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Thanks to a No. 3 debut of Yelawolf's Love Story, three out of the top five albums on the Billboard 200 chart are hip-hop related. Yelawolf's No. 3 showing is the best of his career and a much higher first week appearance than 2011's Radioactive which came in at No. 27 with 41,000 sold. At No. 2, the Furious 7 Soundtrack stands pat with 63,000 sold and Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again," a song dedicated to Paul Walker from the compilation, remains at No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart for the third straight week.  Thanks to the physical release of Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drizzy saw the biggest jump on the chart, rising from No. 10 to No. 4 with 48,000 sold. The 124 percent sales increase also helped him climb from No. 20 to No. 3 on the Top Album Sales chart.

Curren$y's Even More Saturday Night Car Tunes, which dropped last Mon., April 20, comes in at No. 46 According to HITS Daily Double, a streaming plus sales chart that gives approximate sales based on data from a limited number of retailers. The estimated 10,000+ sold is an impressive number for a five track EP that didn't get much promo and goes to show that Spitta has one of the more loyal fan bases in hip-hop.

Check out where other hip-hop albums charted below:

No. 2: Various Artists, Furious 7 Soundtrack, 63,000
No. 3: Yelawolf, Love Story, 59,000
No. 4: Drake, If You're Reading This It's Too Late, 48,000
No. 17: Tyler, The Creator, Cherry Bomb, 21,650
No. 18: Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly, 21,228
No. 20: Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint, 20,017
No. 21: Big Sean, Dark Sky Paradise, 19,482
No. 24: Various Artists, Empire Soundtrack, 18,776
No. 33: J. Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, 14,351
No. 34: Wale, The Album About Nothing, 14,220
No. 46: Curren$y, Even More Saturday Night Car Tunes, 10,840

*The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on mulit-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums and streaming equivalent albums.

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