After 2024 proved to be a pivotal 12 months for hip-hop in some ways, an uptrend in gross sales numbers for the rap recreation is carrying over into 2025, with a number of the style’s prime acts on the helm.
Lil Child kicked off the 12 months in January recent out the gate with WHAM, his first album in practically three years. Transferring 140,000 equal album items in its first week, the 15-track LP marked the Atlanta rapper’s fourth consecutive challenge to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. WHAM additionally notably discovered Younger Thug laying down his first publicly launched verse since being free of jail on the monitor “Dum, Dumb and Dumber” that includes Future.
As Drake and Kendrick Lamar took probably the most monumental rap beef of all time from diss tracks to the courtroom and onto phases just like the 2025 Tremendous Bowl halftime present, each MCs stay on the prime of the sphere in 2025, and have the album gross sales to show it. When Drizzy made his triumphant return to the highest of the charts in February alongside PartyNextDoor with $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, the duo’s long-awaited joint album bought a formidable 246,000 items.
Whereas Drake proved that he was to not be counted out within the wake of the battle with Kendrick, Ok-Dot as soon as once more dominated together with his GNX album. The trouble returned to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart twice this 12 months. GNX additionally outsold $$$ 4 U by a mere 500 album equal items in March.
After maintaining his Vamp military riddled with anticipation for 1,067 days, Playboi Carti lastly got here by means of with Music on March 14, and his rabidly loyal fan base rose to the event in a serious approach. In pushing 298,000 items within the first seven days of its launch, Carti’s Music solidified a place because the highest-streaming debut for any album in 2025 thus far.
Different spectacular gross sales numbers in 2025 embody tasks from Travis Scott and Jackboys, Clipse, Lil Wayne, the late nice Mac Miller, Opium artist Ken Carson, the at present incarcerated Lil Durk and The Weeknd, amongst many others. Check out hip-hop’s greatest first-week challenge gross sales of 2025, in response to Luminate, the unbiased information supplier to the Billboard charts, beneath.
