sales recap

Taylor Swift's latest album, 1989, made history this week. The album sold 1.287 million copies in its first week, registering the largest sales week for an album since June 2, 2002, when Eminem's The Eminem Show sold 1.322 million in its second chart week at No...

T.I.'s Paperwork and Logic's Under Pressure finished No. 2 and No. 4 respectively in this week's album sales, a refreshing sight to see after a few weeks of disappointing hip-hop sales. Paperwork grabbed the No. 2 spot this week with 80,000 units sold, a solid showing for one of ATL's finest. XXL Fres...

The Game's Blood Moon: Year Of The Wolf debuted at No. 8 on the charts this week, with 30,544 units sold. It's a rather disappointing showing for an album that had a good amount of promo behind it, and a few solid tracks with all-star features such as "Hit Em Hard," "Fuck Yo Feelings," and "Really" among others. In comparison...

Tinashe's debut album, Aquarius debuted at No. 16 on the charts this week, a slightly disappointing showing for an album which had a lead single "2 On" that was arguably the song of the summer. In comparison, one of Tinashe's contemporaries, Jhené Aiko, debuted at No. 3 on the charts...

Chris Brown's X drops to No. 6 on the charts this week, with sales dropping drastically from its debut week. After selling 142,155 units last week, the album sold 35,353 units over the course of the past week, representing a 75 percent drop in sales...

Say what you want about Chris Brown, but one thing is for certain; the man can sell records. This week, Chris Brown sixth studio album X came in at No. 2 on the charts this week, selling a whopping 142,155 units. The album, which features songs such as “Loyal”, “Autumn Leaves”, and the title track “X”, delivers one of the strongest weeks for an urban music album this year. Lecrae's Anomaly, which

After a week's worth of speculation, the numbers have finally been released. Lecrae's Anomaly has taken the top spot on this week's chart, edging out another major first-week release, Jhené Aiko's Souled Out. While Aiko's album sales total hit projections, with 71,230 units sold this past week, Lecrae's album surpassed projections that stated that the album would sell around 75,000 to 80,000 in t

Jeezy's latest album, Seen It All: The Autobiography had a huge first week, surpassing projections that stated that the album was expected to move 90,000-100,000 units. Jeezy's album took the No. 2 spot on the charts this past week, selling 113,255 copies...

One of the few eccentricities of Guardians of the Galaxy was its soundtrack, which featured jams from the '70s and '80s — the type that would get sampled in hip-hop. The soundtrack debuted at No. 1 on this week's charts with 103,199 copies sold. It's the most hip-h...

With Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Hypnotic Eye taking the top spot and mainstays like the Frozen soundtrack, Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour and Now 50 still hanging around, there's no room for hip-hop in this week's Top 10. The main success st...

Common has been producing higher quality work since linking back up with No I.D. in 2011. That unfortunately hasn't translated into higher sales numbers. After pushing 69,000 copies of 2011's The Dreamer/The Believer in its first week, Nobody's Smiling debuts at No. 6 with 23,000...

This is the week a parody album is doing better than hip-hop albums. Weird Al Yankovic's Mandatory Fun, which has parodies of "Fancy" and "Happy," tops the charts (for the first time in his career) with 104,000 units pushed. This wee...