Tyrese dethrones Meek Mill for the top spot on the Billboard Top 100 Chart. Meek Mill remains at #2. Nicki Minaj drops a few spots, but remains in the top 10 of Rap & R&B albums, while Kendrick Lamar drops out.
Tyrese Debuts at #1
Tyrese debuted at #1 with Black Rose. This is the singer’s sixth studio album and his first to reach the top spot on the chart. The project sold 83,181 albums and saw 83,181 units of total activity. The soundtrack for Tyrese’s film, Furious 7, dropped down the charts to the #44 spot, but remains in the top 10 Rap & R&B sales.
Meek Mill Loses Top Spot
Meek Mill now has the #2 album in the country with Dreams Worth More Than Money. The album sold 63,459 total units, significantly less than the six-digit figures the project saw the past two weeks.
Nicki Minaj Slides Down The Charts
Nicki Minaj’s Pinkprint drops down to the #29 spot on the chart. She started The Pinkprint Tour this weekend, which features boyfriend Meek Mill.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 7/16/2015
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.
#1 Tyrese – Black Rose – 86,286 (83,181) [1,239,153]
#2 Meek Mill – Dreams Worth More Than Money – 63,459 (43,435) [16,728,464]
#11 Drake – If Youre Reading This Its Too Late – 21,786 (9,322) [11,916,481]
#21 Miguel – Wildheart – 17,021 (12,576) [3,570,388]
#27 Major Lazer – Peace is the Mission – 15,872 (2,848) [5,901,672]
#29 Nicki Minaj – Pinkprint – 15,635 (3,912) [8,179,756]
#31 Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise – 14,917 (4,730) [7,090,860]
#34 A$AP Rocky – At.Long.Last.A$AP. – 14,558 (7,729) [6,739,500]
#41 J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive – 13,054 (6,781) [6,034,712]
#44 Various Artists – Furious 7 Soundtrack – 12,755 (2,952) [4,643,726]
what do the numbers in parantheses mean?
No one knows, why cant they just state the overall album sales?
Pure album sales.
Glad to see nicki run hiphop with hiphop hits like night is still young, hey mama, and her collaboration with meek mill.
Nicki is not running hip-hop at all. Those three are all pop songs, nothing hip-hop about any of them (plus, Night Is Still Young flopped).
They are electro hiphop. Not all edm are pop. Hey mama is trap music, not pop. Night is still young made the top 40 and hey mama made the top 10
. That meek mill collaboration is rising too.
No. Those songs are all pop music. There’s nothing hip-hop about The Night Is Still Young (which isn’t in the Top 40) or Hey Mama, which is pop, not trap. There’s no rapping in iHey Mama at all, just shitty singing. That Meek Mill shit isn’t rising at all.
Night is still young is upbeat hiphop with dubstep and hey mama is electro hop trap music. Hey mama made top 10.
You know nothing about music. Night Is Still Young and Hey Mama are POP songs, not upbrat hip-hop with dubstep (there is no hip-hop or dubstep in that shit) and there’s no electro-hop trap (that doesn’t even exist as there is no trap or hip-hop in that shit). Just admit that they’re pop songs and move on with your day.
How are they pop?
How are they NOT pop? They sound no different from anything Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, or any other pop singer would have released. They’re categorized as pop songs and they obviously pander to pop audiences only. They are pop songs, no need to complicate things.
Miley is actually hiphop too. None of those pop singers rap like nicki.
Miley is not hip-hop at all. She’s pop, too, like the rest. Nicki does more singing than rapping.
Night is still young is hiphop. Still dope no matter what.
Night Is Still Young is NOT hip-hop, it’s pop, and it’s trash, not dope.
How is it trash? Dr luke beat is dope. Reminds me of kesha before she back stabbed Dr luke
Everything in that song is trash. Dr. Luke sucks as a producer. And Kesha always sucks. You just admitted that NISY is pop shit because that’s what Kesha’s music always been. Also, how did she backstabbed Dr. Luke when he was the one abusing her?
Kesha was electro hop with a little rock influence. And kesha even said before that the abuse claims were a lie. Sounds like a greedy artist wanting more money.
No, Kesha was and is pop, not electro-hop (which isn’t real), not rock. All of her music was pop shit. She never said that, BTW. You made it up. Dr. Luke is no better than Chris Brown concerning women.
What she over exaggerates as abuse is actually just Dr luke looking out for her safety and health. He’s like a concerned father and mentor.
You’re just making up lies. Dr Luke abused her. He doesn’t care about her safety and health, he just sees her as another paycheck. By defending hin, you’re advocating violence against women.
That’s not true. I hate chris brown because of his crimes against women. I just don’t see any proof luke abused her. Sounds like another wild teen who forgot her lessons.
Yet you’re defending Dr Luke’s crimes against women. You’re a hypocrite. That last sentence sounds like something a woman abuser would say, so you’re equally as terrible of a human being.
What crimes? Sorry if she went through a depression but Dr luke wasn’t at fault. Maybe she isn’t cut out for the tabloids and stuff. Blame them.
The constant abuse that she endured from him, those are crimes. He destroyed her mentally, the tabloids had nothing to do with this. He’s at fault, don’t blame the victim.
How did he abuse her? Notice how none of his other artists are even saying that. That make her claims a lie.
Physically andd emotionally, that’s how he abused her. Maybe the other artists are afraid of speaking out because of his threats. Abusers can have that influence. Her claims aren’t lies, Dr. Luke is a terrible human being and so are you for defending him.
Bill Cosby victims had no problem telling the truth. How did luke physically abuse her?
Those “victims” waited decades later to come out, I wouldn’t be surprised if the same happens to Dr Luke. Do you even need to ask how he physically abused her? That means he beat her. Why are you even arguing this? Just quit and do something else with your life. All you’re doing is trolling and going off-topic.
Most of them told the truth but no one would listen. Only evidence later convinced everyone to listen to what they are saying. Haven’t you heard of innocent until proven guilty? Luke is still innocent.
Told the truth decade ago I mean
You’re just contradicting yourself. No matter what, Dr. Luke is a piece of shit person (on top of being a piece of shit producer) and he abused Kesha. The evidence is clear by looking at her.
Also, there wasn’t any evidence that Bill Cosby did anything.
Cosby admitted in court. It’s proof enough. And kesha got hounded by the media. Luke had nothing to do with it. And how do I contradict? Like I said, no one else verified the abuse claims.
He didn’t admit to shit, though. The media had nothing to do with Kesha being abused by Dr Luke. How do you contradict? By saying one thing and then saying something else that differs from it, that’s how you contradicted yourself. You’re wasting time.
Pot meets kettle here. You claim I defend luke (true) when you defend Cosby despite actual proof. Hypocrite. I owned you. Peace.
You got that backwards. There was no proof of Cosby doing anything, yet there is proof of Luke being an abusive asshole. You’re the hypocrite here and you didn’t own anyone.
Dan knows nothing about hip-hop and music.
Don likes to take it up the rear and doesn’t know about his sexual orientation.
Dan just described himself right now.
The streaming is added in because not everyone buys albums anymore. There are some people who pay their money for streaming services every month to get their music just like a person who were to pay their money to buy an album.
Oh nicki the first leg of the tour is vundabar! Where are you going to perform next. Me and the girls are gonna take 45mins to get all dressed up and come and see you. Make sure youre new boyfriend is on stage! See you at the concert!