Eminem’s Recovery will not budge from #1. While Drake’s Thank Me Later bumped one spot to #3, Em fell just short of 1.5 million units cleared. Drake’s So Far Gone finally crossed the 500,000 mark, giving the Rap sensation a gold plaque on both of his retail releases – and another from his role on We Are Young Money.
M.I.A. snagged a Top 10 debut with her latest, ///Y/. Albeit titled poorly for Internet search engines, the Rap-friendly Electro-Pop princess went even more political with her latest Interscope release.
Outkast’s Big Boi fell 11 spots to #14. The Atlanta Hip Hop pioneer is 10,000+ units shy of the six-figure mark with his critically-acclaimed Def Jam debut, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. The release features artists such as T.I., Gucci Mane and Too Short, with production from Organized Noize, Scott Storch and Lil Jon. Big Boi’s new label-mate, The-Dream, fell eight units to #12 with Love-King.
Usher‘s Raymond v. Raymond maintained Top 20. The veteran Pop entertainer’s “divorce album” is marching its way to a platinum plaque for Mr. Raymond and his longtime backer, LaFace Records.
* Please note: figures below approximated to nearest thousandth.
Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 1 | Eminem | Recovery |
195,000 | 1,482,000 |
| 3 | Drake | Thank Me Later |
50,000 | 833,000 |
| 9 | M.I.A. | ///Y/ | 28,000 | 29,000 |
| 14 | Big Boi | Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty | 26,000 | 89,000 |
| 20 | Usher | Raymond v. Raymond |
18,000 | 935,000 |
Former Young Money and No Limit Records artist Curren$y found a Top 40 debut with his Def Jam-distributed Pilot Talk. Produced by Reasonable Doubt architect Ski Beatz, and featuring Mos Def and Jay Electronica, the New Orleans emcee cleared over 10,000 first week units.
Two new chart appearances came courtesy of Paul Wall‘s latest, Heart of A Champion. The Swishahouse/Warner Brothers/Asylum release featured surprise collaborations courtesy of Jay Electronica, Raekwon and Kid Sister. The release fell just shy of a Top 50 debut. Meanwhile, despite critical acclaim, Capone-N-Noreaga‘s War Report 2 fought to stay in the Top 100. Executive produced by Raekwon, the EMI-distributed project features Nas, Busta Rhymes and several personnel carry-overs from CNN’s acclaimed 1997 first War Report.
Florida rapper Plies found the 100,000 mark with his Atlantic Records’ Goon Affiliated album. This is the fourth album from Plies to cross that benchmark.
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 38 | Curren$y | Pilot Talk |
11,000 | 11,000 |
| 56 | Paul Wall | Heart of A Champion |
7,600 | 7,600 |
| 98 | Capone-N-Noreaga | The War Report 2 |
4,600 | 4,700 |
| 111 | Plies | Goon Affiliated | 4,000 | 103,000 |
| 146 | Drake |
So Far Gone |
3,300 | 500,000 |
Will Rick Ross go gold in a week? Can Rakaa rep Dilated Peoples back to the charts? Stay tuned to HipHopDX to find out.
Em is going to sell more than he did with Relapse. At least 2 million in the U.S.
Great stuff Em!
#1 Worldwide
5 weeks aus,ire,uk,nz,japan.
He isn’t number 1 worldwide at all so why lie dude spent 1 week at number 1 in the UK
@STFU
what you talking about man? Eminem is number one in the UK as we speak! He spent his 1st week at #1, then dropped to 2 but went back up to #1 and stayed there for past couple of weeks.
em is hot right now and recovery is way betta than relapse so i can c it goin 3 maybe 4 times platinum plus he supposed to release a video with rihanna wich should give more momentum…das crazy big boi aint at at least 300,000. the dude is legendary wit outkast n all dat……young folks man
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Any word on what Statlanta did? I’m sure it wasn’t much, since Stat Quo had no promotion other than his own tweeting & fans spreading the word, but I’d still like to know.
is Em hot, or does he just have twice the push and outlets as others??
the promo for the album is crazy, 10x’s what i see from other rap releases or any releases these dayz
the songz sound pretty much the same to me, not dissing cause the boy can go, and my fav is Jz, but i think he often benifits from the green light too.
but if we were both slanging dope, and you had 10 blocks to my 1 conner is your product better or do you just have more power? Because you are goin to sell more that me
Looks like they jumped the gun and put the record out to improve the 3rd Quarter: April 1, 2010 – June 30, 2010 numbers
And Dre was suppose to be next, and i think there is only 1 Dre production on this album,
Was Dre feelin some kinda way
Jus asking, no emotions
i like how u see things
I agree about jz.. he has the best promotion in the biz… also all of his albums are released in time periods where noone else is releasing so he can get the number 1 spot without any real competition… and my opinion on Em is just that he has such a loyal (and massive) fan base that when he drops he’s gonna sell millions regardless of what the material sounds like… but no disrespect to either of them… they do their thing..
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man fuck that stupid tech 9ine banner that keeps playing music over the music i already have playing, banner ads with sound are the fucking worst thing on the internet.
i went to three stores looking for pilot talk and they didnt have it so i bought the roots
em doin big thangz that rick ross goin do pretty good numbers to i copped both of them albums they are the best of the year so far
the reason em sellin so much this time round cuz he did it right(and hes em).. he releases not afraid–ehh it ws ok but still strong first single.. then releases 4-5 bangers..love the way u lie..space bound, 25-like, wont back down and talkin 2 myself and a wk later dropped the album.. thats how it used 2 be done now adays look at lloyd banks.. dropped a craaazzzyyyy first single.. now moved 2 his not so hot but still a hit song n still no album even mentioned.. by the time hfm2 come out his huge buzz will be min again.. so idk ppl needa follow em path bec i been thinkin 2 myself how artists give a crazy popin single n wait months for album n seell 2300 lol
Yes your correct the art of the single has gone bye bye for the most part these rappers follow like butter and …?
Em is a pop artist now….im sorry but imma pass on dude everytime i cant mess wit his music….but he goes hard on other ppl tracks all the time and he is a battle beast but his music i jus dnt get
“Distant Relatives” still the best album so far. “War Report 2” was only at FYE. The African from the mom & pop where I usually purchase said he couldn’t get it. I think this might be why my favorite artists don’t sell. Too bad because I know they put out better work than most.
Damn P.Wall 7600.? Can he even buy a new grill with that money?
LOL
well i guess if he was on 106 a park he would of sold more!!!
im from the city and i dont know whats Paul is doin, im still wondering about the JD single from the 2nd album, the boy is hustler so maybe he know something i dont
Damn, Paul Wall’s piece of shit album sold more than CNN?
That fucking sucks.
where the hell is E-40
who cares?
y’all seen tha new dx relay?
i guess they makin money nw rite?
congrats to Curren$y that’s not bad for him…
“Will Rick Ross go gold in a week?” Lol dx where can I get the stuff you’re on? Drake didn’t even go gold in a week, Ross will be lucky i he outsells em around 150-200k i bet.
All i gotta say is enimen is a monster WOW
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Is it me but ready for new Jay-Z album?
This time maybe he can get some of those Rick Ross producers for this album. Hov rips a nice beat and makes joint off those.
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Big Boi & Roots & CNN, that´s what you need to hear.
Raekwon must be pissed with CNN Sales !
i wonder if this is jus the hard copies or counting digital downloads cause i think spitta sold most of his records online….I couldnt find the album it was sold out everywhere because of poor distribution and there was a gang of ppl everywhere i went lookin for it….finally i said f it and got it off itunes. Bet he sold 20k or better on itunes
yea, its def physical CDs (units). but I agree with you, Spitta def had to move a decent batch of albums. I too was pushed to start using iTunes when Khalifa dropped his shit back in Nov…couldnt find it in BestBuy for 4weeks.
big boi only sold 89,000 what the fuck is these kids listening to?
Well you gotta think son, people aint buyin cd’s no more, especially no one in the hood…. and thats where most the cd’s used to sell at was the hood, now niggas just gettin it bootleg
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wow CNN only sold 4,700! i have no idea what these kids are listening to… c’mon son war report part 1 was a classic and if nobody’s picking part 2 up, then u know hip hop is dead; or the audience is just wack! i blame the fans….
damn drake’s album stalled like a bitch, it almost went gold first week, and ain’t even pushing a third of what eminem is weekly after that
Eminem still killin the charts i see and not a rick ross fan but i guess the rick ross haters gonna be pissed next week cause xxl magazine online and hits daily double projects Teflon Don to debut #1 on the billboard and projected to sell 160k-180k in his 1st week sales he may be fake but ross makin cold music and this coming from a die-hard 50 cent/G-unit fan since 2002.If ross exceeds DTR sales its gonna be alot of pressure on banks to sell good and 50 to sell good i like yayo but in reality yayo would be lucky to sell 40k-75k lol in his 1st week
Yayo would be lucky to sell 40k-75k for the life of ANY of his albums, let’s be serious. That dude is fuckin butt sauce on the mic.
Damn cnn flopped kinda hard.
Its a shame cause its a good album!!! 100
HHDX is going to change their format again….. And I just got used to this one. The new look gonna take a minute to adapt to.
BTW, Kanye, Ross, will do good numbers. Lupe, Game, wont..
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lmao..How you gonna say Game and Lupe wont do numbers.. fuck outta here
Well, Big Boi, The Roots, Nas & Marley, didn’t do well. Lupe gonna be right there with them (good album, not great numbers). Game….. I think he lost a lot of fans, with his bipolar ass.
Lol @ curren$y, Big Boi, CNN & Paul Wall. Album sales weak as fuck lol!! This goes to show that MIXTAPES KILL ALBUM SALE$
wtf r u talkin about?
smack yourself.. capone n nore, or big boi dont put out mixtapes… only reason record sales are weak is cause everybody is downloadin shit nowadays… bet if it wasnt so easy to download shit big boi woulda cracked 250k first week easy..
cnn is bangin but sales suck
I bet most predicted Drake to be plat within a month. It’s looking more like late August or even September….lol. So overhyped.
Currensy Album isnt even in stores in Vegas. I had to cop it from itunes. I dont know why it wasnt stores. Its 1 of the dopest albums of the year.
It’s not in stores in atl either but i agree. good shit
One of the dopest MC’s in his own lane, Fast Times at Ridgemont Fly, still my sh*t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
war report 2, nothing else
you bettercheck that big boi.. shits dope
MAN WHO BOUGHT THAT WACK ASS PLIES ALBUM ?
Plies – goon affliated = Worst rap album ever created by man
HE Should make songs like…..
How not to get Yo Chain Snatched
Goon= Getting. Over. On. Niggas.
I Was Taking A Boo Boo
TOO BAD I GOT PILOT TALK 5 DAYS EARLY……FUCK ITUNES! NO BOOTLEG EITHER…..HARD COPY
Plies sold more then Big Boi? Did his album come out before the Atlanta native?
Look who’s still in the top spot. I predict Em’s album will be the last big album for hip hop. Maybe Wayne can do it when he comes back, but us old cats who were there when hip hip/rap began, we have been saying Real Hip Hop has been for years. I think you can see Hip Hop is dead by the charts for us cats who have been listening to it before you young cats were even invented.
Outkast sold 11 million back in 04, now Big Boi can’t even go gold!!!! Numbers don’t lie, if you are over 30 you know REAL HIP HOP IS DEAD. You new cats, under 25 cats, what you call hip hop sure ain’t what I called hip hop. How can hip hop be dead, well back in the old days when it was alive like in 88, classic albums and artists were a regular occurence, artists like Rakim, Stetsa,EPMD, PE, NWA, Eazy-E, Ultra Magnetic Slick Rick, Jungle Brothers, BDP, Big Daddy Kane, Lyte…all came out in the same year!!! All of those artists and albums were CLASSICS. If you were alive back then, you know that’s when hip hop was alive, it’s dead now. For you young cats, lol, if you think hip hop is alive and well, you just don’t know any better. How many classic albums can you name in the last 5 years? And I’m not talking you and your 5 friends like, I’m talking one of the best of all times? You would be lucky to find 2 albums in the last 5 year to be considered a classic, but back in 88 if you didn’t make a near classic album, you were considered WHACK! You new cats keep on enjoying your fake ass hip hop, us cats that were there know it’s been dead for awhile.
WHY ARE YOU HERE?!
You clearly hate the new music then why are you hear? Are you holding on the that overrated old shit back in 88 that will never return?
Look there was a lot of good shit back then, but times have changed. NY isn’t the only game in town. Rap music has become profitable and has surcome to an unfortunate point where execs are more about making money then quality.
With that said, stop bitching about shit you can’t control. Listen to Blu & Exile, or Lupe Fiasco or whoever came out recently that internet fans cling to.
God I’m so sick of ya’ll bitching and moaning about how shit ain’t like 88 or 95. If you love that era then listen to that music but STAY OFF HIP HOP SITES. You’re on this “fake rap” or whatever bullshit you on. Guess what WE DON’T CARE.
TOLD YOUR OLD ASS…LOL, BUT I”M WIT YOU THERE ARE NO MORE GREAT HIP HOP ARTISTS, JUST A BUNCH OF FAGGOTS WIT BEAT MACHINES RAPPING ABOUT DUMBSHIT…YALL KIDS CANT SAY SHIT US OLDER CATS HAVENT SAID, YOU YOUNG CATS JUS DONT UNDERSTAND LONGEVITY…
i never got the whole hiphop is dead argument… its alive and well, its just not in heavy rotation on the radio no more… you just gotta go and find it…. with that bein said…stop bitchin about all the new music.. if you dont like it, dont listen to it.. all your doin by bitchin about somethin you dont like is drawing more attention to it, therefore increasing its visability… id rather have someone spittin about a stanky leg, then hearing about gucci mane sellin 50 keys… all thats doin is contributing to the youth today thinkin its cool to sell dope, and shoot guns… the world (not just hiphop) needs more positivity….
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go cop that big boi and that cnn
props to Em!!!!!!! that album did deliver that shit was ill
wtf up with cnn and big boi #”s??? ppl should be buyin those albums!!!!!!!!!!!!
that new nas album will be classic tho
pilot talk is the dopest album yet for 2010. 11000 looks sad but thats actually huge for a dude who’s buzz is strictly internet. congrats to spitter.
Curren$y album is the best album of the year and this dont show itunes sales let that be know real talk it prolly doin betta then drake rite now
smack yourself.. i aint a drake fan, but theres no way pilot talk is doin better than thank me later no matter which way you look at sales..
Paul Wall. Mike Jones. Chamillionaire. Don’t even bother.
Aside from Eminem and Drake, no one’s selling.
damn, em is the only nigga pushin records, drake doin his thing to,but dude a lil to soft for me. His album have some nice cuts,but its not a classic. As for these other cats, fuck em. cnn has a nice cd, but they ain promote it right as usual. the war report was a banger, they shoulda do like raekwon and hype the shit up so niggas can anticipate it, but oh well, their lost. I dont know, lot of u cats on here sayin currensy is the best album, i beg to differ. No disrespect to dude,but his latest cd put my ass to sleep! lol. the shit a thousand times better than that plies dude though, his shit is straight up whack. I think ross cd is decent, although i could give a fuck about a rapper’s album sales, im gonna bet ross push 150k,if not that, prolly a lil more
i never got the whole hiphop is dead argument… its alive and well, its just not in heavy rotation on the radio no more… you just gotta go and find it…. with that bein said…stop bitchin about all the new music.. if you dont like it, dont listen to it.. all your doin by bitchin about somethin you dont like is drawing more attention to it, therefore increasing its visability… id rather have someone spittin about a stanky leg, then hearing about gucci mane sellin 50 keys… all thats doin is contributing to the youth today thinkin its cool to sell dope, and shoot guns… the world (not just hiphop) needs more positivity….
one love- HIPHOP
ps.. im loving that reality hasnt stepped in with his Em bashin this week.. that shit got old quick.. we know dude doesnt like hiphop nowadays and assumes that nothing is real hiphop after 95… smh…
I just want to say to all the fools that keep saying hip hop is dead..Than you never really knew what hip hop was…It’s not just rappin its b boyin’ Graffiti poetry djing understanding the universe knowledge of one self etc…Fuck mainstream rap…There’s alot of real lyricism still out but its back to its roots..UNDERGROUND…
Dear Hip Hop Dx..All I wanna Know is Distant Relatives Numbers
Last I checked they were at the 100,000 Mark
Beside EM most these Good albums aint selling much. Cant ppl tell the difference between good and shitty hip hop?
I know the shitty stuuff is forced on ppl via radio etc
I really would like to know the demographic of these consumers.
Nas and Damian Marley’s Distant Relatives collaboration disc moved down five slots to No. 10 with 25,200. Heading into their second week in stores, the duo’s new record rests at 82,700 sold units.
^^^^^Thats From June 02, 2010 off one single!
What is it now.
OMG. Did anyone watch the MIA Video in the middle? WTF!
i respect M.I.A as an artist, but this UK based whack ass fucking website needs to stop reppin UK artists so damn hard! she aint hiphop so what are yall doin tryin to up her on a hiphop website? oh wait, yall are just trying to expose us in the states to UK POP artists… FUCK HIPHOPDX.com!!!!!!!!
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i fucking agree actually. mia isnt hip hop. drake isnt either technically but they have to since hiphopdx is getting paid to promote drake on this site by the label jews.