Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 6/10/2012

    Two major label albums debuted in the Top 10 this week. Meridian, Mississippi’s Big K.R.I.T. has won Mixtape Of The Year at HipHopDX for the last two consecutive years. With his first studio album, the Cinematic Music Group/Def Jam Records sensation snagged a Top 5 debut by a margin of less than 2,000 units. His friend and collaborator Curren$y’s second Warner Bros. Records release, billed as his first official album, The Stoned Immaculate , was three spots behind. This is Spitta’s first Top 10 appearance, in a lengthy career of physical and digital projects, several of which appeared on the Top 200. Both of these albums were available for free stream online prior to release, perhaps hinting to a new promotional method proven successful. Also noteworthy, Tyga gained an impressive 14 spots, while label-mates Nicki Minaj, Drake and Lil Wayne all lost chart places from the previous week.

    Big K.R.I.T. Might Not Be So Underground After All

    DXnext alum Big K.R.I.T.’s Live From The Underground sold over 41,000 first-week units. The major label release featuring 8Ball & MJG, Ludacris and Blues icon B.B. King was less than 2,000 units behind Neil Young & Crazy Horse’s latest album as well. The breakthrough album from the emcee/producer features 2011 single “Money On The Floor,” and solo single “I Got This.” The album has pulled critical acclaim from a number of media outlets, including a 4.5 out of 5 at HipHopDX.

    Curren$y’s Breakthrough Scores A Top 10

    After two Def Jam-distributed albums in 2010 and a charting mixtape last year, New Orleans, Louisiana veteran Curren$y has billed The Stoned Immaculate as his official debut. The response showed, giving Spitta not only his first Top 20 appearance, but a coveted Top 10. Now backed by Warner Bros., the release features Rap peers Wiz Khalifa and K.R.I.T., in addition to ’90s stars Fiend and Daz Dillinger. Curren$y told DX last month, “I went a lil’ further than I usually do,” and the fans seemed to have responded.

    Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 6/10/2012

    #5. Big K.R.I.T. – Live From The Underground – 41,000 (41,000)

    #8. Curren$y – The Stoned Immaculate – 36,000 (36,000)

    #22. Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – 35,000 (522,000)

    #42. Drake – Take Care – 8,300 (1,770,000)

    #43. B.o.B. – Strange Clouds – 8,200 (149,000)

    #70. Tyga – Careless World: Rise Of The Last King – 5,600 (244,000)

    #72. Travis Porter – From Day 1 – 5,500 (20,000)

    #86. Future – Pluto – 5,000 (102,000)

    #106. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne – 4,200 (1,445,000)

    #192. Childish Gambino – Camp – 2,200 (160,000)

    * 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.

    Is Stevie Stone the latest artist from Strange Music to rattle the charts’ cage? Can Oddisee be the first Mello Music Group artist to hit the Top 200? Stay tuned to HipHopDX.

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    146 thoughts on “Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 6/10/2012

    1. LMAO!!

      And HHDX really trying to put on like those numbers are good too, SMH

      Yo, both them dudes sold less then 50K on a major label, that aint a good performance man

      Shame bout KRIT, Dope album, havent heard Spitta’s new one yet

      1. In today’s music climate Big K.R.I.T. selling 41K Curren$y selling 36 K is good. At 10 dollars a bop and Spitta probably getting around 4 dollars a CD made over 100 K this week.

      2. @ash motown

        I don’t know where you get your figures from B but no artists now gets 4 bucks a pop for a CD. Even the big stars like Jay only get like 1.50 or 2 from a CD. CD sales are not the moneymakers for artists, its touring and merchandise shit that gets the paper now. Oh yeah and itunes singles.

      3. I don’t know how he does in other cities but Spitta just sold out the Masquerade in Atlanta this past Saturday. So, he is doing well for himself on the touring end.

      4. 36K is aight? Lol hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha.Next year 15-20 will even be considered a success.YMCMB we the only team eating

      5. @Dk

        Your name says it all as in you like suckin on ymcmb dick. Nice alot of these young heads love dickriding those leopard jeggin wearin faggots and cant appreciate GOOD hip hop like Krit.

      6. Curren$y has been around the game for a while. He has his own imprint on Warner Brothers so I’m sure he fronted majority of this album budget himself. So really all Warner Bro. Records did was pay for distributions which they taking their cut of about half. Only features probably costing him any money was the Pharrell, Marsha and Estelle features. 2 Chainz, Wiz, and K.R.I.T. did it probably for the low cuz he is close with them two. Since K.R.I.T. album didn’t cost Def Jam hardly anything and him being a producer as well entitles him to a larger share.

    2. GAMES RED ALBUM IS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT…Homeboy made it, against all ODDS, always keeps it real..F.I.V.E gonna be anopther classic, and FIFITY, thanks for the free promo you planet of apes looking fool…

      1. @ Anonymous STFU
        He Has Been Dropping Dope Shit.. Since That Same 2006 He’s Had Two #1 Albums.. Bye Hater

    3. KRIT and CUrrensy flopped because they did not do Tyga’s numbers or Nickis.These two ugly pigs must just quit if they aint sellin

      5LETTERS

    4. That Big Krit album was fiyah. Best album of the summer so far if not year. Niggas need to watch for that God Forgives I don’t. Shit is gon be classic and as much as I dug Krits underground, GFID prolly gon be better. Big ups to Krit though keepin the south at the top of the game.

      Bawse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    5. why do rap fans care about how much their favorite artist have sold? do they need confirmation of their music taste?

      1. because they think the more they sold they must be good…that is not the case people just listen to stupid music now-a-days. sales mean nothing Yela only sold like 42,000 or some shit in first week but is easily better than any YMCMB or whatever the fuck it is artist will ever be (just an opinion) lil wayne sold records yeah but he hella blows

    6. HEEELL Y EEEZZZ NIKKKAS

      FINALLY IT HAPPENED – JUST BOUGHT A NEW RIDE – A CAM A RO CONVERTIBLE.GOT APPROVED FOR 26 LARGE. BEEN 5 YRS SINCE IVE GOTTEN SHYT APPROVED, BUT NOW ALL MY CRE DIT SHEET GONE. ALL OF IT.

      IF YOU STRUGGLING WITH THAT CRE DIT HISTORY ISHH, GET RID OF ALL DAT TODAY – CALL THESE PEEPS AT 8^8^8-9-2-7 -3-3-5-6. . THEY DO AMAZING WORK AND THEY ARE CHEAP AS FUQQ. GOT RID OF ALL MY SHYYT IN NO TIME.

      MY HOMEBOY WAS IN THE GUTTA TOO, AND HE CLEANER THAN ME NOW-gettin a condo!!

      Hit em up – THEY WILL HELP U!!

    7. U nerds kill me talkin bout flop dis and flop dat a flop means when a album sell less than expected just because its not platinum or gold does not mean its a flop if a album is exspected 2 sell 2 mil da first week and only sell 1 mil da first week means dats a flop big krit and currency sold more den expected so dats not a flop dumbassess now dis me I bet u wnt get a reply

      1. Theres no way you dont live with your parents.

        A flop is when the album isnt profitable. With the amount of money spent on production/promotion/videos for Nicki Minaj’s latest you could call her album a flop. Krit and Currency will make more money from their sales/shows than most mainstream artists.

    8. Nicki Minaj didnt sell 35k this week..Do the math..She was past 500k last week and sold 35k this week and she’s at 522k..?

      1. That’s the same thinking i was think. She was at 508k last week, 35k sold this week would mean 543k total. There is def an error somewhere.

    9. LMFAO, Drake is still raping the sales. Currency and Big K.R.I.T. can’t never ever fuck with his numbers or talent for that matter. So I ask these Hip Hop DX dick riding faggot ass fans, what’s a peasant to a god?

      Hahaha, haters gonna hate. Fuck yall.

    10. Wow, these are some fucked up numbers all around. WTT came out before Take Care and Drake is still killing them? B.o.B. hasn’t even reached 200K yet with that bullshit pop trash he put out last month. My question is why do hip hop artists even bother trying to sell out anymore? It’s OBVIOUSLY not working. In the words of Phonte: “How the fuck you sell out when ain’t nobody sellin?”

      1. Watch The Throne: more Grammys than take care, global tour, no press or media run. No radio budget (i.e. def jam didnt pay for radio). Both rappers have been in the game longer than Drake and still put up numbers. Let’s see drake due this after hes put out 6 plus albums. Drake suppose to do these numbers, he’s new to the game (i.e under three studio albums). I actually think Drake is the only real artist that they have. Not to mention he looked up-to Jay and kanye long before he looked up to Wayne. Also take care is more pop/rand b which lends it self to a different buying demographic than a straight rap album with no pop or records strictly produced for radio play.

    11. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
      LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
      LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

      NOW FIRST LET ME SAY I AM A FAN OF SPITTA AND BIG KRIT. BUT SPITTA SHOULD HAVE NEVER LEFT WAYNE AND HE ALSO SHOULD HAVE NOT TREATED DAME DASH LIKE THAT WHEN DAME AND SKI BEATS GOT HIS BUZZ UP

      NOW YOU HAVE TO CALL BOTH ALBUMS A FLOP BECAUSE YALL CALLED NICKI ALBUM A FLOP. NICKI DAMN NEAR DID SPTTA SALES THIS WEEK.

      SO AS ALWAYS YMCMB IS THE BEST TEAM IN THE GAME.

      NICKI HAD A GREAT WEEK OF SALES THANKS TO ALL THE SUMMER JAM CONTROVERSY SO WE AT YMCMB THANK THE HATERS. HATE SPREADS FASTER THAN LOVE SO KEEP HATING THE BEST TEAM IN THE GAME

      ALSO YMCMB IS DOING GREAT INTERNATIONALLY. NICKI ALBUM HAS SOLD OVER A MILLION COPIES WORLD WIDE. TYGA JUST WENT ON A 3 MONTH TOUR IN EUROPE. TYGA MIGHT ONLY HAVE 250,000 BECAUSE OF THE FIRST MEEK SAMPLE PROBLEM BUT HE IS ALSO DOING GREAT IN EUROPE AND THOSE ALBUMS SOLD PUTS JUST AS MUCH MONEY AS A US ALBUM IN THE COMPANY POCKET

      1. Nicki’s numbers are wrong think about it Currensy is at 8 and Nicki is at 22 with only a thousand less? It’s a typo not that many people would have around the same sales. Also based on expectations you can’t call either of these a flop. Flops are based on expectations which is why Nicki’s was considered a flop by some she should have sold a lot more than she did.

      2. ^ FLOPS ARE BASED ON MONEY NICKI MAKING MORE MONEY FOR THE LABEL THAT CURRECY OR BIG KRIT. THE LABEL EXPECTED NICKI TO DO WHAT SHE IS DOIN WHICH IS SELL ALBUMS AND SINGLES ALL AROUND THE WORLD

    12. Curren$y album really was better then I thought it be props to spitta an JetLife that “Chandelier” song is my joint! Capitol 2

    13. These hiphopdx guys are funny. Krit’s and Curren$y’s numbers are well below what this very site predicted last week and those numbers would’ve been considered a flop by many. Damn just keep it real. Both are good but mainstream just ain’t feelin it.

      1. Nobodys selling. Nicki Minaj is doing Lady Gaga impersonations with Starships and that shit aint even helping much.

      2. lol @ nobody’s selling. nigga who is nobody. another typical justification for failure. falsely applying it to everybody to make your favorites seem less pathetic by comparison. just keep it real my nigga.

    14. Def Jam is the worst major label for promotion possible at the moment, its a shame KRIT didn’t do 100k+

    15. Big Krit produced his entire album, his budget wasnt big at all, on the other hand nicki had had producers that run about 6 firgures for one song plus big budget videos she considered one of the most popular artist in the world she should have sold more. Big krit is really a popular underground artist on a major 41k is good def jam didnt spend anything on promoting him.

      1. NICE TRY BIG KRIT IS ON A MAJOR HIS SHIT FLOPPED. NICKI SOLD OVER A MILLION COPIES WORLD WIDE. NO MATTER WHAT EXCUSES YOU COME UP WITH NICKI IS MAKING MORE MONEY FOR THE LABEL THAN BIG KRIT

      2. profit equals revenue minus costs, dude is trying to say that even though Nicki sold a lot she had high costs (promotion, high priced production, expensive videos) so in the end since Krit had low costs (no promotion, in house production) maybe he was more PROFITABLE, i don’t think this is the case but you never know….though I think no matter how high her costs might be I’m sure they’ve been recouped ten times over by her touring

    16. These guys are living good he will prob make 6 firgures off this album considering def jam prob didnt spend money so unless he didnt take a huge advance hes good and also hes prob getting 6 firgures monthly on the road

      1. YOU THINK KRIT GETTING 6 FIGURES A MONTH ON THE ROAD? LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

        NICKI GET HIGH SIX FIGURES FOR A SHOW

      2. we need to find who’s doing the YESSIR account and torture him for a few days and dump his body in the river, then track down and murder Nicki Minaj, Drake, Lil Wayne, Tyga, Birdman, and the rest of Young Money, give them the Saw and Trayvon treatment.

    17. I say give to hip hop what is hip hops’ and to pop what is pops’. Currency and KRIT put out arguable the best albums so far this year, that fresh raw hip hop we have been missing, but the numbers dont reflect the quality of music. Taste in music is an individual choice not a collective attempt to sound cool so buy and enjoy the music you like, it is that simple.

      1. why are you so mean? tyga is the best. you are mean. tyga is the top mc and we will be hearing from him for many years to come. he is it. the next big rap artist.

    18. 41K for a major label is a flop.Stop with these silly excuses.Even tyga did better than these faggots.

      5LETTERS

    19. Not surprised by CURREN$Y and BIG K.R.I.T. Numbers, both were on Sale at Amazon for 7.99 and 8.99 ! But still, i like them both and picked them up !

    20. YMCMB is the group for kids that can’t think for themselves. cuttie-cutter BS. wayne is clueless. nicki is what you want her to be. tyga can’t rap. and birdman buys albums to boost sales numbers. i’m glad we have YMCMB tho…keeps their fans away from the rest of us.

      1. you’re such a crazy in the head, childish old person, that needs to grow up and live a real life.

    21. Congratulations to both Big KRIT and Curren$y, who managed to make the top 10 without a hot single but just by releasing consistently great music along the way. Once again, congratulations.

    22. Nicki Minaj’s album is selling for 18.99 and up, so her sales should count twice. All them other artist’s selling for 9.99…..lol

      1. she has to sell her album for paying everyone off for all the features and top producers plus she had a huge marketing push. That isn’t cheap.

      2. Anonymous #1 is right. I’ve seen copies of All Eyez on Me at Best Buy for more than $20. But I’ve also seen Life After Death at the same Best Buy for $10. I was really surprised & copped it in less than 0.2 seconds. lol

    23. Sales are no indication of quality but they are predictive of which artist will get a budget for their next project. Looks like we will be getting more free music from Krit and Spitta before another studio album…maybe its for the best. STUDIO ALBUMS ARE FOR POP STARS MIXTAPES ARE FOR US REAL NIGGAS…We support by showing up at your shows…even though its at a club where we would have been anyway but still its a nice coincedence.

    24. Bought 2 copies of #livefromtheunderground last week, no iTunes. One in the car and one on my mantle. I’m from NYC. Salute real hiphop

    25. Daaaamn son. Sales are even weaker than last week’s. Niggas ain’t buying shit. But I understand them, after all these wack ass rappers I wouldn’t feel like buying rap music too.

    26. 5000 people bought Future’s album this week ?

      why ? I can understand Tyga and them other cats selling still but Future ?

    27. 41k and 36k with no hit is worth a salute in my mind, means KRITS and Curren$y’s fans give a damn about em. Gonna buy one of the two albums this week so they hold up well.

      1. without a hit. why doesnt he have a hit. how is not having a hit some medal of honor in your book.

      2. ^^ You’re missing the point of what he’s saying. They worked hard off of mixtapes and gained a sizable fan base to sell that much in the first. Not every single artist has to have a hit song in order for people to buy their album.

    28. krit schouldt have gave away so much good music away for free, probley hurt him in the long run. numbers like that on a mayjor will get you droped, schould have keep it indie……

    29. LOL ALL OF U NIGGAS SAYING DRAKES GAY HAHAHA HE CRUSHES THESE LIL GIRLS NUMBERS 41K?!?! REALLY 41K?!?! DRIZZY MUST BE LAUGHING HARD RIGHT NOW…BIG KRIT STAY TRILL OR WHATEVER U CALL IT STAY IN TEXAS NIGGA DONT TRY TO GO NATIONAL LET THE BIG GUYS LIKE DRIZZY AND ROZAY PUT THE RAP GAME ON THEY BACK AND REPRESENT THE US

      1. Drake’s Canadian Eh. But on another note who cares about sales doesn’t change the music at all unless you just trying to be cool by listening to the popular music at the time.

      2. THIS GUY WAS A FAKE BUT HE HAD A POINT. BIG KRIT FRO MISSISSIPPI BUT ALL HE DO IS JACK HOUSTON STYLE. AND FOR THE GUY ABOUT DRAKE IS AMERICAN HIS DAD IS AMERICAN SO DRAKE HAS DUAL CITIZENSHIP STAY IN SCHOOL LITTLE NIGGA

    30. i respect krit but niggas be coming with crazy excuse a-game when the nigga they dickriding dont sell. SMH! just take the L niggas! damn!

    31. hate to say it cuz krit makes good music but he definitely flopped in terms of seeing a sophomore release this album has been “coming out” for almost two years…..luckily he produced most of it himself..spitta on the other hand did ok cause this album came out out of nowhere really and probably has some fans who don’t even know ut came out

    32. sales dont mean shit anymore. to many people are dumbed down by YMCMB and roc nation n shit. they are force fed it and everyone buys into it. ill buy real music from real artists and not give a damn about how much they sell, as long as they give me music that is actually good.

    33. YMCMB keeps on winning in sales, which is the answer to: who’s killin the game?

      the answer: Y MOTHERFUCKING M MOTHERFUCKING C MOTHERFUCKING M MOTHERFUCKING B

      1. winning at what? hiphop is at a all time low the sells they are getting is weak for the major artist they suppose to be i bet you kiss your daddy on his lips also

      2. if thats winning the adele just shits on ymcmb entire catalog shit fif 1st album shits on waynes career

    34. hiphopdx aint the real numbers… ya numbers be way off… thats why i dont trust ya no more and stil trust sohh.com…. they numbers be on point.. nicki only did 13 this week, wer the fuck ya get 30k from

    35. Sales are pretty weak..nothing really to get excited about though and I think I know why…K.R.I.T. and Curren$y have given A LOT of music away for free over the past 2 years, which rivals and even trumps their Major Label albums. It kinda explains for the weaker sales in a sense…Radio Play and Mainstream featuring also play a big role.

      I think they should’ve sold in the 60’s-70’s first week out for the strength that they have as independents hooking up with a major label. But then again they have no dominant radio single out for the majors to push either.

    36. see I don’t understand this y’all spent the whole week talking bout fuck YMCMB and let’s support real hip hop but y’all didn’t even buy K.R.I.T.’s or Currensy’s albums. Y’all don’t support real Hip Hop.

      1. 41,000 for KRIT and 36,000 for Currensy, and you say people didn’t buy it? Lol. And I did buy KRIT’s album last week and I’m playing that shit right now.

      2. ^^^^^^
        C’mon nigga those numbers ain’t shit K.R.I.T. could of have moved way more units than some small ass 40.000

      3. I think 41,000 is a very reasonable amount for him, considering the fact that he’s not heavily promoted like Drake or Nicki, and that he doesn’t have a top 10 hit song being played repeatedly 24/7. And not everyone knows who he is right now, so I’d say that 41k is a good start.

    37. while the sheep are stuck on a label i own krit album so im one of those special 41 thousand people that owns a classic album.

    38. I just found ANOTHER mistake in your article – Childish Gambino cannot possibly be at 160,000, since 2 weeks before this chart he was confirmed at 162,936. Judging by that and his average weekly sales of 2k to 2500, you probably meant to write 170,000 instead of 160,000.

    39. this generation is dumbed down its gonna take a lil growing up to catch up to the real shit it happens all the time.

    40. R.I.P the music business

      Better kiss your kids good bye and tour for 300 days a year with numbers like these, lol

    41. anonymous:

      hate to say it cuz krit makes good music but he definitely flopped in terms of seeing a sophomore release this album has been “coming out” for almost two years…..luckily he produced most of it himself..

      ^ smh……

      “spitta on the other hand did ok cause this album came out out of nowhere really and probably has some fans who don’t even know ut came out”

      ^ double smh

      You don’t know anything about that man’s contract so stop it. It’s his FIRST week of sales, NOT the LAST WEEK FINAL RESULTS.

      And THEN, you pat Spitta on the back when he and KRIT are promoted the same way, grassroots, no big promo budgets, let the music speak for itself. Curren$y’s first album Pilot Talk sold a little over 10,000 FIRST WEEK. I don’t even think you can see how badly you contradicted yourself.

    42. Who gives a fuck people! These are good numbers in today standards regardless. I guarantee if these dudes got radio play they would already have went gold, blame the fucking industry for only playing trash not these guys.

    43. typical hip hop purist faggot hypocrite. talk all that shit about real hip hop then dont even support the album when it drops. that’s why nobody respects your voice or values your opinion of how everything is gay. at least the “gays” buy albums and support their “gay” artists.

    44. how can 41k be a flop for krit, when he has zero radio play and it’s his debut album, only hardcore hip hop fans know his mixtapes exist, if 41k is a flop for him then whats 75k first week for b.o.b’s sophmore album and his platinum singles or 25k for waka’s sophmore album?

    45. Krit may hav sold 41,000, but like they said, he did all his production and no radio play, plus im sure hiphopdx doesnt have the resources to pull up digital sales and all that bs, and Krit no fool, i bet he getting a good chunk of of change from the sales.

    46. Meh, its the era of faggot rap, if your music dont attract the homo’s, your not gonne sell anything, it is what it it

      1. shut up. you fags just won’t go out to support the ‘true’ rappers you claim to love allday on the net.

      2. While this is somewhat true, this album was undershipped like crazy. Lets look and see how much this dude sales in the long run. Also remember the last couples dude to be really pushed from the underground (J.Cole, Wale, Drake,) have all turned out great.

    47. HEEELL Y EEEZZZ NIKKKAS

      FINALLY IT HAPPENED – JUST BOUGHT A NEW RIDE – A CAM A RO CONVERTIBLE.

    48. HEEELL Y EEEZZZ NIKKKAS

      FINALLY IT HAPPENED – JUST BOUGHT A NEW RIDE – A CAM A RO CONVERTIBLE.GOT APPROVED FOR 26 LARGE. BEEN 5 YRS SINCE IVE GOTTEN SHYT APPROVED, BUT NOW ALL MY CRE-DIT SHEET GONE. ALL OF IT.

      IF YOU STRUGGLING WITH THAT CRE-DIT HISTORY ISHH, GET RID OF ALL DAT TODAY – CALL THESE PEEPS AT 8^8^8-9-2-7 -3-3-5-6. . THEY DO AMAZING WORK AND THEY ARE CHEAP AS FUQQ. GOT RID OF ALL MY SHYYT IN NO TIME.

      MY HOMEBOY WAS IN THE GUTTA TOO, AND HE CLEANER THAN ME NOW-gettin a condo!!

      Hit em up – THEY WILL HELP U!!

    49. Currensy sold 36k?? Wow, that seems like a shitload to me! I had no idea he had that many fans. Also, who the fuck is Childish Gambino?? Im just sayin, I know who he is, but how the fuck does someone who barely anyone even knows sell 160 thousand units??? Surprised Krit didn’t sell more.

    50. CURREN$Y DID AN AMAZING JOB ON STONED IMMACULATE!!! GOTTA THANK SPITTA FOR GIVING ME ANOTHER CLASSIC ALBUM!!! JET LIFE JET LIFE!!!!

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