Dr. Dre remains the highest selling Hip Hop album on the Billboard Top 200. N.W.A remains highly ranked at the #9 spot, but Eazy-E and Ice Cube’s solo projects saw significant decrease from last week’s sales. Future drops out of the top 10 for the first time in Dirty Sprite 2‘s sixth week on the chart. Meek Mill’s Dreams Worth More Than Money falls out of the top 20 overall sales for the first time since its debut.
Dr. Dre Still At #3
Dr. Dre’s Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre remains at the #3 spot for the second straight week. The album’s physical copy became available August 21 and this week saw more than 10,000 more albums sold than last week when the project was still only available on Apple Music. The rapper-producers other two solo albums, 2001 and The Chronic charted at #70 and #73 respectively.
Future Has Most Streams At #12 Spot
Future dropped out of the top 10 for the first time, but still has more than 16 million streams of his Dirty Sprite 2 album. The album beat out Drake’s If Youre Reading This Its Too Late at the #14 spot. There is not another Hip Hop album until J. Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive at #27.
Meek Mill Drops Out Of Top 20
“The Pinkprint Tour” is now over and Meek Mill’s Dreams Worth More Than Money slips to the #29 spot on the chart. The Philadelphia rapper has spent eight weeks on the cart and debuted at #1.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 8/27/2015
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.
#3 Dr. Dre – Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre – 61,016 (54,522) [5,683,482]
#9 N.W.A – Straight Outta Compton – 28,851 (20,225) [4,740,857]
#12 Future – Dirty Sprite 2 – 26,103 (10,680) [16,630,942]
#14 Drake – If Youre Reading This Its Too Late – 23,737 (11,092) [14,302,239]
#27 J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive – 14,564 (6,364) [9,298,446]
#29 Meek Mill – Dreams Worth More Than Money – 14,129 (3,046) [10,511,745]
#39 Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise – 10,554 (2,189) [7,882,149]
#40 Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly – 10,346 (5,765) [5,152,167]
#41 Rae Sremmurd – SremmLife – 10,312 (1,668) [8,100,568]
#45 Nicki Minaj – Pinkprint – 9,967 (1,800) [7,931,315]
dre dropped another classic
Dre announced Detox will be released afterall…definitely final album
Where did you hear this?
Where you hear that at brah?
I would really much appreciate if you guys put the total numbers too
I feel Fabrice hip hop dx has lacked badly with informing the media on current weekly album sales but never fear I found a site that makes up for hip hop dx lacking the site is called HOT NEW HIP HOP it has not only the same exact chart positions, and streaming counts that hip hop dx posted last week but it also has the actual album sales u should give it a look u will see a article on that site entitled Charts Don’t Lie with a picture of Dr. Dre, and Eazy E with the date of August 29TH in bold green print they usually post their album sales of the week on Sunday’s so don’t expect to see this week’s current information that Hip Hop Dx posted on the Hot New Hip Hop site until this Sunday but they will have this same exact album sales information above posted on that site as well as the actual total number of sales for the week to but if u were still curious Fabrice as to where everybody is in total sales above well from last week just to name a few Drakes if youre reading this it’s too late was at a total of 1,023,000 sold, Dr. Dres Compton album was at 319,000 COPIES sold, J.Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive was at 991,000 COPIES in total sales as of last week and is on the edge of the platinum mark so this current weeks sales puts j.cole at 997,000 in total sales purchased with another 6K added on from last week, so look forward to seeing 2014 Forest Hills Drive going platinum next week which if I’m right will have Cole at 1,000,300 in total sales with 6K more added on next week so just visit Hot New Hip Hop if u wanna know from now on spread the word to Fabrice many people that visit hip hop dx for hip hop sales wanna know the actual number of total albums brought and sold so let them know once u looked it up that Hot New Hip Hop is the site to go to for exact total of album sales sold look I said this weeks sales infro won’t be submitted until the end of the week on Sunday HOW I GIVE U ENOUGH insight CAUSE take my word it’s a real website for all your hip hop sales information u were searching for I discovered it back in April of this year so u and all the hip hop head need to checkout HOT NEW HIP HOP.COM it’s more reliable now than HIP HOP DX as far as album sales go
I comment all th time on these articles. Fuck the sales!!Why do people care? Okay so you know how much they sold so now what? Sales determine nothing. Just listen to the music and enjoy it. Your not in the business. You don’t even support and buy music. Why you care?
SO why would you have to say PinkPrint tour over and the rapper slips .. That makes no sense to me .. FOOLISH BLOG
These sales so confusing