After the release of new albums from both Joey Bada$$ and Lupe Fiasco earlier this week, early predictions are in for the first week sales numbers for B4.Da.$$ and Tetsuo & Youth.
Joey Bada$$’s debut is slated to sell between 50,000 and 55,000 units according to Hits Daily Double.
Additional considerations for streaming and single song sales brings the Cinematic Music Group rapper’s total album equivalency projection up to 60,000 units.
Meanwhile, Lupe Fiasco’s fifth album is projected to sell between 30,000 and 35,000 units with a sales plus streaming count of up to 40,000.
Either album holds the possibility of becoming the best first-week Hip Hop seller of 2015.
Earlier this month, Rae Sremmurd debuted at #5 with 34,403 albums sold. Nicki Minaj’s Pinkprint was the best selling Hip Hop album of last week with just over 30,000 albums sold.
J. Cole fell from #7 to #10 in the same time period selling 27,739 units and bringing his total sold count for 2014 Forest Hills Drive up to 685,993.
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Big Props to Bada$$ and the Pro Era… it’s great to see true-school hip-hop making some noise!!!
surprising. Lupe always does over 100k
no big single
badass is selling 50k by himself while these fuckboys cant sell more than 40k on a major…get it together
lol if troy ave dropped tomorrow he wouldnt sell half of what joey is doing. so whos really brining NY back
Lupe doesn’t want to be on a Major label “preach” that’s why he’s going underground now. He doesn’t like how the major labels do things ignorant guy
Good seeing joey do decent numbers considering the type of music he is making
I grew up on this kind of hiphop and I’ve been feeling a void for a long time. I feel connected again. Words can’t even express how proud I am of this kid.
…Joey Bada$$ and Pro Era, that is.
Bobby who? Troy who? French who? Joey is the real future of NY. Big ups.
No he is not. His poor album sales prove he is not.
no mike will made it? no drake hook? no dj mustard? no youn thug? yes its a flop. bye lupe
Obvious troll is trolling. Tetsuo & Youth is one of the best albums of the year so far and it doesn’t need trash beats/features from the people you named.
people like you deserve role models like miley cyrus…brain dead is what y’all is
I GUESS ALL THAT SELF-RIGHTEOUS -ISH DON CAUGHT UP WITH LUPE.
YO LUPE U DONT SPEAK FOR BLACK PEOPLE.YOU SPEAK FOR YOURSELF.
AINT THE ALBUM SALES A B-ITCH?
Cole could very well go platinum at this rate. This is seriously dope, I bet he never expected this ongoing response.
It’s unlikely that he will surpass 1’000’000 sales but he might reveive platinum certification for 1’000’000 shipments… I’d say he’ll reach around 800k-850k in pure album sales.. which is a lot nowadays so big ups
It’s sad to see these numbers for lupe.. considering that his album might already be one of the best hip hop albums this year. It’ll be hard to top that one. Don’t sleep on him! Probably the best and most creative album since GKMC (Cadillactica was really dope too though)
Sad to see these terrible sales for HipHOp.. it goes to show that some of yall who call yah self’s hip hop supporters are really not! You realize these white kids support there pop stars that are easily making over 100k in album sales but our hip hop stars who put in just as much work or more can hardly make 40k in sales? omg something is terrible wrong! stop yah illegal ass downloading and support the artist!