There is a fresh #1 on the charts this week, and it’s not a rapper. Trey Songz’ Chapter V man-handled the charts for the singer’s first #1. DJ Khaled also scored a career best with his second major label release since officially joining the YMCMB fold through Universal Records.
Lastly, MF DOOM’s latest collaborative effort, this time with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artist Jneiro Jarel. Key To The Kuffs sold over 3,000 first-week units, making this the masked villain’s second consecutive Top 200 debut, following 2009’s Born Like This. Earlier this week, the former K.M.D. front-man was in headlines again for a show impostor.
Trey Songz Steals The #1 From 2 Chainz With Chapter V
Singer Trey Songz snagged the #1 spot in the latest change of command. The Atlantic Records veteran sold over 130,000 first-week units on his fifth album. The effort features Hip Hop elite including T.I., Young Jeezy, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and Meek Mill. This is Songz’ first album to contain a parental advisory warning, with clean versions also available.
The album out-sold Based On A T.R.U. Story by over 85,000 units.
DJ Khaled Scores Best Chart Performance Of Career In Kiss The Ring
Miami, Florida-based deejay/radio personality and producer DJ Khaled had a benchmark debut week for his sixth studio album, Kiss The Ring. Khaled’s second album in as many years sold over 40,000 units. Now a Cash Money/Universal Records artist, the former indie titan topped We The Best Forever, which debuted at #5, although the 2011 album sold approximately 13,000 more units in its first week at retail.
Kiss The Ring features Kendrick Lamar, Big K.R.I.T., J. Cole, Scarface and many of Khaled’s frequent collaborators.
Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 8/26/2012
#1. Trey Songz – Chapter V – 135,000 (135,000)
#2. 2 Chainz – Based On A T.R.U. Story – 48,000 (195,000)
#4. DJ Khaled – Kiss The Ring – 41,000 (41,000)
#8. Rick Ross – God Forgives, I Don’t – 28,000 (350,000)
#26. Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – 14,000 (640,000)
#29. Nas – Life Is Good – 12,000 (272,000)
#39. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange – 10,000 (272,000)
#60. Tyga – Careless World: Rise Of The Last King – 62,000 (290,000)
#124. JJ DOOM – Keys To The Kuffs – 3,300 (3,300)
#192. Wale – Ambition – 2,000 (450,000)
* 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 Slaughterhouse’s first Eminem-backed album steal the next #1? Stay tuned to HipHopDX.
support RED guys, real hiphop lives on with GAME
Wasn’t that last year? lol. 200,000 last time I checked for red album. Its alright…
I think Tyga only sold 6,200 not 62,000 last week.
NOW EVERYBODY WILL COME HERE SAYING THAT DJ KHALED FLOPPED, BUT THE NEXT WEEK SLAUGHTERHOUSE WILL DO THE SAME NUMBERS (IF NOT LESS) AND EVERYBODY WILL DICKRIDE THEIR STUPID FACES AGAIN THINKING IT IS SUCCESS, LOL
AND I EXPECTED DJ KHALED TO SELL 40-50K, LOOK AT HIS PREVIOUS WORK, HE NEVER HAD BIG OPENING WEEK, SO IT’S TECHNICALLY NOT A FLOP, BECAUSE NOBODY EXPECTS HIM TO SELL 200K IN HIS FIRST WEEK
KISS THE RING IS VERY GOOD ALBUM, DJ KHALED IS SEXY AND HAS SUCH A NICE AND UNIQUE VOICE, BUT I DON’T SEE POINT IN BUYING IT, WHEN I WANT TO HEAR SOME KRIT, WAYNE, ROSS OR 2 CHAINZ SONGS, I RATHER BUY THEIR OWN ALBUMS, SINCE ON KISS THE RING THERE ARE SOME STUPID ASS SONGS, FOR EXAMPLE SUICIDAL THOUGHTS, KENDRICK’S VERSE ON THEY READY, HIP HOP (I’M VERY DISAPPOINTED WITH NAS HOPING ON THAT TRACK), ETC.
AND REMEMBER, SLAUGHTERHOUSE WILL NEVER SEE ANYTHING CLOSE TO NUMBER ONE SPOT, I’M SORRY, BUT THAT’S THE TRUTH AND TRUHT HURTS SOMETIMES
Please PUT THE PENIS DOWN!!!
Go jump in front of a train! GTFOH with that hating on NAS! Nas was on beast mode in that verse!
for ur info …the first album did 77k…so i expect this one to go gold or better to go platinum
If you know anything about the game and how much is spent on promotion etc.. you’ll know.. yes it did flop.
And if Slaughterhouse does those numbers out the gate.. it’s a flop as well….
Nothing is going Platinum that ain’t Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Drake or Jay Z….
that’s how the game is right now…
I LUV NAS, GO AND READ MY OTHER POSTS, THEY JUST GIVE HIM BAD BEAT AND DJ PREMIER WACK SCRATCHING ALL OVER THE SONG
GO AND LISTEN TO NAS SONG ON WE GLOBAL OR VICTORY, ITS DEFINITELY BETTER THAN THIS ONE
MAYBE HIS ALBUMS “FLOP” EVERYTIME, BUT HE HAS PLATINUM SINGLES, I’M ON ONE WENT 2 OR 3 TIMES PLATINUM, SO DEFINITELY KHALED IS EATING AND WORKING HARD AS WELL
DOUBLE PLATINUM IS SOMTHING WHAT SLAUGHTERHOUSE WILL NEVER SEE UNLESS EMINEM BORROW THEM SOME OF HIS OWN
^ SUCK MY HOT MONKEY BALLS TROLL ASS DUMB NIGGA
yeah, I just learnt how to turn off that goddamn caps lock
troll ass dumb nigga? thank you for your polite words, your mom should be proud of you, you really look like an educated intelligent, I would kiss your ring
41,000 people took money out of their pocket to buy that Khaled album? Another 48K for 2Chainz? What’s the world or the U.S. I should say coming to? These are the albums people should be downloading without even thinking about it.
SONGZ!
DAMN NAS…
Slaugterhouse should sell around 100-130k copies though I would love for it to see do 400k.
Won’t happen.. not 400k
and not even 100k. it will be about 50k maybe
I predict at least 100k copies. The 400k copies was just my dream.
I predict 50k-80k
kiss the ring bitches cash money cant be stopped
Careless World: Rise Of The Last King – 62,000 @ #60. HUH?
prob 6,200 rather than 62,000
NICKI IS CLIMBING TO 1 MIL HER GRIND CAN NOT BE STOPPED. THEY FORGOT A COMMA ON TYGAS ALBUM SALES. AND DJ KHALED DROPPED A CLASSIC ALBUM GO GET THAT
what did he do to drop a classic album? hhaha
Wale= soon gold. MMG= power & creativity combined. All thanks to the demi-god of modern business and music- Rick Ross. Thank your Ross, for all the quality sound you’ve been giving us.
there was an article on here a bit ago saying Ambition went Gold but now you only have it listed as 450,000? 41k is a flop for Khaled. Big KRIT and Curren$y posted the same first week numbers, and do you know how many more people know and have heard of DJ Khaled the dude’s been a main personality in rap/hip-hop since like 2006, so 41k first week numbers for him is a flop.
REALLY BECAUSE WHAT DID MY BOY KHALED HAVE TO DO TO ACTUALLY MAKE THE ALBUM BESIDES PUT THE RIGHT PEOPLE TOGETHER? HOW ABOUT THE SINGLE SALES FROM TAKE IT TO THE HEAD?
tru not hating on his singles, though the song you mentioned sucked, but his album still flopped
41k definetely aint enuff. especially wen u got the whole industry on it and its only 13 songs. dats da perfect cover. puttin his hand on his head….
HE DID BIG KRIT NUMBERS
Drake sold 14,000 albums this week, but this site doesn’t want to display that.
YOur point?
Damn! They should just go to selling albums at nightclub parking lots $41k? 350k? 272k? Hip Hop and r&b should stop trying to mix because it’s hurting both of them. Hip Hop used to move units like crack, R&b moved like coke. Now they move like dirt weed.
Preach!!! Finally somebody realized Hip Hop and R&B shouldn’t mix!!!
Troll= Hiphopdx writers
It’s official: niggas don’t buy music anymore.
Niggas haven’t bought music since 2005.
they must do khaled albums for free i dont see how he makes any money and for a guy to be on radio promoting his shit non stop to do 40k is crazy
GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT, HE GETS MONEY FROM RADIO STATION, DOING SHOWS AS A DJ, MANAGING ACE HOOD (THE GREAT RAPPER)
AND HIS ALBUMS SOLD OVER MILLION ALTOGETHER PLUS HIS SINGLES SALES ARE RELEVANT, WE TAKIN OVER, I’M SO HOOD, OUT HERE GRINDIN, ALL I DO IS WIN AND I’M ON ONE ARE ALL GOLD OR PLATINUM
AND HE IS THE BEST HIP HOP DJ IN THE WORLD, THAT’S A FACT
Nice spin on it.. just like Nicki saying her album is Platinum WORLD WIDE. You obviously have no clue how this shit works.
FOr the label… it’s a loss… even with a 360 Ddeal..
Hip Hop DX writers are illiterate. How the fuck Tyga sold 62,000 at number 60 when FranKKK Ocean sold 10,000 at number 39?!?!?!?
6,200 you think they would correct it but this site is on cash money and mmg nuts
damn 40k on cash money ahahah and you know baby album is never coming out that shit will sale 3k in a week
baby runs cash money, (with slim) so even if he does suck and will flop, he can do what he wants, he still gettin that money tho, baby is paa(AAAAA)aaid!!
Have you ever bought an album yourself?!?!? HUH NIGGA???? HUH??? Then don’t fucking complain!!! Answer me nigga!!!
to much trash out to buy a album thats why people buy songs
we da worst khaled and ace hood gonna have to share a one bedroom apartment
Hahahahahahahahahahaha nigga, you stupid for that comment, damn….
LMAO
khaled khaled cant be making much money from albums
you mean no money
busta get your ring back from khaled he before he pawn that shit what kind of bitch made faggot rocks another mans jewelry oh khaled and wayne
What did you think of the Slaughterhouse Album?
its good but eminem sucks as a label owner so it wont do any big numbers
yeah the real is back that fat fuck went out and got jay-z and 3 stacks to do his album he a niting ass burger eating cop i won you fat fraud the streets know the deal snowman baby
ross should have let meek drop first to give him a chance to go gold
damn banks last album did more than 40k in a week
1.RED
2.KISS THE RING
if you can make a play list then you are dj khaled HAHAH
why do they keep putting out dj khaled albums ?
THEY MAKE MONEY
THEY LOSE MONEY when you consider how much a major label spends on video, marketing & promotion and for all those features
Lil Wayne the greatest.
Keep smoking that crack
dj khaled’s facepalm cover lol
lol. Ross. What kind of “boss” doesn’t have a platinum plaque? lol. Frank’s Ocean thought “coming out” would get him a gold plaque and he failed. lol. Didn’t ambition come out last year and it’s not gold yet? lol. DJ Khalil album flop. lol. Trey & 2 Chainz will be gold when Detox drops. lol. Nas work with Tyga to get more sales and they both flop. lol.
Face it. Nobody is selling Eminem numbers and that’s why he’s the best ever. It’s a fact that numbers don’t lie. Recovery is 4x platinum, and yall are lucky he isn’t black, otherwise it would be 8x platinum.
Slaughterhouse – WELCOME TO: OUR HOUSE – GOLD first week, watch.
#EminemGOAT #Shady #HouseGang
Nope.. not at all.. and I’m a fan.. but I guarantee you it won’t be gold. 50k – 80k tops…
He doesn’t use shock value
He doesn’t make music for rich white people
He relies solely on skill
He is independent
He is black, plus, from South America.
Immortal Technique will never be better than Eminem, because he’ll never see the same success or help hip-hop make the same progress as big-selling rock and pop acts. You can’t bound yourself to petty rules and regulations. You need to help hip-hop progress into a more commercially viable medium, and Immortal technique isn’t going to do that.
^^^ Oh sorry, I didn’t know Hip Hop should go mainstream.
Nas didnt flop dumbfuck
I thought Wale went gold weeks ago? WTF
LMAO these niggas ain’t selling shit I mean look at 2 Chainz numbers dude had the buzz of a superstar and still wasn’t able to go gold LOL
Those Ross numbers are so ugly. Fake buzz and fake rapper.
2 Chainz is actually doing really well for his standards tho, he shouldn’t be selling that much. 48k in his second week is crazy.
Why buying somethin’ what u can get for free. Spend money wisely, buy some weed or meth and enjoy life.
not necessarily. as an indie he’s sold a good amount of records, definetly made off of that, i think everyone can agree, but i dont know what kind of deal khaled has with cash money, there is a certain kind of deal called a co-venture, where a label gives an artist more money for their record in exchange for getting money in areas they otherwise wouldnt get paid for (touring, merchandising, advertising, etc.) so tho it may be true he doesnt sell alot, unless you know for certain what kind of deal he has with his label, you cant really say if the label is losing money, but it is a business, and i dont think theyd release albums from him, knowing his numbers, if they didnt think theyd make money…
*not a khaled fan..
KHALED HAS OVER 12 MILLION SINGLES SOLD SO I GUESS HE GOOD..RIGHT?
Looks like Khaled and Ross are finally enjoying some success. LOL at Tyga selling more than Nas.
Tyga’s album came out long before Nas’ did. Nas is less than 20,000 units behind Tyga, it’s only a matter of time before his total sales catch up to and then surpass Tyga’s.
before yall talk about ross n his sales. keep in mind he does have artists and he dropped self made 2 wales album and self made 1. eminems slaughterhouse didnt drop shit yet. neither did good music. ymcmb n mmg the only ones killin it right now. iif were goin by sales albums n singles
Wale= sooon gold. MMG= power & creativity combined. All thanks to the demi-god of modern business and music- Rick Ross. Thank your Ross, for all the quality sound you’ve been giving us.
Wale’s album is almost a year old and is STILL in the top 200. That says something right there.
not really 5 years after grodt it hit the 8mil mark in the U.S now thats something
so since khaled album flopped which rapper deserves to get paid for his verse? because they all cant get paid.
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start buying music!
people keep sayin it and they’re right. HHDX needs some better editors. Tyga sold 62,000 copies of Careless World this past week? how come no one caught that typo and changed it to 6,200?
ok, drake sold 14,000 and they didn’t even put in on this list.
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pathetic record sales
well, slaughterhouse projections came in at 50-60 k, but still on pace to be the number 1 album. hahah, times are tough! hopefully they exceed those projections and hit at least 70k because 60k for a number 1 album?!
“Tyga’s album came out long before Nas’ did”
Excuses. Excuses.
It aint excuses faggot it’s the truth. Nas’s album has been out for only a month, It will sell more than Tyga in the long run dumbfuck.
“THEY LOSE MONEY when you consider how much a major label spends on video, marketing & promotion and for all those features”
It’s actually quite the opposite. Almost every album spawns 1 hit single that basically ensures the next album. Plus, all the rappers in his videos probably do that shit for next to nothing (with a back end % of course)
I’m On One – 3 million
All I Do Is Win – 2 million
I’m So Hood 1 million
We Takin Over – 500,000
“slaughterhouse projections came in at 50-60 k, but still on pace to be the number 1 album”
When you delay the album like they did, then first week sales are going to look like that. I don’t care whose co-signing you.
i actually thought thats what they were going to do regardless of promotion, its just not a massively accepted style at the moment. but i red some articles where paul rosenberg was saying they didn’t spend much money on promoting and marketing because they knew the market wasn’t too big, so they were aiming for 150,000-200,000 total sales of the album, then try to expand from there. 60k first week will get close to 150,000 total sales.
LAUGHTERHOUSE 600,000 BITCHES!!!
4 x 150,000 riders for each solo bum
100,000 Em dick suckers
50,000 Swizz Beatz completists
LOL @ Swizz Beatz completists
Laughterhouse are going to owe Interscope HUNDREDS OF 1000s of $$$…
Anyone who doesn’t think so is retarded and knows NOTHING about the music business.
SO SAY THE WORDS OF “CHIEF” QUEEFS FANS AND BUTT PLUG BUDDIES… U MUST THINK LIL WAYNE AND JEEZY ARE LEGENDS AND INNOVATORS O THE CRAFT TOO… FUCKIN HAVE THE NERVE TO SAY “LAUGHTERHOUSE” U MUST BE SOME WANNABE RAPPER WITH A SHITTY REJECTED DEMO… AWW MAN… U AONT REALIZE UR GARBAGE YET? ONE DAY BUDDY… NOW GET THEM PUBIC FROM YA TEETH…. BITCH
U OBVIOUSLY KNOW SHIT ABOUT THE INDUSTRY … AND MORE ABOUT SOUNDIN LIKE A NIGGA WHO CLEANS PUDDIN PANS OF SHIT WIT HIS TEETH.
DJ KHALED:
How can you be the best when you can never move units? Number 4??? WIth all those features from the “hottest MC’s” in the game??
You the fattest and goofiest. I’ll give you that.
Your album floped like Officer Ricky’s and your titties.
HEY DICKBREATHFAGVEINTRACY… IN HIPHOP WE DONT SAY GOOFIEST… THAT FOR UR SILVER SPOON DADDY AND TRUST FUND MOMMY .. GO BACK TO DISNEY LAND YOU HANA BARBERA FAG OF OUR ERA. FUCK OUTTA HERE.
Ayo “HIPHOP” or w/e u call your name. Your grammar sucks donkey balls just like your momma.
if you can make a play list then you are dj khaled HAHAH
tru story
fat fuck think he putting out chronic albums go shuffle a playlist
i think hip hop or what i call commercial hiphop is having a slow death… look at all these rappers selling almost nothing! people are listening but not buying! sooner or later someone at universal is gonna say “why the hell are we giving khaled an album budget when he only has one or two hit singles” i think single deals are gonna be the new normal…instead of albums its just gonna be singles!!! mark my words!!! and that will be the nail in the coffin for commercial hip hop… i hope it happens because hip hop can go back to the underground where it belongs!!!!
I never comment but most of the people on this site are dumbass trolls. Nas is doing great for someone who has been in the game for 20 years and he should go gold by the end of the year.Wale is already gold for SHIPPING 500k copies not selling. Rick Ross is so overrated it’s not even funny, another album that will barely go gold Jeezy clearly won that beef.DJ Khaled is like Flo Rida, his albums flop but his singles cancel that out. Frank Ocean is doing great numbers but he had to stir controversy to do it. Overall Hip Hop and R&B albums aren’t selling well at all… the internet fucked everything up.
THE I-POD IS THE DEVIL
SO DID KALED SHIP 40K OR SELL 40K ? HAHAH
This is a new day an age, where album sales don’t determine your income potential. Back in the cassette days, there were not as many avenues, to profit off of a particular brand. In other words, an artist can go gold and still make over $3 million dollars from other income from their brand.
i love these smart stupid mother fuckers artist always had other venues to make money and the major label knew this thats when the 360 deal became a factor labels was getting tired of of artist albums not moving units but the artist cab go on tour and the label would not see a dime now the label own your name also look at young buck the is took his stage name because he was on a 360 he sold his soul now he cant perform as young buck i can be the new young buck ahah
Thank you; somebody knows what the fuck is going on…
GO LAUGHTERHOUSE!!
GO LAUGHTERHOUSE!!
GO LAUGHTERHOUSE!!
FEATURING THE SMASH SINGLE HAMMER DANCE!!!
they more more bread spittting a verse than you do in a year you just making yourself into a dickrider and dont even know it smh
come up with a new name you faggot all you did was take the “S” out of Slaughterhouse
Fuck hip hop i moved on to better things you got bored i got tired of being slept on peace
drake im growing up and you are growing old dont take to long to drop another album but you will always be wheel chair jimmy to me aubrey
i think that 6 in Tyga’s sales is a typo…how the sales go frm Frank selling 10,000 to Tyga with 62,000…
no shit!
LOOK AT THAT WACK LINE UP.. VERY FEMININE..
NAS & JJ DOOM REAL HIP HOP ..THE REST GLAM HOP
all i want fo’ xmas is mah pyrex
gimme mah pyrex!
2 Chainz is a corny name, he should change it back to Titty Nigga, that would help him sell more units.
“In other words, an artist can go gold and still make over $3 million dollars from other income from their brand”
But most aren’t going gold, or seeing millions of dollars. It’s not just the labels’ fault. Most of these rappers get one advance and think by next week they’ll be in Oprah’s tax bracket. Little do they know that in order to truly see and earn “millions”, you need drive, motivation and oh talent.
No way Tyga sold 62,000 last week lol Maybe 62 copies. That’s totally plausible.
thats gotta be a typo, if he sold 62,000 copies last week he would be number 2 on this list
I listen to 2 Chainz. When I’m high off crack.
Fuck Hip Hop, I moved on to better things. Catch me on countrymusic.com
lol boi u a fool
HAHAHAHAHAHA Slaughterhouse is expected to sell 60,000 copies LMAO them niggas’ll flop
“Nas’s album has been out for only a month, It will sell more than Tyga in the long run”
You sound emotional Dan. I understand Nas is your reason for living, but numbers don’t lie, and right now Tyga is beating him. Who cares about the long run? Nobody will even be tracking the long run, so all people have to go on are today’s facts.
Tygas album came out way before
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