Check Out The 15 Best Selling Hip Hop Albums Of The Year

 

 After having no Hip Hop albums go platinum in 2014, two hit the mark in 2015.

Check out the 15 best selling Hip Hop albums released in 2015:

1. Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (1,121,000)
2. The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness (797,0000
3. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly (755,000)
5. Drake & Future – What A Time To Be Alive (494,000)
5. Dr. Dre – Compton (481,000)
6. Meek Mill – Dreams Worth More Than Money (371,000)
7. Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise (341,000)
8. Future – DS2 (312,000)
9. A$AP Rocky – At.Long.Last.ASAP (230,000)
10. Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap (222,000)
11. Wale – The Album About Nothing (178,000)
12. Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife (164,000)
13. Logic – Incredible True Story (148,000)
14. Jeezy – Church In These Streets (140,000)
15. Ludacris Ludaversal (125,000)

Two albums that were dropped in late 2014 were also among the best selling of this year.  J. Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive was released on 12/9/14 and accumulated 1,072,000 in total sales. Nicki Minaj’s The Pinkprint hit stores 12/12/14 and moved 672,000 total units.

Here are the biggest opening weeks of 2015.
1. Drake – IYRTITL (495K)
2. Drake & Future – WATTBA (334K)
3. The Weeknd – BBTM (325K)
4. Kendrick Lamar – TPAB (324K)
5. Dr. Dre – Compton (278K)
6. Meek Mill - DWMTM (214K)
7. Big Sean  -DSP (139K)
8. Future – DS2 (126K)
9. Logic – TITS (118K)
10. A$AP Rocky – ALLA (116K)

What was your favorite album of 2015.

Busta Rhymes "The Return Of The Dragon: The Abstract Went On Vacation" Cover Art & Tracklist

 

Busta Rhymes released the tracklist for The Return of the Dragon: The Abstract Went on Vacation via Instagram yesterday (December 23).

The project is slated to have 16 songs and include features from Fabolous, Jadakiss, Styles P, Chance the Rapper, Rick Ross and Wiz Khalifa. Dready, Jahlil Beats and Pharrell are listed as producers for the mixtape.

Busta Rhymes' The Return of the Dragon: The Abstract Went on Vacation tracklist is below:

1. Intro - The Abstract & The Dragon Speaks
2. Hits for Days f. J. Holiday (Prod. by Dready)
3. Choose a Side f. J Doe and Aaron Cooks (Prod. by Dready)
4. Respect My Conglomerate 2 ft. Fabolous, Jadakiss and Styles P (Prod. King Karnov)
5. God's Plan f. J Doe and O. T. Genasis (Prod. by Jahlil Beats)
6. Hello f. Chance the Rapper (Prod. by Ted Smooth)
7. Your Loss f. Mary J. Blige (Prod. Chuckie Thompson and L.E.S.)
8. Skit - The Abstract and The Dragon Speaks Again
9. Tonight f. Sean Paul (Prod. by Pharrell)
10. Shawty Go f. Wiz Khalifa (Prod. by Schife)
11. U.F.C. (Tap-Out) f. Waka Flocka and Gucci Mane
12. Real Niggas f. Rick Ross (Prod. by Jahlil Beats)
13. Watch How You Move f. Raekwon the Chef (Prod. by Roc Marciano and Psycho Les)
14. In The Streets f. MF Doom and BJ the Chicago Kid (Prod. by J. Dilla)
15. We Home f. Leaders of the New School (Prod. by Black Milk)
16. Outro - The Final Time The Abstract and The Dragon Speaks

Busta Rhymes announced The Abstract Went on Vacation mixtape December 14 on Instagram. The project is slated for a December 25 release.

"You niggas don't work like me," Busta Rhymes says in a video post. "Until you got a CTown shopping cart full of fucking hard drives, you ain't working like me. December 25 Christmas Day, the dragon returns. The Abstract Went on Vacation. This is from me to y'all saying thank you for all the love for 25 years."

The New York rapper previews some tracks and says production on the project will come from Dready and Ted Smooth.

Busta Rhymes released The Abstract and The Dragon with Q-Tip in December 2013.

Busta Rhymes' The Abstract Went on Vacation cover art is below:

Rapper ‘Donkey Cartel’ Killed In Mall By Off-Duty Cop After Gun Fight

Daquan Antonio Westbrook, who raps under the name Donkey Cartel, was shot and killed Christmas Eve after allegedly opening fire during an argument in a Charlotte mall, and then pointing his gun at an undercover cop.
According to witnesses, Donkey was among two groups of men arguing in the Northlake Mall. Seven shots were fired during the altercation, which sent Christmas shoppers running from the mall and caught the attention of off-duty cop Thomas Ferguson.
According to investigators, Ferguson confronted Donkey and Cartel pointed his gun at the cop. So Ferguson fired his weapon, killing the 18-year old.
Police found multiple guns at the scene.
Cartel dropped a mixtape titled Convicted Felon With a Weapon in April, and was known for his song ‘Can’t Be Touched.’
RIP.

Kendrick Lamar’s ‘TPAB’ Named Rolling Stone’s Best Album Of The Year

Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly was probably rap’s most polarizing album of 2015.
Mainstream music mag Rolling Stone has just named it the best album of all in their annual top 50 albums of the year list.

“Musically, lyrically and emotionally, Kendrick Lamar’s third album is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece – a sprawling epic that’s both the year’s most bumptious party music and its most gripping therapy session. The music mag gushes. “A rap superstar at last, after years on the underground grind, Lamar wrestles with the depression and survivor’s guilt that followed his fame and success by turning to heroes from Ralph Ellison and Richard Pryor to Smokey Robinson and Kris Kross to Nelson Mandela and Tupac. He lives large. He contains multitudes.”

Third on Rolling Stone’s list was Drake’s surprise album/mixtape If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late.
Also of note was The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind The Madness at number 5, Future’s Dirty Sprite 2 at 26, Vince Staples’ Summertime 06 at 35, and Rae Sremmurd’s SremmLife at 44.

Billboard Announces 10 Best Hip Hop Beats Of All-Time

 

Everybody’s been having fun with Billboard’s list of the Ten Greatest Rappers Of All-Time.

But that wasn’t the only rap related list they dropped last week. It clearly hasn’t received the same amount of attention, but the music mag also took a crack at the 10 Best Hip Hop Beats Of All-Time

Check them out below.

Billboard Ranks The Top Ten Rappers Of All Time

Billboard just released a feast of information for chart junkies.

The venerable music mag (and website) has dropped a large cache of all time charts, including some based on the data they’ve been collecting since 1958.
Perhaps the most prestigious is their list of Greatest All Time Billboard 200 Artists, which measures acts by how much time their albums have spent on Billboard’s charts. It’s no great surprise that the Beatles finished first, followed by the Rolling Stones. The highest charting Hip Hop act is Eminem, who finished 14th. Jay Z was next at 42nd.
Billboard also revealed their ranking of the ten best rappers of all time. This list wasn’t exclusively based on chart data, but rather it also took into account the opinion of Billboard’s staff. Here are the results.

10. Lil Wayne
9. Kendrick Lamar
8. Ghostface Killah
7. Lauryn Hill
6. Andre 3000
5. Nas
4. Rakim
3. Emimen
2. Jay Z
1. Notorious B.I.G.

Here is their list of the best selling artists of all-time:
1. Beatles
2. Rolling Stones
3. Barbara Streisand
4. Garth Brooks
5. Elton John
6. Mariah Carey
7. Herb Alpert
8. Taylor Swift
9. Chicago
10. Michael Jackson
11. Led Zeppelin
12. Bruce Springsteen
13. Rod Stewart
14. Eminem
15. Whitney Houston
16. Billy Joel
17. Madonna
18. Santana
19. Eagles
20. Fleetwood Mack
40. Usher
42. Jay Z
53. Alicia Keys
66. Kid Rock
77. Beyonce
97. R. Kelly