2024 has been a giant yr in hip-hop, and thanks partly to the return of a few of hip-hop’s greatest names, the gross sales numbers are turning up.
Following a four-year hiatus, Eminem checked again within the recreation along with his eleventh album, The Dying Of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce). The most recent effort from the Rap God moved 281,000 equal album models in its first week. Sufficient to dethrone Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division for the highest spot on the Billboard 200 chart. Taylor’s newest LP held the No. 1 spot for 12 weeks till Marshall Mathers arrived. Em’s seven-day complete has served because the benchmark for hip-hop in 2024.
Future’s return on his extremely anticipated collab albums with Metro Boomin, We Do not Belief You and We Nonetheless Do not Belief You, resulted in consecutive No. 1 albums. The 2 artists racked up 251,000 and 127,500 equal album models moved within the first week, respectively.
Ye proved to be bulletproof to the controversy. His joint album, Vultures 1 withTy Dolla $ign, moved 148,000 EAU within the first week and doubled again to retain pole place in consecutive weeks. The earnings makes Vultures 1 and 21 Savage’s American Dream the one two rap albums to carry down the highest spot for consecutive weeks this yr.
As of press time, hip-hop has not seen as large of a debut from any artist because it did in 2023, when Travis Scott’s Utopia album moved a powerful 496,000 in its first week or Drake’s For All of the Canines hit 402,000. Rappers’ greatest gross sales this yr max out round 281,000 models.
Try hip-hop’s greatest first-week gross sales of tasks in 2024 under.
