Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 6/9/2013

    It was one of the more quiet weeks on the charts in some time.

    With no new additions coming from 2013 Hip Hop releases, Kid Ink’s Almost Home EP fell 48 spots in its second week at digital retail. Still in the Top 75, the RCA Records-backed Los Angeles, California emcee is breathing down the 20,000-sold benchmark with his second retail effort in as many years.

    Def Jam Records singer, producer and Grammy Award-winning songwriter The-Dream’s latest album IV Play fell 24 spots of its own. The label veteran enlisted Jay-Z and Beyonce and a plethora of G.O.O.D. Music talent for his fifth studio LP.

    will.i.am’s #willpower Lives Up To Its Name On The Charts

    After seven weeks, Los Angeles, California mainstay producer/emcee will.i.am’s fourth solo album #willpower is still going strong. A long departure from the Black Eyed Peas’ front-man’s first solo effort, 2001’s Lost Change on BBE Records, #willpower is a Dance album, featuring Britney Spears, Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus. The Interscope Records project is will’s first since the Peas went on hiatus over two years ago.

    However, will’s partner dating back to the Ruthless Records/Atban Klann days, apl.de.ap, did reunite with his B.E.P. homie on “Gettin’ Dumb.” This effort out-lasted will’s longtime West Coast peer Snoop Lion (f/k/a Snoop Dogg), who released Reincarnated the same day as #willpower.

    This album contains gold single “thatPower” and #1 record “Scream & Shout.”

    The Beastie Boys’ Licensed To Ill Never Expires

    In a quiet week for new releases, the Beastie Boys remind the charts why they are a true Hip Hop classic. Following Rolling Stone magazine listing it “the best debut album of all-time,” 1986’s Licensed To Ill shot back into the Top 200 for the second time in three weeks.

    The album remains a critical seller for Def Jam Records, with Russell Simmons claiming the album’s sales supported the label in the early 1990s, through commercial challenges. The first album by Mike D, Ad-Rock and the late MCA was also their only effort on the label. Producer Rick Rubin, who is currently at work with Kanye West on Yeezus, laced the album with samples ranging from Led Zeppelin to Bob James to early Def Jam icon, T. La Rock.

    Following L.T.I., the trio released seven addition studio albums, most recently 2011’s Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2. No subsequent effort has out-sold Licensed To Ill.

    Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 6/9/2013

    #2. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories – 62,000 (494,000)

    #11. The Great Gatsby Soundtrack – 24,000 (347,000)

    #12. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 22,000 (798,000)

    #34. Lil Wayne – I Am Not A Human Being II – 11,000 (476,000)

    #35. French Montana – Excuse My French – 11,000 (85,000)

    #40. The-Dream – IV Play – 9,100 (32,000)

    #51. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city – 8,100 (921,000)

    #75. Kid Ink – Almost Home EP – 5,300 (20,000)

    #123. will.i.am – #willpower – 3,300 (58,000)

    #166. Beastie Boys – Licensed To Ill – 2,600 (5,749,000)

    * 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.

    Will Action Bronson & Harry Fraud’s Saab Stories and Prodigy & Alchemist’s Albert Einstein smoke up the charts before all hell breaks loose?

    Last Week’s Album Sales.

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    230 thoughts on “Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 6/9/2013

    1. That says a lot about the Beastie Boys having an album still in the top 200 that is nearly 20 years old. Their last album (Hot Sauce Committee pt 2) was dope. With virtually no airplay or advertising, it still landed #1 on the rap, hip hop / r&b, rock, and alternative billboard.

      I doubt in 20 years any of these cats out today can drop an album with no promotion and still land at #1 because of their fan base.

      1. only classic albums of this era, so i’m talking about GKMC, MBDTF, also Take Care (wich I don’t consider a classic)

    2. Kendrick will be Platnium by next month and French….damn homie! Checkout thegrandreport, they have good entertainment news on there as well

      1. Why do people keep saying this? No shit it’s not going to sell well, but Kanye isn’t trying to sell his album. It has no singles, no preorder, no track list, no cover and he has only done one interview for promo. He clearly doesn’t give a fuck, so why do you?

      2. Everything you say is a lie. Yeezus will sell a lot of copies. Drake won’t sell as much as Kanye. It’s Kanye, for God’s sake. This shit will sell at least 400k 1st week. YMCMB ain’t on top of shit.

      3. Where’s the promotion for yeezus? YMCMB have far more money than Yeezy and are able to promote their album. They are talented in various genres too. Yeezy’s money has been mostly given to Kardashian.

      4. Everything said here is BS and lies. Yeezus will sell based on Kanye’s name alone. YMCMB suck ass and are not talented in various genres, just pop. Kanye has all of his money. You’re making up bullshit in your head.

    3. creepy, i was just thinkin about license to ill and how underrated it is. on the other hand, best debut ever? i find that hard to believe as well

    4. wuddup world. its that time again. yall know the drill. 3 months and counting. lil wayne outsells youre favourite rapper again. poor kendrick. he cant even crack 10,000 copies. 8000 is so pitiful. nice to see weezy doing strong. his appearance on jimmy kimmel should be a nice boost too! ya damn bish!!!

      1. even that “whack” rapper you call french sold more then lamar. brooklyn we go hard. ya biiiish!

      2. I gotta agree french did sell more didn’t think about it that way…Kendrick will go platinum but this week his sales were slow

    5. That beastie album is classic all day and Kendrick is about to go PLAT on your favorite rapper.

    6. I’ve actually been to a secret listening party of Yeezus. Most of the crowd was booing. I talked to some partygoers and they told me that they were West fans but that album was one of the worst they ever heard.

      1. IM not a bitch. I actually have been to a secret listening party and most of the audience thought it sucked. Why did you think Rick Rubin came in at the last minute?

    7. Daft Punk is hip-hop now?
      Licensed To Ill is a classic now? Okay…. y’all some dick-ridin’, classless dickheads.

      1. Somebody slap this man for askin if License to ill is a classic…U dopnt know what hiphop is…it surely isnt trap music…lol

      2. go easy on him. he is probably some 15 year old who has never listened to any hip hop album before 1998

      3. I’m a little older than 15 and I’ve never heard a Hip-Hop album before 1998 but definitely know Licensed to Ill is a fundamental Hip-Hop classic. Internet maybe?

    8. Lamar saving Hip Hop for the west coast….. Lamar is 10X better than any wack Shady Record album since Eminem show. Rest was garbage

    9. Maann Kendrick needs a boost! sales are going down and hes just shy off a milli. at this rate its gonna take him over 12 weeks to reach platinum

    10. French Montana is more relevant than Kendrick Lamar as of right now cause he’s selling more than him

      IANAHB2 will be platinum before the end of July and Weezy is selling more than Kendrick Lamar

      Let me know when Kendrick ever sells 1.3 million in a week like Weezy F. did

      I know the guy who owns billboard and he told me Macklemore is expected to fall sharply off the charts by next week and not go platinum

      Whether you like it or not YMCMB and MMG still running the rap game!!!!!

      1. you are an idiot and i will educate you. K Lamar came out with his album in October 2012. And these other lame rappers, weezy and french and barely selling more than him and they dropped a few weeks ago. that isnt a triumph over K Lamar.

      2. more money at the moment? how about you compare all the money being made since those albums are released.

        doing good now is fine, but you are saying that they are better then Kendrick for selling more units when his album came out like 8 months ago. you fail to notice the total sales.

        so by your theory, if Will.I.AM. spikes and sells 30k units and beats out Weezy, French and Kendrick for the week, he is better?

      3. man shut your ass up. Kendrick at the moment could fill up MSG. French Montana couldn’t even sell out a bingo hall if he gave his entire family & homies free tickets.

      4. Lol if you want to put it like that compare Lil weezy’s 1.3 mil to Eminems 20 mil and 50’s 13 mil then okay???LOLOLOL

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    12. some of you idiots r writing that french sold more than K.Lamar. r u guys that dumb…seriously do u smoke dust?..lamar album came out in OCT’12 he sold 921,000 copies u idiots, where french sold 85,000 total lmao!!!.. omg i swear some of u should of been swallowed

      1. i am trying to convince one of the idiots now, scroll down. Kendrick came out like 8 months ago and they think it is a triumph to out sell an 8 month old album. dudes are stupid

      1. all time, 5 mill is great for a hip hop album. if you look at the all times albums selling list, most of those are either rock or pop albums.

        but i think you are right. other sites have them listed at about 9 million sold.

      2. “all time, 5 mill is great for a hip hop album. if you look at the all times albums selling list, most of those are either rock or pop albums.”

        Yeah, but it’s not all-time. That’s only counting sales since 5 years after it came-out. How many albums at all sell 5 million after they’ve been out 5 years? Most albums these days sell the majority of their lifetime Soundscan totals in about 3-4 weeks.

        Licensed to Ill was certified at 9 million back in 2001. So I would think it’s probably under-certified. In fact I would say there is no doubt about it. It was 4x Platinum in 1987 plus it’s sold 5.7 since 1991. So that’s at least 9.7, not counting anything it sold from 1987 to 1991.
        Classics keep selling, and you are right- most of the all-time sellers aren’t albums that come out and sell a million on Soundscan and then drop off the charts. They are albums that sell every week for years. In addition to some classic rock albums, you have greatest hits packages, and stuff like Bob Marley’s Legend. Stuff like that sells at least a couple thousand a week every week for 20-30 years, while you have recent hit albums that sold six or 7 figures out of the gate on Soundscan and then a year later they sell like 50 units.

      3. licensed to III wasn’t even rap. I bet you the 9million who bought the album are punk fans who never listen to hip-hop.

      4. “licensed to III wasn’t even rap. I bet you the 9million who bought the album are punk fans who never listen to hip-hop”

        I call that pioneering. It isnt traditional hip hop but it is still hip hop. The “punk/suburban” fans they got helped hip hop by bringing rap into those homes (similiar to eminem). I think you should sit down and listen to a few Beastie Boy albums.

        Brass Monkey and Paul Revere are classics. Listen and enjoy

      5. how is boring brass monkey that chunky chunky, a classic. i will be totally ridiculed if i played that shit in my hood. and beastie boys or rick rubin have no black fans cos they ain’t hip hop FACT.

      6. This guy obviously listens to Chiek Keef, Gucci Mane, and other wack trap rappers. The Beasties and Rick Rubin are more hip-hop than you and your favorites.

      7. If you say Beastie Boys weren’t rap, you might as well say RunDMC weren’t rap. They were definitely rapping. Is Rick Rubin wack because he was using rock music instead of stolen disco loops?

    13. “that isnt a triumph over K Lamar”

      You’re basing everything on one album. That’s insane. Wayne’s sold 10 million albums ($200 mill in digital singles). Jeezy’s sold 5 million. That’s a career. What Kendrick has right now is a moment.

      1. i am assuming you are quoting me. I meant if you compared their latest album sales, because i was responding to someone saying that French and Weezy are better then K Dot because they outsold him THIS WEEK.

      2. he likes to take portions of comments and take them out of context and then respond, we call him quote-man!

    14. congrats to my nigga macklemore for getting that indie money. k.lamar officially platinum, macklemore is next. weezy,wiz,tyga,french,french and tip flopped real bad

    15. As an accountant at cash money, whenever kanye comes through, I am required to service him whenever he wants, birdman always makes me since i am his bitch. One day kanye wanted a hot plate of fish sticks, and wanted fresh tarter sauce with them. So i shit on a plate, warmed it in the microwave, and jizzed on it afterwards, then mixed it together with mayonaise. Kanye wanted to make sure it wasn’t poisened, so I grabbed a spoon and took a bite of the shit & cum tarter sauce, I loved it, and it didn’t kill me! Mmm, mmm, mmm, I love eating my own shit. Kanye was feeling horny, and he wanted to fuck kim, but she was in LA cheating on him with brody jenner, fucking bitch. So kanye put a wig around my ass, drew eyes and a nose, then stuck his cock in my tight shit hole, and yelled out Kim’s name like the 10 commandments, then he called me a muthafucking gay fish, shot his load in my eyes, the ones drawn on my ass, then fisted me. Kanye broke down and started crying, because the thought of Kim fucking her step brother was too much too handle.

      Sorry kanye, but that baby is coming out white. YMCM 4 Life!

      1. thats cool french, but if your album does not sell then you will lose a record contract or sign to some lame label (actually i forgot you are on bad boy. so puff will shelf you and never let you out of your contract for another 5 years). You will then get thrown back into the mixtape circuit and never come out.

        selling records can decide if you are doing 300 people hole in the wall club shows or stadium shows. The music business is a business and record sales matter. If you are an artist which you clearly arent then album sales dont matter.

      2. French Montana, you are a fucking faggot…FACT.

        You are the definition of a complete sellout, who does anything to sell, but then still flops…FACT.

        You are the definition of a NY rapper helping to totally RUIN the east coast/NY sound…FACT.

        You have no talent so you have everybody and their mother on your songs…FACT.

        You are not from the South, you fucking talentless dipshit!…FACT.

        You have NO RESPECT from real, respected, successful or underground east coast rappers…FACT.

        You are the one who gave 50 Cent the tape of Khaled’s Mom’s house and now you are best buddies with Khaled and the fakest fuck in the game, Rick Ross. Your NYC pass has been revoked…FACT.

    16. I just wanted to apologize to everybody here on the comment boards. Truth is, Im not really an accountant at cash money, I dont know birdman, wayne, or drake. I just pretend I do, because it boosts my self esteem, because my mom doesnt let me leave the house, so I need to have an ego somewhere, and this is the place.

      1. Hey, if you want to make new friends, go to Chat Roulette. Theres plenty of people like you in that site

    17. Wow, thats alot. Thats alot to handle. I hope everything works out for you. Its not easy being somebodys bitch.

    18. “he likes to take portions of comments and take them out of context and then respond, we call him quote-man!”

      I call you dickless man cause based on your feminine responses you can’t possibly have a dick.

    19. “I meant if you compared their latest album sales”

      I wasn’t assassinating your point. I just don’t get why people put so much stock in one album. Kendrick has the moment, and that’s great for him, but he has a long way to go to catch up to artists who have consistently sold for years.

    20. “Quote man to the rescue, holding it down for Weezy”

      Not quite cyber fag. I was merely stating facts.

    21. 9x platinum makes more sense considering it came out in the late 80’s. That’s crazy how popular those Brooklyn retards really were.

    22. K Dot’s album is bombing. Montana is selling more than him. Montana is going platinum within a couple of years. Coke boys for life.

      1. Montana’s album is bombing. Kendrick is selling more than him. Montana is never going platinum ever. Fuck Coke Boys.

      2. Hey vinny, i was wondering what rock you were hiding under. After Flop Montana’s first week sales came out, you got really quiet…LOL

    23. Im not a bitch. Anyway, Yeezus isn’t getting promotion. Reincarnated bombed despite the snoop dogg name. YMCMB is on top of the game, outselling everything else. BTW, fathers and sons kissing is natural and the circle of life.

      1. Wrong. Yeezus is getting promotion. YMCMB are not at the top of anything, they’re not outselling everyone else. Fathers and sons kissing is not natural and circle of life, it’s gay and incest.

      2. LOL dentaldamboy changed his name to dentaldamman cause hes getting trolled like a motherfucker…karma’s a bitch

    24. My first time doing coke I did a line right off rick ross sweaty and hairy ass crack. He didnt properly wipe his ass before I did that line, so he had smeared shit all over his butt cheeks. And as the coke went up my nostril, a chunk of poop went up with it, and I coughed and it ended up in my mouth, so I literally ate rick ross shit. But I enjoyed it, it tasted like nutella. From that day on I have sexual fantasies about rick ross, mainly dressing up like a clown and sticking corndogs up his ass then eating them.
      YMCM 4 Life!

      1. young nigguz iz ignorant, ja rule iz our leader. we in the us fuckin bitches. #ruletalk #rulizmbettabelieve

    25. how is boring brass monkey that chunky chunky, a classic. i will be totally ridiculed if i played that shit in my hood. and beastie boys or rick rubin have no black fans cos they ain’t hip hop FACT..

      1. If you mean no black fans from today’s young generation, I totally agree with you. But the older crowd in their 40’s (including my mom) listen to that album to this very day. FACT!!!

    26. NUMBERS DONT LIE…with all the promotion, marketing and $ behind FRENCH MONTANA release, GAMES JESUS PIECE 1st week sales equal outto Frenchs 3 week totals..unreal..REAL HIPHOP lives on with GAME…west coast..

      1. That nigga Game tried to get 50 Cent for a G-Unit reunion so his shit can reach 100k. Too bad his plan didn’t work out LOL

      2. yes, a long time ago…5 albums deep..a rare accomplishment for a hiphop artist..fullfild his 5 album contract..

      3. Yeah but only a select few rappers have gone gold in the past two years and all of them had a big hit. His numbers are straight especially when there wasnt a big single on either album

      4. because his singles all flopped, its not like he didnt TRY to have a big single with 3/4 of the rap industry features on his albums.

      5. sorry to say but the Game flopped. i like the game too so i am not some hating troll. The reason he flopped is because of content. His albums are boring and he turned into another rapper who just wants to be flashy, rap about cars and fancy clothes. It is boring.

        His first few albums were a “documentary” of a gangster coming out of LA. it was interesting sorry. Now he is marginally successful and his life is about shopping and driving exotic cars aka another Cookie Cutter rapper

    27. K-Dot=921K
      French=85K

      Usually I’d say something, but it’s hard to dispute the difference in those sales.

      1. K Dot: 40+ show Tour
        French: 15 hole in the wall club shows and more features on Rick Ross, DJ Khalid, Pusha T, and Weezy songs

    28. Thats crazy..Liscensed to III is still selling after 20+ years, and French Montana did flop…he’s never gonna even see gold…I’d be surprised if he sells 175K,Kendrick will go Platinum in the summer, Lil Wayne will go Gold in about 3 more weeks p.s. Carter V 1 million first week…

    29. “his comebacks sound like that of a 9 year old boy”

      That must make you what, an 8 year old girl?

    30. Ja Rule is gonna bomb on these niggas wehen his album drops. I better do songs with Alicia Keys and Adam Levine for awhile

    31. Montana ain’t worried about nothin, his album sales might be 80k this week but will be platinum by the end of next week. These Niggaz know. Be prepared for a once in a lifetime collaboration, Montana is partnering up with the niggaz from MMG, Ricky Rozzay and Meek Mill, and Ja Rule from Murder Inc. Lyrically no one is on there level, they dont have to worry about nothin. How do i know this? My nigga t-bone is a crip and he went to an exclusive crip party at Ricky Rozzay’s house (Bawse) in Miami and Rozzay told him about this once in a lifetime collab which will change the game of rap as we know it. DJ Khaled is producing this track with his super hot beats!

      Its Bawse, Its Badboy, its Murdah!!! WE DA BEST!!!!

      Im just letting these Niggaz know.

      1. yea, cuz a lame rapper can pull magic tricks too? French wont even go gold. get home boy a wood plaque

      2. so it took him 3 weeks to sell 80k copies but hes gonna sell 920k more by next week and go plat? LOLOLOLOL

    32. Beastie boys “licensed to ill” went diamond back in the early 2000’s. They sold over 10 million copies of this album. Check out the album sales for this its like 10x’s platinum.

    33. “how is boring brass monkey that chunky chunky, a classic. i will be totally ridiculed if i played that shit in my hood. and beastie boys or rick rubin have no black fans cos they ain’t hip hop FACT.”

      it is sad that you would only play music that your “hood” likes. I play whatever i want, i dont care what anyone thinks. Yea i get looks when i play Eminem “Kim” but i love the song. dont let society dictate what you really like.

      1. no one wants to hear a 37 year old man rap about being a gangster when he used to be a tennis playing jehovas witness

      1. no one ever said the hood had good taste in music

        same niggas is probably listening to future and chief keef

    34. french montonna is the most innovative rapper out there the coke wave is the shit french the greatest ever

      1. flop montana gon get dropped by badboy quick, then he can get his indie game on and sell 2500 just like gucci.

    35. ja rule will outsell all these young nigguz again.cause he be droppin classic after classic #FUCKFAME #RULETALK

    36. Even if French Montana gets dropped, he will sign over to YMCMB!!! YMCMB is a much better label than bad boy.

      1. he on that new j cole album and the new schoolboy q album, ja rule cant say that, how many new rappers from this generation want ja on they albums? oh yeah none

    37. Ja Rule’s worked with everybody from J. Lo, to Jay Z. He’s not sweating collabo’s with J. Cole and Schoolboy Q lol

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