1 In its second week, the album dropped to number two on the chart, selling an additional 50,000 copies. This became Wale's first US number one debut and his second top-ten album. 1 for a fourth week, with 423,000 downloads and 5. The Gifted debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 158,000 copies in its first week. On Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart, Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” holds at No. 5 with 31,000 sales in its sixth week out. (Atlantic/Word), while Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories” (Daft Life/Columbia) is No. 4 with just less than 60,000 sales of its new album, “Rise”
The Christian rock band Skillet bows at No. 2 for a second week with 84,000 (down 72 percent). Sinner” (Roc Nation/Columbia) holds at No.
Wale’s latest album, “The Gifted” (Maybach Music Group/Atlantic), opens at No. Rap dominates the top spots on the chart for a second week in a row. Two more blockbusters followed as The Gifted 2013 and The Album About Nothing 2015 both crashed the Billboard Top 200 at 1 back-to-back. At the moment, “Yeezus” is the top streaming album on Spotify. Bowing at 2 on the Billboard Top 200, the now-classic and gold-certified Ambition yielded the GRAMMY® Award-nominated platinum-selling Lotus Flower Bomb. 1 - with 496,000 sales -Īnd in its second week out fell 78 percent, as Billboard noted. His last album, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” in 2011, opened at No. Plunge is the greatest since Madonna’s “MDNA,” which in April 2012 had a historic drop of 87īut the pattern isn’t much different from what Mr. “Yeezus” sold 65,000 copies last week in the United States,Īccording to Nielsen SoundScan - a drop of 80 percent from the 327,000 it enjoyed at its opening, sending the album down two spots on Billboard’s chart to No. “Yeezus” had a softer than expected opening week, and now in the album’s second week out its sales have fallen precipitously. Cole’s Born Sinner (Roc Nation/Columbia) holds at No. Wale’s latest album, The Gifted (Maybach Music Group/Atlantic), opens at No. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.Is Kanye West’s latest album a hit? It’s certainly being talked about everywhere even Lou Reed weighed in on the record, “Yeezus” (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam), calling it “majesticĪnd inspiring.” But so far its sales are far from blockbuster. At the moment, Yeezus is the top streaming album on Spotify. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information.
WALE THE GIFTED BILLBOARD FREE
In 2018, Wale released three EPs titled It’s Complicated, Self-Promotion and Free Lunch. His third studio album, The Gifted, was released in June of 2013 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. WERTHEIMER: Wale is a big fan of Seinfeld, and it looks like they will be working together on his next album also - "The Album about Nothing." If you're a gambling man, you might get short odds on a track titled "What's the Deal with That?"Ĭopyright © 2013 NPR. Wale signed to Rick Ross’ Maybach Music Group in 2011 and his second studio album, Ambition was released November 1, 2011. WALE: Yeah, for the album that I got now. SEINFELD: Oh, this is the "Gifted" session? WALE: This is gifted, this is the "Gifted" session. SEINFELD: Well, who is sure? Who, who is in charge of this? As it turned out, Jerry turned up a little earlier than expected. He appears at the very end of the song "Black Heroes" with an outro about nothing.
WERTHEIMER: If that voice sounds like Jerry Seinfeld, that's because it is Jerry Seinfeld. SEINFELD: I thought we were doing the album today. JERRY SEINFELD: Yeah, I came in to do the album. taking the number one spot from Kanye West's "Yeezus." But we think Wale's album is interesting for reasons other than just its success - namely this: That's Washington, D.C.-based rapper Wale with a song from his latest album "The Gifted." The 28-year-old is riding high in the Billboard charts. WALE: (Singing) Ain't been a black hero since Robert Townsend, so, Meteor Man, I hope you found something profound enough to expand on before the sound (unintelligible).