The top-selling albums of 2021 are revealed.
The year-end records list shows out the flourishing status of the music industry at the top, where debut and sophomore albums take up 50% of the positions. Top-charting artists Morgan Wallen and Olivia Rodrigo are joined by the late Pop Smoke, The Kid LAROI, and Dua Lipa in this young trend. The cherry on top is Doja Cat’s third album, which is her breakout release.
With only a few days left of 2021, hitsdailydouble has decided to unveil the list of 50 best-selling albums of 2021. In the overall list, Country music singer Morgan Wallen tops the list with his “Dangerous: The Double Album” which moved over 3 million copies this year. Olivia Rodrigo follows him on number 2 with her debut project “Sour” which sold 2,690,000 copies in 2021.
Rappers spent 2021 in a state of true contemplation, which makes it reasonable considering how many reminders of how valuable life is. Hip-hop in 2021 sounded genuine and frantic; Drake and Kanye even mended minor squabbles at the end, possibly understanding there’s too much at risk. The issues of the actual world are as relevant as ever, and it is in this context that rap music shines the brightest.
Wallen’s second full-length studio album, Dangerous: The Double Album, was released on January 8, 2021. It ends the year with 3.226 million equivalent album units sold in the United States. The majority of that total was generated by streaming activity of the set’s lengthy 30-song tracklist. Dangerous is the first country album to be named MRC Data’s year-end #1 album since Taylor Swift’s Fearless in 2009.
The third artist on the list is the Toronto rap star Drake, whose “Certified Lover Boy” moved 1,850,000 copies this year. He is the top-selling rapper on the list, which featured around 22 Hip-Hop albums. The other albums come from Pop Smoke, Doja Cat, Lil Baby, Polo G, J. Cole, Juice WRLD, Kanye West, Lil Durk and more.
MRC Data named Planet Her as the top-selling R&B album of the year and the sixth best-selling album overall in 2021 with over 1,510,000 album-equivalent units sold in the US. It had limited physical distribution, but according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), it was the tenth best-selling album of the year across all platforms in the globe in 2021. Planet Her, which debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 after selling 109,000 album-equivalent units, became Doja Cat’s highest-charting album. It also topped the Billboard Top R&B Albums chart.
With 4 million units sold, Masked Wolf’s “Astronaut In The Ocean” was the best-selling song in the Hip Hop/Rap genre. It was also the only song in the genre to do so.
The most surprising name in the Top 50 list is Eminem, whose “Curtain Call: The Hits” album grabbed the number 49 spot. While the other albums were released this year, other either 2020, Eminem’s greatest hits project was dropped way back in 2005. The album moved around 673,000 copies this year.
Pop Smoke was not the only late rapper. Juice WRLD has two successful posthumous albums this year: Legends Never Die (1,085,000) and Goodbye and Good Riddance (2018). (922,000).
Check out the Top Rap Albums of 2021 and the overall list below.
01. Drake – Certified Lover Boy – 1,850,000
02. Pop Smoke – Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon – 1,473,000
03. Doja Cat – Planet Her – 1,403,000
04. Lil Baby – My Turn – 1,170,000
05. Rod Wave – SoulFly – 1,146,000
06. Moneybagg Yo – A Gangsta’s Pain – 1,121,000
07. Juice WRLD – Legends Never Die – 1,085,000
08. Polo G – Hall Of Fame – 1,054,000
09. Post Malone – Hollywood’s Bleeding – 1,043,000
10. Lil Durk – The Voice – 980,000
11. J. Cole – The Off-Season – 979,000
12. Lil Nas X – Montero – 960,000
13. Juice WRLD – Goodbye & Good Riddance – 922,000
14. Kanye West – Donda – 916,000
15. Pooh Shiesty – Shiesty Season – 898,000
16. Lil Baby & Lil Durk – The Voice Of The Heroes – 882,000
17. Megan Thee Stallion – Good News – 798,000
18. Polo G – The Goat – 795,000
19. Doja Cat – Hot Pink – 710,000
20. Lil Tjay – Destined 2 Win – 676,000
21. Travis Scott – ASTROWORLD – 674,000
22. Eminem – Curtain Call: The Hits – 673,000
