Hip Hop Album Sales: Michael Jackson, Fetty Wap, Drake & Future

Michael Jackson shoots up the charts.

In a slow week for Rap album sales, Drake and Future's What a Time to Be Alive barely hangs into the top 10 of the Billboard Top 200 chart. Fetty Wap and The Weeknd still have the highest selling projects. Game sees a 30 percent drop on The Documentary 2 and a 40 percent drop on The Documentary 2.5.

Fetty Wap Stays Selling

The New Jersey rapper/singer sold 39,497 album equivalent units this week, which lands him in the #6 spot on the chart. This is a seven percent decrease from last week. His self-titled album has spent six weeks on the chart

Drake & Future Still Alive

Drake and Future's collaborative album/mixtape What a Time to Be Alive remains in the top 10 on the chart, landing at #9 with 30,338 album equivalent units. The project saw more than 27 million streams. Future's Dirty Sprite 2 is the #26 album in the country and Drake's If Youre Reading This Its Too Late drops eight positions to #32.

Michael Jackson's "Thriller" Resurrects

Michael Jackson got some extra spin time around Halloween. His Thriller album lands at the #45 spot on the chart and saw more than three million streams. The project beat out Travi$ Scott's Rodeo, both discs of The Game's The Documentary 2 and DJ Khaled's I Changed a Lot, which saw a 69 percent decrease in sales after debuting at #12 last week.

Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 11/05/2015

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.
#5 The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness - 49,052 (17,381) [27,903,022]
#6 Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap - 39,497 (9,556) [24,922,409]
#9 Drake & Future - What a Time to Be Alive - 30,338 (6,535) [27,534,447]
#23 Bryson Tiller - Trapsoul - 19,779 (7,954) [14,474,553]
#26 Future - Dirty Sprite 2 - 17,539 (4,401) [14,940,237]
#32 Drake - If Youre Reading This Its Too Late - 15,491 (3,928) [14,111,872]
#36 Janet Jackson - Unbreakable - 14,227 (12,982) [980,897]
#41 J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive - 12,505 (3,408) [10,402,266]
#45 Michael Jackson - Thriller - 11,812 (5,728) [3,064,141]
#46 Travi$ Scott - Rodeo - 11,464 (2,652) [8,882,492]