Dr. Dre saw nearly 51,000 units of total activity on this week’s Billboard Top 200 chart with Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre and he remains in the top five overall. N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton shot up to the #4 spot in its fourth week on the chart in the midst of the success of the film of the same name depicting the Rap group’s career. Three of the group’s members, including Dr. Dre, saw their solo projects chart as well. Future remains in the top 10 for the fifth straight week with Dirty Sprite 2 landing at the #9 position. The project had the most streams of all albums with more than 16 million.
Dr. Dre Charts All Three Studio Albums
Besides Compton charting at the #3 position, Dr. Dre’s other two solo albums charted this week. 1992’s The Chronic lands at #38 with 10,516 total units of activity and 1999’s 2001 hits the #55 spot with 8,674 units, beating A$AP Rocky’s At.Long.Last.A$AP and Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city.
Chinx Debuts On Chart With Posthumous Album
Chinx’s posthumous album, Welcome to JFK, debuts at the #21 spot on the chart with 16,467 total units of activity. The New York rapper was shot and killed in May. His manager and producers finished his album, which is made up of 12 songs with features from Ty Dolla $ign, Jeremih and Meet Simms.
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Eazy-E Appears On The Chart
Ruthless Records founder and N.W.A rapper Eazy-E appears on the chart with his Eazy-Duz-It / 5150 Home 4 Tha Sick compilation project released in 2002. The rapper’s life and death is depicted in Straight Outta Compton. Eazy-E died of complications due to AIDS in 1995.
Ice Cube Charts Three Times
Ice Cube appears on the chart with three of his solo albums. 1991’s Death Certificate ranks #99 with 5,890 units of total activity. His greatest hits compilation appears at the #118 spot followed by his debut album at #150, Amerikkka’s Most Wanted, which was released after parting ways with N.W.A.
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Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 8/20/2015
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.
#3 Dr. Dre – Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre – 50,916 (43,081) [4,984,965]
#4 N.W.A – Straight Outta Compton – 44,120 (31,878) [5,183,140]
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#9 Future – Dirty Sprite 2– 27,873 (12,781) [16,695,550]
#14 Drake – If Youre Reading This Its Too Late– 20,686 (7,884) [14,282,888]
#20 Meek Mill – Dreams Worth More Than Money– 16,505 (4,638) [11,118,270]
#21 Chinx – Welcome to JFK– 16,467 (14,600) [774,956]
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#25 J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive– 14,518 (6,385) [8,880,551]
#32 Eazy-E – Eazy-Duz-It/5150 4 Tha Sick– 11,472 (5,720) [1,082,288]
#33 Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly– 11,140 (6,508) [5,178,760]
#35 Nicki Minaj – Pinkprint– 10,978 (2,365) [8,148,118]
