Best Selling Hip Hop Albums of 2015 (Forest Hills Drive in 2nd place with 2015 sales alone)
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Check out the 15 best selling Hip Hop albums released in 2015:
1. Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (1,121,000)
2. The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness (797,0000
3. Kendrick Lamar – To ? A Butterfly (755,000)
5. Drake & Future – What A Time To Be Alive (494,000)
5. Dr. Dre – Compton (481,000)
6. Meek Mill – Dreams Worth More Than Money (371,000)
7. Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise (341,000)
8. Future – DS2 (312,000)
9. A$AP Rocky – At.Long.Last.ASAP (230,000)
10. Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap (222,000)
11. Wale – The Album About Nothing (178,000)
12. Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife (164,000)
13. Logic – Incredible True Story (148,000)
14. Jeezy – Church In These Streets (140,000)
15. Ludacris Ludaversal (125,000)
Two albums that were dropped in late 2014 were also among the best selling of this year. J. Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive was released on 12/9/14 and accumulated 1,072,000 in total sales. Nicki Minaj’s The Pinkprint hit stores 12/12/14 and moved 672,000 total units.
Here are the biggest opening weeks of 2015.
1. Drake – IYRTITL (495K)
2. Drake & Future – WATTBA (334K)
3. The Weeknd – BBTM (325K)
4. Kendrick Lamar – TPAB (324K)
5. Dr. Dre – Compton (278K)
6. Meek Mill - DWMTM (214K)
7. Big Sean -DSP (139K)
8. Future – DS2 (126K)
9. Logic – ? (118K)
10. A$AP Rocky – ALLA (116K)
Check out the 15 best selling Hip Hop albums released in 2015:
1. Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (1,121,000)
2. The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness (797,0000
3. Kendrick Lamar – To ? A Butterfly (755,000)
5. Drake & Future – What A Time To Be Alive (494,000)
5. Dr. Dre – Compton (481,000)
6. Meek Mill – Dreams Worth More Than Money (371,000)
7. Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise (341,000)
8. Future – DS2 (312,000)
9. A$AP Rocky – At.Long.Last.ASAP (230,000)
10. Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap (222,000)
11. Wale – The Album About Nothing (178,000)
12. Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife (164,000)
13. Logic – Incredible True Story (148,000)
14. Jeezy – Church In These Streets (140,000)
15. Ludacris Ludaversal (125,000)
Two albums that were dropped in late 2014 were also among the best selling of this year. J. Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive was released on 12/9/14 and accumulated 1,072,000 in total sales. Nicki Minaj’s The Pinkprint hit stores 12/12/14 and moved 672,000 total units.
Here are the biggest opening weeks of 2015.
1. Drake – IYRTITL (495K)
2. Drake & Future – WATTBA (334K)
3. The Weeknd – BBTM (325K)
4. Kendrick Lamar – TPAB (324K)
5. Dr. Dre – Compton (278K)
6. Meek Mill - DWMTM (214K)
7. Big Sean -DSP (139K)
8. Future – DS2 (126K)
9. Logic – ? (118K)
10. A$AP Rocky – ALLA (116K)
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Welp.
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Dope to see Future having 2 top 10 albums this year tho
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Logic – ?
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Forest hills dropped last yr
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Forest hills dropped last yr
yea they threw it in consideration just by counting the sales that came this year -
future kilt the game this year
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Ludacris should be higher on the list.
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Cole the Gawd!
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Props to Cole and K dot
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This list is faulty.Monizzle14 wrote: »http://news.hiphopearly.com/check-15-best-selling-hip-hop-albums-year/#
Check out the 15 best selling Hip Hop albums released in 2015:
1. Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (1,121,000)
2. The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness (797,0000
3. Kendrick Lamar – To ? A Butterfly (755,000)
5. Drake & Future – What A Time To Be Alive (494,000)
5. Dr. Dre – Compton (481,000)
6. Meek Mill – Dreams Worth More Than Money (371,000)
7. Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise (341,000)
8. Future – DS2 (312,000)
9. A$AP Rocky – At.Long.Last.ASAP (230,000)
10. Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap (222,000)
11. Wale – The Album About Nothing (178,000)
12. Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife (164,000)
13. Logic – Incredible True Story (148,000)
14. Jeezy – Church In These Streets (140,000)
15. Ludacris Ludaversal (125,000)
Why is The Weeknd included?
Why is Game being excluded?.........The Game - The Documentary 2: 268,000 (Disc 1 : 161,000/Disc 2 : 107,000) -
King Drake
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i know kendrick dropped mid year but given the sales of FHD in 2015 you can't refute cole is in 2nd place below drake.
Consistent sales for an album from December 2014
3 Leg tour that was innovate (small us venues pt1 , i just landed in europe ? pt 2, bi venues/festivals in us pt 3
Sold out considerable big venues on tour (MSG and Staples as well as allot of the other cities)
Performed his entire album at every show but still got people to keep coming
Brought his Dreamville rappers on tour and got them national exosure
Authentic interactions with fans/Inputting social commentary between songs at shows
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AND DRE SAID AIN'T NO COMING BACK FROM GOLD
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J.J._Evans wrote: »
This list is faulty.Monizzle14 wrote: »http://news.hiphopearly.com/check-15-best-selling-hip-hop-albums-year/#
Check out the 15 best selling Hip Hop albums released in 2015:
1. Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (1,121,000)
2. The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness (797,0000
3. Kendrick Lamar – To ? A Butterfly (755,000)
5. Drake & Future – What A Time To Be Alive (494,000)
5. Dr. Dre – Compton (481,000)
6. Meek Mill – Dreams Worth More Than Money (371,000)
7. Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise (341,000)
8. Future – DS2 (312,000)
9. A$AP Rocky – At.Long.Last.ASAP (230,000)
10. Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap (222,000)
11. Wale – The Album About Nothing (178,000)
12. Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife (164,000)
13. Logic – Incredible True Story (148,000)
14. Jeezy – Church In These Streets (140,000)
15. Ludacris Ludaversal (125,000)
Why is The Weeknd included?
Why is Game being excluded?.........The Game - The Documentary 2: 268,000 (Disc 1 : 161,000/Disc 2 : 107,000)
Lol just noticed they added the weeknd , glad to see my freeform dread brothas (weeknd n cole) runnin the game. -
Drizzy killed it this year
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Damn Compton didn't even go gold?!?!
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AND DRE SAID AIN'T NO COMING BACK FROM GOLD
you still need to learn how to turn caps lock off b lol. -
Meek Mill did great numbers. Salute.
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Monizzle14 wrote: »i know kendrick dropped mid year but given the sales of FHD in 2015 you can't refute cole is in 2nd place below drake.
Consistent sales for an album from December 2014
3 Leg tour that was innovate (small us venues pt1 , i just landed in europe ? pt 2, bi venues/festivals in us pt 3
Sold out considerable big venues on tour (MSG and Staples as well as allot of the other cities)
Performed his entire album at every show but still got people to keep coming
Brought his Dreamville rappers on tour and got them national exosure
Authentic interactions with fans/Inputting social commentary between songs at shows
To ? a butterfly came out in March. -
iKingGodGivBiz wrote: »Meek Mill did great numbers. Salute.
My thoughts during this season of L's is the drake diss wont ? his career but being back in jail or restricted by probation will. He is his own worse diss track the way he wasn't extra careful about travel on parole and his social media foolishness impacting his sentencing. -
MMG gotta be done
My "boss" can't sell less than me -
MMG gotta be done
My "boss" can't sell less than me
the irony is ross ain't even really stick up for meek in the heat of the drake meek beef. And meek still outsold him lolol. And don't no mmg stan say ross stood up for him later on in the year. Ross always be saying some ? when meek/wale or now meed/drake have had beef. Ross be like "We family. Drake family and meek family and family fights sometimes nah mean? At the end of the day we all a bunch of bosses hungry for success huhhhh!". ? don't be making any sense lol. -
Monizzle14 wrote: »i know kendrick dropped mid year but given the sales of FHD in 2015 you can't refute cole is in 2nd place below drake.
Consistent sales for an album from December 2014
3 Leg tour that was innovate (small us venues pt1 , i just landed in europe ? pt 2, bi venues/festivals in us pt 3
Sold out considerable big venues on tour (MSG and Staples as well as allot of the other cities)
Performed his entire album at every show but still got people to keep coming
Brought his Dreamville rappers on tour and got them national exosure
Authentic interactions with fans/Inputting social commentary between songs at shows
To ? a butterfly came out in March.
No ? 3 months into the year. But my point is Cole sold then entire year on a good pace after releasing in december of the previous year. Most cole fans got the album in early December 2014 and or christmas week from an aunt or uncle or family in general buying it for them. Even after most fans bought the album in 2014 the album a million albums or so in 2015 were copped by new fans and new purchases. TPAB ain't have that type of impact and on tour kendrick claims he may stop performing the songs. Touring, Sales, and impact FHD > TPAB. -
aladdin1978 wrote: »Damn Compton didn't even go gold?!?!
Somewhat surprising, but Dre didn't do one video or release any songs for radio play. I think this was just a quick album to ride alongside the Compton movie. It will eventually hit gold & platinum status though.
Even more surprising is that TPAB has yet to go platinum domestically. -
crazy to see how Cole came up, as a fan since the Warm Up.
i heard a car bumping FHD the other day and was thinking I remember when the only Cole fans I knew irl were people I put up on him
Those are big sales for an surprise drop album with no features and basically no promo
