Kanye West, Nicki Minaj Expected To Go 1 & 2 On Sales Charts

 

Last week we saw both Kanye West and Nicki Minaj releases there albums.  They are both expected to be 1 and 2 on the record sales charts. Kanye album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is expected to of sold around 525-575,000 copies so it is expected to go number 1 on the Billboard charts. Meanwhile Nicki Minaj album Pink Friday is expected to of sold 375-400,000 copies which should make it go to 2 on the Billboard Charts. Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill holds the most sold in the debut album week of a female hip-hop artist which is 422,000 which came out in 1998. 

Weeks Sales

Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)
Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total

1 Michael Jackson Michael Jackson'This Is It 373,000 374,000

10 Jay-Z Blueprint 3 41,000 1,200,000

14 Tech N9ne K.O.D. 30,000 30,000

20 Brian McKnight Evolution Of A Man 24,000 24,000

44 Triple C's Custom Cars & Cycles 12,000 2,000

146 Swollen Members Armed To The Teeth 3,400 3,500

147 Z-Ro Cocaine 3,400 3,500

153 New Boyz Skinny Jeanz & A Mic 3,300 35,000

166 Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2 3,000 130,000