The Official Charts Company - Home of the Official UK Top 40 Charts. It smashed the record for most first-day streams of any album . This album went on to ship over. 2000 - A new millennium and the rise of Eminem Eminem smashed N.W.A.'s record and had the most successful first week in hip hop by far. Young MC - 1. Drake - Scorpion - 732,000 Copies. Note: The first number below is this week's "total album equivalent units" count, an intersection of album sales, single . Records sold: 220 million. Happier Than Ever Billie Eilish 27 1 43 27 1 43 Credits Awards Share. . 5. This feat marks the first time in the chart's 63-year history that an artist has ever debuted with the Top 5 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 - previously achieved only by The Beatles for a week . 104 spot on the Billboard 200. A: Only albums with 10K in sales + streaming are listed Q: Why are Famous Dex, Blac Youngsta, Dave East, BlocBoy JB, Ski Mask, Juice WRLD, and 2 Chainz' pure sales "N/A" A: Those artist's pure sales were outside of the top 50 for their release weeks, meaning the exact number was unknown. Big Loud/Republic Records' multi-platinum superstar Morgan Wallen is taking the world by storm with sophomore effort, Dangerous: The Double Album, debuting at No. Dangerous set a new bar across all streaming platforms. Some feel that it seems rushed and unfinished, and its absence from the year's Grammy Best Rap Album speaks for itself. The bluegrass queen, 50, has tasted victory both on her own and with her group Union Station. Somethin 'Bout Kreay moved a total of 3,900 units, landing her at the No. After being criticized for the underwhelming first-week sales of her album, the hip-hop mogul stepped in to call for an end to the hate. Rap boys. Ireland. At 12,190,000 EAS, Views is the most successful album from 2016. . Whodini - 1. The 5X Platinum (5 Million) Certification of Taylor Swift. . 50 Cent- Get Rich or Die Tryin' (872k) | .. . May 7, 2018. Nationality: American. Kanye West- Late Registration (860k) | 9. Top Rap Albums Week of June 11, 2022 This Week Award i Last Week Peak Pos. Eagles - 101 million units. Alison Krauss: 27. Naturally, the leader of urban music comes on top. 7. A massive commercial success, debuting at number one in 32 countries and breaking first-week sales records. Now Nicki's "Queen" album sales are predicted to be behind Cardi total album sales . The top-performing albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200 chart, which is published by Billboard magazine. Its 261,000 first-week chart sales mean it sped past the Swedish pop group's comeback . Release Date: 9/11/2007. Drake, with this huge album and the most first-week sales of the year. The 10 Best Features On Kanye West's "Donda" Other big albums that made it to the current top 10 are Polo G's Hall of Fame with 708,000 . . This album shifted over 3million units in one week. Scorpion did a bit better moving 731,000 units in its first week of release. Savage Mode 2 - 21 Savage & Metro Boomin'. In a modern music industry dominated by rap and pop, a few select rock and metal artists may have switched roles. The top two sales records were achieved in the same week, on March 28, 2001, as both albums were promoted as a direct competition between J-pop singer-songwriters Hikaru Utada and Ayumi Hamasaki. But her biggest wins came with Robert Plant in 2009, when the unlikely pair won . Hikaru held the record for biggest first week sales in one territory for 14 years, until Adele released '25'. Top 10 Rap First Week Sales (Albums) | 10. Top 10 Billboard 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 07/12/2018. Aerosmith - 69.5 million units. Jay-Z - Vol. The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as on-demand streaming and digital sales of its individual tracks. The top dog—back in 2000 and now 20 years later—who lays claim to being the leader of the best first-week sales in rap is Eminem. In 2000, The Marshall Mathers LP sold 1.7 million units in one week. He edges Drake out ever so slightly to take the top spot from him, selling 137,775 copies of Sincerely, Kentrell first week. Top 10 Billboard 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The . It comes as no surprise. Records sold: 220 million. Nelly debuted with 235K sales for "Country Grammar". Here are the American artists that have sold the most albums in the US: Garth Brooks - 157 million units. FEARLESS as the #1 selling album in the US in both 2008 & 2009. Plus, Drake's my idol. Young Buck - 1. Even if numbers alone don't always tell the whole story,. By Joe Coscarelli. Will Smith - 2. Adele has broken the single-week U.S. album sales record with her latest chart-topper "25," according to Nielsen Music. Olivia Rodrigo's highly-anticipated first full-length album, Sour, has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 295,000 equivalent album units earned in the US, and has already achieved RIAA gold certification in its first week.The abum also scored the most US audio streams from a female debut album ever and broke the . Young Jeezy - 2. In addition to appearing on the Top Rap Albums ranking for the first time, the item also debuts on the Billboard 200 and Top Album Sales chart, and it finds its way back to the World Albums list . This was always going to be a risk. Those 600,000 projected first-week sales will not only be the biggest album debut of 2021 — eclipsing Kanye West's Donda — but it will be the highest first-week sales in Hip Hop since Drake . Post Malone, the 22-year-old rapper who can't stop making sing-songy hits, has topped the Billboard album . Wyclef - 2. His third studio album, The Marshall Mathers LP, sold 1.7 million. LUV. September 26, 2021. Eminem. I & II)" (United Artists, 1975) The Honeydrippers, Manzel, Melvin Bliss — the hip-hop break canon is riddled with artists who never released an LP, but found a way to be immortalized in ways . With 10.2 million albums sold in the US in the 10s, Drake is the second best selling male artist of the decade behind Justin Bieber. Dec 29, 2021. 20. Share Result. According to first-week projections, it's looking to be the biggest album of the year thus far. First week album sales: 957,000. Eminem. Which of these albums had the most first week sales? The singles "Even Flow" and "Jeremy" did very well on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart peaking at #3 and #5 respectively. Wks on Chart 1 Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers Kendrick Lamar 1 1 3 2 I Never Liked You Future 2 1 5 3 Come Home The Kids. Song: "Heaven". The first week sales projections for the album are out today. it opened at No. This means that . 50 Cent is coming to Coi Leray's defense. It became the fastest-selling studio album by any solo artist in the United States. The album also set a release day streaming record (and yes, Spotify is counting . No hip-hop artist has ever managed such a feat. Eminem, meanwhile, was riding high off the back-to-back successes of The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP, the latter of which racked up the most first-week sales of any rap album ever to . (Also, Attila . George Strait - 69 million units. 25 eventually gave Adele the world's best-selling album of 2015, with 17.4 million copies sold and has gone on to . 6 T-5. Artist Album Song Streams Language Year; Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion II: My World: 4,353,327: English: 1991: Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion II: Don't Cry - Alternate Lyrics UPDATE: NBA YoungBoy has done it. The Marshall Mathers LP is the third studio album by American rapper Eminem, released on May 23, 2000, by Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records.The album was produced mostly by Dr. Dre and Eminem, along with The 45 King, the Bass Brothers, and Mel-Man.Recorded over a two-month period in several studios around Detroit, the album features more introspective lyricism, including Eminem's . In the US, the album sold over 3.38 million copies in its first week, marking the largest single-week sales for an album. For the first time ever . Top 10 Rap First Week Sales (Albums) | 10. Eight of the . According to Billboard, the album sold 1,061,000 copies in the week ending January 3, 1993, six weeks after its release. The "God's Plan" rapper has also maintained his stellar sales record as none of his albums have ever sold below 400,000 first week. Thanks for using my sound. Fifteen years later, Adele 's 25 set a new record, selling 3.38 million units in one week. 1 this week atop the Billboard 200 Albums chart and earning the largest streaming week for a country album in history. Would you sit in a circle and just freestyle with people? Eminem - Recovery - 741,000 Copies. 8 Jesus Is King (2019): 264,000 I compiled the top 5 biggest first week sales in hip-hop history and there were no surprises there - 50 Cent, Lil Wayne and Kanye West show up twice while Eminem clinches the top spot. Future's "Dirty Sprite 2" First Week Projections Revealed . 6. Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats . . "The Bodyguard" soundtrack — co-executive produced by Clive Davis and Whitney Houston, who starred in the film — became the first album verified by Nielsen to move more than 1 million units in the US in a single week. Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan preforming live in 2007. Hailed as one of the best rappers ever - Marshall Bruce Mathers III, aka Eminem and "Kind of Hip Hop", is THE best selling solo rapper of all time, and one of the largest selling musicians of the century. Hailed as one of the best rappers ever - Marshall Bruce Mathers III, aka Eminem and "Kind of Hip Hop", is THE best selling solo rapper of all time, and one of the largest selling musicians of the century. Kanye West. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2 - 792,000 Copies. I Never Liked You has already made history in just a few short days. Adele's 30 has shot to number one, overtaking Abba to become the fastest-selling album of the year so far. Print. When Lil Wayne 's Tha Carter III sold over a million copies his first week it truly marked the moment of his arrival as a rap superstar. In Ireland, the fastest-selling album is The Best of 1980-1990 by U2 in November 1998.. Japan. Top Album Sales The week's most popular albums ranked by sales data as compiled by Luminate. ~ 140 million units sold. 2… Hard Knock Life Released: September 29, 1998 Adele's highly anticipated album, which the . 1. Nicki Minaj's re-release of her first mixtape "Beam Me Up Scotty" had one of the largest opening-week sales for hip-hop in 2021. 3. 2. Outkast has their best commercial week thus far. Sour tops Billboard 200 with 2021's Biggest Week and certified gold. 42 Dugg & Lil Baby], "Affiliated" [feat. 3,934 Views 8 Comments. Eminem's LP " The Marshall Mathers " sold almost 11 million copies in the USA alone. In the US, the album sold over 3.38 million copies in its first week, marking the largest single-week sales for an album. . For the first time ever, R&B/hip-hop has surpassed rock to become the biggest music genre in the U.S. in terms of total consumption, according to Nielsen Music's 2017 year-end report. Sony. Lil Durk], previously shared "Worst Day," and more. Drake is the most streamed artist ever at Spotify with 56.3 billion streams. Drake - Nothing Was The Same - 658,000 Copies. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV - 964,000 Copies. Kanye West, Graduation. 50 Cent- Get Rich or Die Tryin' (872k) | .. Top 5 highest rap first week album sales EVER | Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 1.7m copies sold fw | Eminem Encore 1.5m copies sold fw | .. BBY KODIE - Milkshake. Credit: David Shankbone / CC BY 3.0. Michael Jackson - 89 million units. A massive commercial success, debuting at number one in 32 countries and breaking first-week sales records. Top 5 highest rap first week album sales EVER | Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 1.7m copies sold fw | Eminem Encore 1.5m copies sold fw | .. BBY KODIE - Milkshake. I mean, you're halfway through a list called the 50 Worst Albums ever. Drake has been one of the overall worldwide best-selling musicians of the 2010s and is now also the second best-selling Hip-Hop artist of all time.