Snoop Dogg’s thirteenth album, Bush debuted at #14 on the Billboard 200 this week with a little more than 27,000 albums sold in its first week. Continuing to hold strong this week is the soundtrack to Furious 7, the James Wan-directed film which features Atlanta rapper Ludacris, crooner Tyrese and Vin Diesel. Following his debut at #4 last week with his newly-released Special Effects album, Kansas City wordsmith Tech N9ne has dropped to #20.
Snoop Dogg Debuts At #14 With “Bush”
Serving as his first album since 2013’s Reincarnated, Snoop Dogg’sBush was unable to break into the Top 10 on the Billboard 200, but did manage to move over 27,000 units and obtain a streaming count just short of 3 million. In a HipHopDX review published last week, Bush, which was produced by Pharrell Williams, was described as an album that “channels the 70s party sounds of Snoop Dogg and Pharrell’s youth.”
“Furious 7” Remains In The Top 10
With appearances from a who’s who of artists including Wiz Khalifa, T.I., Young Thug, Iggy Azalea, and Future, the soundtrack to Furious 7dropped out of the Top 5 last week, but jumped back into Top 5 positioning with the release of this week’s Billboard 200. With a little less than 10,000 albums sold this week, the album clenched the #5 spot.
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Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 05/17/2015
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.
#5. Various – Furious 7 – 40,525 (9,262) [9,228,197]
#14. Snoop Dogg – Bush -32,085 (27,227) [2,857,959]
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#15. Drake – If You’re Reading This, It’s Too late – 27,974 (11,921) [16,098,586]
#20. Tech N9ne – Special Effects – 18,960 (14,179) [2,807,999]
#23. Nicki Minaj – ThePinkprint – 17,327 (3,697) [8,548,479]
#27. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly – 15,142 (22,049) [6,022,498]
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#29. Rae Sremmurd – Sremmlife – 14,242 (5,787) [5,399,416]
#32. Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise – 13,247 (3,876) [7,404,304]
#33. Empire Cast – Original Soundtrack Season 1– 12,899 (9,263) [2,121,239]
#38. J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive – 11,957 (5,683) [6,263,551]
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