2014 Highest First-week Sales in Hip-Hop (Updated)

[RajWatts]

Update:

1. Mastermind Rick Ross 179,000
2 Shady XV Various artists 148,000
3 Oxymoron Schoolboy Q 139,000
4 Seen It All: The Autobiography Young Jeezy 121,000
5 G I R L Pharrell Williams 113,000
6 Blacc Hollywood Wiz Khalifa 90,000
7 Anomaly Lecrae 89,000
8 Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon Kid Cudi 87,000
9 Paperwork T.I. 80,000
10 Hood Billionaire Rick Ross 79,000

 

[Shogun]

The top-selling albums of 2014 so far are:

1 – Coldplay, 'Ghost Stories'
2 – Paolo Nutini, 'Caustic Love'
3 – Ellie Goulding, 'Halcyon'
4 – Paloma Faith, 'A Perfect Contradiction'
5 – Sam Smith, 'In The Lonely Hour'
6 – Pharrell Williams, 'Girl'
7 – Bastille, 'Bad Blood'
8 – London Grammar, 'If You Wait'
9 – Beyoncé, 'Beyoncé'
10 – Arctic Monkeys, 'AM'

Looks like white people have moved on :truth:

 

[MrFettuccinnePockets]

Damn....

Rap game skressful

 

[mobbinfms]

What did Mobb deep and Freddie Gibbs sell?

 

[call_me_step_daddy]

This is one of the worse years ever for rap musically & financially..all that "you're just not looking for the good music" talk is bullshyt too..good hiphop never was this hard to find

Plus the wack ass threads in the booth is another example of how horrible hiphop has become

 

[Clark Wayne]

Damn, didn't realize Coldplay still had that kind of pull, but then again I haven't checked for them in a while. They sold 383k first week and already at 589k. Pharrell's album did exactly as I expected it to. Start out with low sales and slowly keep selling. It's at 469k and will hit gold in a week or two and still keep selling.

 

[prophecypro]

Looks like white people have moved on :truth:

....To making black music themselves or listening to white influenced black artists by the looks of that chart

Also kind of surprise Coldplay is number 1 given that for this album it doesnt seem to be getting the acclaim of previous albums even in terms of radioplay. Them dudes also straight up did a pop EDM record for their new single too

 

[KnowledgeOfSelf17]

if it aint em, drake or hov....rappers a barely breaking gold -hollow da don

 

[prophecypro]

Also no major major rappers dropped albums this year yet compared to 2012 and 2013. Those years were low too but Drake, Em, Jay, Kendrick still managed to go plat and other high selling gold or close to gold albums happened like J Cole, GOOD Music, Kanye, Nas, Nicki, Ross, 2 Chainz, Wiz and Ti..

This year been pretty quiet in comparison

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

Yea YG sold less than 200k albums but has multiple songs off the album certified gold or platinum. Money wise, he's eating. Kid Ink has a gold single as well. Just like the 'Happy' single has sold a couple million songs but 'Girl' itself I think has barely hit gold.

People assume because the album sales are weak no one is eating but Hip Hop, more so than other genres, fans will just cherry pick songs. I am not that surprised by these numbers.

 

[Pop123]

50's dollar store paper plate of an album sold more than Young Money or did Young Moneys album just drop like last week or somethin?

 

[GetSomeMoney]

Yea YG sold less than 200k albums but has multiple songs off the is album certified gold or platinum. Money wise, he's eating. Kid Ink has a gold single as well. Just like the 'Happy' single has sold a couple million songs but 'Girl' itself I think has barely hit gold.

People assume because the album sales are weak no one is eating but Hip Hop, more so than other genres, fans will just cherry pick songs. I am not that surprised by these numbers.

I think most people know the rappers on the list are eating but they dont make much off their singles, all their money is pretty much show money and some sponsorship/branding money, I think the big thing to take away is these dudes are not eating nearly as well as the media promotes, hip hop on a commercial level is in a very tough spot. The Forbes list is complete bullshyt.

 

[ROFL_GUY]

EM @ 2.6mili

 

[Enzo]

Yo

Do you have the hip hop digital single sales?

That's where the movement is

 

[King Poetic]

all those rappers listed have no substance and only rap about the same hood and drug shyt. them rappers are limited and in 50 case outdated