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TLC's third album, Fanmail, the year's top selling hip-hop album, [4] remained at number one for five weeks and won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album at the 42nd Grammy Awards. [5] I Am…, the third studio album by rapper Nas, stayed at the top of the chart for two weeks and has been certified double platinum by the RIAA. [6]
In 2008, Wayne released his best-selling album so far, titled Tha Carter III. Certified triple platinum by the RIAA, [ 1 ] Tha Carter III won the Best Rap Album award at the 2009 Grammy Awards. [ 2 ] Lil Wayne founded record label Young Money Entertainment and released a collaborative album featuring rappers signed to the label, We Are Young ...
This is a list of the best-selling albums by year in the United States, published by American music magazine Billboard since 1956 as year-end rankings of album sales. Until 1991, the Billboard album chart was based on a survey of representative retail outlets that determined a ranking, not a tally of actual sales.
It debuted at number 9 on the Billboard 200 for first week sales of over 140,000 copies [citation needed], and was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on December 23, 1999, with over one million copies sold in the United States, making it B.G.'s best-selling album of his solo career. The album has sold over 1.8 ...
Eminem has the best-selling album of a calendar year twice (2002 and 2010). Drake has the year's top-consumed album (based on album-equivalent units ) twice (2016 and 2018). The following list includes the annual best-selling albums since 1991, as reported by MRC Data (formerly Nielsen SoundScan ).
Tha Block Is Hot is the debut studio album by American rapper Lil Wayne. It was released on November 2, 1999, by Universal Records and Bryan "Baby" Williams' Cash Money Records. [1] The recording sessions took place at Cash Money Studios in Metairie, Louisiana, with the executive production from Bryan "Baby" Williams and Ronald "Slim" Williams.
Having joined at age 14, Carter was the youngest member at the time. Hot Boys' debut album, Get It How U Live!, was released the same year, followed in 1999 by the group's major-label debut Guerrilla Warfare, [17] which respectively reached number one on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and number five on the Billboard 200. [32]
Two singles by Faith Evans (pictured) from her 1998 album Keep the Faith—"Love Like This" and "All Night Long"—appeared on the Year-End list at numbers 58 and 74, respectively. Evans was also featured on "Heartbreak Hotel", which appeared at number four on the list. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1999. [1]