Rick Ross just released his 11th album, Better Than I Ever Been, and I want to attempt to predict what the album would sell in its first week. I have been doing this with rap albums for more than a decade now, and I am not always too far off when official numbers come in.
Below are the top selling rap albums of the week...
*Certified Lover Boy - Drake - 44,972 (1,790,423)
*Sincerely, Kentrell - YoungBoy Never Broke Again - 20,973 (478,146)
*Soulfly - Rod Wave - 19,664
Below are the top selling rap albums of the week...
*Sincerely, Kentrell - YoungBoy Never Broke Again - 23,568 (457,173)
*Soulfly - Rod Wave - 20,751
*My Turn - Lil Baby - 19,995
Below are the top selling rap albums of the week...
*Certified Lover Boy - Drake - 57,351 (1,692,423)
DaBaby's new EP, "Back on My Baby Jesus Sh*t" has been out for about ten days now, and the numbers are in. Back on my Baby Jesus Sh*t sold 16,072 copies in its first week in stores.
Even though they had a highly publicized beef in the early 2000s, Jay Z was, and still is a big Nas fan. In fact, it was because of the admiration he had for Nas that pushed Jay Z to start throwing subliminal shots at Nas. Jay Z sampled Nas on his first single off Reasonable Doubt, on a song titled Dead Presidents 2. He invited Nas to come in and rap his part over, an also appear in the video, but Nas didn't show up. Even though Jay Z sampled him again on his second album, thinking Nas would reach out one way or the other, Nas never did return the shout-out or try to do songs with them. That would definitely hurt any grown man's ego, and the subliminal shots started flying from both rappers, which eventually lead to the two heavyweights throwing directs shots at each other in 2001, with songs like Takeover, Ether, Supa Ugly, etc.
People might find it hard to believe Jay Z is a Nas fan because he is obviously way richer than Nas today. But that wasn't always the case. When Jay Z was struggling to sell 500k copies with his debut album, Reasonable Doubt in 1996, Nas dropped his second album (It Was Written) the same year, and sold over 2 million copies in less than 3 months.
This post is about how many platinum selling albums Jay Z has. To does that don't know what selling platinum means, it means an album selling over a million copies.
Since the release of his first solo album (Reasonable Doubt) in June of 1996, Jay Z has so far had 12 platinum selling albums.
Below is a list of all his platinum selling albums and their individual sales data.
1. Reasonable Doubt (1996)- 1X Platinum
2. In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1997)- 1X Platinum
3. Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life (1998)- 5X Platinum
4. Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter (1999)- 3X Platinum
Below are the top selling rap albums of the week...
*Certified Lover Boy - Drake - 60,445 (1,635,072)
*Yellow Tape 2 - Key Glock - 35,553 (35,553)
*Sincerely, Kentrell - YoungBoy Never Broke Again - 29,825 (405,815)
*Donda - Kanye West - 24,383 (841,895)
*A Gansta's Pain - Moneybagg Yo- 21,767
*Soulfly - Rod Wave - 20,597
Below are the top selling rap albums of the week...
*Certified Lover Boy - Drake - 66,535 (1,574,627)
*Sincerely, Kentrell - YoungBoy Never Broke Again - 35,331 (375,990)
*Something for Thee Hotties - Megan Thee Stallion - 32,654 (32,654)
*A Gangsta's Pain - Moneybagg Yo - 26,429
*Donda - Kanye West - 25,797 (817,512)
*Punk - Young Thug - 22,764 (146,920)
Below are the top selling rap albums of the week...
*Certified Lover Boy - Drake - 73,513 (1,508,092)
*Sincerely, Kentrell - YoungBoy, Never Broke Again - 37,718 (340,659)
*A Gangsta's Pain - Moneybagg Yo - 34,061
*Punk - Young Thug - 33,810 (124,156)
*Donda - Kanye West - 28,255 (791,715)