Ranking Post Malone’s First Week Album Sales
Who knew Post Malone would become as big as he did? I know I didn’t. After gaining mainstream attention with his 2015 debut single “White Iverson” which was independently uploaded to his SoundCloud, Post Malone has emerged as…
Ranking Kendrick Lamar’s First Week Album Sales
Kendrick Lamar is one of those rare cases in hip hop, where an artist comes along every now and then, and achieves huge commercial success without compromising their lyricism or vision.
Ranking Future’s First Week Album Sales
The hardest working rapper in the game, bar none. Since his rap debut in the 2010s, Future has steadily been grinding, putting out music non-stop for feed his hungry fanbase.
Ranking Pusha T’s First Week Album Sales
While Pusha T isn’t necessarily known for his commercial success, he’s one of the few rappers who have managed to sustain a 20 year plus career of consistent music.
Ranking Jay-Z’s First Week Album Sales
It’s crazy to think that Jay-Z’s first album sold under 50,000 copies in its first week and debuted at number 23 on the Billboard.
Ranking Ice Cube’s First Week Album Sales
Since he kicked down the door in the late ’80s with N.W.A., Ice Cube has cemented his reputation as one of the finest rapper and iconic figures in hip hop culture.
Ranking J. Cole’s First Week Album Sales
J. Cole has entered that rare space that only Drake and Kendrick are currently occupying. He’s at a point in his career where he has an established fanbase who will go out and support his music whenever he…
Ranking Gunna’s First Week Album Sales
Under the tutelage of his OG, Young Thug, and with his longtime-collaborator, Lil Baby, Gunna has transformed into one of the hottest rappers in the game right now.
Ranking Playboi Carti’s First Week Album Sales
Ever since he broke through into the mainstream in 2017, Playboi Carti’s star continues to shine brighter and brighter with each passing year.
Ranking Rae Sremmurd’s First Week Album Sales
Hailing from Tupelo, Mississippi, and signed to Mike Will Made It’s EarDrummers Entertainment, rap duo Rae Sremmurd have released a total of three studio albums, three mixtapes, thirteen singles.
Ranking Lil Tjay’s First Week Album Sales
Born and raised in the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx, Tione Jayden Merritt, known professionally as Lil Tjay, has rapidly ascended the ranks of the hip-hop world since his first release on SoundCloud in 2016.
Ranking Polo G’s First Week Album Sales
Over the past few years, Chicago rapper Polo G has emerged as one of rap’s biggest stars and one of the best rappers right now with a string of hit singles and platinum albums.
Ranking 2 Chainz’s First Week Album Sales
When 2 Chainz reemerged in the game under his new name in 2011, he went on one of the most legendary mixtape and features run in history.
Ranking 2Pac’s First Week Album Sales
It really is quite unbelievable that there was only a five year gap between 2Pac’s debut album and his first posthumous release .
Ranking Rick Ross’ First Week Album Sales
Rick Ross has quietly become one of the most consistent rappers in the game today, amassing a catalogue that few rappers could match.
Ranking Lil Tecca’s First Week Album Sales
Ever since rising to mainstream fame with his 2019 hit single, “Ransom,” Queens-born rapper, Lil Tecca has continued to grow in commercial stature.
Ranking Big K.R.I.T.’s First Week Album Sales
When Mississippi rapper Big K.R.I.T. made his entrance into the music industry, under the Def Jam umbrella, he was positioned to be the next big artist from the South.
Ranking Schoolboy Q’s First Week Album Sales
Schoolboy Q has low-key been one of the strongest selling rappers of the past few years. Here’s a fun fact, Q’s third album, Oxymoron , was the first Top Dawg release to top the charts. Kendrick’s good kid,…
Ranking Wiz Khalifa’s First Week Album Sales
Ever since breaking into the rap game as part of Rostrum Records, Wiz Khalifa has been consistently prolific and a regular presence on the charts.
Ranking T.I.’s First Week Album Sales
The three kings of the mid-2000s Atlanta trap movement were Gucci Mane, Young Jeezy and T.I. Between these three rappers, they dropped numerous classics that helped shape what trap music is today.
Ranking Gucci Mane’s First Week Album Sales
Gucci Mane has never had a number one album or a platinum seller, but over the past decade he has become one of the most influential rappers in Atlanta .
Ranking Eminem’s Best-Selling Albums of All Time
As one of the best-selling artists in music history, Eminem has dropped over 10 number one albums , most of which have platinum or multi-platinum.
Ranking Tupac Shakur’s Best-Selling Albums of All Time
Tupac Shakur wasn’t in the rap game for very long; he made his come up with Digital Underground in early ’90s, and his musical peak probably 3-4 years at the most.
Ranking Wale’s First Week Album Sales
Over the past decade, Wale has amassed one of the best but underrated catalogues in the rap game. The man barely has any misses, even with the albums that didn’t sell that well.
The Biggest Hip Hop Album First Week Sales of 2021
And just like that, we’re approaching the end of 2021. After an interesting 2020 where tours and album releases were either cancelled or postponed, it looks like things are starting to get back on track.
Ranking Cam’ron’s First Week Album Sales
Harlem’s finest Cameron Giles has never reached the commercial peaks of fellow New York rappers like 50 Cent or Jay-Z, but he’s managed to cultivate a loyal fanbase over the past two decades.
Ranking Lloyd Banks’ First Week Album Sales
Throughout his career, Lloyd Banks could never become the juggernaut that 50 Cent always wanted him to be. But he probably wanted to be.
Ranking Young Thug’s First Week Album Sales
After close to a decade of grinding with a series of mixtapes, Young Thug has finally hit the commercial level he’s deserved all along.
Ranking Nelly’s First Week Album Sales
In 2002, Jay-Z rapped on his Neptunes-produced single “Excuse Me Miss” that the “only dudes movin’ units – Em, Pimp Juice and us,” referring to himself, Eminem and Nelly.
Ranking Ja Rule’s First Week Album Sales
Before 50 Cent came through and crushed his career, Ja Rule was one of the biggest rappers in the game, with hit single after hit single.
Ranking Fabolous’ First Week Album Sales
Fabolous has just been spending the past two decades of his career quietly killing the rap game with his famed punchlines and enduring lyrical skills.
Ranking Ludacris’ First Week Album Sales
Ludacris is one of the greatest and most consistent rappers to come out of the South, there’s no doubt about it.
Ranking Missy Elliott’s First Week Album Sales
Missy Elliott is so slept-on in hip hop culture that it’s a crime. Not only is she one of the most innovative and exciting artists in history, she’s put out five platinum albums , that are a testament…
Ranking Nicki Minaj’s First Week Album Sales
Coming up in the game during the late 2000s off a series a mixtapes, including the breakout Beam Me Up Scotty , Nicki Minaj was positioned to be a force in the music world after signing to Young…
Ranking Mac Miller’s First Week Album Sales
When Mac Miller dropped his debut album, Blue Slide Park , in 2011, it topped the Billboard charts with 144,000 sold in its first week, making it the first independent album to go number one since 1995.
Ranking Lil Wayne’s First Week Album Sales
Making his solo debut in 1999 with Tha Block Is Hot , Lil Wayne’s prolificness hasn’t been matched by any other rapper at his level.
Ranking Lupe Fiasco’s First Week Album Sales
From his debut as one of the most hyped up major label artists of the 2000s to his current independent run, we look at Lupe Fiasco’s rankings for his first week album sales.
Ranking Snoop Dogg’s First Week Album Sales
Rap fans have short-term memories. Before Pac and Big, or Eminem and 50, or Wayne and Drake, there was no other rapper in the world bigger than Snoop Dogg.
Ranking Big Sean’s First Week Album Sales
While Big Sean hasn’t ascended to the levels of his peers like Drake, Kendrick, or J. Cole, the Detroit rapper has amassed a solid catalogue over the past 10 years that are both critically and commercially successful, and…
Ranking Jay-Z’s Best-Selling Albums of All Time
“Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense, but I did 5 mill’ – I ain’t been rhyming like Common since.” Before Hov was Hov, he was an independent rapper with a distribution deal through Priority Records hustling his…
The 50 Biggest First Week Album Sales In Hip Hop History
With the impending sales battle between Kanye’s Donda ( which moved 372,000 in its first week of sales ) and Drake’s Certified Lover Boy , there’s been a lot of talk about hip hop first week sales numbers.
Ranking Travis Scott’s First Week Album Sales
Over the past few years, Travis Scott has vaulted into the upper echelon of rap superstars, most notably after the release of his 2018 magnum opus.
Ranking Migos’ First Week Album Sales
The impact of Migos extends far beyond their studio albums. Years before they dropped their 2017 masterpiece, Culture , they were defining an Atlanta rap generation with mixtapes like Y.R.N. (Young Rich Niggas) , No Label 2 and…
50 Rappers and Their Best-Selling Albums of All Time
Platinum plaques and chart-topping albums don’t mean everything in hip hop, but they do mean a lot, despite what people want to think.
Ranking The Notorious B.I.G.’s First Week Album Sales
As one of the greatest rappers to ever touch the mic , Biggie had accomplished more in his time than other rappers in their entire career; almost singlehandedly shifting hip-hop’s attention from the West Coast back to New…
Ranking Jadakiss’ First Week Album Sales
Jadakiss has always been one of the most consistent and respected MCs in the game. With a catalogue that spans back to the late ’90s, the Yonkers rapper is still in today’s conversation about the best rappers alive.
Ranking A$AP Rocky’s First Week Album Sales
A$AP Rocky has always seemed like rapping was just a hobby for him, something that he was really good at, but never fully focused on. As one of the best rappers of the 2010s , Rocky firmly established…
Ranking 50 Cent’s First Week Album Sales
When 50 Cent stormed the rap game in ’02 off the strength of a handful of (now classic mixtapes), there was no understanding how big he was about to become.
Ranking DMX’s First Week Album Sales
R.I.P. to the late, great DMX. When he was doing it, there was no other rapper like him. When he was hot, he was scorching.
Ranking Tyler, the Creator’s First Week Album Sales
Tyler, the Creator has come a long way. From a 20-year old edgy kid eating cockroaches in the music video for “Yonkers” to becoming one of the most acclaimed musicians today, it’s been one hell of a decade…
