Fabolous' The Young OG Project had a solid first week of sales almost cracking Billboard 200's new top 10, reaching No. 12. Loso moved 71,000 digital units of his seventh studio album. Nicki Minaj's The Pinkprint is holding strong at No. 2 after pushing an additional 156,000 copies. J. Cole, whose latest LP 2014 Forest Hills Drive has already reached gold status, had another strong week, moving 120,000 units and streams. The N.C. MC dropped two spots from four to six.

On a side note, Taylor Swift's latest album 1989 is doing Tupac numbers having sold over 200,000 copies for 12 total weeks. Usher's Confessions was the last album to do so in 2004.

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[via Billboard]

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