Beastie Boys
Rap/Hip-Hop
The Boys’ first disc in four years, this comeback effort spent a month at number 1 and sold nearly 700,000 …
T-Pain
Rap/Hip-Hop
No. 1 album spawned the Top-10 pop hits “Bartender” and “Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin’)”
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Rap/Hip-Hop
Number-1 R&B disc peaked at 2 on the pop chart. More than a million sold.
Ne-Yo
R&B, Rap/Hip-Hop
No. 1 R&B and pop disc. “So Sick” climbed to the top of the pop chart.
R. Kelly/Jay-Z
R&B, Rap/Hip-Hop
It spent three weeks as the nation’s number-1 R&B disc.
T.I.
Rap/Hip-Hop
Sold nearly 500,000 units its first week of release. Subsequently crossed the 1 million mark.
DMX
Rap/Hip-Hop
This million-selling disc hit number 1 on both the pop and R&B charts.
OutKast
Jazz/Swing/Blues, Pop, R&B, Rap/Hip-Hop
This number-1 disc sold more than 500,000 copies its first week. “The Way You Move” (featuring Sleepy Brown) was a …
50 Cent
Rap/Hip-Hop
Multiple weeks at number 1. “In Da Club” was a chart-topping pop single.


