1st Place - 1.78M
100th place - 324K

Credit: u/Chriscftb97
Updated 9/10/2021

You know ktt runs with the narrative that sales ≠ quality

But this list is pure quality

Views > Graduation

Top 10 nothing but classics

Proving the adage that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, 50 Cent’s The Massacre debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart and sold 1.14 million copies (according to SoundScan), marking the best sales week the feud-prone rapper has ever enjoyed. Despite a four-day sales week

Son was different

YB better 🤡

I think sales are a decent rough indicator if youre comparing the artist's numbers to the game as a whole

like an album that sells 200K FW is more likely than not better than an album that goes triple styrofoam. but even then theres plenty of exceptions. like I'm taking SRS or AWT over some of these albums

didn’t CLB just barely outsell DAMN.?

Rap is like a mountain...

Because it freaking ROCKS

visualize some p**** @op

RIP DMX

The Drake albums might honestly not be the worst in the top 3 rows

CLB numbers aren't even official lol

This list has alot of mistakes

Encore and MMLP2 are the worst

MMLP2 is better than the Drake albums to me, but Encore ye

The CD/iTunes era was so insane for artists looking to make money

I remember a few years back it came out that Pharrell only made $2700 off of 43 million streams of Happy, algorithm's probably improved since then but CDs were a whole different deal

Fabs debut sold 143

If I saw this knowing not much about rap I would have to conclude rappers aren't the best at picking album covers

(being a bronesque hip-hop historian i can confirm that this is true)

half these albums are mediocre

Juice WRLD

kingdom come????

Its there

its crazy how its mostly a handful of artists that make up this list

Almost everybody is UMG until Life After Death cause BIG was Bad Boy/Sony