As predicted, Meek Mill scored a Top 3 for his solo debut album, Dreams & Nightmares. The Maybach Music Group member has had a benchmark year in a career the spans the better part of a decade. This week also brought Tech N9ne’s latest digital project to the charts, timed specifically to release at Halloween week.
The HipHopDX guest editor last week, Sean Price, received his highest charting solo effort to date, in a career that spans nearly 20 years. Mic Tyson is Sean’s third solo album, in between a lengthy career with Heltah Skeltah and Boot Camp Clik.
Two final additions to the charts came by way of emcee/singer-turned pop culture sensation, Cee Lo. Although the Goodie Mob member has been in the headlines recently for alleged sexual misconduct, his Christmas album, Cee-Lo’s Magic Moment, appeared in the Top 100. Lastly, veteran Oakland, California duo The Coup returned with their first album in near five years. Sorry To Bother You featured Boots Riley and Pam The Funktress working with Killer Mike and others, after tenures with Galactic and Street Sweeper Social Club. The former Wild Pitch Records sensations appeared at #194.
Meek Mill Reached His Dreams
As last year’s MMG redefined Wale and his sound, 2012 has been a formal introduction to Meek Mill. The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania emcee’s aggressive style dates back to dozens upon dozens of local mixtapes in the mid-2000s. After a brief tenure with T.I. at Grand Hustle Records, the dirtbike-riding emcee has come into his own under the business and tutelage of Rick Ross.
Dreams & Nightmares features the MMG crew, along with Nas and Drake. The latter is featured on controversial single “Amen,” which has been a stand-out single in recent months. The album’s deluxe edition also features “Burn,” another popular hit featuring Big Sean. Both singles curiously appeared on Meek’s free May mixtape, Dreamchasers 2. Meek’s debut is within 1,000 units and received the same charting position as band-mate Wale’s Ambition one year ago.
Sean Price Comes Back Like Mike Tyson
Sean Price had a career week with his third album, Mic Tyson. The Brooklyn, New York Rap vet’s latest features production by Alchemist, 9th Wonder and Stu Bangas. Appearances include B.K. undergroup Hip Hop mainstays like Ill Bill, Torae and Pumpkinhead too.
The album sold nearly 7,000 copies, giving Sean the first Top 100 solo album of his career. Not since 1998’s Magnum Force with Heltah Skeltah, has Sean Price performed this strongly on the charts. His rhyme partner, Rockness Monstah (f/k/a Rock) was not featured on Mic Tyson.
Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 11/4/2012
#2. Meek Mill – Dreams & Nightmares – 165,000 (165,000)
#5. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city – 63,000 (304,000)
#30. Tech N9ne – Boiling Point – 13,000 (13,000)
#35. 2 Chainz – Based On A T.R.U. Story – 11,000 (365,000)
#39. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 9,800 (117,000)
#42. G.O.O.D. Music – Cruel Summer – 9,200 (340,000)
#58. Sean Price – Mic Tyson – 6,900 (7,000)
#65. The Man With The Iron Fists soundtrack – 6,400 (18,000)
#66. Cee Lo – Cee-Lo’s Magic Moment – 6,200 (6,200)
#194. The Coup – Sorry To Bother You – 2,000 (2,000)
* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000. Each week, HipHopDX presents top albums in Hip Hop/related, and five notables.
Will Saigon get a Top 20 in The Greatest Story Never Told 2? Stay tuned to HipHopDX.
sean p
no gfid?
no one is buying that garbage anymore
mtvs hottest mc in the game cant even sell 500k cds
yes, he in top 100. but hhdx randomly reports on 10 hh albums, including all debuts and the second-weeks.
weak meals
damn, I pray for the 2 mil people that downloaded DC2 first day. Most of them must of died.
true dick riders was talking gold the first week now whatch a dick rider respond ahaha
he claimed 3 million downloads in an hour or 2!
i call bullshit
MMG dont move units
165,000 for 1 of the supposedly hottest in the game is terrible and people cant blame it on Sandy cos Kendrick still moved 63,000 Jay Z dropped his classic on 9/11 and people could have still copped it on itunes dude has records and videos all over the place all the hype cosigns big name features lol MMG is so smoke N Mirrors its all fake paid for hype They run the internet but in the end they keep loosing.
Congrats to Kendrick for moving 304,000 and getting great reviews which much less hype and promo and cosigns and big name features
much less hype?
less meek mill had way more promo and hype
he was on mtvs hottest mc list and kendrick was not
he had all those features, videos, mixtapes he claimed got 3 million downloads in 2 hours…
tony yayo sold more than your fav rapper with one album
Who is Tony Yayo?
french montana should just release his shit for free
no, he should please keep that trash to himself.
mmg gonna get DROPPED AGAIN
meek gonna have nightmares of going back to the hood
All them rappers have nightmares of going back to the hood…..all of them
“Y’all niggas think its a game ima fuck around and go plat the first week on u niggas”
meek really tweeted that! he though he was gonna move 1 million units in his first week!! what a fail!
Them days are over that was my era rappers living of off 50 cent wet dreams
MEEK 37K NEXT WEEK?
kendrick bout to outsell kanye and 2chainz
If anyone wants to clown MIC TYSON, in the Tampa/St Pete area, which is a few million people, exactly ONE Best Buy even stocked the fucking thing… Probably NO Targets… And yeah, there’s some indy stores but compare that to the saturation of fucking LAUGHTERHOUSE (which sits, unsold, everywhere)…
MIC TYSON is the best album out now and xzibit new album they both better than meeks album
Probably true.
word… I went every where in Tampa looking for the cd… had to hit up iTunes
slaughterhouse is DONE. no mention of those losers since they FLOPPED. SHADY pulled the plug on them. regroup. sean price will be back.
damn meek ???? onlt 165K?????? smh for all that hype?, smh I am a true fan, but the Dream Chaser mixtapes pt 1 and 2 was better than the album, and Tony Story part 2 was a failed!!!!! part 1 was a classic, SMH fuck u officer ricky!!!! this is all ur fault
damn homie 3 smh’s? i hope it dont fall off from all that shaking
rick ross gonna hold me back rick ross gonna hold me back
best comment
mmg buys their own albums to raise the sales? who else would spend money on that crap
Kendrick dropped the album of the decade, I already heard it 10 times and yes it’s a masterpiece. But I’m still trying to figure out the meaning behind his album title, I think he has two A’s in the title to represent a metaphor for his flow, a Double A battery (I think Duracell) because Kendrick has a lot of energies and can rap for a long time before he runs out of breath. He can hold a lot of breath for someone who smokes a lot of weed lol. I definitely appreciate the High Power movement, I think it will help legalize weed. Section 80, Control System, and now Good Kid, Kendrick has dropped classic after classic. He really might be 2pac reincarnated
Ok, the name of the title means: “My Angry Adolescence Divided” or “My Angels on Angel Dust”. Kendrick explained this already. ANd he doesn’t smoke a lot of weed, in fact if you listened to “good kid, M.A.A.D city” 10x, you’d know why he avoids it. But yeah, I hope somehow the HiiPower movement affects the legalization of marijuana, that would be awesome.
Anon, you got trolled man. He obviously ain’t serious. ”Eye Control / I Can Troll”. Really man.. Double A Battery? lol cmon son. Also Hiiipower doesn’t rly have anything whatsoever.. to do with smoking week bruh.. he’s just plain trolling.
Eye Control= I can troll
Trollfail moar pls..
Macklemore is amazing!
cosign
Macklemore is the best white rapper out now, but is still quite slept on
on the other hand fools like MGK get heavy promo,and flop anyway
Macklesucks sucks donkey dick and to say he better then yelawolf is hella ignorant
Macklemore is not amazing.
Rapping about shopping in a thrift store and “moccasins” is not hiphop.
LOL hip-hop can be about anything you tard
its not just about getting money, fucking hoes and busting guns
MUTHADON
the fact that meek mill’s d&n is on pace to sell more records than Good Kid maad City is a shame to see. ppl today wouldnt know hip hop if it smacked em square in the face
??
GKMC outsold D&N first week…
It’s actually not gonna sell more then GKMC.
yeah where did u get that from? meek not touching kendricks numbers
word he did 242,000 first week, but im sayin if meek has the same numbers in week 2, he’d have around 330,000 total sales (as opposed to kendrick’s 304,000 after his second week).. yeah obviously unlikely to generate the same number of sales back-to-back weeks, but still way too close if u ask me. GKMC should still be ahead of d&n regardless of this being its first week. not calling that shit a “classic” yet cuz thats for the lames to do, but the shit is real good, high quality HIP HOP music, and that shit meek put out is the same garbage people been puttin out for years now. same shit. same boring ass shit for motherfuckers with low expectations.
meek wont even hit 242k after 2 weeks
Woa. c’mon bruh all albums drop atleast 70% after 1st week which means meek 2nd week is gonna be around 40,000 which means he’d prolly just barely reach the 200,000 mark in 2 weeks so chill with all that “catching GKMC #s” BS
Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city = over rated album of the year.
Skyzoo – A Dream Deferred = under rated album of the year.
I actually think Life Is Good is the most overrated album of the year. I didn’t even think it was that great & I’m a fan of Nas. But that’s just my opinion.
Both of you are wrong. Rick Ross’ God Forgives, I Don’t is the most overrated album of the year.
GFID isnt over rated
everything thinks that album sucked
Cruel Summer is mad overrated.
165K IS VERY GOOD DEBUT FOR SOMEBODY LIKE MEEK MILL. WHICH NEW RAPPER OUTSOLD HIM? EVEN 2 CHAINZ WITH HIS CLASSIC DEBUT WAS HYPED ALL OVER THE MEDIA AND SOLD LESS IN HIS FIRST WEEK. WACK ASS KENDRICK LAMAR SOLD MORE, JUST BECAUSE HE DICKRIDES DR. DRE AND ALL THE WESTCOAST ARTIST ALL THE TIME AND HE’S REALLY GOOD AT IT (SLAUGHTERHOUSE SHOULD’VE SOLD 800K IN THEIR FIRST WEEK, SINCE IT IS GROUP OF FOUR NIGGAZ SUCKING EMINEM’S COCK).
BESIDE OF THIS, MEEK’S ALBUM IS REALLY GOOD, MAYBE NOT AS GOOD AS HIS MIXTAPES, STILL ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS OF THE YEARS AND CLASSIC DEBUT FOR CLASSIC RAPPER WHO WILL BE REMEMBERED IN TIME. DAMN, IF HE AND 2 CHAINZ RAPPED BACK IN 90’S, OVERRATED BIGGIE AND PAC WOULD BE STILL SERVING THEM SOME BIGMACS.
^^^^^hater lol.
ummm let’s not forget even 2 chainz has better singles out there. (Gold Singles)
i thought u were serious until that line about meek mill and 2chainz making biggie and pac serve big macs
funny stuff
You’re an idiot. When Big was alive, who could stand toe to toe with him? I’m not saying he was the best, but he was damn well close to it. Sit down and STFU
YEBO, kill yourself for being stupid. Someone should take your computer away for being stupid. Go back to the short bus.
If Meek and 2Chainz rapped back in the 90s, they’d be laughed at.
meek mill is a fool,he had a good buzz back in november 2011 he could have dropped his album in january 2012,his buzz died n kendrik lamar overtook his buzz
MEEK MILLS FANS ARE UPSET WHAT DID YOU EXPECT THE ALBUM WAS WHACK AND HE GOT KILLED ON EVERY FEATURE HE LUCKY IT DID THAT K DOTS ALBUM WAS OK COULDVE HAD BETTER PRODUCTION NAS HAS THE ALBUM OF THE YEAR HANDS DOWN IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF UNLESS YOUR NOT REALLY LISTENING EVERYBODY BE SAFE IN THIS CRAZY WORLD PEACE
aint no need for caps nigga chill
AINT NO NEED 4 THE GOLD CAP WITH THE $ SIGN YOU STILL ROCKING TO COVER UP THE MISSING FRONT TOOTH DONT WORRY ABOUT ME DO YOU BOY
kendrick lamar’s album deserves no1 spot 10 years straight
So much for having 3 million downloads on datpiff, just goes to show you that his fans don’t really support him. BTW haa.haaa
cee-lo fucking FLOPPED.
that’s being on NBC biggest show.
NBC is getting ready to END cee-lo after he drugged some chick and raped her. they aren’t going to back their monkey on this.
nobody wants christmas tunes from a fat sellout rapist that used to rap.
meek mil did that with all the promo in the world because he’s a no talent loser with no charisma. rap music is over.
its a christmas album
gh is a fucking retard.
Tech9
Anyone wasting their money on shitty fucking music like maybach music is destroying hiphop. The people who disagree how old are you?
What’re ya’ll favorite albums that been released this year? Here’s a list:
Schoolboy Q – Habits & Contradictions
Curren$y – Muscle Car Chronicles
Curren$y – The Stoned Immaculate
Tyga – Careless World
Ja Rule – Pain is Love 2
Maino – The Day After Tomorrow
Planet Asia – Black Belt Theatre
Too $hort – No Trespassing
DJ Premier & Bumpy Knuckles – StOoDiOtYmE EP
DJ Premier & Bumpy Knuckles – The Kolexxxion
Tech N9ne – Klusterfuk
Tech N9ne – E.B.A.H.
Tech N9ne – Boiling Point
OFWGKTA – The Odd Future Tape Vol. 2
E-40 – The Block Brochure (1-3)
Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
Obie Trice – Bottom’s Up
Rass Kass – Spit No Evil
Future – Pluto
Snoop Dogg – Stoner’s EP
Saukrates – Season One
Apollo Brown & OC – Trophies
B.o.B. – Strange Clouds
Big K.R.I.T. – Live From The Underground
Ab Soul – Control System
Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
Devin the Dude – Seriously Trippin
Azealia Banks – 1991
Travis Porter – From Day 1
Kool Keith – Love & Danger
SpaceGhostPurrp – Mysterious Phonk
Wacka Flocka Flame – Triple F Life: Fans, Friends & Family
Wordsworth – The Photo Album
Juvenile – Rejuvenation
Smoke DZA – Rugby Thompson
Lil Scrappy – Tha Gru$tle
Maybach Music Group – Self Made, Vol. 2
Prodigy – H.N.I.C. 3
Prodigy – The Bumpy Johnson Album
Tha Dogg Pound – Doggy Bag
Aesop Rock – Skelethon
Public Enemy – Most of My Heroes Still Don’t Appear on No Stamp
Masta Ace – MA DOOM: Son of Yvonne
Nas – Life Is Good
The Alchemist – Russian Roulette
Rick Ross – God Forgives, I Don’t
2 Chainz – Based on a T.R.U. Story
DJ Khaled – Kiss The Ring
Beanie Sigel – This Time
Slaughterhouse – Welcome to: Our House
DMX – Undisputed
Brother Ali – Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color
G.O.O.D. Music – Cruel Summer
Kreayshawn – Somethin’ ‘Bout Kreay
Bumpy Knuckles & Statik Selektah – Ambition
Freddie Gibbs – Baby Face Killa
Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1
DJ Drama – Quality Street Music
Murs & Fashawn – This Generation
MGK – Half Naked & Famous [EP]
MGK- Lace Up
Xzibit – Napalm
Dead Prez – Information Age
Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
RZA – The Man With The Iron Fists [Soundtrack]
Ca$his – The Art of Dying
Vinnie Paz – God of the Serengeti
Sean Price – Mic Tyson
Meek Mill – Dreams & Nightmares
i need to check out a bunch of those albums but my favorites off the top of my head are
freddie gibbs – baby face killa
schoolboy q – habbits & contradictions
ab soul – control system
kendrick lamar – good kid, maad city
E-Feeeezy Block Brochure 1-3 had everyone from Andre Nickatina, Kendrick Lamar, The Jacka, C-Bo, Celly Cell, 2 Chainz, Juicy J, Spice 1, JT the Bigga Figga, Tech N9ne, Brotha Lynch Hung, B Legit, Snoop, Daz, Kurupt, Too Short and like 20 other rappers. Best “MOB SHIT” album of the year.
You forgot the new Chino XL album. Dont sleep!
Gotta love how everyone gets so insulted and/or excited about sales and shit, but when it comes to debating great underground artists like tech 9, chino xl, rakim, etc blind fans look to their sales and say they suck, and when it comes to huge successful lyricists like Eminem, Jayz , Kayne, Nas, ect they “suck” for being mainstream and that sales dont matter…fuck sales, dont adjust your opinion based off fucking numbers on a chart, and ENJOY THE MUSIC IF IT IS GOOD
Cruel Summer
rick ross gfid
dreams and nightmares
kendrick lamars gkmc
most overated albums out..
imagine if they had no promo
shut up
this is the future of hip hop LMAO http://www.myspace.com/cycochep1
life is good and god forgives i dont are the only good albums ina year or 2. the throne was wak carter lil wayne was wak drake wak evrybody mediocre. nas n ross def held it down this year. well at least for the real hip hop heads
i agree with the first album, not the second. quite a few albums out there better than god forgives.
you a retard, mad dope albums have been put out just by underground cats
Meek mill? what happened to “platinum in a week”? LMAO.
ok my review..GKMC no doubt the best album on the list..From start to finish..Dreams and Nightmares wasnt nothing shy of his mixtapes with the exception of tony story or whatever..i dont consider that an album.just another mixtape..not hating.. cruel sumer was also a great album right after KDOT..idk how 2chaiz reached up there..That was me hating.. Dont care abt the others. When cole n kdot drop there projects next year…haha…hip hop is returning..em fif kdot cole..cant wait .glad this ymcmb and mmg filled year is over ready for some new shit…wasnt a bad year just that the best is yet to come stay tuned guys
no love for sean p? he buries all these bastards
Sean Price got a solid ass album tho. I wish artists like that
could sell more, but I don’t think he gives a fuck one way or the other.
and btw hip hop fans dont support their artistes noone goes platinum that easily now with all the technology allowing us to download the album free online.. Kdot album selling 250k while Taylor swif selling a milli ..where are the hip hop fans man..WHERE THE FUCK ARE THEY..BUY THE ALBUM IF U WANT YOUR ARTISTES TO DO THE NUMBERS!!!
an artist going platinum makes NO difference to anyone other than the artist.
If Kendrick sells a million, i get nothing for that, so please explain why i should give a quarter of a fuck how many units ANY of them move???????
My theory is if you don’t support good music they will stop making it. Unfortunately that means only 2 or 3 purchases a year.
co-sign there is 5 oe less albums a year that are even worth 45-60 mins of my time now
There is NO Way in hell Kendrick is movin these type of numbers, Aftermath buying 75% of those records and u dudes know this!!
Make up all of the excuses that you want. Go right ahead.
people are willing to pay for good music man is that so hard to believe?
I co sign aint no way look at the sales drop off
Kendrick LaGarbage album isnt all that
@escoveli
lol you sound so pathetic, how long did it take for yout o think of “LaGarbage” rofl, fucking loser
everyone has big drop offs in sales
look at taylor swift, she sold 1.2 million then dropped to like 300k
damm now a struggle to go gold
Damn, Sean P at #58? Great job for him. Wasn’t expecting Mic Tyson to chart so high.
Good to see The Coup floppin hard – fuck off with your communist bull shit.
Worse first week numbers than Kreayshawn – congratulations guys, LOOOOOOL!!!!!
i run rap
ross didnt get that chain back so now everybody think he pussy
2 mil on that tape i thought that was cold but when the album dropped i didn ship gold rick ross gonna hold me back rick ross gonna hold me back
hey can anybody tell me what the numbers to the left means?
the total amount of cds sold altogether after adding this week’s
the numbers on the left are their position on the billboard charts for albums sold, the missing numbers are from non hip-hop artists
position an billboard charts
these numbers are trash!!!
good kid maad city, life is good ,food and liquor2, welcome to our house, the greatest story never told pt2, live from the underground, control system, r.a.p. music, habits and contradictions, strange clouds, top 10 albums of the year imo, NO ORDER just the 10 best ones imo, been a good year
Agreed!!!
2 Chainz still moving mad units…Fuck you haters!!!
2Chainz suck.
Those numbers prove Meek is all hype. Give him one more album and he’s finished.
and game think he a hot artist hahah
Just shows you what a little marketing can do for your first week numbers, the BPR’s have spoken with his Mic Tyson debut, good work for an emcee on a independant label without the budget of a commercial rapper like Meek or any YMCB/MMG corporate slaves.
P!
just goes to show dat piff numbers are completely bogus
HOW DA FUK DID MEEK GET 3.5 MIL D/L’S ON DATPIFF BUT SOLD ONLY 160K WIT DA ALBUM?????????
because people arent going to buy your music if you constantly give it away for free. that and the fact that no one wants to hear 60mins of music from him. its only so many bottles you can pop…heauxs you can smash, and niggas you can shoot.
no it’s because MMG pays sites like datpiff and worldstar to bump up their views and downloads so their artists seem bigger than they really are
lol nigga it was free
you seriously expect datpiff numbers to reflect album numbers? you can have the hottest mixtape on the circuit, won’t reflect shit bout your album. and btw, 160k is a lot today. these hood rappers aren’t touching them Taylor Swift Rihanna sales
hiphop is dead
who da fuck keeps buying 2 chains album???
Me. Got a problem nigga? Huh?? Huh nigga?!?! Answer me!!!
I’m different, yeah I’m different!!! #TRU
niggas must still think we’re in 2004 or somethin’… believe me… 160k is GOOD for this day and age
Cosign RIAA should change their standards nowadays 500.000 should be platinum and 250.000 gold
“kendrick lagarbage”
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
man these rap sales are going to be so bad in the next few years.
PPP!!!!!! That’s what the fuck im talkin about Sean PP!!!!! 7,000? Hell fuckin yea baby, Duck Down in the building!
MEEK MILL DID A GREAT JOB IN SALES, HE’S NOT TAYLOR SWIFT OR DRAKE HE CATERS TO THE HOOD!! ALSO REMEMBER THERE WAS HURRICANE SANDY IN THE NORTHEAST NEWYORK AND THE TRISTATE WAS UNDER WATER HE COULD EASILY SOLD 225,000 IF THE THERE WAS NO SANDY!!!!
Excuses, excuses. Make em all you want, but it won’t boost his sales.
Slaughterhouse sent Meek Mill a text after the first week numbers were revealed. It said, “We know how you feel dogg… We flopped too.”
look at kdot sales now