Hip Hop Album Sales: Jeezy Has Trifecta Of #1 Albums With "Trap Or Die 3"

Jeezy and Meek Mill went head to head this week when they both dropped projects that were continuations of their popular series’. Jeezy comes out as king on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart as Trap or Die 3 lands him yet another #1 title. Meek Mill beat out Drake’s VIEWS this week, though, so that has to count for something. A$AP Mob also makes a splash with the release of Cozy Tapes Vol. 1 honoring A$AP Yams.
Jeezy Snags Third #1 Album With “Trap Or Die 3”
Jeezy’s Trap or Die mixtape changed the game when it was released in 2005. The Atlanta legend might not have done anything groundbreaking on Trap or Die 3, but the project is a landmark one for The Snowman as it’s his third #1 album. The LP sold 89,000 units in its debut on the chart and was streamed 19.8 million times. Jeezy has also taken the top spot with 2006’s The Inspiration and in 2008 with The Recession.
Meek Mill Beats Out Drake This Week With “DC4”
Drake’s VIEWS has reigned for 27 weeks on the chart and this sales cycle finds the project at its lowest slot yet, landing at #7. Meek Mill overtook the Toronto superstar with the debut of his Dreamchasers 4 landing at #3 with 87,000 equivalent album units. If Meek had dropped DC4 the same day as VIEWS as was rumored, he would not have even come close to Drizzy’s 1 million sales. But perhaps this is a small victory in the ongoing war between the two.
A$AP Mob Do A$AP Yams Justice With “Cozy Tapes Vol. 1”
A$AP Yams is smiling down on A$AP Mob as the group paid tribute to their late leader with Cozy Tapes Vol. 1. The project lands at #13 in its debut on the chart after a Halloween release. Featuring the singles “Yamborghini High,” “Crazy Brazy” and the Tyler The Creator-assisted “Telephone Calls,” Cozy Tapes follows the success of A$AP Rocky’s two #1 albums and A$AP Ferg’s two Top 10 releases.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 11/03/2016
Note: The first number below is this week’s “total album equivalent units” count, an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams implemented by Billboard’s new rating system. A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.
#1 Jeezy — Trap or Die 3 — 89,487 (73,189) [19,882,077]
#3 Meek Mill — Dreamchasers 4 —87,411 (44,603) [55,930,200]
#7 Drake – VIEWS – 35,971 (5,750) [39,926,805]
#8 Various Artists – Suicide Squad: The Album – 27,574 (8,742) [15,568,654]
#13 A$AP Mob — Cozy Tapes Vol. 1 — 21,179 (7,419) [18,763,531]
#18 Travis Scott – Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight – 18,723 (2,137) [22,780,756]
#21 Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife 2 — 17,327 (1,816) [17,255,378]
#22 Rihanna – ANTI – 17,200 (2,771) [17,549,899]
#24 Kanye West – The Life of Pablo –16,839 (1) [23,178,863]
#30 21 Savage and Metro Boomin — Savage Mode — 14,130 (737) [18,403,599]