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 Playboi Carti’s surprise album Die Lit, which debuts at #3, and Tee Grizzley’s new project Activated.
| Chart # | Artist(s) | Album title | Sales | Sales + Streams |
| 1 | Post Malone | Beerbongs & Bentleys | 16,575 | 150,072 |
| 3 | Playboi Carti | Die Lit | 4,694 | 60,394 *DEBUT* |
| 5 | J. Cole | KOD | 10,237 | 57,608 |
| 6 | Cardi B | Invasion Of Privacy | 3,518 | 55,469 |
| 9 | Kendrick Lamar & others | Black Panther The Album | 5,213 | 33,685 |
| 10 | YoungBoy Never Broke Again | Until Death Call My Name | 254 | 31,816 |
| 11 | Rae Sremmurd | SR3MM | 915 | 30,463 |
| 12 | Migos | Culture II | 1,471 | 28,874 |
| 13 | Tee Grizzley | Activated | 4,143 | 26,995 *DEBUT* |
| 14 | Post Malone | Stoney | 2,134 | 26,474 |
| 15 | XXXTentacion | ? | 603 | 24,917 |
| 19 | The Weeknd | My Dear Melancholy | 3,163 | 21,176 |
| 20 | Rich The Kid | The World Is Yours | 268 | 20,199 |
| 22 | Kendrick Lamar | DAMN. | 3,790 | 19,027 |
| 26 | Lil Uzi Vert | Luv Is Rage 2 | 134 | 17,091 |
| 29 | Khalid | American Teen | 1,496 | 16,596 |
| 36 | SZA | CTRL | 1,901 | 12,495 |
| 37 | Logic | Bobby Tarantino II | 586 | 12,464 |
| 38 | Bruno Mars | 24K Magic | 3,233 | 12,321 |
| 41 | 6ix9ine | DAY69 | 286 | 11,813 |
| 42 | Drake | More Life | 243 | 11,800 |
| 43 | Famous Dex | Dex Meets Dexter | 93 | 11,703 |
| 46 | Drake | Views | 466 | 11,198 |
| 49 | Kodak Black | Project Baby 2 | 14 | 10,916 |