It’s been another big week in Hip-Hop releases, and this week’s Billboard 200 charts reflect that, as several artists have once again cracked the chart’s Top 50.
G-Eazy leads the way with his sophomore effort–his second album in as many years–When It’s Dark Out, which pulled in 131,831 copies (streams included), nearly triple the first-week total of his debut, These Things Happen, and good for #5 on this week’s chart. Rick Ross comes in right behind the Oakland native at #6, moving roughly 64,000 copies of his 8th album, Black Market, potentially his final release on Def Jam. All eight of Ross’s albums have debuted in the Billboard 200’s Top 10, which is certainly a feat to be admired.
At #29 is Dreamville’s surprise release, Revenge of the Dreamers II, which moved about 21,000 copies of their first official LP, and Curren$y‘s first major label release since 2012’s The Stoned Immaculate, Canal Street Confidential, sits at #30 with just under 21,000 copies sold. Kid Cudi, who’s released his first LP since 2014’s surprise Satellite Flight, Speeding Bullet to Heaven, and pulled in 19,365 in first-week sales, by far the lowest debut of his career.
Jeremih‘s third album, Late Nights, which has sparked a bit of a riff between him and his label, Def Jam, cracks the Top 50 at #42, selling about 18,o00 copies in its first week.
Next week, watch for Chris Brown‘s 7th album, Royalty, to impact the charts, as well as his Virginia brethren Pusha T‘s Darkest Before Dawn, his first album in two years.
