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WeLoveHipHop.com has compiled the most up-to-date list online of the top 20 best selling hip hop albums in history. You might be surprised who makes this list.
1. Outkast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (Arista/Leface) 11x Platinum
2. MC Hammer – Please Hammer Don’t Hurt Em (Capitol) 10x Platinum
3. Notorious BIG – Life After Death*Double CD* (BadBoy/Arista) 10x Platinum
4. Tupac Shakur – All Eyez On Me *Double CD* (Deathrow/Interscope) 9x Platinum
5. Will Smith – Big Willie Style (Columbia) 9x Platinum
The Rest of the List…
6. Nelly – Country Grammar (Universal) 9x Platinum
7. Tupac Shakur – Greatest Hits (Deathrow/Interscope) 9x Platinum
8. Eminem – Marshall Mathers LP (Interscope) 9x Platinum
9. Eminem – The Eminem Show (Interscope) 8x Platinum
10. Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Columbia/Ruffhouse) 8x Platinum
11. Vanilla Ice – To The Extreme (SBK) 7x Platinum
12. Puff Daddy and the Family – No Way Out (BadBoy/Arista) 7x Platinum
13. Nelly – Nellyville (Universal) 6x Platinum
14. Dr. Dre – Dr. Dre 2001 (Interscope) 6x Platinum
15. The Fugees – The Score (Columbia/Ruffhouse) 6x Platinum
16. 50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tyrin (Interscope/Aftermath) 6x Platinum
17. 50 Cent – The Massacre (Interscope/Aftermath) 5x Platinum
18. Jay- Z – Hard Knock Life Volume 2 (Roc-A-Fella) 5x Platinum
19. Salt N’ Pepa – Very Necessary (Next Plateu/Rush) 5x Platinum
20. DMX – And Then There Was X (Rush Associated Labels) 5x Platinum
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I remember as a kid going to the record store, and buying the newest Redman, A Tribe Called Quest, Dr. Dre, or Nas tape the first week it came out. I wouldn’t have my opinion on whether or not the album was good based on how many other people in America bought it the first week out. If I liked what I heard, then it was a good album. Somehow, things changed.
The first time I can remember hearing about album sales was back when Michael Jackson was selling all type of records, when he was still relevant. Then came along MC Hammer, and his Please Hammer Don’t Hurt Em that changed the way mainstream America looked at hip hop(amazingly). If you were old enough to buy albums in 1990, don’t front like you didn’t own this album:
Over 10 Million people did, making it the first hip hop album to be certified diamond by the RIAA.
Other albums did well before MC Hammer, such as The Beastie Boys “Licensed to Ill”, but no one was paying attention to record sales then. Through tough economic times and recessions in the country over the last 20 plus years, the recording industry has still done well. However, recently, the combination of albums leaking on the internet to download for free, and the quality of the product offered has made many artists who used to go gold and platinum looking for other ways to make a living.
We have seen superstars like Eminem, Tupac Shakur, Notorious BIG, Outkast, and Lauryn Hill all put up incredible album sales numbers over the years, but will we ever see an artist go diamond again? Or better yet, should we care? I don’t. I rather artists get back to the days where you can listen to an album from start to finish again and again like back in the day. Those type of albums are few and far between. We haven’t seen a year in hip hop like 1996 since….1996.
If you take a look at this week’s Billboard.com Top 200 Albums chart, there is only 1 hip hop album in the Top 10(Rick Ross – Deeper Than Rap). There are only a handful of artists right now that not only deliver a quality product time in and time out, but also get the sales. Jay-Z, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, and T.I are all capable of going platinum in 2009, with bootleggers running all over the net, and haters from all angles trying to keep them down.
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