Migos appears on the Billboard Top 200 chart with its debut album YRN: Yung Rich Nation. Future’s Dirty Sprite 2 is the highest-selling Rap album for the third week in a row. Comedian and rapper Lil Dicky debuts in the top 10. Drake surpassed Meek Mill for the first time since the Philadelphia rapper’s Dreams Worth More Than Money was released. Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly and A$AP Rocky’s At.Long.Last.A$AP fell out of this week’s top 10 Rap and R&B albums.
Migos Debuts in the Top 20
Migos’ debut album, YRN: Yung Rich Nation, lands at the # 17 spot on the chart. The project saw 18,082 units of total activity and sold 14,596 albums. The group’s mixtapes have more than one million downloads between the projects.
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Future’s Dirty Sprite 2 Still Tops the Charts
Dirty Sprite 2 remains at the #2 spot for the second week in a row. Future was dethroned by Jill Scott in last week’s album sales, but now sits behind the Descendants soundtrack. Dirty Sprite 2 moved 37,013 total units this week.
Drake Passes Meek Mill
Drake’s If Youre Reading This Its Too Late passes Meek Mill’s Dreams Worth More Than Money for the #10 spot on the chart. The Philadelphia rapper’s project debuted at #1 five weeks ago and this is the first week it fell out of the top 10. The two rappers have been feuding after Meek Mill accused Drake of using a ghostwriter. None of the diss tracks released are included in the album sales numbers.
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Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 08/6/2015
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 Future – Dirty Sprite 2 – 37,013 (19,868) [18,375,617]
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#7 Lil Dicky – Professional Rapper – 25,935 (21,799) [3,454,831]
#10 Drake – If Youre Reading This Its Too Late– 22,668 (7,985) [15,652,642]
#11 Meek Mill – Dreams Worth More Than Money– 21,960 (7,078) [13,505,819]
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#17 Migos – YRN: Yung Rich Nation – 18,082 (14,596) [2,580,693]
#21 Eminem and Others – Southpaw: Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture– 14,742 (10,100) [1,874,302]
#25 J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive – 14,432 (6,439) [8,188,753]
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#30 Nicki Minaj – Pinkprint– 13,246 (3,017) [9,112,368]
#33 Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise– 12,354 (2,864) [7,973,033]
#43 Rae Sremmurd – SremmLife – 10,626 (1,689) [7,477,173]
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