The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness takes the top spot in this week’s Billboard Top 200 album sales. The album saw 411,467 total activity in its first week on the chart. Dr. Dre’s Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre is the only Rap album in the top 10 sales this week. Nicki Minaj saw a significant climb from last week’s numbers.
The Weeknd Debuts at #1
The Weeknd’s sophomore album, Beauty Behind the Madness, is the singer’s first album to reach the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart. 2012’s Trilogy peaked at the #4 spot when it was released. The album sees a 34 percent surge in its sales, landing at the #37 spot. Beauty Behind the Madness saw 411,467 units of total activity, selling 325,518 albums and receiving 57,417,799 streams. Other Rap and R&B albums to debut at #1 recently include Future’s Dirty Sprite 2 with 146,960 total units and Meek Mill’s Dreams Worth More Than Money with 246,288 total units.
Dr. Dre Remains in Top 5
Dr. Dre’s album sales remain strong for Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre. The album is in its fourth week on the charts and stands at the #5 spot with 32,036 total units of activity. Dr. Dre also appears at the #16 spot with N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton.
Nicki Minaj Climbs the Charts
Nicki Minaj surges up the chart with Pinkprint seeing 13,483 total units of activity. This is a 35 percent increase over last week’s sales. The album lands at the #24 spot on the chart, right behind J. Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 9/3/2015
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.
#1 The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness – 411,467 (325,518) [57,417,799]
#5 Dr. Dre – Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre – 32,036 (27,530) [4,252,671]
#11 Future – Dirty Sprite 2 – 25,812 (10,444) [16,466,636]
#14 Drake – If Youre Reading This Its Too Late – 22,632 (10,027) [14,227,780]
#16 N.W.A – Straight Outta Compton – 19,736 (13,150) [4,067,287]
#23 J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive – 14,126 (6,076) [9,075,771]
#24 Nicki Minaj – Pinkprint – 13,483 (9,967) [8,287,129]
#26 Meek Mill – Dreams Worth More Than Money – 13,062 (2,633) [9,926,667]
#29 Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise – 12,137 (2,930) [8,060,960]
#34 Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly – 10,685 (5,656) [5,272,464]
Same comment every week, listen to your readers and display the cumulative total.
still no totals… one day u guys will get it. i have faith
TOTALS PLEASSSEEEE!!!
Why you counting another man’s money? You on the records?
R&B runnin this rap shit
TORONTO STAND UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OVOXO BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
S/o dx;keep it gansta
Just like drake can lift even a wack person like kendrick to success, he can also torpedo even a dope artist like meek if they ever cross him. Drake once offered to sign weeknd and his label to OVO (where weeknd would be allowed to keep making R&B music). Once weeknd declined, he turned to pop crap like can’t feel my face and drake made sure he wouldn’t be taken seriously on R&B stations again
So many things wrong with your comment. 1. Drake didn’t lift Kendrick to success, he was already successful on his own (and he’s not wack, too). 2. Drake didn’t torpedo Meek Mill at all (who is wack). 3. Drake didn’t offer to sign The Weeknd at all. 4. The Weeknd is still making R&B music, no pop music (Can’t Feel My Face isn’t pop crap). 5. Drake didn’t do shit at all. R&B stations still play the Weeknd’s music.
1. Kendrick wouldn’t be big without drake. Through him is how I first knew of dumbo. 2. Drake is a huge friend to anyone but can also end your career in many ways. Weeknd apparently got tired of R&B so much he turned down drake’s offer and sells out to white teens everywhere (including you) Can’t feel my face is as pop as you can get if you mimic Michael Pedo Jackson (at least latoya initally told the truth).
1. Kendrick’s already big without Drake. That last thing you said is a lie. 2. That’s also a lie. Drake can’t end anyone’s career. How can The Weeknd be tired of R&B when he’s still making R&B music? That makes no sense. Drake didn’t give him any offer and he did not sell out at all to white kids (I’m not white and I’m 21, BTW). Can’t Feel My Face is not pop and Michael Jackson is not a pedophile since there’s no evidence of that (Latoya lied about that).
Also from OVO, Roy Woods had a huge debut with his ep alongside the smash artist, ilovemakkoen. There are even rumors that for the next james bond movie after spectre, drake will rap/sing the theme song.
Nobody even knows who Roy Woods is, he won’t have a huge debut at all and no one’s checking out ilovemakkonen’s weak flash-in-the-pan ass. Those “rumors” are shit you made up since it’ll never be true.
Hip Hop dx Can you just put up total albums sales again this new way is confusing and sucks ass you see us asking and since us coming and viewing your site pays the bills then for once listen to your people. It shows more respect for us when you atleast comment or address the issue and not ignore it.
So where is Method Man’s sales at? I just saw on Billboard that he had a Top 10 Hip Hop R&B album but no mention of it here? WTF
DX stop being stupid every week. .either put up the total album sales or stop reporting album sales bcos this is not entertaining at all !
Who did you sell them to?
Like everyone else says, can you just Represent album streams in K(thousands) so there would be enough room to put total album sales again, because that is what most of us are interested in.
meek meek 2600, lol never goin gold, wont even sniff 400
man stop with this stupid shit nd post the album sales… we dnt give a fuck bout no streams nd that other shit.
toronto runs that hiphop shit. Fuck all you bum ass americans all your bum ass irrelevant hiphop artists. How does it feel in 2015 the biggest selling albums came from Canada?
J Cole and Kendrick are from Canada as well?
fuck are the totals dx????