Deezed

2y

cool stat

out of the top 100 best selling artists (overall sale, album sales + single sales combined)

the only rappers in that top 100, in order are:

Eminem (rank 10)
Drake (rank 21)
Kanye (rank 48)
Jay (rank 60)
2pac (rank 80)

outside the top 100:

Nicki (rank 108)
Trav (rank 115)
kendrick (rank 129)
future (rank 137)
juice (rank 138)

in the grand scheme of things, out of the top 150 best selling artists of all time, rap represents 6.6%

taylor swift at #9, shes currently at 50% of the way to beating the beatles

Mafia Boss

2y

How many rap albums have done this so far? Certs only no eligibles.

Deezed

2y

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in the new era & certified? only drake with Views (8x) & Take Care (8x), & NWTS (6x), and trav with Astroworld (6x)

but there is some albums that are eligible/will be eligible guaranteed like:

DAMN (i cant find the numbers to know 100%, but if GKMC is 7x eligble, im sure this one is minimum 6x)
GKMC (eligible 7x)
Scorpion (eligible 7x)

Ones that are close/most likely eligible 6x by now:

? (certified 5x, most likely 6x+ now)
Good Bye and Good riddance (certified 5x, most likely 6x+ now)
Watch The Throne (certified 5x, most likely 6x+ now)

in the old era theres a bunch:

Ready to DIe (6x)
2001 (6x)
Vol 2, Hard Knock Life (6x)
Massacre (6x)
Nellyville (7x)
Carter 3 (8x)
Recovery (8x)
Get rich or die Trying (9x)
Big Willie Style (9x)
Licensed to Ill (10x)
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill ( (10x)
Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em (10x)
Country Grammar (10x)
Curtain Call: The Hits (10x)
The Marshall Mathers LP (11x)
All Eyez on Me (11x)
Greatest Hits 2pac (11x)
Life After Death (11x)
MMLP (11x)
Eminem Show (12x)
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (13x)

KayTray

2y

I think he means albums where every single song is RIAA certified (gold or above)

Deezed

2y

in the new era & certified? only drake with Views (8x) & Take Care (8x), & NWTS (6x), and trav with Astroworld (6x)

but there is some albums that are eligible/will be eligible guaranteed like:

DAMN (i cant find the numbers to know 100%, but if GKMC is 7x eligble, im sure this one is minimum 6x)
GKMC (eligible 7x)
Scorpion (eligible 7x)

Ones that are close/most likely eligible 6x by now:

? (certified 5x, most likely 6x+ now)
Good Bye and Good riddance (certified 5x, most likely 6x+ now)
Watch The Throne (certified 5x, most likely 6x+ now)

in the old era theres a bunch:

Ready to DIe (6x)
2001 (6x)
Vol 2, Hard Knock Life (6x)
Massacre (6x)
Nellyville (7x)
Carter 3 (8x)
Recovery (8x)
Get rich or die Trying (9x)
Big Willie Style (9x)
Licensed to Ill (10x)
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill ( (10x)
Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em (10x)
Country Grammar (10x)
Curtain Call: The Hits (10x)
The Marshall Mathers LP (11x)
All Eyez on Me (11x)
Greatest Hits 2pac (11x)
Life After Death (11x)
MMLP (11x)
Eminem Show (12x)
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (13x)

Deezed

2y

ahhhh, every song certified gold atleast

tbh only streaming era albums will have that because prior to the streaming era, album cuts were not allowed to chart/make sales

only pre-determined "singles" that were pushed to stores/radio

for example:

eminems albums that are diamond certified:

MMLP: 5 songs certified gold+
Eminem Show: 10 songs certified gold+ (pretty surprising, streaming era back catalogue must have caused album cuts to go gold)
Curtain Call: 4 songs certified gold+

Kr0niic

2y

130k week 3

Kr0niic

2y

130k week 3

Shabazz999

2y

if he would’ve released this album a few weeks earlier he would’ve have 3 weeks at #1 on the bb200 and 3 back to back #1s on the hot 100

Oldhead

2y

Probably didn’t wanna clash with Tyler

Kr0niic

2y

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fatd did 120k week 3

Kr0niic

2y

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fatd did 120k week 3