Chartdata and Billboard Reaveal The Best Selling Artists in Pure Album Sales in 2025...only 2 rappers on it.
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The bots buy tickets for sold out stadium shows and actually buy albums, who would have thought 
Piff Perkins
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Tyler about to do a stadium tour too. West coast domination.
Not to mention the biggest hits of the last few years, in rap, were from the West Coast as well. Proud of the west
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Kendrick Lamar’s "good kid, m.A.A.d city" is the best selling rap album of the 2020s in the US in pure sales, despite being released over a decade ago
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Diondon
Thanks to the lawyers uh, I marbled the foyer
but but but Lucian Grange!
Metal Face
Superstar
Kendrick really the Taylor Swift of rap
Drake doesn't move units like that tbh. Even stream wise, hes at the top of spotify only because of the high number of songs he dropped. When you break down his numbers and do the average of stream per song, it's pretty weak.
And considering that all his recent stuff been flopping hard, I wouldn't be surprised if his next project had 40 tracks or something...so hecan manipulate the charts
M4T
All Star
This is for new albums. Drake has 8 albums in the billboard 200, his latest outsold GNX last week. I already made a thread about itDrake doesn't move units like that tbh. Even stream wise, hes at the top of spotify only because of the high number of songs he dropped. When you break down his numbers and do the average of stream per song, it's pretty weak.
And considering that all his recent stuff been flopping hard, I wouldn't be surprised if his next project had 40 tracks or something...so hecan manipulate the charts
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Drake has 8 albums in the top 200. His latest album just passed GNX. 2Pac is the only 90s rapper on the list. Tyler the Creator is banking. Big x is officially the most popular new rapper.
#6 Tyler the creator -cherry bomb
#7 Bigxtheplug - I hope you're happy
#9 Gunna - the last wun
#16 Offset - Kiari
#26 Drake/PND - $ome $exy $ongs 4 U
#29 Kendrick Lamar - GNX
#30 Drake - Take Care
#37 Tyler the creator - Don't tap the glass
#49 Eminem -Curtain call
#52 $uicideboy$-Thy Kingdom Come
#54 Playboi Carti - Music
#61 BigXThaplug - Take Care
#63 Kendrick Lamar - Gkmc
#70 NBA Young boy - Masa
#72 Drake - Views
#81 Drake - For all the dogs
#82 Drake - Certified lover boy
#98 Pitbull - Greatest Hits
#106 Lil baby - My turn
#110 Kendrick Lamar - Damn
#113 Drake - Scorpion
#127 Travis Scott - Jackboys 2
#134 Future - I never liked you
#140 Kayne West - Graduation
#142 Tyler the Creator -CHROMAKOPIA
#148 Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out
#149 2pac - Greatest hits
#152 Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
#156 Drake - Thank me later
#157 Tyler the Creator - IGOR
#158 Juice WRLD - Goodbye and Good Riddance
#162 Travis Scott - Utopia
#165 Travis Scott - Astroworld
#179 Future/Metro boomin - We don't trust you
#182 Drake - More life
#183 Kevin Gates - Luca Brasi 4
#187 J Cole - 2014 Forest hills drive
#192 Kid Cudi - Free
#198 Metro boomin - heroes and villains
#197 Doja Cat - planet her
Billboard already said Kendrick albums in general do way better numbers.
You're comparing stuff that are not comparable... 24 track projects vs 12 ????????? in the streaming era???????????
Not to mention, gnx sold way more in 2025 than Drake's last album.
Nobody cares about last week, specially when one artist is being super active and the other hasn't released or said anything since last year
Best-selling albums by rappers in 2025 so far (US, total units)
#1: GNX — 1.8M (it was later updated as GNX did 2M in 2025)
#2: $$$4U — 1.3M
#3: MUSIC — 1.0M
#4: WHAM — 667K
#5: Take Care (BigXthaPlug) — 652K
#6: CHROMAKOPIA — 649K
#7: Alligator Bites Never Heal — 621K
#8: good kid, m.A.A.d city — 618K
#9: DAMN. — 587K
#10: Take Care (Drake) — 568K
#1: GNX — 1.8M (it was later updated as GNX did 2M in 2025)
#2: $$$4U — 1.3M
#3: MUSIC — 1.0M
#4: WHAM — 667K
#5: Take Care (BigXthaPlug) — 652K
#6: CHROMAKOPIA — 649K
#7: Alligator Bites Never Heal — 621K
#8: good kid, m.A.A.d city — 618K
#9: DAMN. — 587K
#10: Take Care (Drake) — 568K