The Game’s The Documentary 2.5 debuts at the #6 spot on the Billboard Top 200 chart. The first installment of The Documentary 2 lands at #11. Machine Gun Kelly’s General Admission reaches the #4 spot on the chart. Joe Budden’s All Love Lost lands at the #29 spot its first week. Drake and Future’s What a Time to be Alive remains in the top 10 overall and each rapper’s solo project remains in the top 25.
The Game Charts Both Discs of The Documentary 2
The Documentary 2.5 lands at #6 in its first week, selling 47,921 units. It was streamed more than five million times. The Documentary 2 sees a 70 percent drop in sales from its debut week, charting at #11 with 28,810 albums sold. This project saw nearly nine million streams. Both projects were released independently. The Game’s debut album, The Documentary, charted at #1 upon its 2005 release and sold 587,000 units with the backing of Interscope/Aftermath/G-Unit.
Machine Gun Kelly’s General Admission Debuts at #4
Machine Gun Kelly sold 56,310 units of General Admission to match the success of his Lace Up LP, which also reached the #4 position on the Top 200 in 2012. General Admission saw more than five million streams.
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Joe Budden Charts Another Project With All Love Lost
Joe Budden’s All Love Lost lands at the #29 spot with 15,254 albums sold. His last project, 2013’s No Love Lost, peaked at the #15 spot upon its release. The New Jersey rapper’s debut self-titled album reached the #8 spot when it was released through Def Jam in 2003.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 10/22/2015
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.
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#3 The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness – 62,087 (23,192) [30,925,645]
#4 Machine Gun Kelly – General Admission – 56,310 (49,351) [5,662,315]
#5 Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap – 47,957 (13,380) [29,046,666]
#6 The Game – The Documentary 2.5 – 47,921 (41,634) [5,788,276]
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#8 Drake and Future – What a Time to Be Alive – 42,968 (11,582) [37,216,386]
#11 The Game – The Documentary 2 – 28,810 (21,433) [8,894,731]
#20 Future – Dirty Sprite 2 – 18,570 (5,091) [15,283,204]
#23 Drake – If Youre Reading This Its Too Late– 17,833 (4,780) [15,467,236]
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#28 Bryson Tiller – Trapsoul– 15,582 (6,494) [11,160,697]
#29 Joe Budden – All Love Lost– 15,254 (14,229) [952,271]
