With the holiday season underway, a handful of albums were knocked out of their previous positioning on Billboard’s Top 200 chart. The only Hip Hop and/or R&B album to break into the Top 20 this week was Mary J. Blige’s The London Sessions, which was released last week. Despite breaking into the Top 10 last week, Eminem’s ShadyXV, Rick Ross’ Hood Billionaire, and Beyonce’s Beyonce [Platinum Edition] have all fallen out of the Top 20.
Other Hip Hop and R&B artists to break into the Billboard Top 200 chart include Mariah Carey, Chris Brown, T.I. and Iggy Azalea.
Mary J. Blige’s “The London Sessions” Debuts At #9
With close to 57,000 albums sold this week, Mary J. Blige’s The London Sessions has debuted at the #9 spot on the Billboard 200 chart. Recorded primarily in London, England, Blige recruited the assistance of Sam Smith (his In The Lonely Hour album reached the #4 spot on this week’s Billboard Top 200 chart), Emeli Sande and other artists for The London Sessions. The album serves as the Yonkers, New York songstress’ first studio release since 2013’s A Mary Christmas.
Wu-Tang Clan’s “A Better Tomorrow” Unable To Break Into Top 25
Despite serving as the Wu-Tang Clan’s first joint album since 2007’s 8 Diagrams, A Better Tomorrow was unable to break into the Top 25. With approximately 25,000 units sold, A Better Tomorrow debuted at #29 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. Making it a slightly lower debut than 8 Diagrams, which debuted at #25. The release of A Better Tomorrow has faced numerous challenges since it was announced in early 2013. Raekwon spoke on those challenges during an appearance on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” in August.
“I would say it’s all of these things,” Raekwon said. “We’re trailblazers in the music business. We’re doing our job. I consider this a sport. So, I think it’s an important, as an athlete of music, to make sure you have your business together and make sure that you feel happy at whatever you want to do. You just gotta feel good about it and know that, at the end of the day, you got your i’s dotted and your t’s crossed in business because we have families.”
Eminem’s “ShadyXV” Slides To #21
After debuting at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 chart last week, Eminem’s ShadyXV compilation album had dropped down to #21 with 28,000 units sold this week and a stream activity count of 2.3 million.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 12/07/2014
Note: The figures below represent this week’s “total activity,” an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams. A pure album sales figure is available in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.
#9. Mary J. Blige – The London Sessions – 56,670 (54,638) [729,080]
#21. Eminem – ShadyXV – 33,212 (28,474) [2,360,716]
#29. Wu-Tang Clan – A Better Tomorrow – 25,032 (24,386) [45,801]
#39. Beyonce – Beyonce – 19,906 (10,778) [5,476,232]
#40. Pitbull – Globalization – 19,889 (13,900) [2,101,307]
#42. Rick Ross – Hood Billionaire – 18,757 (15,513) [1,903,450]
#43. Mariah Carey – Merry Christmas – 18,451 (11,427) [2,695,511]
#49. Omarion – Sex Playlist – 16,191 (12,644) [817,527]
#54. Chris Brown – X – 13,983 (7,049) [4,741,618]
#64. T.I. – Paperwork – 12,130 (8,007) [2,724,862]
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why they dont show the total album sales no more
Because HipHop Dx is run by idiots
hahaha. wu flop moved 25000 copies on a major label with 9 member. Every body in the group made $5. hahahaha
Those are only US sales….What about worldwide?
Dude, stop. They aren’t big international stars.
Actually their bigger outside the US
Wu Tang is for the baggy leg jean washed up niggaz..
That’s right skinny jean faggot.
hehehe…this nigga actually think US sales count..why u think mary j is up…Wu world order nigga go bump iggy or somn!!
Dear DX, stop that streaming shit. You confusing the hell out of people. What ever happened to what they sold this week and then the overall total. That other crap must be artist telling you to do that to make it look more poppin. One of those artist see this list and think they sold a gang of units and then they see only 12,000. For real take that streaming and put it in a stream and send it away. “You ain’t got to lie Craig”. (Friday)
HAHA! That shit is so annoying.
real shit. they aint foolin nobody with this.
This is what Billboard does now. It’s lame, but it’s how they do it. DX has always just copied the Billboard positions and included Soundscan data. They are just sharing the information.
Wu Tang bombed big. Rozay shits on them despite the group getting major promo.
Ross is the one who bombed and he was the one with major promo, not the Wu,
rozay bombed you idiot
Dont disrespect the WU ! The album wasnt great but they still have a better catalogue than Ross. Plus Raekwon got an upcoming album that I hear is Fire. WU TANG FOREVER
Surprised the Wu chartered that high. Even half the core fan base turned on them for this album. I guess Sports center playing their track helped cuz none of their new stuff is in the NY area radio rotation I
I know you didn’t expect their core fans to line up in stores like a bunch of Taylor Swift groupies because that’s a foolish thought. Just be realistic, look at the numbers even reported, see what they got and stop acting like a crab.
why is everything on this POS website centered on the screen WTF
where are Rick Ross real numbers at, that 1.9 mill dont mean a think when the nigga aint sold 100k yet
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can’t believe em’s already sold over 2 mil of that booty ass compilation. good for him i guess
nevermind. guess i shoulda read the article. still can’t believe 2.5 million retards took the time out of their day to listen to it. If you only stream 13 seconds of it before you realize it’s trash and turn it off does it still count?
Y’all reading it wrong. Eminem – ShadyXV – 33,212 (28,474) [2,360,716]
“A pure album sales figure is available in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.”
Em sold 28K not 2 mil. 2 mil is how many times it was streamed.
wtf this new shit is terrible
Why did they change the way they show album sales this shit looks horrible
So you aint gonna put the total up?
#9 Maryj Blige The London Sessions 55,000 in sales
#21 ShadyXV 28,474 in sales (170,772 total).
#29 WuTangClan A Better Tomorrow 24,386 in sales
#42 Hood Billionaire 15,513 in sales (90,056 total).
#49 Omarion Sex Playlist 12,644 in sales
#54 Chris Brown X 7,049 in sales (294,343 total)
#64 Tip Paperwork 8,007 in sales (166,418 total).
This shows who’s fans are the most loyal. Wu Tang has about 45,000 streams and 25,000 sales (55% ratio) which means people who listen to it buy it. The rest of the albums are all streamed and not bought it for instance Beyonce 5.5 million streams to 19,000 buys (0.38% ratio) and Shady 2.3 million to 28,000 buys (1.2% ratio). 20 years later and Wu is still relevant.
is that what you got from those numbers…cuz it looks like 25,000 die hard wu fans bought it while 45,000 fans listened to it n didn’t feel like supporting it cuz its another disappointing wu album…
^ Or maybe out of the 45,000 people that listened to it, 25,000 of them went out and bought it
Yes assumptions that is what I got from it which is way better than the rest. For instance 33,000 bought the new Shady album but 2.3 million streamed it and didn’t feel like supporting it, Beyonce had 19,000 buy and 5 million didn’t feel like supporting it. My point was that the Wu has a much higher percentage of people supporting their shit than anyone else. Basic math brah
fake sales!!!!!!! NO FUCKING WAY will rick ross sell over a mill
this new billboard shit just fucked up everything… i dont even care bout these billboard sales no more
this new format is wack, where is the total physical sales
wheres total sales?
how desperate to make the putang clan look relevent in some sort of pathetic list ahahahaha. Just remember drakes personal shoe shine boy makes more than these wutang hasbins