Here’s our weekly overview of Hip-Hop and R&B album sales in the US, including an update on where the albums land at the Billboard 200 chart. This week’s overview includes the first week numbers of Drake’s new album More Life – which debuts at #1 – and Rick Ross’ new project Rather You Than Me.
| Chart # | Artist | Album title | Sales | Sales + Streams |
| 1 | Drake | More Life | 230,050 | 504,609 *DEBUT* |
| 3 | Rick Ross | Rather You Than Me | 68,520 | 100,081 *DEBUT* |
| 7 | Bruno Mars | 24K Magic | 21,019 | 49,937 |
| 8 | Future | FUTURE | 5,256 | 41,990 |
| 9 | The Weeknd | Starboy | 8,298 | 37,985 |
| 10 | Migos | Culture | TBA | 33,063 |
| 13 | Future | HNDRXX | 3,377 | 26,699 |
| 15 | Big Sean | I Decided. | 4,085 | 25,690 |
| 16 | Drake | VIEWS | 4,017 | 23,725 |
| 19 | Post Malone | Stoney | TBA | 23,289 |
| 21 | Rihanna | ANTI | TBA | 17,977 |
| 25 | Travi$ Scott | Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight | TBA | 15,022 |
| 33 | J. Cole | 4 Your Eyez Only | 3,909 | 12,279 |
| 35 | Rae Sremmurd | SremmLife 2 | TBA | 11,882 |
| 45 | Kehlani | SweetSexySavage | TBA | 9,820 |
| 46 | The Weeknd | Beauty Behind The Madness | TBA | 9,671 |
| 47 | Childish Gambino | Awaken, My Love! | TBA | 9,447 |