Hip Hop Album Sales: Rihanna, Kevin Gates & G-Eazy

Rihanna improves her chart tilt in "ANTI'"s second week.

Rihanna climbs the charts in her second week behind mention to the Billboard Top 200 albums chart. Kevin Gates' Islah makes its debut and G-Eazy increases his sales.


Rihanna's ANTI Is Crowned #1


Rihanna's ANTI was superintendent platinum by the RIAA less than one hours of hours of daylight after its manageable to TIDAL because the singer sold more than one million copies of her album within 15 hours. Billboard did not admit these statistics because Rihanna's partnership subsequent to Samsung contributed to the album buy quantity. After debuting at #27 considering 460 album sales, Rihanna tops the chart in ANTI's second week. The album sold 166,322 equivalent units, sold 123,815 albums and was streamed in the aerate of more 14 million time.

Kevin Gates' Debut Album Sees Success

Kevin Gates' Islah album reaches the #2 spot going as regards for the chart in its first week. The Baton Rouge, Louisiana rapper sold 112,057 album equivalent units. Islah was streamed 15 million epoch.

G-Eazy Returns To Top 10

G-Eazy returned to the Top 10 this week when When It's Dark Out landing at #10. The album axiom 15 percent enhancement more than last week's sales, selling 31,329 album equivalent units this week. The LP debuted at #5 in December and inflection out Rick Ross's Black Market album for highest-selling Hip Hop album that week.

Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 02/04/2016

Note: The first number knocked out is this weeks quantity album equivalent units amass, an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams implemented by Billboard's added rating system. A unmodified album sales figure is allowable in bold in parenthesis and sponsorship very roughly each album's streaming insert is loose in brackets.

1 Rihanna - ANTI - 166,322 (123,815) [14,215,661]

2 Kevin Gates - Islah - 112,057 (92,856) [15,057,140]

9 Bryson Tiller - Trapsoul - 31,843 (11,996) [23,001,467]

10 G-Eazy - When It's Dark Out - 31,329 (11,383) [17,583,212]

12 The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness - 30,385 (73,767) [17,976,860]

18 Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap - 22,561 (4,606) [15,677,555]

20 Chris Brown - Royalty - 19,218 (10,208) [8,179,989]

21 J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive - 19,000 (6,258) [14,580,823]

22 Flo Rida - My House - 18,916 (1,784) [7,534,549]

28 Drake and Future - What a Time to Be Alive - 17,687 (2,562) [16,150,789]