During Grammys week, Hip Hop album sales surged. The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar saw significant jumps in their standings on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart. Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo did not land on the chart. As of yet, it has only been released for streaming on TIDAL and will supposedly not be available for purchase.
The Weeknd Continues His Sales
The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness charts at #6 this week after falling out of the Top 10 the past few weeks. It saw a 38 percent growth in sales. The Weeknd was nominated for seven Grammy Awards and took home the prize for Best Urban Contemporary Album. He also performed at the ceremony.
Kendrick Lamar Shoots Up The Charts
Kendrick Lamar saw a 229 percent leap in the album sales for To Pimp a Butterfly. The project lands at #16 this week. The Compton, California rapper led the field with 11 Grammy nominations. He took home five awards, sweeping the Rap categories including Best Rap Album. He performed at the ceremony as well.
Future Has Slight Dropoff
Future’s EVOL has a slight dropoff in sales this week as it lands at #10. The album debuted at #1, making him the fastest rapper ever to have three projects at the top of the charts. What a Time to Be Alive, his joint project with Drake, lands at #32 and Dirty Sprite 2 is now #42 on the chart.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 02/18/2016
Note: The first number below is this week’s “total album equivalent units” count, an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams implemented by Billboard’s new rating system. A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.
#3 Rihanna – ANTI – 79,072 (34,024) [43,215,673]
#6 The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness – 50,638 (25,759) [20,358,145]
#10 Future – EVOL – 39,630 (18,068) [24,496,523]
#11 Kevin Gates – ISLAH – 36,298 (19,648) [15,607,870]
#12 G-Eazy – When It’s Dark Out – 35,926 (12,621) [19,815,319]
#13 Bryson Tiller – Trapsoul – 35,450 (13,467) [25,876,209]
#16 Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly – 33,270 (24,450) [9,007,716]
#20 Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap – 24,847 (5,814) [16,994,810]
#24 Flo Rida – My House – 23,299 (2,160) [8,997,357]
#26 Chris Brown – Royalty – 22,288 (12,877) [9,101,938]
still bumping ANTI, great album.
TIDAL Lost, Kanye Lost.
They will always be more wealthy and successful than you will ever be peasant .
Yup. Winning 5 Grammys will do that for ya. #KENDRICKLAMAR #TPAB
future hendrix dirty sprite living legandary. Hendrix stay winning
wonder how close Kendrick is to 1 million sold…….but dx keep that shit under wraps smh seriously just add the overall sales it aint that hard
LMAO hype-beast ass niggas don’t wanna buy an album until someone TELLS them its good. late ass scrubs get your own opinion and don’t wait for someone to win a Grammy for it a whole year later
We want to see the album totals to date nigguh!!!
i used to come to DX for album sales..since they stopped putting total numbers i stopped coming.. i check everyone few months to see if they revert back but still no…the only reason ppl chdck this site is bc of sales..u took away ur best… i guess ill check back around june to see if changes have been made..smh