The arrival continues the long-running Now That’s What I Call Music series’ hit track record, as every one of the numbered Now titles have reached the Top 10. 3 with 76,000 units (all from album sales). 1 and 2 on the new Billboard 200, there is of course other news in the Top 10. Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive debuted at No. 14, in the thick of the Christmas shopping season), where J. 27, 2014-dated chart (reflecting the sales week ending Dec. With a back-to-back release of the trilogy of his classic albums, The Slim Shady LP (1999), The Marshall Mathers LP (2000), The Eminem Show (2002), Eminem was untouchable in his prime. 2 with 258,000 units.Īnd finally, this is the first week in eight months where two albums have sold at least 275,000 copies each. Over 20 years of his career, Eminem, who came up from the Detroit battle scene, has sold over 100 million records with 11 albums in his discography catalog. 1 with 535,000 units, followed by the debut of the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack at No. 28, 2015-dated list, when Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late started at No. Previously, the closest the chart came to that distinction was on the Feb. 3-65 titles on the Album Sales list.Īlso, this week marks the first time two albums have shifted at least 294,000 units in a week since the Billboard 200 transitioned to ranking popularity based on overall units earned in December of 2014. 1 and 2 on the Top Album Sales chart - is greater than the Nos. Dr Dre was born on 18th February 1965 in Compton, California, named Andre Romelle Young. The deal also brought the opportunity for Dre to work with Apple as an executive. The line was sold out to Apple in May 2014 for 3 million. That was the last studio album fans have gotten from Dre, who has frequently delayed production on his third album, Detox. As an entrepreneur, he launched a brand of headphones, Beats by Dr. Further, the 596,000 sales tally - which places the albums at Nos. Dre.’s sophomore album, 2001, is considered an all-time hip hop classic, selling over 10 million copies and spawning the hits, Still D.R.E., Forgot About Dre, and The Next Episode. Dre.It was released on December 15, 1992, by his own record label Death Row Records and distributed by Interscope Records.Recording sessions for the album took place in June 1992 at Death Row Studios in Los Angeles and at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood. To put those numbers in perspective, the 640,000 sum is more than the combined total of Nos. The Chronic is the debut studio album by American hip hop producer and rapper Dr. Billboard Cover: Kendrick Lamar Interviews N.W.A About Coming ‘Straight Outta Compton’ and Changing the WorldĬombined, Kill the Lights and Compton moved 640,000 overall units, and sold 596,000 albums.