This past week was slower on the charts for Rap and Rap-related music. For the first time in a number of weeks, the genre nearly lacked representation in the Top 5. However, Lil Wayne‘s I Am Not A Human Being assumed that space after bouncing back to #1 last week, with the CD version hitting retailers. Wayne moved into 300,000 territory this past week on the album, with tracks featuring Young Money Records artists such as Nicki Minaj, Drake and Lil Twist.
Eminem’s Recovery scooted to #8, down just one from last week. The Interscope/Aftermath Entertainment release has the possibility of reaching the three million mark by year’s end.
Trey Songz slid four more spots to #17 last week with his Passion, Pain & Pleasure. Hitting the 430,000 unit-mark, Trey may now be Atlantic Records’ biggest star in the wake of T.I.’s legal woes. The Petersburg, Virginia native’s fourth album features Drake and Nicki Minaj.
Songz’ label-mate, Bruno Mars came in at #24 with his debut Doo Wops & Hooligans. After scoring exposure via his “Nothin’ On You” feature alongside B.o.B. earlier this year, Doo Wops & Hooligans features Damian Marley. It was announced yesterday that Donnis and Matt & Kim will join Mars on his album’s tour.
Brick Squad rapper Waka Flocka Flame fell to #32. The Atlanta sensation’s debut, Flockaveli features Pastor Troy, Wale and Uncle Murda. The Lex Luger-produced artist won the cosign of even former Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight in the last week.
* 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 |
| 5 | Lil Wayne | I Am Not A Human Being |
65,000 | 323,000 |
| 8 | Eminem | Recovery | 43,000 | 2,861,000 |
| 17 | Trey Songz | Passion, Pain & Pleasure |
23,000 | 430,000 |
| 24 | Bruno Mars | Doo-Wops & Hooligans | 17,000 | 99,000 |
| 32 | Waka Flocka Flame | Flockaveli |
12,000 | 67,000 |
Rick Ross remains trying to carry his acclaimed Teflon Don release over the 500,000 mark. The Def Jam album, featuring contributions from Kanye West, Jay-Z, Erykah Badu and Cee-Lo sits just 7,000 units below 450,000 overall. With a strong push, the album could meet its plaque by the holiday season.
Gucci Mane passed the 100,000 mark with just 10 units, selling his The Appeal: Georgia’s Most Wanted. It is presently believed that Gucci is in drug rehabilitation in Georgia, entering a 28-day program last week. Official sources have yet to confirm.
UGK co-founder Pimp C’s final posthumous album, The Naked Soul of Sweet Jones sits just below 30,000 overall units sold. With production by Cory Mo and Steve Below, the Rap-A-Lot Records project features the likes of Drake, Young Jeezy, David Banner and Too Short.
As Drake witnessed with So Far Gone and Thank Me Later, Kid Cudi may need to release a new album to watch his debut earn a plaque. Next month’s Man On The Moon: The Legend of Mr. Rager may carry last year’s Man On The Moon: The End of Day over the 500,000 mark for the Universal Motown Records star. Executive produced by Kanye West, the album features Common and Chip Tha Ripper.
Ice Cube‘s I Am The West sits just below 40,000 at #127 on the charts. Released through Cube’s own Lench Mob Records, the aggressive collection of songs featured fellow west coast pioneer WC, as well as veteran Jayo Felony and Cube’s son, OMG. I Am The West featured a reunion with 24-year production partner Sir Jinx, as well as iTunes bonus tracks produced by E-A-Ski and DJ Quik.
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 45 | Rick Ross | Teflon Don |
9,200 | 443,000 |
| 52 | Gucci Mane | The Appeal: Georgia’s Most Wanted | 8,000 | 100,000 |
| 107 | Pimp C | The Naked Soul of Sweet Jones |
4,000 | 28,000 |
| 112 | Kid Cudi | Man On The Moon: The End of Day |
4,000 | 479,000 |
| 127 | Ice Cube | I Am The West |
3,500 | 39,000 |
Will Real Talk’s Pastor Troy releases crack the charts next week? Can Tanya Morgan gain some chart recognition through Von Pea’s Pea’s Gotta Have It project? Stay tuned to HipHopDX.
DAMN People don’t Buy Shit anymore And Why Are u Bringing Up Rick Ross When BOB has yet to hit Gold ???? Stop it
Em…3 mill…1!
so glad waka flocka and gucci aren’t selling. Maybe there is hope for hiphop after all.
DAMN People don’t Buy Shit anymore And Why Are u Bringing Up Rick Ross When BOB has yet to hit Gold ???? Stop it
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LOL THIS I KNOW RIGHT YALL HATE ON ROSS FOR NOT SELLING BOB IS MORE POPULAR AND WHOS CD CAME OUT BEFORE ROSS STILL HAS YET TO GO GOLD FUCK FAGGOT ASS BOB
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bob didnt sell because he turned on all his fans. all that pop bullshit is ridiculous. ross hasnt went gold yet because he is a fat mother fucker CO who has no lyrical ability whatsoever.
LOL….how can some of you guys say the Rick False has no lyrical skill. Funny!!! Obviously youre not listening…the cat definitely has skill. Hes no Em or Nas or Jay etc, but hes still great lyrically.
Another note…..yes he was a cop, butyall young ones are lost. HipHop (even Gangsta Rap) was created & based mostly on the art of story telling. The fathers of Gangsta rap were relaying stories about the hood, life etc….they were artists not gangsters.
Kid cudi should be plat
gucci is losing his buzz, his last album sold 90k first week. What Dorrough numbers look like?
im really diggin that wayne cd two track get the skip other than that let the beat rock
ross need that gold plaq but thats a long shot no more hit singles on that album
waka lmao wayne weekly numbers got his total
when the record label let GUCCI make an album when he can pick the songs dude will sale until then this is what the gone get. probaly get around the holidays
i feel sorry for my nicca ice cube
Why Cube makes gets like 90 percet of his revenue back a major artist will only make a fraction of that him selling 40000 is like a major artist selling 120,000
plus he got some old ass wrinkled money he just does it for the love and for his people to get exposure.
ice cube has made around 370k from the album sales alone of I am the west. Rick ross has made around 390k from all that promotion and huge production he used on that album.
Rick Ross isn’t selling because he isn’t a “cross over” artist….Em is selling millions…..
rick false is garbage … thats why hes not selling
rick ross isnt selling because he isnt nething. hes not real hip hop, hes not pop, hes not ghetto, what he is a fat mother fucker who used to beat prisoners for cash.
wacko flocka only sold 67.000 there is HOPE for real hiphop one day!!!
Em is pop faget love bullshit course it will sell.
Lupe is the real shit….
your dumb as shit ha are you white cause alot of white people try to hate on EM cause he doin it and they not ha yall succ ass let your boy go he a monster on the mic and in the top 10 rappers ever the fucc
honestly, and this is coming form someone who has followed him for years and bought both his albums, fuck lupe! he average as fuck, he spits nothing revolutionary or even really good. used concepts used style=lupe
12,000 copies of Waka Flocka is sadly still alot, especially in a recession. The problem is there just aren’t enough “event” albums being released to balance things out. Clearly, people buy CD’s all the time. The problem is all that’s on the shelves are the same old albums that have a 2-3 week expiration date before someone wants to hear something else.
guess theres nothin to look forward too except the next eminem album .. which he hasnt even mentioned as of yet lmao..
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eminem sells because his white fans will buy his album to make him like the next elvis in music. it is all just being white a white rapper in music dominated by blacks !
so let me guess… you’re an angry black guy because a white boy came to a black genre of music and took over. u cant seem to process its skill over race. lmaoo and by the way, the 2nd best rapper in the game isn’t black either, so how you feel? im talking about joell ortiz by the way. so what, all spanish people are gonna buy his album too? stfu and just listen to whatever wack rapper YOU like.
what skil? em’s skill fell off years ago, the drugs got to him. it’s only die hard stans who get on the net and talk that bullshit bout em’s being the best rapper in the game.
listen to his old shit and listen to his last two albums, where are the “my name is’ ” and the “i ams”?
yall just dickrode that guy into infamy.
and he is successful cuz white people do purchase and consume the majority of the music and he caters to that audience
i do agree with u that i listen to his first 3 albums more than i do recovery … but are you serious that he lost his skill?? u definitely dont know what you’re talking about.. his wordplay is crazy, metaphors are crazy. and seriously, who are u comparing him too? because in 2010, NO ONE came close to rappin like he did. on another note, recovery had only 1 full verse that wasnt his (lil waynes)… the rest of the features are on hooks. go look at your next favorite rapper’s album and read their tracklist. every song is ‘featuring so and so’ .. i can understand the hate lol because there will always be hate. but you are ridiculous talking bout he go no skill. if he got no skill, then u should put out a album cuz i bet you’re better right? lmaoo get real
em fell off like every rapper from the 90s. jay is making garbage pop shit, busta just sucks now, pac and biggie died, nas is still goin somewhat hard, not the hardass beats from 94 tho, krs still goes hard, but for the most part veterans turned pop or shit.
Regardless of race Eminem is an average rapper now, he used to be good but he was never the best. I couldn’t care less what race they are, I just want some good music which is rare to come by now and yes I am white just in case someone says bullshit like “you’re black and you hate the fact that a white guy took over.” Eminem’s shit is pop now and needs to go back and make music like Infinite, Slim Shady LP, Marshall Mathers LP.
@NY his musik now is an was always pop, meaning popular. u want him 2 go back to what? making songs like “the real slim shady?” recovery is popular but its not the pop u say it is in my opinion. domestic violence is jus a hard topic to touch, an not afraid is bout gettin clean basicaly, so how u gona hate him for touchin them subjects, than after that the majority of recovery is far from radio. an relapse was nothing radio xcept that awful we made u.
illuminate is behind it all !!! he is the only on selling people.
I like how you can’t even spell Illuminati.
the fun thing is that when jay-z(black rapper)raps about anything, he is regraded as a devil worshipper but when eminem (white rapper) raps, he is some kind of god ! you people need to get your mind right !
are you kidding me? ha your stupid as fucc do you know how many lawsuits eminem has because of his lyrics, how many times has jay z been sued for sayin something haha your dumb as shit get your mind right cuzz,
@dj86 .. u dumb motherfucker jay-z is obsessed with the occult its all up in his videos. His roc-a-fella label name. ‘the diamond'(pyramid). Em has nothing to do with that. Its got nothing to do with black and white! I cant believe theres still hate for him just cos he’s white. grow up
eminem is the only rapper that gets nominated in the pop category at the american music awards. which means to say that he music is all pop like britney and all that garbage !
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shouldn’t you be at a clan rally?
why are you even listening to hiphop to begin with?
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man i just miss the old em, the one from marshall mather’s lp not this pop garbage love the way you lie bullshit. get back to those nice flows and fresh lyrics, not this pop lyrics, punchline bullshit.
Man I feel ya, I can’t get into this new Em, he pretty much lost me in this new vibe.
guess you two didn’t grow up in the last few years sucks to be you
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grow up? lmao please, that love the way you lie bullshit is for teenagers first and foremost don’t even front like it’s not. Even basically admits he’s not as good as he once was. I miss the em who was basically able to murc jay z on his own shit, i miss the em who really didn’t give a fuck, i get that he’s clean and shit, but really? every fucking song is about nobody being able to stop him from rapping, we get it nobody can stop you, now start rapping about real shit, get some new subject matter.
when he was rapping the 1st couple of albums he was on drugs now he isnt you really want him to go back to those drugs if so you have no heart man. besides his album had some hard shit on it: no love, almost famous, 25 to life, talkin to myself and many more
I don’t want him back on drugs let me make it clear, i just want him to stop using punchline bullshit. LIfe is no nintendo game? really? is that it? I miss the murc you on your own shit em. He did well on forever but his style is stale now. I want somebody who can actually kill flows instead of making pop shit.
Ross’s new album has already sold more than the last. he managed to reverse a trend that most cannot. once sales go down, that’s it, it continues. ‘Teflon Don’ isn’t even much better than the last album to me.
Its a sad sad motherfuckin day when a policeman can go so close to gold with a rap record that totally fabricates them living a gangsta lifestlye… His name is stolen, his nickname is stolen, his glasses are fake and he might go gold. sad motherfuckin day. ‘Rick’ even denied it himself when the new broke of his past.
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Eminem to go triple plat by the end of this year even sooner acutally. We have 10 more weeks before the year is up so em should have about 3.1 to 3.2 million by 2010 year end. This has been a pretty good year for em he was voted the decades top MC by BET and the hottest rapper of the year by MTV. I wonder if VH1 is going to do something to point out EM’s greatness 🙂
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If Ross has a single as big as “The Boss” out b4 he released the album (it charted top ten) he’d probably be gold by now. Wonder if one of his albums will ever go platinum?
Are you serious? you really think that none of ross’ albumns went plat?? Were are you from, France?
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You know hip hop is dead when only eminem can go multiplatinum..why does he sell so much? sure he has clever wordplay,crazy metaphores..yea we get it Eminem fans..but he talks about the same old thing over and over on all his albums..being on drugs,suicide,killing people,making threats,growing up poor and white etc..he’s not as entertaining as he used to be..ever since Encore i haven’t even looked at his section..infinite-the eminem show he was coo..but now who cares..his past three albums have been weak..
I’ll tell u why..
Its fan loyalty.. Or Stan loyalty or whateva..
Those 1st 3 albums pretty much got all his fans hooked and the shit he was putting out was so different to what others where putting out.
Em fans are pretty loyal..
Btw.. MMLP and Eminem sold approx 10mill. 3 mill isn’t even up to 50% of the numbers he was doing..
every artist’s sales got hit by the recession it’s just that 3mill would have still been a pretty good pre-recession sales figure.
and btw.. What has ur fav rapper been rapping about???
Money, hoes, cars, money, hoes, cars.. (repeat till infinity..)
It’s funny that his most iconic songs aren’t about any of those things u mentioned.. (Stan, Loose urself, Not Afraid)
Well for one thing Eminem can rap. He not some phoney thug rapping about mob life. Hes not some polar bear rapping about burr this and burr that. Hes not some raspy throat syrup head who puts out garbage ass rock albums but calls himself the best rapper. Eminem is one of the few “LYRICISTS” that sells albums. So respect him.
em used to be a clever lyricist, now it’s all punch lines and bullshit love the way you lie garbage. i miss the em of marshall mathers lp, and i get it he’s got a new sound, he’s clean and shit, but every song now is about how you can’t stop him from rapping, like we get it, now start rapping about real shit.
I’ll tell you where he went wrong it’s when he tried to make every song like 8 mile and then lost his legendary flow and resorted to punchline bullshit.
Em is hardly the only rapper that can go platinum. He’s just the only rapper that can go platinum that has released an album recently. Jay went platinum with The Blueprint III. Drake went platinum with whatever the hell his album was called. Kanye is likely to go platinum after his album is released. Wayne will go platinum when he releases a real album.
And Nicki Minaj may go platinum when she finally releases her album. Game can go platinum. Maybe J Cole can do Drake numbers. People still can go platinum, it’s just that those that can already released an album, or their album is about to drop soon.
Em is hardly the only rapper that can go platinum. He’s just the only rapper that can go platinum that has released an album recently. Jay went platinum with The Blueprint III. Drake went platinum with whatever the hell his album was called. Kanye is likely to go platinum after his album is released. Wayne will go platinum when he releases a real album.
And Nicki Minaj may go platinum when she finally releases her album. Game can go platinum. Maybe J Cole can do Drake numbers. People still can go platinum, it’s just that those that can already released an album, or their album is about to drop soon.
Nah man i cant see nicki minaj goin platinum.. that shit would be criminal if she did tho. As for Em.. Top10 dead or alive, respect him. He’s still doin it an still puttin out great music. The dude kicked a drink an drug addiction an he’s back killin it. gotta respect that
Man I still can’t get over the fact an actual album is called “Flockaveli”
It is the most unintentionally hilarious name for an album ever!
Seriously that shit sounds like a bad SNL skit about Tupac or something
its just straight disrespectful in my opinion
i cant believe man on the moon didnt even get to 500,000 shit was classic
Cool to see Em almost triple plat. The man has had a loyal fanbase that stayed by his side since day one.
I’m surprised at Kid Cudi’s debut bouncing back on the charts after quite some time. I thought it went gold, but I guess not. The album was nice.
Ice Cube may have sold 39k, but he released his album through his own independent label with no major label backing, so he’s still good.
And here’s a quote for Weezy, Waka and Gucci.
“I don’t give a f*ck what you sold, that sh*t is trash”- Prodigy
Rick Ross ain’t sellin cause all his songs sound exactly the same.
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how can you hate on em? hes the games number 1 menace and i love every bit of it!
wheres handyyyyy and mandyyyyy if thats even the same guy? or cant ban duke boy? i miss those guys, they funny as shit
i’m still here nigga. dat faggot handdddyyyyyyyyyyyy’z prolly jackin off 2 “i’m not a human being, i’m a homo” rite now. i think i roasted hiz azz back in da summa. and i don’t give a shit bout that duke boy person so he can kick rockz.
lol cant ban duke boy is an idiot
Yo, some one tell me the name of the track at the top wit Lil Wayne n Gudda Gudda
i dont like the look of it
its the last track on the album
Lol. Gucci just broke 100,000 units and Wacka aint past 70,000. Im happy with that knowing that the Industry and radio arent making these weak niggas as popular as I think and they think they are. Most funny of all Eminem is almost at 3 million and Lil Wayne wont come close to those sales because every single is A-milli and Im tired of that shit too.
I HAD SEX WITH GUCCI MANE. HIS COCK REACHED MY TINY ASSHOLE!
UHHH… WHY IS LECRAE’S SALES STATS NOT ON HIPHOPDX? HE’S A RAP ARTIST AS WELL AND HE’S SELLIN ALOT MORE THAN SOME OF THESE OTHER FOOLS THEY PUT ON THESE LISTS! DONT TRY TO DISS PEOPLE THAT >>>MINISTER
i gotta say it , to yal sayin em selling these #’s cuz white boys buyin his cds that dont make too much sense though. what bout all these rappers(blak) that co-sign eminem sayin he the best or one of the best to ever do it? what bout lil wayne beggin eminem on video to get on a track wit him, an sayin “please dont diss me?”. I’m black yo an none of my black friends buy cd’s period,. my white friends do all the time tho, an most the time its women buyin cds in the first place. But u cant say eminem sells cuz of they r “pop” songs, cuz basicaly relapse was a big fuck u to radio. an its almost at 3x plat in north america alone. WE dont even wanna consider what relapse/recover sales are at when you look @ more than just north america, probly 5 mili. so lil wayne groupies slow ya damn role cuz the carter 3 still aint even sold what relapse has worldwide, an recovery bout to pass the carter III’s 3 mili. an by the way i aint even thought lil wayne was good since tha block is hot. an get off tha corner, they was my shit. but back 2 the topic , if yall think eminem selling cuz he is white, than explain all the co-signs he gets from his black peers in the industry. if u cant than u some hatin ass niggas.