It’s a good week for hip-hop this week, with both Big Sean and Juicy J debuting their new albums in the top 5 on Billboard. The former sold 72k of his sophomore effort Hall of Fame, with Juicy moving 64k of Stay Trippy. Congrats guys! Get the rest of the top 10 below.
Congrats! T.I.’s “Trouble Man” Certified Gold
After 9 months on the charts, T.I.’s eighth studio album Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head has officially been certified gold, moving over 500k units. Better late than never, right? Congrats! The Atlanta rapper is currently working on the album’s follow-up, Trouble Man: He Who Wears The Crown.
Robin Thicke Helps Interscope Make History
Robin Thicke’s hit single “Blurred Lines” is doing wonders for him. This week it stood strong at number 1 on Billboard’s Nielsen BDS-based Mainstream Top 40 chart for the sixth week in a row, and number 1 on Rhythmic for a seventh! Now for the first time for Robin, T.I. or Pharrell, it has achieved the number one status on the Adult Top 40 list as well! That’s not all, though. The track has topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 9 weeks; set the mark for the greatest weekly audience (219.8 million); and become the first song to sell at least 400,000 downloads in each of four weeks. Oh, and it continues. The song is just the second (and the first in more than 14 years) to top Mainstream Top 40, Rhythmic and Adult Top 40 simultaneously. And now that it’s number 1, and Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive,” Maroon 5’s “Love Somebody” and Zedd’s “Clarity” are numbers 2 through 4 respectively, Interscope is the first label ever to boast the top four Mainstream Top 40 titles concurrently. Congrats to all!
