N.W.A Lands on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart for the First Time

The Straight Outta Compton film is smashing the box office and the success of the film is starting to impact the sales of N.W.A's music. For the first time ever, an N.W.A song is on the Billboard Top 40 chart as "Straight Outta Compton" currently sits at No. 38 on the chart, 27 years after its original release. On the Billboard 200 chart, N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton album sits at No. 4 as of Friday, Aug. 23 after moving 44,000 units last week. This is the highest N.W.A has charted since their album, Niggaz4Life, debuted at No. 1 in June of 1991. On the iTunes charts, "Straight Outta Compton," Eazy-E's single "Boyz-n-the-Hood" and Ice Cube's classic diss song, "No Vaseline," have all landed on the Top 100 songs. The remastered version of the Straight Outta Compton album also sits at No.9 on the most popular albums list.

The N.W.A biopic closed out its opening weekend with $60.2 million in ticket sales, which earned them the number one spot at the box office. The following weekend, the film totaled $26.8 million and has eclipsed the $100 million mark less than two weeks after the film's initial release. According to BoxOffice.com, the movie has totaled just over $111 million in sales. The film has beaten out titles like Mission: Impossible -- Rogue Nation, Sinister 2, Hitman: Agent 47 and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.