Rap Albums on The Billboard Charts

Yeah, i am back again on this lovely day- the remembrance of the death of The Notorious B.I.G, who was murdered on this day in 1997. A moment of silence for biggie, but the reason why i am hear today is to do a round down of all the rap albums on the billboard charts this week.

The first one up is Niki Minaj's debut, PINK FIRDAY, which sold 29,000 copies this week, bringing the total sales of the album to 1,189,000.

Eminem is up next with his comeback from Relapse, RECOVERY. The album of the year for 2010- or maybe a tie with Rick Ross's TEFLON DON (based solely on overall success, and not lyrically skills displayed on the album). Eminem's 6th album sold 27,000 copies this week. The album is now at a total sales of 3,695,000 copies sold. It is moving gradually to being certified 4X  platinum in the U.S alone.

My Beautiful Twisted Dark Fantasy from Kanye West is next on the charts with 14,000 copies sold, and a total of 1,062,000. I think the sales of this album is going to start rising very soon. As soon as his new single from the album- ALL OF THE LIGHTS, starts getting the recognition it deserves, it would have people going back to the store to pick up that album. I think the "all of the lights" single, which features Rihanna and Kid Cudi is just brilliant.

Lil wayne's I AM NOT A HUMAN BEING EP sold 12k this week, with total now at 796,000. T.I's "No Mercy" album sold 14k this week, with total at 784,000. Flokavelli from Wacka Flocka Flame sold 7,400 copies this week, and is now at a total of 217,000 copies. Nelly is at a total of 246,000 copies sold so far of his 5.0 Album, and he sold 5,100 copies this week. The Greatest Story Never Told by SAIGON sold 3,300 this week, and now at a total of 19,000.

Nicki Minaj Breaks Another Record

Nicki Minaj broke another record with her album, Pink Friday- it has been on the top 10 charts for 14 weeks, that is the longest by any female rapper. Okay, but i would like to give my opinion, "right through you" is not a rap song, "you love" is not a straight up rap track, sort of like a sing rap kind of song...and the one with drake, i can't remember the title, is definitely not a rap track. Although i have not heard her whole album, but judging from all the tracks she has projected from the album, i can say the album should be under the pop category- or maybe rap/pop. I am sorry if you are a fan and you are reading this, but i am just being honest here. Or, maybe i am from the past, and this is the future- i don't know.

I wish her all the best...congratulations to her, at least she is reaping a lot, and making a name for herself. At least, she has roman's revenge, which is a rap track, although it has a lot of gimmicks in it,and it was a diss track...controversy sells.

Enough of my talk, read the story below:
The female rap vixen dropped her certified platinum debut album Pink Friday fourteen weeks ago. Since then, the album hasn't left the Top 10 of the Billboard Top 200 chart, thereby breaking yet another record for the most weeks in the Top 10 by a female rapper. Last year Nicki had a whole slew of broken records under her pink heavyweight belt, as "Your Love" reached the number one spot on the Billboard Rap Songs chart (a first for female rappers since close to a decade), Nicki had the most appearances at one time by a female rapper on the Billboard Hot 100, and then became the first female MC since Eve to achieve the number one spot on the Billboard charts. (RapFix)

Rap Albums on Billboard Chart

Nicki Minaj is till the top selling rapper on the billboard chart this week- her Pink Friday sold 28,000 this week, bringing the total to 951,000 copies sold so far. That is just like 50k shy of platinum status.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy from Kanye West is up next, with 22,000 copies sold this week. The total of sales of kanye's 5th album now stands at 962,000 copies sold.

Eminem is at a total of 3,489,000 copies so far off Recovery. The album sold 20,000 copies this week. This album has shown strength so far.

T.I's NO MERCY album sold 14,000 copies this week, with the total at 382,000 so far. This can not be compared to any of his previous albums, which easily did more than this in their first week in stores.

Lil Wayne's I AM NOT A HUMAN BEING album is still selling, and it moved 6,700 copies this week.The total of the EP is now at 704,000 copies sold.

The Christian rapper, Lacre sold 6,700 copies this week, with his Rehab: The Overdose album. The total is now at 22,000 copies sold.

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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Wacka Flocka Flame's Mom Comments On Pink Friday and The Lil Kim Beef

Wacka Flocka Flmae's mom who is also his manager, and was Gucci Mane's Manager, and was Nicki Minaj's manager at some point, just commented on Nicki's Pink Friday album.

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"It's terrible," Antney said in an interview. "I like some stuff, but she went too left. I don't think people were ready for her to come [out with pop]. When I had Nicki, I really wanted her to sing. That's why I took her for training cause Nicki loves singing, but she kept saying to me, 'Deb, I can't do it yet because people won't understand.' And that's why the [rap] mixture was done to introduce them to all of Nicki. I think [Pink Friday] was very disappointing to a lot of her fans. She didn't need a lot of [the] features. That was one of the biggest things like... you gave people so many features, give them you now. Nicki could be so much better because--outside of anything that people say--she's very multi-talented. I really wish that she would learn to be more of an artist." (VIBE)

And below is what she had to say about Nicki Dissing Lil Kim:
"I didn't particularly care for ["Roman's Revenge"], but when Eminem came in I liked it. He made the song. [Nicki] didn't have to go there with [Lil' Kim]. My views on that is that she came too far to go back that route. And Kim does not even have to go there. There are no comparisons to them. Some things are best left unsaid. The whole things is stupid. I'm very disappointed that she would go that route. 'Cause I know all that she was taught. She don't have to go there with anybody. That was the stuff we always discussed. People had to learn to love Nicki-- that's how the door opened up. It wasn't about Kim or Foxy or any of the rest of them. So I was just a little disappointed [by her album], but If she likes it, I love it." (VIBE)

After reading this, i think the woman has a point, but i don't know, do i smell some jealousy up in there too..maybe like she would have liked if she was still managing Nicki. But, i feel her with that whole pop issue.

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.

Rap Albums On The Billboard Chart

Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy    496,000(496,000)

Nicki Minaj- Pink Friday   375,000(375,000)

Eminem- Recovery  48,000(3,053,000)

Lloyd Banks- The Hunger For more2   45,000(45,000)

Lil Wayne- I Am Not A Human Being  37,000(511,000)

Curren$y- Pilot Talk 2  15,000(15,000)

Those are the numbers for this week, and i guess a lot of people guessed right when they said Kanye would be untop this week. I have not heard the album, so i can not make any comment on it. It sold a little more copies than his last album(808 & heartbreaks) in its first week, so you can say he made some improvements.

And you have Nicki's album next, and it is no surprise either, because it was expected. She had a huge buzz before her album dropped, and she made a lot of guest appearnces on other artists records, that blew up, so it is only natural that her album would do so good.

And the pope of rap, Eminem is still moving units with his latest album; Recovery. It has crossed the 3 million mark, and i think it would end up selling like 3.5million copies.

Llloy Banks album, The Hunger For More2, did 45k; i think that is what i was expecting it to do. Okay, the album might be cool, but it is root rap; no pop shit, and i guess it is the poppish shit that is selling now. So, no one should look at his album as a flop.

Let us see how Kanye and Nicki fare in weeks to come.