Eminem’s Recovery was thought to maybe get #1 back. The Aftermath release did not, as Arcade Fire’s latest outsold it by 4,000 units.
One of this year’s true surprises came courtesy of UGK’s Bun B. The Port Arthur, Texas’ emcee’s third solo album, Trill O.G. debuted at #4. Bun’s album is the first since moving his Rap-A-Lot Records distribution from Asylum to Universal Fontana. The third in the “Trill” series features appearances from Drake, Gucci Mane and posthumous verses from 2Pac and Pimp C, while production is handled by DJ Premier, Boi-1da and veteran UGK producer Steve Below. For an independent project, Bun’s Top 5 debut and 40,000 in sales are one of the more shocking Rap chart performances this year.
Rick Ross was a spot behind Bun, inching towards 300,000 units moved of his acclaimed Teflon Don. The Def Jam rapper’s fourth official album features work from veterans such as No I.D., DJ Clark Kent and Cee-Lo. Drake’s Thank Me Later fell to #8, as four Rap releases occupied the Top 10. Drake’s official debut is expected to reach the million mark in two weeks, though a strong next week could achieve that feat early.
Usher‘s Raymond v. Raymond appeared at #17. The veteran Pop entertainer’s “divorce album” is marching its way to a platinum plaque for Mr. Raymond and his longtime backer, LaFace Records. The album will feature two deluxe/additional material releases this month.
* 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 |
| 2 | Eminem | Recovery |
152,000 | 1,980,000 |
| 4 | Bun B | Trill O.G. |
41,000 | 41,000 |
| 5 | Rick Ross | Teflon Don | 39,000 | 279,000 |
| 8 | Drake | Thank Me Later |
31,000 | 946,000 |
| 17 | Usher | Raymond V. Raymond |
16,000 | 990,000 |
Outkast’s Big Boi slid to #36. His critically-acclaimed Def Jam debut, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty features artists such as T.I., Gucci Mane and Too Short, with production from Organized Noize, Scott Storch and Lil Jon. The Roots‘ acclaimed How I Got Over is nearly parallel to Big Boi. This other Def Jam release features extended Roots family Dice Raw, Truck North and others, in addition to Blu, Phonte and Peedi Peedi.
Tech N9ne‘s The Gates Mixed Plate went a Top 15 debut to #89. The Gates Mixed Plate features Glasses Malone, Devin The Dude and Jay Rock, among others, as yesterday the rapper announced a fall tour with Malone, Rock and E-40.
Fat Joe fell out of the Top 100 with The Darkside Volume 1, a total of 85 units. The release marks Joe’s debut with E1 Entertainment, and features work with DJ Premier, Just Blaze and Too Short. The darker-themed album has critics comparing it to Joe’s first three albums. Despite the strong praises, the work’s sales have become an object of ridicule from Joe’s nemesis, 50 Cent.
Former Young Money and No Limit Records artist Curren$y hung on to the bottom of the charts with his Def Jam-distributed Pilot Talk. Produced by Reasonable Doubt architect Ski Beatz, and featuring Mos Def and Jay Electronica, the New Orleans emcee is sitting just over 20,000 units overall.
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 36 | Big Boi | Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty |
10,000 | 130,000 |
| 62 | The Roots | How I Got Over |
6,400 | 120,000 |
| 89 | Tech N9ne Collabos | The Gates Mixed Plate |
5,000 | 22,000 |
| 112 | Fat Joe | The Darkside Volume 1 |
4,100 | 16,000 |
| 193 | Curren$y | Pilot Talk |
2,500 | 22,000 |
Will Mike Posner impress the charts? Can Boots Riley make a strong return with Street Sweeper Social Club’s latest EP? Stay tuned to HipHopDX to find out.
Wow Recovery is gunn be the best selling hip-hop album since 2005!
The album is pretty good. I’m shocked he came with something so strong. Relapse was ass
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I just spit my wheaties all over my screen when I seen the Fat Joke numbers!! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. What a BUSTER!!
alot of these numbers are bogus.
i was jus thinking those em n mbers are real peculiar. how is it possible that ross nearly take the #1 spot last week, dips and em is still movin a buck-fifty every week?
but then agian that em vid recently came out to, so i’ll atrribute his sales to that.
ross album sucks. this is coming from one of his “newer” fans.
fat joe always sucked to me. i’m asking right now any of you die hard fat joe fans, why do you like that dude? i think fat joe fans are those people in school that jus hang out with anybody. they don’t care, they think everbody and everthing is cool and they jus wanna be down.
shout out to bun b, support the real.
Fat Joe is garbage now, but he hasn’t “always sucked”.
Proof positive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA7DvbWy7bs
Guess you didn’t listen to the album…it’s a classic
if record sales was tha true reflection hiphop,then we will all join 50 and laugh at f.joe’s numbers bt u and i no thats nt tha case cos he’s got 1 of tha realest records out this yr!!!!
so plse join me wen i say fuck a rec.sale n give us real HIPHOP music all u rap artist!!!!!
He might have 1 of the hardest C.D. out, but his sell’s or really Sad 4 a rapper
2 be in the game this long & cant put better numbers up then that. Fat Joe need 2 “Fall Back” on riding the south’s nuts.This is his first Non-sellout Disc.(No Hate)
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They should have a bootleg chart, cause that FatJoe is everywhere, he got bout 3 or 4 of them songs thats on that cd on every mixtape out, me i dont see why they drop full cd’s anymore, just drop the singles, for MF that dont know, the money for the artistis in the show, and that fat MF is tour like crazy, in these times albums aint sh8t but and excuse to raise concert ticket prices
fuck a rec.sale n give us real HIPHOP music all u rap artist!!!!!
Joey Cracks album was dope numbers dont reflect someones work just how many Fifty dickriders and Joey Crack haters there are.. Album was definitely worth the buy…Peace
I agree. I bought it and shit is still in my system. Everybody that rode with me heard it and bought it too.
Em’ has the nr1 spot according to hitsdailydouble!
Em’ has the Nr1 spot according 2 hitsdailydouble, 5th week
Yea, and?
Let me post YOUR reply: “You sound like a hater, go bump that Fat Joe/Rick Ross, hater”!
SMH
Wow, joey mad now. But record sales don’t really tell the whole story, however they do speak volumes about how far an artists message is being heard. Too many sales points to a highly mainstream album which tries to please everyone. Too low points to a niche aimed album which is cool for some cats. Just enjoy good music, and artists really shouldn’t be that bothered as long as their music is appreciated they should be cool because it aint like they’re living hard lives anymore.
Joe gotta great album and sales will never tell you the truth about any artist. Fans gotta learn to do some real research. There are still a few great albums, unheard.
I’m with everyone agreeing Big Boi and Roots should be doing bigger numbers but then of course…
Appreciation doesn’t get food on the table.
FAT JOE has always sucked ass… ONe trick pony…crack,crack ,crack only topic fuck him…overrated ass
You know the rap game is fucked up when a no talent hack like Ross is selling twice as many units as real artists like The Roots or Big Boi.
I concur
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I was checking out billboard to find out who the fuck arcade fire is and apparently they were selling their album for 3.99 on amazon just to outsell eminem…maybe officer ricky should have used they’re strategy to beat em
Relapse Album?????
2,023 millionnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Next week
Relapse Album
2,025 Million
Recovery Album
2,100 Million
Next week!!!
Relapse Album
2,025 Million
Recovery Album
2,100 Million
I haven’t bought no one cd yet because of home needs, till then free mixtape is all I can afford right now.
i feel u..check out albumhunt.com
every album is on there..get it for free bra
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which albums are free on that site bra?? mixtapes or actual CDs?
Its Crazy How albums like Currensy Roots and Big Boi isnt saling but Waka Flocka will Eminem is a great rapper but i guarnteed big boi Album was better probably even Currensy but black folks bootleg albums before buying thats why eminem will stay on top. And of course he will win all rap awards if he deserve it or not
I’m black and I bought it! perhaps Big Boi’s album just isn’t good…
so whats the number one spot??
So far Eminem, Rick Ross and Bun B are candiates for ALBUM OF THE YEAR. Fat joe has a pretty nice album. Honestly its better than BISD anyday, REAL TALK.
Now i WAITING FOR ANOTHER JAY-Z ALBUM.
No, no and you’re fucking shitting me.
BISD was awful and so was Blueprint3.
Album of the year goes to either How I Got Over, Distant Relatives, Revolutions per Minute or In Search of Stoney Jackson.
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Kanye gonna do big numbers…. Game, not so much.
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Joe gotta great album and sales will never tell you the truth about any artist! Fans gotta learn to do some real research. There are still a few great albums, unheard.
If you can’t sell records, how can you be great? A lot of people say Em isn’t great or they say someone you never heard is great…to be great you have to back it up with a career of good selling albums. Failing to sell a million copies, that is not showing you are great.
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard. Someone like T-Pain can put out a bullshit album and sell more then someone like Joe Budden, does that mean he’s better?
shut your stupid ass up, mrnoluv, and go listen to soulja boy.
Check out Royce da 5’9’s album called death is certain. That shit didn’t sell that many copies.
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I ont care what nobody say $pitta dat nigga n his album is better than all the 1’s on dat chart!!!!!!! As far as content, the quality production & just plain dopeness. But I wouldn’t expect u land lovers 2 understand Pilot Talk. J.E.T.S Nigguh…..
Damn fat joe cant sell a album to save his life , thats becuz he is just a terrible rapper . the people see through fat joes bullshit raps .
Teflon don is garbage too and it flopped
Fat joe and officer rick ross need to sit down and stop rappin
IF ROSS COULD GO GOLD HE GUD BUT HE CANT EVEN DO TAT 50 BEEN KILL FATJOE
fat joe just plain sucks azz .
all his albums are terrible pop bullcrap
he needs to sit his fat butt down and stop rapping please ..
teflon don = flop
Fat Joe, Eminem and Rick Ross albums are all great albums with great music
CO-SIGN all the albums you listed are all tight and well worth picking up.
Well, anyone who says people can sell CD’s anymore because of the internet really don’t have shit to say anymore. Shady’s almost double platinum in just over 2 months.
I guess we just gotta say the market is over-saturated with crap, and no one wants to buy it. Except for hardcore collectors, and hip-hop lovers.
Sadly it brings me back to when parents said rock-n-roll was the best music ever, and still roll around with their Megadeth t-shirts on. Or soul music, if that’s how you remember it.
Regardless, I guess every genre of music has it’s day in time.
You corns like to follow corny ass 50cent and he is not even putting out any music for the fans, his contribution to hip hop is pretty small compared to the real veterans
FUCK FAT JOE 50 IS THE BEST STOP HATIN 50 JUS BRING OUT NEW AGAIN HATER
all 12,000 people that bought that fat joe got there moneys worth, there are rappers that sell a million and the million that buy it get garbage so sales dont make good music, what matters is when i pop that shit in the system if im feeling it or not
CO-SIGN. Fat Joe’s album is well worth it. I really dont care about sales either, I support who the fuck I like. Most the rappers I like, not naming any names, never make the top 100. But they some how keep making guud tracks I seem to enjoy.
I didn’t even know my man Joe had a new one..I’m gonna add to this week’s numbers..He’s a good dude, I met him at the Mansion in MIA and he’s real and approachable.
joe is the closest thing to hip hop. the new project is solid. just only sold in ny
answer to mr NICE…fat joe is one of the most authentic hiphop acts you’ll find here.i love joe, coz he has this huge talent of creating more than one element of hiphop.he is so diverse, it invites jelousy.he needed money he dropped “leanback” he gave u pun, he gave u much more than many can do. so he’s worth supporting. he just does good to hiphop&far from selfish.wheres the rest of ditc?where the lox?wheres dasfx,onyx,lost boyz?fat joe still shining. stop this racism black folk,we can be racists too.admit we jelous of them latinos&they can.talk about joel ortiz, he’S mean. so i go full out for fat joe,he is a role model and a die hiphop fan.the darkside is killing eh”haha”
All I ever heard from fat joe, post pun, is “crack crack crack crack, lean back, crack crack crack, make it rain, crack crack crack, strip pole in my house, crack crack crack”
Joe was good back when Pun was alive.. or maybe that was just Pun writing Joe’s shit. Dude today ain’t even a 1/10th of what he was back then.
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i wonder how much curren$y makes off a cd….juss a random question; eminem had the best hip hop cd this year and curren$y was second unless my boy j.cole drops hmmm
THIS Y 50 CENT IS WAY BETTER THAN FAT JOE ROSS AN ALL THEM OTHER NIGGAS IN THE GAME 50 DONT USE PEOPLE TO TRY GET HOT ONLY EM AN JIGGA ON HIS LEVEL OF MUSIC