The Roots album
undun was the only addition to the Hip Hop charts this week, and has received the highest rating from HipHopDX.com. The 11th studio album by The Roots was actually driven by concept. The group enlisted Big K.R.I.T. and Sufjan Stevens, along with Dice Raw and Phonte to put together the 14 track collection, which totals a little under 40 minutes. The album
undun, debuted at the #16 spot. So far, they've sold just under 50,000 units.
Robin Thicke's album
Love After War, which feature Lil Wayne, fell amongst the Top 25. T-Pain's
rEVOLVEr, released from RCA/Sony Records, hit the #25 spot, and also feature Lil Wayne, Pitbull, and Wiz Khalifa.
Drake's
Take Care is on its way to platinum status, concluding the week with just under 970,000 units sold. This puts Drake on his way to now 2 platinum studio release, and a gold mixtape (So Far Gone, 2009). The album features Birdman, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, and Rick Ross amongst others.
The Numbers are as follows:
#7. Drake - Take Care - 73,000 (968,000)
#12. Rihanna - Talk That Talk - 52,000 (318,000)
#16. The Roots - undun - 48,000 (48,000)
#20. Mary J. Blige - My Life II: The Journey Continues 42,000 (270,000)
#21. Robin Thicke - Love After War - 41,000 (42,000)
#25. T-Pain - rEVOLVEr - 34,000 (34,000)
#45. Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch The Throne - 20,000 (1,144,000)
#74. Wale - Ambition - 11,000 (281,000)
#97. Yelawolf - Radioactive - 8,400 (62,000)
* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.
source: http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.17960/title.hip-hop-album-sales-the-week-ending-12-11-2011
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