Wale ‘The Album About Nothing’ Tops Charts
April 7, 2015 @ 4:53 PM EDT
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The Champ Is Here.
Wale’s done it again. As of this week, The Album About Nothing will wear the champion belt for Billboard‘s Top 200. Selling 100,000 its first week, this marks his second debut at #1.
Meanwhile, Ludacris’ Ludaversal will cross the finish line in third place with 73,000. Congrats to both!
Wale drop a dope album
Iggy Azalea Nominated For 12 Billboard Music Awards…. Hip Hop Won
Damn, Ludacris didn’t come for that number one spot this time. lol
HA!! DO YA THING WALE …KEEP THOSE HATERS EATING SHIT!! FK YO FEELINGS!!!
How many profiles you got Mac diesel?
FK BOI THIS IS THE ALMIGHTY MIKEY ESCO NY’S OWN …FK MAC WEASEL HE GOT RAN OUTTA NY 20 YRS AGO LOL …FK YO FEELINGS!!!
lmfao
sad to say Meek Mill is gonna do even less first week!… Whenever that first week is!
Who Wale beat for that intercontinental championship belt?
MMG albums sell decreased a lot recently.
Riccardo you steady watching mmg that’s all you talk about is mmg smh.
remember Wale’s“The Gifted,” sold158,000 copies in its first week, knocking Kanye West’s “Yeezus” from the top spot.
Thanks for reminding me, Guzman. So you’ll implicitly acknowledging Wale’s power. He’s being numbers then, albeit less copies this time out.
Still numero UNO.
sold more than his boss first week though.
Yep triple treebark
I don’t understand you.
Triple treebark is worst than double wood.
155k first week to 90k
Lmao
How many copies did g unit sell? Their last 3 eps. What about 50’s last album?
G unit ain’t sell much…. but that doesn’t have shit to do with wale going from 158k first week to 90k.
What about 50 going from 13 million copies to less than 50 k?
Fif been there and did that though…he doesn’t need music anymore..fif rap for fun nowadays.
That’s a cop-out, amigo! Every rapper wants to sell as many records as possible. Anybody saying otherwise is a liar.
Just recognize Wale’s numbers for today’s climate and that he’s actually number 1.
Them numbers lame Rothstein.
About 6-7 billion people in the world and these are the record sales. People illegally downloading suck
no the album was lackluster. It is an average album that doesn’t make you feel anything, it was literally an album about nothing!
Lackluster is to much of a compliment lmao
Wrong.
You need new ears
“Better” than Kendrick’s
Kendrick album was way better, but I like Wale’s album too, most def not lackluster.
Im suprised it did so well……..
Lmao. Why buy music?
thanks
I’m sure you don’t know how fuckin hard is to buy an album in latin america.
Yeah it couldn’t be because Wale is boring…
THESE ARE ALBUM SALES FROM THE US YOU DUMB FUCK!!!!
HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!
wow those numbers are weak
I’m trying to tell them I’m SO good in math.
So we just gonna ignore the fact Big Sean did more numbers his first week? He finally getting his shine, right Weezy?
right?! lol
You obviously didn’t listen to Deep.
Pow! Do your thing Wale.
those number are terrible. More proof why wale aint in the discussion wit kendrick drake cole
cole overrated though
Better than wale tho
Kendricks overrated though…
Album had a good concept but it has maybe 2 good songs on it, he tried to create a storyline of an album about nothing that samples a show about nothing…woulda been great if he pulled it off. Again great concept but I immediately forgot what I listened too a couple of hours later. Nothing memorable.
Yall need to stop comparing numbers!! smh.. appreciate the art and if you think the numbers suck , go fucking support and buy multiple copies or tell your friends!!
this album is average as hell
Album isn’t that great.
anybody really listen to this album tell me if i should copy it or not
I’m actually surprised Ludacris sold that much.
wouldve been dope to had the number one album and movie in the country.
word. prince had the number one album, number one single and , number movie when purple rain came out.
Eminem had the same with 8 mile movie, lose yourself single and 8 mile soundtrack.
Don’t ever mention Prince in the same breath as Wale or Ludacris again! :caesarcomeatmebro:
*Boxden gif!
T.I. did it with KING and ATL
Word? I didn’t know ATL was a number one movie. That’s what’s good.
I thought the album was brilliant! The 2nd half is my favorite part tho!
Me too…second half is dope
TRACY CHAPMAN ‘THE ALBUM ABOUT NOTHING’ TOPS CHARTS
DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!
G Unit’s latest EP sold way more than this garbage. G unit wins again, MMG loses.
Stop lying I don’t like MMG but G Unit is finished for real. That ep didn’t even sale 20k.
Indy
ay nigga ! how much did you say wale was going to sale first week?
Beast barely had any promo, Rap Radar and others could stop shoving Wale’s album in our faces as they always try to do.
Beauty of Independence – 14,475
Beast is G Unit -18,542
G Unit been finished and I don’t even like MMG
you stupid
HOT ROD IS THAT YOU? YOUR DELUSIONAL ..FK YO FEELINGS!!!
He got the number 1 album in the country how he or mmg lose?..yall dumb as fuck…because he ain’t sold like drake or cole? Smh..hating ass clown
Great Cross-promotion for every purchase of chicken wings at wingstop you get a wale album.
This album was decent but I probably won’t listen to it again…
I encourage you all to listen to the album while reading from genius.com so you can understand what he’s saying. If you think this album is garbage you obviously don’t enjoy lyrics and concepts.
I understand where you’re coming from…but that’s the problem. That’s wayyyy to much effort for something that at least on first listen should deliver some sort of top level meaning and have impact. At times his delivery gets “Young Thug mumbled” (No disrespect to Wale). Trust, I’m one of the dudes who enjoys decoding lyrics…. and I think Wale is a good artist from day one. But his delivery lately comes across as intentionally convoluted at times. Just sometimes…Deep and powerful doesn’t have to mean complex.
Take Kendrick for instance. I could guarantee you a MAJOR reason why he is as successful is because his lyrics and delivery is simply more immediately digestible. His cadence and clarity of his words hit harder because of it. To me thats what wale misses allot of the time.
Bless up.
Yea at times he sounds mumbled!
Nothing that’s worth anything substantial comes easy. That’s evident in many areas. Definitely in music. Anything you hear off first bells only attracts you on certain levels. An artist of a certain caliber won’t put out a project until they’ve sat with it. Too much effort goes into true bodies of work for you to understand it off one listen. You have to give albums time if you want to understand all the intricacies and nuances. But then again..that’s only if you want to.
90, 381
DAMN BOY!
You funny guys say “boring” but will big ups and dick suck an ab soul or a Joey badass for days. This guy put in a body of work that pushes him out of the tier 2 category into the first. Idk what yall heard but I heard the best work a GOOD rapper has ever put forth. And the whole (hating wale because it’s funny) thing is so fucking played out and corny I wanna get everybodys IP adress and come smack you all individually. There was NOTHING wrong with this album. And on top of that it’s more likeable than kendricks. Idk what else you cornballs wanted. Fucks sake
Ab soul was all hype. Imo not as good as the comment sections made him out to be. I don’t like his voice at all
This was the first wale album i listen to and i gotta say this album is great! the music is good, the lyrical content is good and ofc not to mention wale’s rapping skills
I have to admit this Wales worst album under MMG. The Gifted was hella underrated though
Best Hiphop Albums currently
LUPE > COLE > KENDRICK > WALE > DRAKE
FINALLY somebody got it right, I can’t believe Lupe is not being mentioned in all these discussions, Tetsuo & Youth is a problem.
I thought Kendrick had second week at 120k!?
I’m sorry, I just can’t with Wale. I tried too.
Wale>Big Sean
Is it better than J Cole’s tho?
I haven’t listened to the Wale yet, but judging by the comments, the album isn’t an easy win. I just wanted to ask, what’s the deal with the mentality of a rapper when they’re making an album vs a mixtape? There are artists who can make album quality mixtapes that make the majority of listeners say “holy shit, this is crack”, but then lose it when the go to make an album. Wale did this on his About Nothing mixtapes which made me believe this album had no choice BUT to be fire.
I’ll see what’s good once I listen.
That’s actually pretty good for both of them. I was expecting Wale to do like 50k and Luda to do like 2k.
STOP HATING ON THE ALBUM anyone who doesn’t like this album does not TRULY listen to lyrics. i don’t care if you do listen to j. cole and kendrick if you listen to his album and say its ass you just go with what everyone else says. He snaps on damn near every song! lyrically wale is just a talented as all the top artist in the game. I wish yall would stop hating on the man just cuz he aint popular
why was my comment removed? is it cuz i bragged about wale album? haha it must be fact, the people in charge of hip hop are holding back wale