Dr. Dre’s Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre, debuts at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. Drake and Future remain in the top 10 album sales. Kendrick Lamar climbs the charts and returns to the top 10 Rap & R&B albums after spending four weeks out of the list. The N.W.A movie Straight Outta Compton was released to theaters Friday (August 14) and created renewed interest in the Rap group, whose album with the same name as the movie appears at the #30 spot on the chart.
Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre, Debuts at #2
Dr. Dre is three-for-three after Compton debuts at #2 on the chart. 1999’s The Chronic 2001 peaked at #2 and 1992’s The Chronic peaked at #3 on the chart. Compton saw 294,600 units of total activity and was streamed 11 million times exclusively on Apple Music.
Kendrick Lamar Makes Jump
The fellow Compton, California rapper saw surges in sales and To Pimp a Butterfly saw 12,528 units of total activity and more than 5 million streams, landing at the #29 spot. Lamar is featured on Dr. Dre’s Compton and was in conversations leading up to the release of the Straight Outta Compton film. The “Alright” emcee interviewed N.W.A for Billboard and DJ Quik called him “N.W.A, Jr.”
N.W.A Appears On Chart 30 Years After Debut
N.W.A’s 1988 debut album, Straight Outta Compton, appears at the #30 spot on the chart. It has been resurrected for the third week after appearing at the #173 spot and the #97 spot the past two weeks. The N.W.A film of the same name reportedly brought in $56 million its opening weekend.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 8/13/2015
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 Dr. Dre – Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre – 294,600 (276,122) [11,407,162]
#7 Future – Dirty Sprite 2 – 31,232 (15,144) [17,813,224]
#10 Drake – If Youre Reading This Its Too Late – 21,108 (7,518) [15,086,900]
#13 Meek Mill – Dreams Worth More Than Money – 18,795 (5,523) [12,415,823]
#20 J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive – 15,417 (7,020) [8,874,372]
#22 Trey Songz – Trigga – 14,936 (9,397) [5,319,031]
#23 Jason Derulo – Everything is 4 – 14,254 (3,884) [4,940,574]
#27 Tyrese – Black Rose – 13,137 (11,706) [1,251,348]
#29 Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly – 12,528 (7,608) [5,383,809]
#30 N.W.A – Straight Outta Compton – 12,459 (8,461) [1,914,787]
Ross has 5 no.1 albums, wale got 2, meek got one and Dr dre STILL doesn’t have any no.1s yet? Been over 20 years old man and still got Nothing?!
Yep, we’re dumb.
Dre has something MMG will never have, platinum albums.
Dre also sold when qlbum sales were better. Plus mmg keeps it real in hiphop. Dre fell off when he went pop during his aftermath years.
Dre’s newest album sold more than any of MMG’s shit. Plus, Dre never fell off and went pop, he’s still hip-hop going on. You can’t name one pop song off of 2001 or Compton.
Still dre is certainly pop. This still doesn’t change the fact that he beats women, doesn’t have a no. 1 album, and that he had an easy life growing up. Probably had wealthy individuals buy out theaters just to show that compton crap in theaters.
How is Still DRE pop? That’s one of the most hip-hop songs ever made. Dre owned up to the whole Dee Barnes beating, which was 20 years ago. Who cares about number one albums when you have platinum albums? Dre never had an easy life growing up, no one from Compton did. Plus, there is no logic in your accusation of Dre having wealthy people buy out theaters since no amount of wealthy people would be able to buy out entire theaters nationwide. The people made the amazing Straight Outta Compton a success. Quit hating.
Once a beater always a woman beater.
Nope. People make mistakes when they’re young, He regretted what he did and moved on. Besides, some of your favorite rappers probably did some horrible things.
Dre is one of the most influential figure in the history of hip hop. He’s had his hand in some of the greatest records of all time (Straight Outta Compton, The Chronic, 2001, Doggystyle, Marshall Mathers LP, Get Rich or Die Trying). He’s spawned the careers of snoop, eminen, 50, the game, and to a certain extent Kendrick Lamar, just to name a few. His venture with Beats headphones proved to be innovative and highly successful. He worked with east coast rappers at a time when the east vs west beef was at its peak. Not to take anything away from Rick Ross, he’s ok I guess, and I’m not sure who had more number one albums I don’t check the numbers, but Dre is a titan my friend and that’s where this conversation ends. Also, I’m sure there won’t be making any movies about Ross 25 years from now, just saying.
Yeah these “rappers” you speak of had the help of social media, fb,twitter, etc.. Dre never had that kinda help in the past..he did those numbers with out the help of social networking! And this new album ain’t a “album” percey ! Its a “soundtrack” how many soundtracks you see do these kind of numbers……y’all keep this in mind! Aftermath is a boutique label and the makings from this label will go on into the future.all this other “gas” will lingure and float away shortly!
you obviously dont know the buisness,anybody can debut at number1 with 80,000 sold then the next week the bawse sells 20,00 and barley goes gold. meanwhule dre albums stay on the charts for months and sell millions chronic 2001 7x platinum chronic 6xplat…new compton record will sell platinum also.one of dre records has outsold rick ross whole catalouge…not to mention all the plaques for em, snoop,game,kendrick,nwa,firm,50cent….lmao!!
No drama poppin on here today? Time for DX to write another editorial about how much they love Drake
Yeah cause all the fake rapper/correctional officers always make the best albums. Especially if your fat with a beard and steal your name from a known drug trafficker lolololol
Ross and them cats can have a num one albulm how many multi platinum plaqs those it come too none you can add up all there sells and dre still out sell em
1988-2015 is thirty years in dx math.
Rozay is developing some nice film projects that are guaranteed to doo over 100 million in a weekend alone. Dre had to hire wealthy individuals to buy out whole theaters to bump the pathetic 10 million it did from real sales to 60 million.
Keep dreaming, kid. Ross would be lucky to make 5 million off of any film. Your accusation of Dre hiring people to buy a whole theater has no logic in it because no one’s rich enough to buy out entire theaters nationwide and there’s not enough wealthy in the world to make that happen. Film audiences went out to see the movie in droves and strong marketing and positive word of mouth made it a blockbuster success.
Are you referring to rozay the ex prison guard! Yur riding the nuts of a studio gangsta! Maback has nothing on aftermath and should never even be sized up to a mogul like dre! You can’t compare that grain of salt to a mountain like aftermath, dre, or the west coast for that matter!
Join the Apple music service so I can listen to that Compton album, it’s good not sure it’s classic just yet. I haven’t seen a video for any single from the album or heard many cars bumping any songs from it either.
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It’s the 2nd half of August and people are STILL streaming Drake’s album more than anybody else’s, including Dre’s brand new release. That’s just sheer dominance. Kendrick can drop all the subliminals he wants, Meek Mill can keep on Twitter thuggin’ , but the fact remains that Drake is the king of hip-hop and he has been for 6 years running. The billboard records, the awards, the accolades, being nominated for world music awards against global heavy hitters like Shakira and Taylor Swift, performing for Arabian princes, it’s crazy! The Weeknd is becoming the global face of R&B music. Toronto niggas run the game now! Views from the 6ix will be a classic.
Good jokes. Nobodycares about your dickriding lies.
OP is mostly correct but weeknd stopped being the face of R&B when he moved into sellout pop with can’t feel my face. Other than that, drake sold more and all 4 studio albums went no.1. Dr Dre’s been in the game longer and STILL doesn’t have a no.1 album LOL!!
Nope. OP is wrong and so are you, Dan. The Weeknd never sold out and never made pop music. While you’re talking about number one albums, both The Chronic and 2001 have sold more than Drake’s best-selling album.
They both sold more because of a different album climate. 2001 also went pop and those sell like hotcakes. It’s hard to sell that many albums today. Drake is still beating dre by over 200k. Nearly 500k to a measly nearly 300k.
Doesn’t change the fact that they sold more. 2001 was not pop, it’s the most anti-pop, hip-hop album ever made. If you look at the big picture, Dre is still beating Drake in total sales.
2001 pop? How? It’s not the same genre of music as Britney Spears. You just call everything you don’t like pop, do you?
With all due respect I just find it peculiar that you equate album sales to greatness and one artist being better than the next. What about body of work, lyrical content, substance in the music? Does this mean that A Tribe Called Quest, the Roots, Gangstarr etc weren’t dominant because their album sales weren’t all that lucrative? Does this mean that Jay Z was a better rapper than Nas because album sales said so? Just curious as to where that notion comes from.
Who ever this is needs to get off the gas! Toronto will never run hip- hop..six years running!?!? What a fuckin joke! This gangsta shit is what’s running shit! Top Dawg is runnin the show now..the new n.w.a!
Every article I’ve ever read and looked at the comments there is a Drake or “Rozay” reference and I think It is either they themselves writing the comments or somebody who works for them cause I can’t imagine a fanboy willing to cum swallow so much b.s. for free.
I am not into gay shit like you but since you bring it up, who do you cum swallow for?
Just a note that Dr Dre did debut at no.1 in various countries like uk and australia. He was no.1 globally.
This is to “Dan” you sound like a female..I bet you would of been one of the first people on the ground in the death row office for actin like a hoe! You keep riding that temporary waive of here today gone tomorrow music! Dre and this west coast shit is hear to stay! Black Hippy’s got it now..the new N.W.A ! Betta ass somebody!