For the first time in his career Big Sean has the #1 album in the country.
Sean’s Dark Sky Paradise debuted at the top spot less than 3,000 units ahead of Kid Rock’s latest album. Lower down the list, Drake fell from #2 to #4 while Chris Brown and Tyga saw their joint album Fan of a Fan: The Album debut at #7.
Big Sean Takes Over #1
With the album already garnering the best reviews of Sean’s fledgling discography, Dark Sky Paradise also becomes his first #1 album on the Billboard 200. The third album from Big Sean sold a total of 139,427 units in its first week of availability, a figure not far off from Nicki Minaj’s recent Pinkprint rollout. Sean’s latest was also streamed more than 17 million times.
Drake Falls To #4
Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late pushed 58,640 copies last week, a 47% drop in sales from the previous week but enough to keep him within reach of the top spot. The latest numbers bring Drake’s total to 682,504 albums sold.
Meanwhile, streams for If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late are still nearly double the amount of the closest runner-up with more than 34 million clocked over the last sales period.
Chris Brown & Tyga Debut At #7
While it sold more than both the #5 and #6 albums on the chart, Chris Brown and Tyga’s Fan of a Fan debuted at #7 following its release last week. Fan of a Fan: The Album sold 51,345 units but was only streamed a little more than 6 million times, a figure that pales in comparison to most of the records directly ahead of it. Chris Brown and Tyga also also sold more than 111,000 single song downloads from the release, a number that helped their total activity account peak at 66,508.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 03/01/2015
Note: The first number below is this week’s “total album equivalent units” count, an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams implemented by Billboard’s new rating system. A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.
#1. Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise – 172,617 (139,427) [17,043,458]
#4. Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late – 98,690 (58,640) [34,598,690]
#7. Chris Brown & Tyga – Fan of a Fan: The Album – 66,508 (51,345) [6,076,725]
#12. Nicki Minaj – Pinkprint – 38,299 (14,850) [10,908,428]
#16. Mark Ronson – Uptown Special – 32,475 (4,317) [5,672,903]
#22. J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive – 23,851 (16,213) [6,554,959]
#28. Pitbull – Globalization – 15,955 (2,963) [3,807,289]
#30. Ne-Yo – Non-Ficition – 15,134 (8,314) [2,505,388]
#36. Rae Sremmurd – Sremmlife – 12,934 (4,163) [4,770,174]
#49. Beyonce – Beyonce – 9,784 (3,997) [3,862,306]
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I didn’t even know Big Sean had an album out..lol
Looks like G Unot is flopping again. Ross ended 50’s career. Triple C’s shits on them
It had to be ariana grande’s fanbase that bought his album. If he didn’t fuck with her, he would be flopping just like disloyal bitch tyga and chris “wife beater” brown
I was referring to big sean.
You can lie all you want, it won’t change anything.
I’m tired of chris brown populating every fucking rap album. He’s wack at rapping, wack at singing, and treats his fans like shit. So why do rappers still fuck with him?
FOREST HILLS DRIVE IS AT 801,000 COPIES SOLD THIS WEEK STILL DOING NUMBERS 12 WEEKS LATER COLE KNOCKING ON PLATINUMS DOOR GETTING EVER SO CLOSER JUST WAIT UNTIL HE PERFORMS AT MADISON SQUARE AND THE STAPLES CENTER THIS SUMMER ON HIS MASSIVE FOREST HILLS DRIVE TOUR IT’S GOING TO BE EPIC AND HE ALREADY SOLD OUT THOSE ARENAS TO COLE THE GOD BOW DOWN DRIZZY DRAKE MR. 6 GOD COLE IS THE GOD JANUARY 28TH
He aint going platinum and even if he does, it would be very weak platinum at best.
At the rate he’s going, Cole is gonna be platinum. And there’s no weak platinum. You either are or aren’t. Quit trying to make selling a million records a failure.
@ Dan.. stop hating/trolling!
Cole will be platinum in no more than 2-3 months.
And like dude said, there’s no “weak” platinum.. especially in this age where only a handful (last year only ONE) album that went platinum, Cole going platinum is nothing to sneeze at.. especially since there’s been almost NO promotion on his album. Props to Cole, he deserves it.
Cole is going weak platinum though. How does J Cole go to weak platinum though when Ross can only go gold?
Quoteman started that whole “weak platinum” shit and now, Teethboy is running with it. The acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree, I see.
Again. There is no such thing as weak platinum. If J Cole sells a million, he goes platinum, nothing weak about that, especially when it’s more than any Rick Ross record.
J Cole had to buy albums by himself though.
You accuse everybody of buying albums by themselves and it’s not true. J Cole’s fans bought all of his albums.
I wonder how Rick Ross can sell over 10 copies? Who the hell listen to that fat fraud. Props to J. Cole, album of the year 2014!
we want to see j coles total album sales, no one cares about streams
DAN DO YOURSELF A FAVOR JUST STOP POSTING ON HIP HOP DX U ARE MAKING A DAMN FOOL OUT OF YOURSELF YOUR FUNNY AT TIMES AND U CRACK ME UP BUT SERIOUSLY STOP MAN QUIT WHILE YOUR A HEAD HOW U GOING TO SAY J.COLE PURCHASED MOST OF THE COPIES OF HIS FOREST HILLS DRIVE ALBUM TO HELP HIM SALE GOOD DUDE THAT’S STUPID TALK DAN THAT’S WHY NO ONE REALLY LIKES U MAN U SHOULD KNOW BY NOW J.COLE GOT A SOLID LOYAL FAN BASE THAT IS GROWING SO OF COURSE HE WILL SELL AND PUT UP DOPE NUMBERS AS LONG AS THAT IS THE CASE SO GET USES TO IT DAN I COULD SAY THE SAME THING U ARE SAYING ABOUT J.COLE SALES BEING SUSPECT ABOUT DRAKE SALES LOL BIRDMAN AND WAYNE GOING BANKRUPT BUYING DRAKE AND NICKI’S ALBUMS FOR THEM LOL JUST PLAYING DAN I’M NOT GOING TO GO THERE DON’T BE SENSITIVE I’M FUCKING WITH U DRAKE, NICKI MINAJ, J.COLE ETC THEY ALL GOT BIG FAN BASES THAT WILL BUY THEIR SHIT WHETHER IT’S A HORRIBLE YEAR FOR HIP HOP, BIG PROMOTIONS, OR ZERO TO NO PROMOTIONS AT ALL THEY GOT FANS THAT WILL RIDE OR DIE FOR THEM SO GET IT STRAIGHT DAN U TROLL BEFORE I HACK YOUR COMPUTER GIVE U A VIRUS, AND SPREAD THOSE RUMORS ABOUT WHAT U DID LAST SUMMER I KNOW U POSTED ON INSTAGRAM SO START SHOWING J.COLE SOME CREDIT BEFORE I MAKE YOUR LIFE A LIVING HELL TRUST ME DAN U DON’T WANNA BE THE LAUGHING STALK OF THE INTERNET
Where’s that Fashawn album at though? LMAO! Nas stays losing with his artists flopping hard on the charts. J Cole is still in the Top 25 since December and Big Sean comes through with another #1 album for Roc Nation. “I will not lose” -Hov
Irony is that Nas told J Cole to stop chasing commercial success and just be himself. #Madenasproud
Big Sean is not and never has been signed to roc nation he’s signed to Kanye’s GOOD music
The EMO Era
Great week if you’re a teenage girl.
j cole sold more than mark ransom taking into consideration both album sales and streams but he lower than mark on the sales chart am i missing something