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 Lil Baby’s new album Harder Than Ever, which debuts at #3, and NAV’s new project Reckless.
| Chart # | Artist(s) | Album title | Sales | Sales + Streams |
| 2 | Post Malone | Beerbongs & Bentleys | 13,321 | 125,266 |
| 3 | Lil Baby | Harder Than Ever | 3,917 | 71,323 *DEBUT* |
| 5 | Cardi B | Invasion Of Privacy | 4,008 | 52,069 |
| 7 | J. Cole | KOD | 6,089 | 42,821 |
| 8 | NAV | Reckless | 3,575 | 33,884 *DEBUT* |
| 9 | Kendrick Lamar & others | Black Panther The Album | 6,179 | 30,717 |
| 10 | Post Malone | Stoney | 1,764 | 28,782 |
| 12 | Migos | Culture II | 1,124 | 25,335 |
| 13 | XXXTentacion | ? | 557 | 24,616 |
| 14 | Rae Sremmurd | SR3MM | 615 | 23,490 |
| 17 | Playboi Carti | Die Lit | 527 | 22,587 |
| 19 | YoungBoy Never Broke Again | Until Death Call My Name | 238 | 21,268 |
| 22 | Kendrick Lamar | DAMN. | 3,599 | 19,420 |
| 23 | The Weeknd | My Dear Melancholy | 2,602 | 18,849 |
| 25 | Rich The Kid | The World Is Yours | 238 | 18,418 |
| 27 | Khalid | American Teen | 1,809 | 17,694 |
| 32 | Lil Uzi Vert | Luv Is Rage 2 | 189 | 15,499 |
| 37 | Tee Grizzley | Activated | 1,14 | 13,008 |
| 39 | Drake | More Life | 221 | 12,817 |
| 41 | SZA | CTRL | 1,834 | 12,298 |
| 43 | Logic | Bobby Tarantino II | 405 | 11,749 |
| 45 | Drake | Views | 410 | 11,400 |
| 47 | XXXTentacion | 17 | 104 | 11,270 |
| 48 | Bruno Mars | 24K Magic | 1,792 | 11,169 |