Both of last week’s Hip Hop additions to the charts made an encore appearance. No new releases from the genre hit the Top 200 this week, as January continues to pad the numbers from the top commercial releases from last year as a string of exciting releases for Quarter 2 and sooner loom on the horizon for 2012.
Jay-Z & Kanye West’s Watch The Throne Climbs The Charts
2011’s most talked-about Hip Hop album, Watch The Throne gained five spots. New father Jay-Z continued to drive headlines last week about rumors of him no longer using certain words, as Kanye West continued to tour his extensive solo catalog. WTT features Frank Ocean, Mr. Hudson and another new parent, Beyonce.
Schoolboy Q’s Habits & Contradictions Charts Again
Black Hippy emcee Schoolboy Q is enjoying the commercial accolades of releasing one of 2012’s first “acclaimed” Rap releases, in its first full week available to fans. The West Los Angeles, California emcee’s second “project” Habits & Contradictions features involvement from The Alchemist, ASAP Rocky and Curren$y, in addition to appearances from Black Hippy cohorts Jay Rock and Kendrick Lamar.
Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 1/8/2012
#4. Drake – Take Care – 29,000 (1,350,000)
#5. Rihanna – Talk That Talk – 20,000 (583,000)
#6. Young Jeezy – TM 103: Hustler’s Ambition – 19,000 (380,000)
#13. LMFAO – Sorry For Party Rocking – 16,000 (582,000)
#20. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne – 12,000 (1,273,000)
#29. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter IV – 11,000 (1,957,000)
#64. Common – The Dreamer / The Believer – 5,500 (112,000)
#65. Wale – Ambition – 5,500 (345,000)
#68. Yo Gotti – Live From The Kitchen – 5,200 (22,000)
#159. Schoolboy Q – Habits & Contradictions – 2,500 (6,500)
* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000. Each week, HipHopDX presents top albums in Hip Hop/related, and five notables.
Can Gangrene blow smoke up the charts? Will Homeboy Sandman‘s digital EP show the benefits of Stones Throw’s backing? Stay tuned to HipHopDX.
It’s kinda funny how Jay-Z keeps working his own album, when he should be working J Coles’s…..smh. Lil Wayne stopped working The Carter 4 as soon as Drake’s album came out. Now we see who the better CEO is.
@ stupid ass Anon, how is J still working WTT, it only had one video, the nigga don’t even mention the album…its selling cause radio banging they joints
SHUT UP
radio doesnt bang your joints unless you pay them to bang your joints. learn how it works dumby. jay z is a gay white man in 2012 and kangay is the gayest artist in pop since boy george eat a bag of dicks and be quiet.
@ Bitch ass anon…artist of J and ye’s status don’t have to pay to get played goes to show how young your punk ass is, but one things for sure niggas will pay for some head from your mother, heard that bitch can suck a golf ball through a water hose!
waynes album is trash, he saw that and decided to promote something that could make him money bottom line, ymcmb is a money train that only concerns with money, destroying the craft of hip hop for a buck. and j cole album is honestly for women, no need to promote that shit its not for people who want hip hop. both singles is talkin bout him and chicks gettin it on, come on thats ll cool j shit stop hoping jay going to promote him like he on some big daddy kane shit
i second heat, and im a dif anon person, i wrote the shit bout ymcmb and shit, not to get confused with the tard that wrote the original comment
black hippy movment is a bunch of internet gas.
you wimps gassing kendrick and such dont buy shit so just keep raping their trash on youtube and STFU already
yeah how are they gonna put schoolboys album as the image at the top when he sold 2500 copies,
im pretty sure they are leaving out lots of rappers who sold more than that
Watch the Throne pure joy , i bang that on my ipod every day , songs are timeless.
Whatever happened to Carter 4 ?? album is wack
DRAKE 29,000 COMMON 5,500 MEN LIE WOMEN LIE NUMBERS DONT COMMON LOST
YMCMB
no he didn’t, since when is beef about sales? smh don’t drink no more kool aid ok
your a retard for comparing mainstreem numbers of the c not singin drake to a legend who drops albums with no expectations from his label like common, research your shit then speak, what are you like 12
DUMB NIGGAS I SEE COMMON IS ON A MAJOR LABEL WHICH HE WILL BE DROPPEDFROM JUST LIKE LAST TIME LMAOOOOOOOOOO
STOP ACTING LIKE OLE GAP COMMERCIAL QUEEN LATIIFA KISSING COMMON IS ON SOME INDY LABEL HE AINT SELL CUS THAT SHIT AINT HOT
wale is selling that much off one single wit Miguel rozay artists sales is up there with jeezy and he got like ten singles out
People still buying Take Care and Carter IV are some bitches. Birdman will bet all your money. FUck Yessir btw gay ass nigga
how many people think Jeezey album aleast go Gold in about 2 Months
jeezy will go gold eventually at this rate or even platinum but i dont really care but drake and lil wayne still selling like wtf their albums were wack as fuck… I only know two people that actually have lil waynes album and everytime go the store i always see them full so its obvious that birdman keeps on buy them for what reason idk lol
damn i wanted to see common move more units than that
I didn’t know #20 meant the top 10 these days…
Watch the Throne dickriders
I wanted to see wale go at least goldby now.. And who the fuck is buying lil waynes shit lol?
I WON 1,000 BUCKS ON A SCRATCH OFF AND BOUGHT 66 COPIES!!!!! BEST MONEY I’VE EVER SPENT SINCE MY 50 COPIES OF PINK FRIDAY!!!!!!
wtt one video
i bought 4 copies of the carter iv for my teenage sons, plus an add’l 2 copies for myself. (1 will stay in the package as a collector’s item). i also plan on buying 2 more copies for my wife this weekend.
even though you just trollin’ your still a fag
v
nooooooooooooo k
detox gonna outdo that Jayz album watch.
xkc all day
WTT IS A FUCKING CLASSIC…..
ITS A CLASSIC WEED PLATE THATS ABOUT IT
LMAO at Yessir.. dude killed me, and its true too…
^^RESPONDING TO YOURSELF IS NOT HEALTHY
haha that is true what yassir said
Why is that piece of shit talentless fake ass pop bitch rihanna in that list? she ain’t hip-hop/rap, she is just an industry slave, talentless hoe, now she thinks she knows something about thug life, this bitch is fake ass fuck, ugle as FUCK
Jeezy lookin good on the charts as usual . Drake doing well also. Drake has a lady lover presence so the women will buy his shit… Jeezy still the biggest for gangsta rap