The tragic death of Nipsey Hussle has resulted in a significant spike in his music sales. The slain rapper’s projects, songs and videos have skyrocketed up the charts on iTunes and Amazon since he was shot and killed on Sunday (March 31).
Here’s how much Nipsey’s music sales have ascended as of Monday afternoon (April 1).
Nipsey on iTunes
- 2018’s Victory Lap is No. 1 on the Top Albums. 2013’s Crenshaw mixtape sits at No. 7 and 2010’s The Marathon tape has reached No. 20.
- Nipsey has seven of the Top 10 best-sellers in the Hip Hop/Rap category of Top Albums. The entries include projects such as 2014’s Mailbox Money and the clean version of his Victory Lap LP.
- The recently released “Racks In The Middle” single featuring Roddy Ricch and Hit-Boy is No. 10 on Top Songs.
- Nipsey tracks comprise half of the Top 10 in the Hip Hop/Rap category of Top Songs. The aforementioned “Racks In The Middle” is joined by multiple cuts from Victory Lap.
- Four of Nipsey’s videos are featured in the Top 10 of Top Music Videos.
Nipsey on Amazon
- Victory Lap is the second-best seller for digital albums.
- CD and vinyl versions of the 2018 LP are among the Top 5 best sellers for physical copies.
- Nipsey is dominating Amazon’s Movers & Shakers lists, which calculate the biggest sales gainers over the past 24 hours.
- The Top 7 entries on the Movers & Shakers for digital albums are all Nipsey releases. His Crenshaw tape experienced the most dramatic spike thanks to a 555,500 percent increase in sales, vaulting it from No. 61,116 to No. 11.
- Nipsey’s projects account for seven of the Top 10 entries on the Movers & Shakers for CD and vinyl. The Top 3 are vinyl copies of Victory Lap (585,700 percent increase), The Marathon CDs (333,310 percent increase) and Victory Lap CDs (318,000 percent increase).
- The late MC also has the Top 3 tracks on the Movers & Shakers for songs. No. 1 on the list is the Belly and Dom Kennedy-assisted “Double Up,” which benefited from a 46,331 percent increase in sales.
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Shit always gets on my nerves when people do this. Why is death the best promo for artists?
Sucks that death is such a good promoter, but I bet that Lauren London & the Hussle kids will appreciate the extra funds to get through this.
Being from LA if I had to take a guess on what gang killed Nipsey I’d have to say 83gangsta Crips, Hoover Criminals, or Van Ness Gangster Bloods. Those 3 gangs are like Rollin 60s biggest enemies.
shutup clown
haha retard. keep guessin6. you remind me of what “fun” was
Rest In Power to Nip and to all black souls gone to soon due to ignorance because we don’t know ourselves an/or history. With poverty on top of that this is the outcome.. Bloods + Crips = The BlacKKK Nipsey was looking change that
“ your nobody ..till somebody….kills you “
Show big support while people alive instead of the fake outrage /love when they dead ..peace
Music was hot man. Dude was very good with the flow. And could make you feel him with his delivery.
Victory Lap is motivation music, at least Nip left us with some gems.
*motivational
lil wayne betta watch out birdman going to some ideas again
Nipsey Deserved better man. It’s not like he a all time great but his flow was nice as fuck and he made some incredible bangers. Dude’s business savvy is almost better than his music. True definition of a hustler.
Who cares about his sales. If anything this is a negatieve because hè did not get his proper shine alive. How about providing an update on Lauren London? What about providing a contact point for those who want to provide donations of any kind?
I think the best way to donate at the time is through his music, he owned his own masters so all these sales you don’t care about are in fact going to help his family eat.
This!
“You might find your mans dead in the ocean/ (You’ll be alright though) You know dead rappers get better promotion” -Jadakiss
Respect!
“I’m dead up in the hood, livin’ like a rich ni**a / I’d probably die in the hood cause of this ni**a” – Nipsey Hu$$le – All For Tha Doe
RIP
Guess who prolly owns his publishing? That’s right, the guys who wear those funny looking small hats!