Rick Ross’ re-vamped Maybach Music Group roster scored a Top 5 debut with their new compilation, Self-Made, Volume 1. Now backed by Warner Brothers, the trio of Wale, Pill and Meek Mill sold nearly 60,000 units, backed by their Def Jam star leader. MMG’s Teedra Moses, Stalley and veteran Gunplay of Triple C’s also appeared on the work.
Twenty five years after releasing their first album, New York Hip Hop/Punk trio the Beastie Boys crossed the 200,000 mark with their eighth studio album, Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2. The EMI Records release, which dropped before Part One, features artists that Adrock, MCA and Mike D have influenced, including Nas and Santigold. The work moved to #14, down eight spots from last week.
Bruno Mars’ Doo-Wops & Holligans, now a platinum release, slid three spots to #20. Mars has been an urban Pop sensation for Atlantic Records’ roster renovation and newfound success. Falling 19 spots, SNL‘s Lonely Island trio of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone watched their sophomore Comedy/Rap album Turtleneck & Chain cross the 100,000 mark. The group’s sophomore release features emcees Nicki Minaj and Snoop Dogg.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania emcee Wiz Khalifa bounced back into the Top 5 urban releases. Now at #27, the Taylor Gang founder’s major label debut Rolling Papers is headed towards gold status. The Rostrum/Atlantic Records release features Chevy Woods, Curren$y and Too Short.
* Please note: figures below approximated to nearest thousandth.
Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 5 | Maybach Music Group Presents… | Self-Made, Volume 1 | 59,000 | 59,000 |
| 14 | Beastie Boys | Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2 | 20,000 | 214,000 |
| 20 | Bruno Mars | Doo-Wops & Hooligans | 17,000 | 1,053,,000 |
| 26 | Lonely Island | Turtleneck & Chain | 15,000 | 106,000 |
| 27 | Wiz Khalifa | Rolling Papers | 15,000 | 417,000 |
Jadakiss’ retail mixtape, I Love You (A Dedication To My Fans) debuted in the Top 40. Releases as a free project earlier in the month, the D-Block/L.O.X. lyricist and Def Jam Records opted to release the fan-inspired project as a physical and digital retail project. The work sold over 10,000 first-week units.
Eminem could reach 4,000,000 sold by mid-summer. The Aftermath/Interscope Records superstar’s 2010 album Recovery continues to move and shake on the charts. The best-selling album of last year features production from Havoc, Just Blaze and DJ Khalil.
Lupe Fiasco is expected to cross the 400,000 mark with Lasers by next week. The Chicago, Illinois star slipped out of the Top 50 with one of 2011’s most successful releases.
Odd Future’s leader, Tyler, the Creator’s Goblin sold another 7,000 units, landing it the #63 spot. A follow-up to 2009’s self-released Bastard, Goblin features band-mates Hodgy Beats, Domo Genesis and Frank Ocean.
British emcee Tinie Tempah‘s 2010 album, Disc-Overy made its US debut this month. The EMI Records project fell to #68, after the success of “Written In The Stars,” selling a total of 23,000 domestic units in two weeks. The album features production from Swedish House Mafia and No I.D.
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 39 | Jadakiss | I Love You (A Dedication To My Fans) | 11,000 | 11,000 |
| 47 | Eminem | Recovery | 9,800 | 3,872,000 |
| 54 | Lupe Fiasco | Lasers | 8,600 | 397,000 |
| 63 | Tyler, The Creator | Goblin | 7,000 | 65,000 |
| 68 | Tine Tempah | Disc-Overy | 6,300 | 23,000 |
Can Kool G. Rap’s latest album put a lyrical legend back on the charts? Stay tuned to HipHopDX.
Eminem is shitting on these monkeys. Greatest rapper is white! it shows that IQ is what mattrs in any craft, not your monkey realness or hardness
eminem is pop not rap.
eminem is the fucking definition of financial fantasy fiction
If IQ mattered; every socially conscious MC would be going “platinum”, not “wood” which they do. Its just that Eminem is the J-Bieber,Lady Gaga,Britney Spears, BackStreetBoy, and Justin Timberlake of Hiphop. His suburban/trailer-park bubble gum teenie-bop rhymes makes him his riches. Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand-Up?…LOL!
How come whiny fucking Joell Ortiz isn’t on the charts? Rap has a talent problem when this turd is part of even a fake ‘supergroup.’ And yes, Royce is Em’s Affirmative Action guilt trip at work, wigga please.
Also, when is the greatest piece of shit never made, Jay + Kanye, coming out again?
Just ahead of “Detox” right?
Stop crying Beanie and get a fucking JOB.
Any second now, right?
fuck man you are so smart
fucking loser. do something with yourself instead of analyzing other people who do more than you.
You have a lot of free time on your hands. People who you hate and dont care about are the center of your thoughts. Pretty sad :(.
damn haha….. u need a therapist or some shit
Go Jadakiss!!!
Seems like Odd Future isn’t living up to the massive hype.
hype doesnt always equal record sales
actually 65,000 units sold through an Independent label is a HUGE achievement.
The dude got a top 5 debut for goodness sake.
but he still sucks
odd future is not independant. they are with interscope, but they try to bullshit you by not referring to it, that way you think they’re still anti-establishment like they did with wiz and curren$y when they first got signed. they soft.
nothing is a surpise in these, detail.
same rappers moving the same amount of units as last week & the week before
lol look at this dude with his justin bieber hair and a bandana
I miss the old eminem… 🙁
I miss the old eminem bla bla bla well go listen to his old shit then and stop crying.
but you noticed EM stop rapping about drugs and guns rite?
We all do. But he’s almost 40 now, people change.
man killer mike sold 4k last week fuck album sales
JADAKISS SOLD 12K OFF A FREE MIXTAPE THAT WAS AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD??? THATS DOPE
Jada has a solid fan base, not many like that idiot 50cent but 100% loyal fans
True story
I wonder if MMG projected their first week sales higher. hmmmmmmm
lady gaga stole the charts. she sold 1,108,000 in her first week with her new album born this way. people r still sending money on cds.
SOME PEOPLE SHOULD JUST RETIRE FROM MUSIC INDUSTRY..PEOPLE WHO SELL 4K FIRST WEEK AFTER WORKING ON THE SO CALLED PROJECT FOR LIKE 3 YEARS
Why? He still makes more money than you ever will. Ever.
idk about that 4k in sells think about label fee’s
Self Made is hot album fuck what any hater on DX gotta say about Ross…
this album got bangers…
Tupac Back (if it ain’t already) is about to eat up the radio…
600 Benz will too…
that will def help sells…
wiz going gold def roll up is getting major airplay and his next singles will def do well on the charts…hopefully he releases my fav song off the cd “star of the show” as a single…
CO-SIGN
Sometimes haters are right.
The word is “sales”, not “sells”.
Ross aint fooling nobody with his small sale scams and fake number and he had and extra day….cum swapper
So JADAKISS goes from platinum albums to selling 11,000…..
Sad
It’s a mixtape you can get for free. I’m amazed anyone paid for it, period. That’s not to say he’s a shitty rapper or that he’s fallen off, it’s just that it was a giveaway, why should we pay?
Aint no way kiss would go platinum even with an LP these days, but that dosent diminish his skills.
Kiss has been on platinum albums..
This isnt an article about skills. Its about sales.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koN-yF4ySQs&feature=related
Skywalker – Barton Block
You mad?
MMG Vol.1 is flames and it sold nicely for a compilation that docent have any platinum selling rappers on it.
Hey Hrap, you mad?
Eminem gonna sell 4 million.
Mayback flopped like some saggy tits homie. Your cameltoe is showing.
Who Gives a Soggy Piece of shit that Eminem is gonna sell 4 mill? dosent mean the album is good Chachi.
But the album is good though. Log off faggot.
U mad for buying that bullsh-t self made album. Fake recognize fake. Yeah I know; “The beats”, “Its entertainment”.
You people get sucked into this whole Ross era and it’s stupid, All they talk about is coke, I’d rather listen to Ojs new mixtape 51/50 over this self made bullshit. I don’t see how this fat nigga ”so rich”
Took the words right out of my mouth
Why do black people have bad taste in music? The only music popular in the black community comes from swagtastic nugtards. Why bring yourself down? Rise above it black people, rise above it. Indulge in intellegent music like your brothers from other colors are doing! Remember it is a free country.
Plenty of black people listen to other genres. Also, its not like Hip hop is a strictly African American Genre, anyone can listen
there are faults in all music,and why the hell are you on a hip hop website and you’re not a fan of the genre? sorry to be rude but you should be back hand slapped with a diamond studded glove for that comment
Well we created rock, hip hop ,blues ex. The black kids are limited because they hear the same thing over and over and refuse to go back and listen to real hip hop with substance. Every other genre studies and listens to music before them. These fans probably don’t even know who the legendary rap artist are. They trap themselves in brainless, repetitive garbage with no substance or enlightenment. Just a bunch of dumb Negro’s blowing money on big a– chains and 8 million dollar cars which keeps u reaching. These rappers are doing nothing but playing to your fantasies. Yall just stick to the same 5 rappers on the radio who are mostly garbage but u wouldn’t know because that’s all u know.
Sometimes haters are right
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucZDC0qFYXY
MME ALBUM ONLY SOLD 59,000 LMFAOOOOO…. ALL THAT HYPE AND YA’LL NIGGAS STILL FLOPPED…. Y’ALL ONLY SOLD 40,000 MORE THAN JADA AND HE DROPPED A MIXTAPE… JADA CAME OUT A WINNER THIS WEEK,ANYONE THAT CAN SELL MORE THAN 10,000 MIXTAPES IN A WEEK IS THE MAN… TOP 5 DEAD OR ALIVE
Sales don’t matter when your a skilled rapper. Whack n-ggas like Ross supposed to sell. Only weirdos and funny style n-ggas like Ross supposed to be in your lame top ten
No rap skills just beats. Brainless music talking my ear off with bullsh-t.
They promoting this dude left and right and he only sold 59,000. I don’t wanna hear no bullsh-t that he had unknown rappers on it either. His fat a– is all over the single and the album. It’s basically a Ross album. Furthermore, a true hip hop head don’t fu-k with this dude because he’s a fraud. It don’t matter if he has a good song or not. He goes against the principles of what hip hop was built on. Trust me he’s mediocre at best with tight beats. Sometimes haters tell the truth.
http://www.youtube.com/user/moneymikerunsshit
Some of you so called hiphop heads should go join the tea party. Its funny the power a computer gives you clowns to feel like you tough. In reality you wouldnt say shit to these dudes face. But you can sit behind a computer and I bet you be typing hard as hell like “fuck ross, wayne, and wiz” lmao. Eminem always going to sale records he has a global fan base mostly white who still buy albums. Look at all the pop stars still going platinum Eminem sales as far as hiphop but he would be sale average without his Pop fan following lets be real. Look at the white boys on here defending Em. White people buy records. thats how wayne started selling more he went Pop. Nikki Pop, name a true hiphop artist thats selling records right now? dont worry Ill wait.
It would be easier to say fuck Ross and Wiz to their face if 1. they didn’t have bodyguards, 2. they stop talking about so called “haters,” and 3. the worst outcome would be a one on one fight, no jumping in.
if i ever meet OF i WILL punch them all in their face and beat the shit out of them at once. thats a GUARANTEE. and Lupe is selling soooo…
thats real shit but these artist know that record sales aint putting money in they pocket thats why the albums dont go harder than the mixtape. But they out there grinding doing shows every week getting that cake dropping mixtapes etc. Like 50 doing movies and shit. It dont matter about sales anymore and Im not a hater nor will I talk about beating up a rapper over the computer lol.
an album finished in 1 month and 59k
WIN
why are u typing this on every site. and what does the length of time it took to make have to do with anything. U just sound like u making excuses.
bum ass nigga why u following me on the internet lmao
MMG!
It’s a sad day in hip hop when Lonely Island beats Jadakiss and sells almost half as many records than the Beastie Boys.
Because Jadakiss album was free on multiple mixtape websites.
Record sales overall are still in the toilet. It’s become a major feat, just to go Gold.
11000 people have apparently never heard of datpiff.com
fuck datpiff.com
Officer ricky and his wack group sold 60,000 units . who bought that wack shit ?
that album is terrible the music industry is dead
just curious, honestly, how many people commenting actual bought a cd last week?evaluate your answer and think about why album sales suck right now.
reverbnation.com/hunkE