Drake Remains 2024's Top Selling Rapper By Album Units Despite Not Dropping

Drake is still dominating the sales charts.

Drake reportedly remains the top-selling hip-hop artist of 2024 by album units, despite not putting out a single album this year. Chart Data shared the ranking on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday, showing the Toronto rapper as the highest-selling artist.

The new report comes after DJ Akademiks predicted that 80-85 percent of Drake’s current streams are coming from projects that dropped years ago. “Also, he leveraged the fact that they’re eating so much off of his back catalog,” Ak expressed on one of his recent streams. “That dropping frequently helps the back catalog. And, by the way, 80 to 85 percent of Drake’s current streams is from albums that dropped over six years ago. And I’m being very fair here.”

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Three spots behind Drake in fourth place is Kendrick Lamar. The two rappers have been feuding throughout 2024, with each dropping numerous diss tracks against the other. Lamar’s status is being helped by his new project, GNX, which hit streaming services last month. It’s projected to debut on the Billboard charts with over 300,000 in total sales. The tracklist features guest appearances from AzChike, Dody6, Hitta J3, Peysoh, Roddy Ricch, Siete7x, SZA, Wallie the Sensei, Lefty Gunplay, and YoungThreat. In addition to Kendrick Lamar, others on the album sales list include Future, Kanye West, Travis Scott, Eminem, NBA YoungBoy, Rod Wave, 21 Savage, and Tyler The Creator.

Drake Dominates Album Sales

Best selling rappers by total album units this year so far (US):

#1 Drake
#2 Future
#3 Kanye West
#4 Kendrick Lamar
#5 Travis Scott
#6 Eminem
#7 YoungBoy Never Broke Again
#8 Rod Wave
#9 21 Savage
#10 Tyler, The Creator

— chart data (@chartdata) December 1, 2024