Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 1/20/2014

    This week, Beyonce falls to the #4 spot on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart. The singer’s self-titled release falls behind Bruce Springsteen’s High Hopes, Frozen’s original soundtrack and Kidz Pop 25. Meanwhile, Eminem remains in the Top 10, Drake remains in the Top 20, Kid Ink’s My Own Lane drops to #21 and Aloe Blacc’s Wake Me Up EP falls to #60. 

    Beyonce’s Self-Titled Album Falls To #4

    Beyonce’s self-titled album had its lowest placing on the chart this week. In its sixth week of availability, Beyonce came in at #4, with a sales total of 61,399 for the week. This shows a 22 percent decrease in sales for the singer from last week when she came in at #2 with 78,881 units sold. In total, Beyonce’s self-titled release has sold 1,572,162 units. Fans may get a chance to see more of Beyonce as the singer is reportedly set to perform at this year’s Grammy Awards, which are scheduled to take place Sunday (December 26) in Los Angeles, California. The singer’s reportedly slated to perform with her husband, Jay Z, according to Billboard, though the couple does not appear as confirmed on the Grammy website. 

    Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP 2 Falls To #8

    Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP 2 has fallen to #8. The album, which has been available for 11 weeks now, sold close to 28,751 units this week, experiencing a 19 percent decrease from the previous week’s sales figures of 35,658 units moved. Overall, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 has sold 1,845,894 units. The album is his latest, but he may be back in the lab on another project already. Today (June 22), it was reported that Eminem may have new music being mixed as a member of D12

    Drake’s Nothing Was The Same Remains In Top 20

    Drake’s Nothing Was The Same sold 15,059 units this week, an 11 percent drop from the previous week where the Toronto-based emcee sold 16,996 units. Overall, Drake has sold 1,400,251 in 17 weeks of availability. Drake made headlines this week as the host and musical guest of Saturday Night Live. The rapper incorporated Hip Hop into his skits by impersonating Lil Wayne and Jay Z. He also performed twice on the program, once as a solo act and once with Jhene Aiko. Drake is up for a few Grammy Awards this year, including Best Rap Performance for “Started From The Bottom” off Nothing Was The Same

    Kid Ink’s My Own Lane & Aloe Blacc’s Wake Me Up EP Drop On Chart

    Kid Ink’s My Own Lane made this report last week when it came in at #3, but this week the project fell to #21. His My Own Lane release had a 71 percent decrease in sales from 50,379 to 14,458. Overall, My Own Lane has sold 64,903 units with two weeks of availability. Aloe Blacc’s Wake Me Up EP also fell a few slots from #32 to #60 with a 24 percent change. Last week, the project sold 6,269 units and this week the release sold 4,790 copies. Overall, the EP has moved 31,894 units. 

    Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 1/20/2013  

    #4. Beyonce – Beyonce –  61,000 (1,572,000) 

    #8. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2 – 29,000 (1,846,000) 

    #17. R. Kelly – Black Panties – 16,000 (302,000) 

    #18. Drake – Nothing Was The Same – 15,000 (1,400,000)

    #21. Kid Ink – My Own Lane – 14,000 (65,000) 

    #24. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 13,000 (1,269,000) 

    #30. Childish Gambino – because the internet – 9,500 (194,000) 

    #50.  Yo Gotti – I Am – 5,300 (131,000) 

    #53. B.o.B – Underground Luxury – 5,100 (75,000) 

    #55. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city – 5,000 (1,143,000) 

    #60. Aloe Blacc – Wake Me Up EP – 4,800 (32,000) 

    #82. Jay Z – Magna Carta…Holy Grail – 4,000 (1,113,000) 

    #183. Kanye West – Yeezus – 2,000 (636,000) 

    * data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousand for units above 10,000, nearest hundred for units below 10,000. Each week, HipHopDX presents top albums in Hip Hop/related, and five notables.

    Will Beyonce regain the top spot of the charts next week? Stay tuned to HipHopDX.

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    149 thoughts on “Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 1/20/2014

      1. oh like honey boo boo mother aahah you crazy its plenty of fat sloppy white baby machines and most are on tv hahaha

      1. Hey fag guy, French sold over 100K and he cant even rap, his album sold in the Top 20 fag guy go do the research, rappers dont make money of their albums they make money doing shows.

      2. “his album sold in the Top 20 fag guy go do the research,”

        only because of Drake, Wayne, Ross etc… the We are the world of rap

      1. sure its called units shipped not sold take for instance rick ross last album it was certified gold but only because of units shipped it didnt actually move 500k.The reason that ross keeps pushing his albums back is because this is his last chance he lost a lot of fans as far as moving units.

      2. I understand the whole shipped vs sold thing but its not right to certify kanye plat when theres 365 000 copies of Yeezus collecting dust on the shelves moving 2k a week its gonna take 3.5 years for him to actually sell a milli.

        Cole’s album sold like 30k more but will probably never be platinum.

      3. yeah your correct but what people dont understand they get these numbers from albums ORDERED by retail not by people actually buying the album.

      4. not always. sometimes artists have been known to actually sell over a million first week but not too many these days.

      5. Thats fucking crazy though that Kanye is like 3-4 years away from actually selling a million copies if it even happens at all

    1. Eminiem gonna be 6@ years old and still going double Platinum. Go checkout thegrandreport, they have some good hip hop and viral videos on there too

    2. Probably Kanye lowest selling album, hope he learned quality is what matters, Late Reg, College Drop, MBDTF, Graduation are quality, Yeezus is weak

    3. This nicca Kendrick don’t leave the charts lol I’m tired of seeing his wack ass name on this list every week

    4. seen lil girl walking her dog few days ago, last nite seen her peeking around with the dogs head on out the mother last nite.doing the sicker yea im crazy at em 666 devil nites at em.

    5. Top 20 Selling Hip-Hop Albums from 2013

      EMINEM – The Marshall Mathers LP 2 : 1,846,000
      DRAKE – Nothing Was The Same : 1,400,000
      JAY-Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail : 1,113,000
      J. COLE – Born Sinner : 661,200
      KANYE WEST – Yeezus : 636,000
      LIL’ WAYNE – I Am Not A Human Being II : 588,500
      A$AP ROCKY – Long. Live. A$AP : 446,500
      WALE – The Gifted : 344,500
      KID CUDI – Indicud : 266,300
      2 CHAINZ – B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time : 223,000
      MAC MILLER – Watching Movies With The Sound Off : 206,400
      CHILDISH GAMBINO – because the internet : 194,000
      JUICY J – Stay Trippy : 181,600
      TYLER, THE CREATOR – Wolf : 170,000
      TYGA – Hotel California : 168,000
      PUSHA T – My Name Is My Name : 154,200
      FRENCH MONTANA – Excuse My French : 150,000
      BIG SEAN – Hall Of Fame : 137,400
      YO GOTTI – I Am : 131,000
      TECH N9NE – Something Else : 129,000

      1. 150k people take too much xanax and listen to rap…these numbers arent official a bunch of these are the sales when they dropped off the 200 list

    6. HAHAHAHA, ALL YOU HATERZ, DA WHITEBOY STILL RUNNING CIRCLES AROUND THE RAP GAME .. SHADY THE BEST AND THERE IS NOTHING ANY CRITICS CAN SAY, NUMBERS DON’T LIE LET ALONE HIS SKILLS BEHIND THE MIC, SHADY AND KENDRICK RUNNING THE GAME PERIOD, SHADY/AFTERMATH/TDE/INTERSCOPE !

      1. shipped platinum not sold. Theres still 364 000 Yeezus albums in stores that no one has bought so these numbers are correct.

        It will take him over 3.5 years to sell a million if he sells 2k every week like he did last week, which isn’t likely.

      2. 1000000(True Platinum)-6360000(Copies Sold)= 346000

        346000(emaining to have plainum sales)/2000 (assumption of selling this amount of copies per week)=182

        182(# of times 2000 copies of Yeezus will have to be sold)/12(months in a year) = 15.167

        So it would acually take 15+ years at a rate of 2000 a week,

        Who cares? Next week a single could be remixed and blow up and another 100,000 albums might sell. The should base it on sales not shipment.

    7. Doesn’t matter how much eminem sells,he’s still shit and can’t rap. He’s just like vanilla ice.You telling me someone with a brain actually bought an album with a hook that goes, do doing doing doing??? Eminem could make a whole album with him farting on the mic and it will sell platinum. Haha you dumb fucks! This fucker is a straight con artist. my salsa my salsa lmao. He’ll never be drake!!

      1. You’re right Eminem will never be a Canadian mulatto jewish former child actor from the burbs of toronto! LOL

        Kid said Eminem can’t rap LOL. All the greatest MC’s in hip-hop would strongly disagree with that ridiculous statement and tell you Marshall can rap his ass off and is one of the GOATS!

      2. “Most number ones how long did it even take me” Everyone who bought eminems album already threw it in the trash,even eminem said he threw his own album in the trash. Lmao bagpipes from baghdad! Who the fuck listens to that shit? Retarded illiterate white boys! He ain’t never ever gonna be drake.

      3. NWTS metacritic 79
        MMLP2 metacritic 72
        GFID metacritic 70
        Haha,haha the critics believe shady’s work is more closer to rickys standards! Vanilla ice!

    8. 1 really great album (kendricks) 1 really good album (Eminem) the rest are average to shit to not hip hop (beyonce drake)

      1. Quoteman was calling Kendrick a nerd and apparently any praise given to him is the equivalent to “slurping his dick”, which quoteman seems to know all about…. I never heard of slurping dick bruh

    9. yea its the sicker and the sicker, got demon mask on now. about to put 666 around the fucking. yea im crazy at em.start looking around with devil mask

    10. “You’re right Eminem will never be a Canadian mulatto jewish former child actor from the burbs of toronto! LOL”

      He was just poor white trash.

    11. “yeah your correct but what people dont understand they get these numbers from albums ORDERED by retail not by people actually buying the album”

      The very headline says HIP HOP ALBUM SALES. Albums getting certified platinum or gold when their sales don’t match is pretty common, but all that means in the artist still had to sell close enough in the range to justify the bump up. It’s not like most people know or care anyway.

    12. how yu go from new york sound to french montana vol.2?

      u aint da best nigga

      ya bars weak compared to kendricks

      u owe niggaz money from dat girls cry video A BITCH

    13. Eminem you’re a joke! You’ll never be drake,for your own sake stop rapping you vanilla ice wannabe. Your music is rubbbish,your fans are slow and stupid and you are like 20yrs late with that rapping fast bullshit! Lmao,beefing with mariah,cristina aguilera fuck outta here. My salsa makes all the pretty girls dance. Lmao drake would never put out such 3rd grade bullshit. Hahahaha,eminem stans wanna cry! You ain’t never,ever,ever gonna be drake!

      1. “Eminem you’re a joke! You’ll never be drake”

        Thank god for that. Can you imagine Marshall singing bitchmade songs like Marvins Room?

      2. Eminem corny!!! Deal with it! He even acknowledged throwing his own album in the trash! The one that you stans jerk off to!

      3. don is obviously a retarded troll/Drake stan. It’s a well-known fact that Eminem is better than Drake. Many hip-hop artists and legends know that Eminem is one of the best.

      4. “Lmao drake would never put out such 3rd grade bullshit.”

        You’re right. Drake puts out kindergarten bullshit like “Started from the bottom, now we here” and “Muhfuckas never loved us” or “They know, they now, they now.”

    14. “636k is not close to 1 million when selling 2k a week”

      Nobody on this planet thought GFID would sell a million.

    15. One of the most widely known magazine publications called Kendrick a nerd. He’s softer than your grandmother, so just embrace it.

      1. No magazine publication called Kendrick a nerd at all. Unless you got an actual quote where they actually said that, that’s bullshit you made up. And, no. Kendrick’s not softer than someone’s grandmother, your boy Drake is softer than a grandmother.

    16. NWTS metacritic 79
      MMLP2 metacritic 72
      GFID metacritic 70
      Haha,haha the critics believe shady’s work is more closer to rickys standards! Vanilla ice! Drake is a city,eminem is a trailer park! Deal with it stans!

      1. Copying-pasting old bullshit comments, huh? Nobody believes your lies. Drake ain’t shit compared to Eminem. Eminem’s a legend and many hip-hop artists would agree.

        “Drake is a city,eminem is a trailer park!”

        You got that backwards. Eminem sold more records and is worth more money than Drake.

      2. Eminem is shit and even he knows it. Why do you think he tried to commit suicide? cause his music is shit! He said he wanted to go at yeezy and weezy but knew he would have been murdered on wax! These are facts bitch,stuff that this vanilla ice wannabe said himself! He aint never gonna be kanye,wayne or drake! Deal with it! You say he’s better when he clearly states in his horrible,atrocious,pathetic songs that he isn’t!

      3. I’m convinced that don is the same miserable troll behind dentaldamboy, YESSIR, So Icy Boi, youngsta, Champagne Papi, drake runs rap, etc. There’s no other logical explanation.

      4. I’m pretty sure that a guy who has a song called Rap God thinks he’s the best. Hell, many hip-hop artists think the same way.

    17. Hard out here for street artists, salute to Gotti tho.

      Mostly white boys, and hipsters moving units in this phase of the game, the Kendrick nerd is the new hipster darling they jumped ship on Kanye and got em a new nigga.

      Im somewhat proud of 2-Chainz he struck while he was hot, did a quick smash & grab and rode the wave but Its a new day of Gay/Ofay/Hipay

      1. Imagine how bummed BruthaDee is gonna be on life when he finds out Ricky Rozay is fucking with Mac Miller.

        “Mac Miller @MacMiller

        Just got good news from @rickyrozay”

      2. Shut up fiddy groupie. You started the feud because you were mad ross is about to release another album while fiddy can’t get his out.

      3. You brought up bruthadee so you brought up mmg which means you brought up fiddy. Don’t be mad just because 50 can’t get his album out. He’s fallen the fuck off and Ross kills 50.

      4. “You brought up bruthadee so you brought up mmg which means you brought up fiddy. Don’t be mad just because 50 can’t get his album out. He’s fallen the fuck off and Ross kills 50.”

        This comment makes no sense at all. How does bringing up BruthaDee mean bringing up MMG and how does that bring up 50? You idiotic kids makes no sense at all. And your last two sentences are lies.

    18. “No magazine publication called Kendrick a nerd at all. Unless you got an actual quote where they actually said that”

      The albumabout a day in the life of nerdy K.Dot and his homeys as they run around in his mom’s minivan

    19. Are you brain dead? That was GQ’s description of Kenwack’s debut. The album is basically his life, and the writer was so impressed he called him a nerd lol Imagine if that had happened to 50 Cent or Jay Z.

    20. “That same publication called him Man of the Year”

      And this year they’ll call somebody else the same thing.

    21. Once again half a man, you display insecure rage. I bet you have that GQ cover framed above your bed lol Got your Kendrick night light yet?

    22. Ethered by who or what, half a man? lol You can’t ether perfection, plus if I keep coming back, how the fuck does that translate in your little brain as a victory?

      1. you dont respond when someone proves you wrong and makes you look like a tard, its happened a lot, like 3 weeks ago on the hi-hop album sales article about drake being lazy

    23. I have a life. If someone wants to disagree and get emotional about it, that’s their cry fest, but thanks for anticipating my return.

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