For the second week in a row, there is not a Hip Hop album in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 200. Drake overtook A$AP Rocky for the highest-selling Hip Hop album of the week. Nicki Minaj’s Pinkprint and Big Sean’s Dark Sky Paradise climbed the charts. King Los’ God, Money, War lands in the top 100 in its first week on the chart. Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly falls out of the Top 10 Rap and R&B albums. Troy Ave’s Major Without a Label does not appear on the chart after two weeks on the lower end of the chart.
Drake Rises To The Top-Selling Hip Hop Album
Drake’s If Youre Reading This Its Too Late overtook A$AP Rocky’s project by rising four spots to the # 12 position on the chart. The Toronto rapper saw 21,525 units of total activity and sold 8,514 albums.
A$AP Rocky’s At.Long.Last.A$AP Loses Top Spot For First Time Since Debut
The Harlem rapper’s sophomore album debuted at #1 on the chart and spent four weeks as the top-selling Hip Hop album. This week, it sits at the #18 spot and sold 18,282 units of total activity.
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Kendrick Lamar Drops Out of Top 10
After climbing the charts last week, To Pimp a Butterfly lands at #45, selling 11,958 units.
King Los’ God, Money, War Debuts At #68
The Baltimore rapper’s album God, Money, War saw 8,331 units of activity in its first week. The project sold 7,357 albums and was streamed 537,870 times.
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Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 6/28/2015
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.
#12 Drake – If Youre Reading This Its Too Late– 21,525 (8,514) [12,869,937]
#18 A$AP Rocky – At.Long.Last.A$AP– 18,282 (9,397) [9,492,810]
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#20 Nicki Minaj – Pinkprint– 17,261 (3,086) [8,987,855]
#22 Various Artists – Furious 7 Soundtrack– 16,852 (2,912) [4,916,523]
#23 Trey Songz – Trigga– 16,657 (7,557) [5,477,681]
#24 Major Lazer – Peace is the Mission – 16,570 (3,171) [6,070,343]
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#37 Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise– 13,711 (3,798) [6,693,311]
#40 Skrillex & Diplo – Skrillex & Diplo Present Jack – 12,835 (1,722) [4,884,127]
#42 J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive– 12,650 (6,185) [6,069,281]
#43 Jason Derulo – Everything is 4 – 12,124 (2,941) [4,155,672]
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