Rap Albums On The Billboard Charts

This is the time of the year when album sales are the lowest, and it is evident on the billboard charts this week. Nicki Minaj still has the highest selling rap album on the charts, even though she sold just 32,000 copies this week. Her Pink Friday Debut is now at a total of 922,000 copies sold.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is next up- Kanye West's 5th album sold 25,000 copies this week, and he is now at a total of 941,000 copies sold. In just about 3 weeks from now, he would have gone platinum.

And the Great Pope of rap; the Elvis Presly of hiphop, none other than Eminem himself is up next. Recovery sold 21,000 copies this week, and he is at a total of 3,470,000 copies. From this, you can see that em is in a league of his own. It is like every other rapper is on on track, and he created another running track for himself. No other rapper has even gone double platinum in the last 24 months, and eminem is 3 times platinum going on 4.

The christian rapper, Lacre is up next with his new album, Rehab: The Overdose. Unfortunately, i know so little about this dude, apart from the fact that he is the highest selling christian rapper of all time. I guess i have to check him out.

T.I's NO MERCY album sold 15,000 copies this week, totaling now at 367,000. And Lil Wayne's I AM NOT A HUMAN BEING sold 12k this week, bringing the total sales of the album to 692,000.

Sheek Louch and Lloyd Banks are no where to be found on the charts; i guess gangster rap no longer sales. But i got to say that they did make lovely albums with their recent efforts.

Rap Albums on The Billboard Charts

Nicki Minaj is untop with her Pink Friday debut album this week- that is, she has the highest selling rap album for the week, although i wont fully call her album a full rap album...too much pop in the mix, but i guess that is how it goes nowadays. Anyway, pink friday sold 39,000 copies this week, and it is now at a total of 890, 000. She would probably go platinum in about 4 weeks from now.

Eventhough Kanye West and Eminem both released albums last year, em's album was released far earlier than Mr West's album, but they moved the same units this week- 33,000 copies individually. Eminem's Recovery album is now at a grand total of 3, 348, 000 copies so far, and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is at 915,000 total.

T.T is presently in jail for obstructing parole, but that isn't stopping him from making some money. His latest album, NO MERCY, sold 19,000 copies this week, bringing the total to 353,000 copies.

I Am Not A Human Being by Lil Wayne has sold a grand total of 680,000 copies, and it moved 15,000 copies this week. Diddy's Dirty Money album, Last Train To Paris sold 11,000 copies this week, and is now at a total of 172,000 copies. Unfortunatley, Ghostface Killa's album, Apollo Kids is not doing so well on the charts. It sold 3,800 copies this week, and now at a total of 23,000 copies. Lloyd Banks is still slugging it out on the charts, and his latest album sold 2,600 copies this week-The Hunger For More 2 is now at a total of 82,000 sold.

Rap Albums on The Billboard Charts

Diddy and his Dirty Money crew made it as the first rap album on the billboard charts this week. I have not heard the album, but i have loved every "single" that has dropped from the album. Last Train To Paris sold 101,000 copies after one week in stores. I think the two girls (Kalenna and Dawn) off the group create a nice balance for diddy's not too good rap skills. I love how they bring that 90's feel in their music.

Nicki Minaj is holding up strong with her debut album; Pink Friday. She sold 97,000 copies this week, and she is now at a total of 658,000 copies sold so far. If you ask me, i think she is not doing badly with her sales. I follow her on twitter, and she is carrying out some aggressive campaign/promo up in there. I wish her the best.

T.I's NO MERCY album did 69,000 copies this week, and is now at a total of 229,000 copies after 2 weeks in stores. Although this is really bad compared to his past projects, you got to consider the fact that the dude is in jail, and was in jail the better part of 2009; so, he has definitely lost some listenening ears. I hope he can come out stronger and more level headed, because his career was on a rise before he went to jail last year.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, the 5th album from Chicago rapper, Kanye West, did 66,000 copies this week, and his total sales now stand at 738,000.

Lloyd Banks's latest effort, H.F.M.2 (The Hunger For More 2) sold 5,800 copies this week, bringing the total sales of his third album to 69,000.
 
Sheek Louch, one-third of the Legendary rap group, L.O.X, recently dropped his 5th solo album, Donnie G, which did 5,500 copies after 7 days in stores. I think that is really low, considering the fact that he is now on a major label; Def Jam. His last album, LIFE ON D-BLOCK, which was more or less a street album, on an indie label sold exactly the same first week numbers. I am a fan of his music, and i followed through from when he dropped the first single off the album till when he dropped the album; i must say that he, or who ever is managing him was very sloppy with marketing the album. He didn't even have a video out when the album dropped. I hope def jam don't regret signing him, because he is really a great artist; but i do think the album would grow on people, and he can get down to grinding hard on better marketing and promo.


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Rap Albums On The Billboard Charts

T.I reigns at the top this week with his new album, "no mercy", although it has the lowest first weeks sales from the last three t.i albums, which where all in the range of 450-550k. His latest effort sold 159,000 copies after 7 days in stores. I had been watching T.I since Urban Legend, and i saw how he kept improving, and he would have kept the consistency, if not for all the recent troubles he has been getting himself into. He just went back to jail a couple of months ago, after just getting out early this year.

Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday is next up, and she sold 82,000 copies this week, bringing her total sales to 561k. She has gone Gold after just three weeks in store, i think that is good for her. Now, let us see if she can go platinum. I think if she drops more pop songs off the album, or promote more controversy, then she would go platinum; because, right now, it takes more than skills to sell records.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, the new one from Kanye West, sold 67,000 copies this week. The album is now at a total of 672,000 copies sold so far in 3 weeks.

Rap veteran, REDMAN's "redman presents...reggie" sold 10,000 copies. That is pretty low, considering the fact that he went out of his way to try and sell records. He went the auto-tune way and did a lot of "sing-song" rap on the album; not what we redman fans are used too, i guess he wanted to experiment.

Soulja Boy's "The DeAndre Way" sold 8,000 copies this week, and that brings the total to 21,000 copies in 2 weeks. Rick Ross sold the the same thing this week as Soulja Boy, and his album has been out for months now. Teflon Don sold  8,000 copies this week, which brings the total to 507,000 copies over all.

The Hunger For More2 album by Lloyd Banks sold 7,200 copies this week, which brings his total to 63,000 copies after 3 weeks. And Slim Thug's THA THUG SHOW album sold 5,900 copies, which brings his total to 20,000.

Looking at the sales breakdown above, it is clear that Gansta Rap is no longer in high demand.

Rap Albums On The Billboard Charts

Black Eye Peas are no longer under Rap category, so they can't be mentioned here, although their new album debuted on the billboard 200 albums chart this week. Kanye West and Nicki Minaj dropped more than 70% from their last week sales of their new album.

Kanye's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy sold 108,000 copies this week, and this brings his total sales in 2 weeks to 605,000 copies. The way his sales dropped, if it continues like this, he would probably not go double platinum, and this is not good looking for someone who sold 957,000 copies first week of his third album (Graduation). I think kanye's deviation from rap is not really doing good with his fans. I have not heard the album, but i like that "runaway" song; just as a cool song, and not as a rap song. I wish him all the best.

Nicki on the other hand also dropped  more than 65% from her debut first week sales last week. Her Pink Friday album is at a total of 480,000 after two weeks, and it sold 103,000 this week. At least she didn't drop as much as kanye did.

Tha Thug Show, the new album from Slim Thug sold 14,000 copies in its first week. I think i didn't expect more than that. He has been off the rap scene for almost two years, and gangster rap is no longer a sure format to sell records.

The DeAndre Way, the new album from Soulja Boy sold 13,000 copies this week. And, the new one from Lloyd Banks, The Hunger For More2 sold 12,000 copies this week, bringing the total to 56,000 copies in 2 weeks.

Rick Ross's Teflon Don sold 8,200 copies this week, and the album is at a total of 499,000 copies sold. That is a thousand copies from Gold status. Currency's Pilot Talk2 sold 3,600 copies this week, and the total now stands at 18,000 copies.

Next week, we would see the sales from T.I's NO MERCY and Redman's REDMAN PRESENTS...REGGIE.