New releases and classic albums collide on this week’s highest-selling rap chart.

Hip-hop’s weekly sales picture right now feels like a time warp mixed with a release-day mosh pit. New projects are landing, anniversaries are breathing new life into old albums, and legacy records are still moving like they never left the charts. This week’s highest-selling rap albums prove that momentum in hip-hop does not always depend on release dates. Sometimes it depends on timing, touring, nostalgia, and pure fan loyalty.

Leading the pack is Lil Baby’s The Leaks with 34,000 units sold. The mixtape marks his second release of the year and feels like a calculated step back into his rawer roots. With features from Young Thug, Veeze, Playboi Carti, and others, Baby strips away the polish and taps into the sound that originally made him unavoidable. The numbers suggest fans were ready for that version of him again.

Right behind him is Drake’s Take Care, pulling 23,000 units more than a decade after its release. Eleven years later, the album still moves like a current project, reinforcing Drake’s unmatched catalog dominance. That staying power continues elsewhere, too. Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR’s Some Sexy Songs 4 U added another 20,000 units, with “NOKIA” refusing to disappear and “SOMEBODY LOVES ME” slowly becoming a sleeper favorite.

Cardi B’s AM I THE DRAMA? lands at 22,000 units, continuing its steady run despite Cardi keeping a relatively low profile since the birth of her child. Meanwhile, Kendrick Lamar’s GNX remains the only 2024 album in the top five, selling 20,000 units as his global tour and high-profile endorsements keep the project alive.

Playboi Carti appears twice on the list, with Whole Lotta Red moving 20,000 units thanks to its five-year anniversary update and MUSIC adding 17,000, further fueling album-of-the-year conversations. Rounding things out are Tyler, The Creator’s CHROMAKOPIA and Eminem’s Curtain Call, proving that hip-hop’s past and present are still very much sharing the same stage.

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