After its release two weeks ago, Nicki Minaj’s latest album “The Pink Print” is still the best-selling hip hop album on the shelves today and still sits at # 2 on the charts. Selling 198,142 during its opening week, Nicki’s “The Pink Print” has totaled in 303,528 albums sold. J. Cole sits a few spots down, while his album sales for “2014 Forest Hills Drive” remain steady, with selling the required 500,000 copies to be certified Gold. This past week, “2014 Forest Hills Drive” was streamed more than 10 million times and it has already been streamed 16 million times the week before. Also, Cole’s album debuted at #1 for one week but eventually dropped to #4 and then most recently to #6. Meanwhile, D’Angelo’s new album “Black Messiah” fell from #5 to #25 after the holiday week.
Releasing his first official album in five years, Fabolous sold 66,312 units for “The Young OG Project” in the first week. Although, the album is not available for streaming anymore, Fab’s strong single song sales of 47,305 helped boost its overall total activity.
“It’s kind of like a vanity project. I kept getting these beats that were inspired by Nineties records, so I just busted some raps on top of ’em. I felt like I’m a good person to represent that, because I’ve been around since the late Nineties, and I’m still putting out music, 15 years later.” Says Fabolous.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 12/28/2014:
#2. Nicki Minaj – Pinkprint – 155,502 (105,386) [14,365,937]
#6. J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive – 120,417 (104,404) [10,451,511]
#12. Fabolous – The Young OG Project – 71,042 (66,312) [0]
#25. D’Angelo & The Vanguard – Black Messiah – 40,254 (38,014) [2,002,281]
#35. Beyonce – Beyonce– 31,445 (17,819) [3,935,988]
#37. Iggy Azalea – New Classic – 29,882 (10,193) [3,480,659]
#42. Pitbull – Globalization – 26,632 (11,547) [2,087,850]
#45. Jason Derulo – Talk Dirty – 24,629 (5,361) [3,126,218]
#50. Mary J. Blige – The London Sessions – 23,393 (22,515) [319,528]
#51. Eminem – ShadyXV –22,948 (18,933) [1,318,669]
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