Tech N9ne’s New Album Debuts at No. 4 in This Week’s Album Sales (5/13/2015)

With 66,000 units of his Special Effects album sold, Tech N9ne comes in at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 chart* for the third time in five years. In 2011, Tech's All 6's & 7's album debuted at No. 4, and in 2013 his Something Else project also came in at No. 4 on the chart. The 66,000 sold are the most first week sales he has amassed over the span of his impressive career. As an independent artist the number is incredibly impressive--and lucrative.

Elsewhere on the chart, the Furious 7 soundtrack continues to do major numbers and remains in the top ten with another 46,000 units sold. The high sales are due large in part to Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again" cut from the soundtrack that remains at No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart. Khalifa's days at No. 1 may soon be numbered as Fetty Wap's "Trap Queen" continues it's meteoric climb up the charts and now sits pretty at No. 2.

Check out where other hip-hop albums charted this week below:

No. 4: Tech N9ne, Special Effects, 66,000
No. 7: Various Artists, Furious 7 Soundtrack, 46,000
No. 12: Drake, If You're Reading This It's Too Late, 32, 736
No. 18: Kendrick Lamar, Good Kid m.A.A.d City, 25,121
No. 23: Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint, 17,897
No. 29: Rae Sremmurd, SremmLife, 15,085
No. 3o: Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly, 15,079
No. 31, Big Sean, Dark Sky Paradise, 15,073
No. 32: Various Artists, Empire Soundtrack, 15,021
No. 41: Yelawolf, Love Story, 13,148
No. 44: J. Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, 12,580

*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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