This Week's Highest Selling Rap Albums On Billboard Top 200 Album Chart

As expected, Jay-Z is at the top this week. His 12th studio album, Magna Carta Holy Grail sold 527,000 copies first week. These are numbers for the CD's physical sales, asides from the one million digital copies he sold to Samsung Mobile. This are huge first week numbers for someone that has been in the game for 18 years. But I am not surprised, cos the hype around the album was just incredible. And asides from that, Jay has been known to sell 400-600k first week with most of his past albums. This is his 10th solo number 1 album; it's only his first two albums (out of his 12 album catalogue) that didn't debut at number one on Billboard.





Check out the full list of rap albums on Billboard Top 200 Album Chart this week-








Jay Z- Magna Carta Holy Grail- 527,000 (527,000)

J.Cole- Born Sinner- 39,000 (478,000)

Kanye West- Yeezus- 29,000 (459,000)

Wale- The Gifted- 28,000 (237,000)

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis- The Heist- 22,000 (913,000)

Mac Miller- Watching Movies With The Sound Off- 10,000 (148,000)


Kendrick Lamar- "Good Kid, M.A.A.D City"- 7,400 (966,000)

Lil Wayne- I Am Not A Human Being 2- 6,200 (517,000)

Tony Touch- The Piece Maker 3 (Return Of The 50 MC's)- 2,400 (2,400)