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.
AD LOADING...
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.
AD LOADING...
#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]
AD LOADING...
#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]
AD LOADING...
#41 Rae Sremmurd – SremmLife – 10,312 (1,668) [8,100,568]
#45 Nicki Minaj – Pinkprint– 9,967 (1,800) [7,931,315]
