Top selling rap albums (US) 1991-present: Pac, Big, Jay, Dre, Em, 50, Nelly, DMX...

[mortuus est]

NAS LOST
NAS LOST
NAS LOST
NAS LOST
NAS LOST
NAS LOST

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

we just need outkast back brehs

 

[Canada Goose]

If that's the shaggy album with "It wasn't me" "Darling Angel" on it then its not surprising that album did those numbers.

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

Damn Bone Thugs had a really big following

 

[Da King]

Damn Bone Thugs had a really big following

And didn't see a penny of it

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

And didn't see a penny of it

That's why you never get in a group , solo is the way to go

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

dr dre at all them albums he was apart of that are the most succesfull in hip-hop history




and now future legends

midas touch

Kendrick's not on that level

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

That single "it wasnt me" was crazzzzzzy back then

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Double albums SHOULD be counted as two because AEOM and LAD set me back $30+

 

[DaveyDave]

They were 2 great songs (and then a hook on "The Watcher") but I doubt Eminem being on 3 songs had a huge impact on the sales

the hype for Em after coming off SSLP, he was really starting to blow around then. MMLP sold 1.7 million or something FIRST WEEK! Dre's fans combined with Em fans combined with the fact that Snoop was on the album, cats had been waiting for that for a long time and all they really had was bytch Please. this was Dre coming back from Death Row, from the lackluster Aftermath compilation, Still DRE had cats going crazy.

 

[Brief Keef]

"get this fukk ass list outta here"

This is a "US SALES" list, not worldwide

5 mill is 5 mil

 

[Day_Walker]

no way that's AEOM sales are correct.
It was certified 9x platinum (4.5 mill if we going by soundscan's system) in 1998.
It was released Feb 13 96.
Certified 5x plat on april 25 96.
7x plat in sep 96.

 

[Kings County]

the most recent album on this list was released 8 years ago..i think this list will never changed in our lifetime

never will to much free music unless they completly go gun ho and take away all forms of piracy

 

[MiC]

Soundscan is based on sales to customers tho not shipments to retailers, whereas platinum means shipments to retailers. With AEOM being 9x platinum that means 4.5 million (double) albums were shipped to stores. Maybe only 4.4 million (double) albums were bought.

For example nelly "brass knuckles" went gold but only actually sold 225k

 

[Techniec]

They were 2 great songs (and then a hook on "The Watcher") but I doubt Eminem being on 3 songs had a huge impact on the sales

Forgot about Dre was huge