With Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s Furious 7 hit “See You Again” still at the top of the Hip Hop and R&B singles chart, the soundtrack itself is at #2 on the Billboard 200 for a second week in a row. Just below, Yelawolf’s second Shady Records release marks his first Top 10 ever after debuting at #27 in 2011 with Radioactive.
Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late got a boost in sales in the first week of the album being available physically. The next Hip Hop album on the chart is Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly which is again at #14. More than dozen spots lower and after debuting at #4 last week, Tyler The Creator’s Cherry Bomb fell all the way to #38 this past week.
Yelawolf Debuts At #3
Despite putting up the second most album sales of the week, Yelawolf’s Love Story clocks in at #3 this week due to relatively lower streaming activity than the Furious 7 soundtrack at #2. Yelawolf’s first album since Radioactive sold 51,472 first-week units and was streamed just over 2.75 million times. By contrast, that last album sold just over 40,000 albums upon release in late 2011.
Collector Edition Gives Drake A Boost
The collector’s edition of Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late seems to have given the album a surge in sales more than two months after the initial digital-only release. With a 35% increase in total activity largely attributable to an increased sales number of 27,806 units, the album jumped from #10 to #4 over the last week. The album remains the most streamed on the chart for another week in a row, most recently with more than 18.5 million single week streams.
Kendrick Lamar Still At #14
Despite a 21% drop in total activity, Kendrick Lamar hasn’t budged from #14. Lamar pushed another 14,374 units of To Pimp A Butterfly bringing his total count to 546,653.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 04/26/2015
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.
#2. Various – Furious 7 – 62,445 (18,225) [11,556,164]
#3. Yelawolf – Love Story – 58,241 (51,472) [2,758,595]
#4. Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late – 47,965 (27,806) [18,666,718]
#14. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly – 21,849 (14,374) [7,788,634]
#19. Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise – 18,987 (6,971) [8,581,786]
#20. Nicki Minaj – Pinkprint – 18,965 (4,901) [9,127,853]
#22. Empire Cast – Original Soundtrack From Season 1 – 18,580 (13,872) [2,660,948]
#29. Mark Ronson – Uptown Special – 15,580 (18,935) [4,223,146]
#31. Flo Rida – My House – 14,867 (1,448) [5,038,703]
#32. Wale – The Album About Nothing – 14,620 (9,855) [3,402,412]
Yelawolfs love story is so good. Damn
Co-Sign
white boy flopped
50,000 1st week records isn’t great but now a days it’s at least a good starting point to build on
Good to see yelawolf put up good numbers Love Story is the album of the year by far if you don’t have it go pick it up you won’t be disapointed!!!
@Bleed blue*must be out cha skull*love story is a dope album*but it’s nowhere near kdots*come on mayne*
Damn, all that added exposure since radioactive and he saw only a small bump? Damn thats flopping.
What added exposure? There was none. And Yelawolf ain’t flopping since Love Story is doing better than Radioactive.
Shady XV gave him a boost and there was more marketing for this. Love story (gay ass name for a wannabe thug rapper) still flopped at the end.
Shady XV didn’t give Yelawolf a boost and Love Story (which isn’t gay and Yelawolf isn’t a wannabe thug since he never claimed that lifestyle) didn’t get a more marketing, therefore, it didn’t flop.
u sure mane? remembered yellllla’s name being jerkd around. sounds like promotion to me.
And when does YOUR album come out Dan? Or is this just what you do all day?
I’m not an artist so that question is pointless.
This coming from someone who questions other people about their albums when they criticize someone.
I’m not the one asking where their albums at. Proof on this?
Look back at your old comments from older articles.
im surprised yela did better numbers than his first album didn’t seem to be much promotion for it. I actually copped this one cause for the most shady seems to have let him do his own thing and he made a far better far different sounding album Eminem need to stop trying to force them horrible pop ‘anthems’ on ppl
@dan u are my friend a herb*to pimp is a masterpiece*go to ur corner now!!!
Tetsuo & Youth, B4.DA.$$, To Pimp A Butterfly, Ludaversal, Love Story. 2015 has given us some dope hip-hop albums.
To Pimp A Bitch was so bad XXL magazine didn’t even bother reviewing dumbo’s crap.
Wrong. To Pimp A Butterfly isn’t bad, it’s good. It has a 97 on Metacritic, meaning everyone who reviewed it gave it praise. If XXL reviewed it, they would give it either an XL or XXL.
You know that high metacritic score isn’t gonna change my mind about this album right? Why would XXL choose not to review it then?
You’re really gonna attack this album because ONE publication hasn’t published a review yet? LOL you’re reaching big time.
Using the word yet would be to imply they are reviewing it in the future which isn’t the case. Anyway, I don’t need to go off by any review. Just my own views and I say its sucks.
They probably do. To Pimp A Butterfly doesn’t suck. Sremmlife sucks and so does Barter 6.
Why would you even bring up barter 6 and stremlife? They have nothing to do with the topic. Again, I say that butterfly sucks and there’s nothing you can do to change my view.
Your opinion is shit as TPAB doesn’t suck. It’s one of the best albums of the year.
Opinions are opinions. They can’t be good or wrong and that’s a fact.
And your opinion is the wrong one.
There’s no such thing as a wrong opinion.
Yours is the wrong opinion.
And what would you consider good albums this year, Danny boy?
“You know that high metacritic score isn’t gonna change my mind about this album right?” Funny, you tried doing that with Sremmlife, bragging about how it got an 80.
When did i ever talk about stremmlife? It’s dope but I don’t remember bringing the score up.
You talked about Sremmlife in older articles. Also, there is nothing dope about Sremmlife. That shit is garbage all the way. You can’t praise that album while talking shit about TPAB.
Love Story is the best and most original musicality I’ve heard from Yela. Top 3, baby.
Four Classics this year and it’s not even May. 2015 is a good year for hip-hop.
1. Tetsuo and Youth
2. To Pimp a Butterfly
3. B4.DA.$$
4. Love Story
nah,these are mad wack.
Damn HipHopDX, you done fell off now. THIS is your most discussed story? LOL. Here, hold this L. You decided to crack down on the trolls who made this site better, now youre paying the price. RIP HipHopDX. LongLiveHipHopDXTrolls!
#Trollin
DRAKE ❤❤
love story was rly good
“When did i ever talk about stremmlife? It’s dope but I don’t remember bringing the score up.”
Look up the comments in “Hip Hop Album Sales: Nicki Minaj, Kid Ink, Ne-Yo” from February. That should refresh your memory.
Good job yela
Ggagah
‘Love Story’ will be one of the best albums out this and next year.
Yelawolfs album is fuccin garbage
You could not be more wrong. This is one the best albums that I’ve ever heard.
Same here, this the best album in so many years in all kinds
2015 been great musically so far we had J-Cole, Wale, Kendrick, Big Sean, etc not to mention Kanye dropping at some point this yr