AllHipHop.com did a run down of the top sellers of Hip Hop music in 2009 and you may be surprised who made the successful sales this year. Here goes:
Eminem, has the best selling Hip-Hop album of 2009. Known as the Michael Jackson of Hip Hop in terms of sales, Eminem left the competition in the dust moving 1 533 184 CDs of Relapse. If you still have not got the album and want to it is being re-released with an additional 7 songs on an album called Relapse: Refill.
Black Eyed Pea’s fifth album sold 1,440,895 copies in great part due to their singles and a little Toronto drama with Paris Hilton LOL. This album continues to sell even today, never dropping out of the Top 50.
Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 sold 1,337,192 copies this year, quieting talk about being too old and out of touch. Jigga proved his Masonic influence is still strong. Its the ROC!
Rick Ross proved quality music is most important when his image and credibility was almost shattered by a ruthless attack campaign by 50 Cent (I believe Lil Wayne’s kissing of Baby already proved this). Anyway, the Bawse sold 401,000 copies of his third album Deeper Than Rap.
Jadakiss proved in ‘09′ that hometown support can be all you need sometimes (and that New York and the East coast still buy records) buy surprising everyone and selling 342 000 of The Last Kiss album. Diddy isn’t foolish. Noticing the selling potential, Jada and did have mended their issues and are working again.
I like Fabolous but his last CD was horrible in my opinion but there are 270 000 people who bought the album who may disagree with me (I bought the album but was not happy with my purchase).
Now if you live in Toronto, are from Toronto or even visited and like the city, stand up and be proud because I was surprised to find that our very own Drake made the list. Now the impressive thing isn’t that he made the list but rather that he made the list by selling 257 000 copies of So Far Gone, yes the mixtape that was released for free on the internet months before! Yes, Toronto artists get busy.
Last but not least, a personal favourite of mine, 50 Cent proves persistence and a hustlers ambition (and drama) pays off with 227 000 copies of Before I Self Destruct sold to date.
It should be noted last weeks sales were Lil Wayne and Young Money pushed about 1400 000 their first week to hit the Top 10 of the charts. Mary J. Blige sold about 340 000, landing her at the No. 2 slot for her debut.
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