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 The Weeknd’s new EP My Dear Melancholy and Rich The Kid’s debut album The World Is Yours, which both debut in the top 3.
| Chart # | Artist(s) | Album title | Sales | Sales + Streams |
| 1 | The Weeknd | My Dear Melancholy | 70,041 | 167,292 *DEBUT* |
| 2 | XXXTentacion | ? | 3,481 | 57,050 |
| 3 | Rich The Kid | The World Is Yours | 7,025 | 56,343 *DEBUT* |
| 6 | Kendrick Lamar & others | Black Panther The Album | 5,655 | 42,418 |
| 7 | Migos | Culture II | 2,482 | 40,085 |
| 8 | Post Malone | Stoney | TBA | 27,885 |
| 9 | Logic | Bobby Tarantino II | 2,662 | 26,322 |
| 14 | Kendrick Lamar | DAMN. | 3,604 | 19,280 |
| 16 | Khalid | American Teen | TBA | 18,828 |
| 18 | Bruno Mars | 24K Magic | 4,345 | 17,613 |
| 19 | Lil Uzi Vert | Luv Is Rage 2 | TBA | 17,415 |
| 21 | Lil Yachty | Lil Boat 2 | TBA | 16,915 |
| 23 | 6ix9ine | DAY69 | TBA | 15,120 |
| 24 | XXXTentacion | 17 | TBA | 14,404 |
| 25 | The Weeknd | Starboy | TBA | 14,364 |
| 26 | SZA | CTRL | TBA | 14,244 |
| 27 | Drake | More Life | TBA | 14,048 |
| 28 | Justin Timberlake | Man Of The Woods | 5,613 | 13,633 |
| 29 | Chris Brown | Heartbreak On A Full Moon | TBA | 13,514 |
| 32 | G-Eazy | The Beautiful & Damned | TBA | 12,486 |
| 33 | 21 Savage, Offset & Metro Boomin | Without Warning | TBA | 12,444 |
| 39 | Drake | Views | TBA | 11,552 |
| 43 | Kodak Black | Project Baby 2 | TBA | 11,187 |
| 47 | Tory Lanez | Memories Don’t Die | TBA | 10,062 |