’t believe I have to talk to adults this way
J COLE’s 2014 FHD is going to be on the charts for a long while……this is his good kid,..mAAD city album….#COLE WORLD 2015
COLEWORLD
The album is definitely ill, but I don’t think it’s close to GKMC
albums that should do well in 2015
JAY ROCK
KENDRICK LAMAR
LUPE FIASCO
MEEK MILL
DRAKE..of course
Poor Iggy. Why can’t she sell albums? The female Flo’Rida
She sold a lot more than you, that’s for sure.
^ Fanboy response.
Its true. Thats why you had nothing to say other than juvenile insults
^ You haven’t sold albums, either, so what’s your point?
LOL!! Fuck Iggy You sensitive Motherfuckers!!!!!!
LMFAO!!!!! At all the Shade throwing!
Fabolous album was the best out of all these..
I’d rather buy J. Cole’s album anyway