Mark Ronson’s Uptown Special is the highest charting Hip Hop or R&B album this week with enough album sales, streams, and individual song sales to break into the Top 10 at #5. A single spot below, Nicki Minaj drops to #6, but inches a little closer to the Gold mark in the process. J. Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive also fell to its lowest spot on the chart since its release, bottoming out at #10 with another 27,739 units sold this week.
Meanwhile, Rae Sremmurd saw its major label debut fall a dozen spots to #17 after debuting at #5 last week.
Mark Ronson’s Fourth Album Debuts At #5
Led by the success of the hit lead single “Uptown Funk,” which features Bruno Mars, Mark Ronson’s Uptown Special album debuted at #5 this week with just over 30,000 albums sold. Ronson’s fourth album climbed well into the Top 10 thanks in large part to a streaming count of nearly 7,000,000 and single song sales of 420,670 helping its total album equivalency count up to 76,727.
Nicki Minaj Falls To #6, Moves Towards Gold
With another 30,206 album sold this week, Nicki Minaj’s Pinkprint has now pushed a total of 418,406 units since itsDecember release. With a persistently high streaming number—this week’s count of 11,175,790 streams is the second highest on the charts—Minaj’s Pinkprint has held steady in the Top 10 despite falling from #3 to #6 most recently. At the current rate, Minaj is on pace to hit the Gold album milestone in just under a month.
J. Cole Drops To #10
Falling to its lowest point on the chart since the album was released, J. Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive album has now sold a total of 685,993 units thanks in part to another 27,739 tallied this past week. Currently sitting at #10 after consecutive weeks at #7, Cole’s latest album was streamed 8,341,273 times and sold 46,312 individual songs for the week ending January 18, 2015.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Hip Hop & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 01/18/2015
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.
#5. Mark Ronson – Uptown Special – 76,727 (30,047) [6,919,689]
#6. Nicki Minaj – Pinkprint – 53,719 (30,206) [11,175,790]
#10. J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive – 37,930 (27,739) [8,341,273]
#12. Jazmine Sullivan – Reality Show – 32,254 (29,708) [1,294,449]
#17. Rae Sremmurd – SremmLife – 23,012 (10,910) [5,014,332]
#30. Pitbull – Globalization – 14,108 (3,385) [3,184,360]
#31. Iggy Azalea – Reclassified – 13,940 (2,872) [4,325,035]
#39. Beyonce – Beyonce – 10,960 (4,018) [4,173,911]
#43. D’Angelo & The Vanguard – Black Messiah – 9,797 (8,725) [1,113,500]
#48. Chris Brown – X – 9,184 (3,377) [3,995,201]
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Nicki falled off hard this time around, after her lil stunts around her album release she is only st 420,000. You can brag and act like you all that with those numbers, epecially after underperforming previous albums.
Cole is doing good he doesnt have the mainstream hype but im starting to think the mainstream audience is starting to listen to him, hopefully this doesnt change his style to try to get that mainstream fanbase
“FALLED” Damn son, go back to community college
How is it failing if its going gold? Sounds like a hit to me.
^ I would love to hear what you have to say about J Cole’s album, then.
The Pinkshit sold less than Pink Friday and Roman Reloaded, that’s how it fails.
why are we comparing Nicki to J.cole? seriously? give her her props! her album is doing well after just 5 weeks out and looking to scan gold in about 2-3 weeks.. i dnt see whats the dissing Nicki bcaz Cole album is already Gold! please remember that Cole out sold Kanye after the 3rd week of release he has always had a hard core fan base that buys his shit. give props where its due because neither of these albums are nothing near flop is you looking at other rap album sales. Nicki holding down highest hiphop rap sales for 4 weeks now.
PSYCH!!
You fail to realize that Nicki has sold over 50 million records after just 5 years & has sold more albums overall than J. Cole. He doesn’t have a platinum album to his name. She has 2. With Pink Friday a couple copies away from double platinum status. Both of their albums are doing well especially in this climate. So, there shouldn’t be any hate towards her for one release doing less than his.
Please. Nicki did not sell 50 million records and she did not sell more than J Cole. No need to pull fake numbers out your ass. Her newest album flopped considering it sod less than the last two. It’s all downhill from here for her (plus, her last album did not sell platinum despite shipping a million). It’s not hate, it’s facts.
what about DMX ?
that was a unofficial album… barely any of it was original materiel. DMX was against the release of the album.
Rae Sremmurd is the best. These niggas are like me. I love their music
That’s a joke, right? Them niggas are trash.
J.COLE SALES ARE BEASTLY HE’S MARCHING ON TO 700K NEXT WEEK WITHOUT ANY BIG PROMOTIONS OR MAJOR RADIO HIT SINGLES THESE NUMBERS ARE HUGE AND YEA I KNOW HATERS DRAKE CAN SALE 600K-700K IN ONE WEEK BUT CAN HE DO WHAT J.COLE DID AND DROP VIEWS FROM THE 6 OUT OF NOWHERE WITHOUT MAJOR PROMOTIONS, BIG RADIO HITS, OR FEATURES ARTISTS I DOUBT IT CAUSE DRAKE NEED HELP FROM BIG RAPPERS LIKE JAY-Z, KANYE WEST, EMINEM ETC. TO BE FEATURED ON HIS ALBUMS TO MAKE IT SUCH A HUGE SUCCESS IF DRAKE DIDN’T HE KNOWS IT WOULD HURT HIS SALES PROOF DRAKE CAN’T DO IT ON HIS OWN AND HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF BIG SUCCESS AS HE WOULD WITH FEATURED ARTISTS, PROMOTIONS, AND BIG RADIO HIT SINGLES MORE PROOF COLE IS BETTER THAN DRIZZY J.COLE DOESN’T NEED THE HELP OF HOV ON HIS RECORDS LIKE DRAKE NEEDS WEEZY THOSE ARE FACTS DEAL WITH IT COLE WORLD BITCHESS
Actually i prefer cole but Drake could definitely move more albums with no promotion or features. At this point drake’s name is bigger in rap then any other’s, even the greats would need his help.
But yeah Cole actually dropped a strictly hip-hop album with no singles and did great. This is a giant accomplishment and just goes to show that rap fans aren’t as bad people say, and opens up the doors to more rappers staying true to themselves and not chasing a radio sound.
I would love to hear what you have to say about J Cole’s album, then.
Nicki made a hiphop album while j cole made a pop album. Hiphop doesn’t sell as well as pop and j cole should have done much better.
Are you slow? Nicki was the one that made a pop album (Pills N Potions, Bed of Lies, Grand Piano, etc.) while J Cole made a hip-hop album. His album did do better since it outsold his previous two.
Funny how you say hip-hop doesn’t sell as much as pop yet J Cole’s album, which had no pop songs, sold more than Nicki’s album, which is full of pop songs.
Streaming count! WOW These record companies are doing any and everything to make up for the decreasing amount of records being sold. LOL This SH!T is ridiculous. SMDH When you make good/great music it sells period. Apparently the music that’s being put out isn’t that good.
LOL, you cats just don’t get it. these new “FANS” DON’T BUY MUSIC. the WHOLE industry has been in decline the last 5 YEARS because they only buy what’s popular, not what’s good. they ain’t tastemakers, they are followers!!!!
5? Try 10 plus
well not 10 maybe since 2008 cause 2005-06 were great years for record labels
So if you look up billboards website as of today. The numbers they have are different from this website.
you need that girlie talk because you ain’t about the music poser…..the signs are up and they say…….go away faker
Sorry you nicki fans but this chick after all is said and done about this pinkprint album will do no better than 600,000-700,000.Not too bad.But when you brag and show all of your ass for the world to see,you should at least be pushing platinum to double platinum status,if not more.I honestly feel that this chick is on the decline and her five minutes of fame is finally going to be over.This album will not.I repeat,this album will not do as well as her previous works.People are tired of this fake too gimmicky rap chick.Prepare yourselves,you die hard nikki fans.
hhdx making it look like these bums is going platinum and shit
This is the new sound you were waiting for! listen!
All I need are my extra terrestrial friends
WOW! I don’t consider Nicki Minaj a “Female Rapper” she IS A RAPPER. All her haters just keep her name alive. I’m 100% sure Iggy will NEVER be as much as Nicki Minaj is. Nicki is the best Lyrically. Numbers don’t lie. The proof is everywhere!
Hahahahahahahahahaha!! The best lyrically? You mean the same Nicki who made bullshit like Anaconda, Stupid Hoe, Starships, etc.? LOL thanks for the laugh.
Sorry but Nicki is far from the best female rapper, but her latest album was pretty decent. She’s definitely better than Iggy, Iggy definitely has to step her game up. Talking about better female rappers, Azaelia Banks for example, no matter how many people hate her personality, eeeeeasily surpasses both of them lyrically – no, basically in every aspect.
can you please bring back TOTAL ALBUM SALES in Hip hop album sales report.
Thank you
Where are the total album sales??? Why are they not displayed anymore?