Hip Hop Singles Sales This Week: Iggy Azalea, Nicki Minaj, YG

by JAY BALFOUR

Iggy Azalea holds onto her #1 spot and Bobby Shmurda nearly breaks into the Top 3.

With most of the Top 10 singles remaining in the same position as last week, Iggy Azalea’s “Black Widow” remains at #1 after several consecutive weeks at the top. While the Top 3 singles all suffered small dips in sales, Bobby Shmurda’s “Hot Boy” is still on the rise and is less than a thousand units behindNicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” at #3. ILOVEMAKONNEN’s“Tuesday” jumped 21% last week and brought it’s total to 175,292. At the same time, Big Sean and Rich Gang’s singles both saw their own double digit percentage hikes.

Iggy Azalea’s “Black Widow” Stays At #1

In its 26th week on the chart, Iggy Azalea’s “Black Widow” sold 73,173 last week, a five percent drop in sales from the previous week. The New Classic single has tallied a total of 1,664,380 and will be released again as a part of Azalea’s Reclassified, a rerelease of her debut scheduled for November 24.

Jeremih And YG Hold Onto #2

Maintaining their spot at #2, Jeremih and YG’s “Don’t Tell ‘Em” sold 71,764 last week and nearly broke the million songs sold mark in the process. Despite the 3% percent sales dip, “Don’t Tell ‘Em” remained more than 20,000 units ahead of the #3 song.

More recently, Rick Ross became the latest artist to remix Jermih’s single and the singer recently shot his own video for the French Montana and Ty Dolla $ign remix of the song.

Nicki Minaj Still At #3

With her Pinkprint album now just under a month away, Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” single remained in the Top 3 with 51,452 sold last week, a 15% slip from the 60,821 sold the week before. Still, “Anaconda” broke the platinum milestone several weeks ago and raised its total to 1,137,214 this week.

Minaj recently addressed the video to the song in an interview with GQ and spoke specifically about its commentary on gender roles and power dynamics. "Yeah, that was important for us to show in the kitchen scene, because it's always about the female taking back the power,” she said, “and if you want to be flirty and funny that's fine. But always keeping the power and the control in everything.’”

Top 10 R&B/Hip Hop Single Sales For Week Ending 10/19/2014

#1. Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora - “Black Widow” - 73,173 (1,664,380)

#2. Jeremih feat. YG - “Don’t Tell ‘Em” - 71,764 (994,393)

#3. Nicki Minaj - “Anaconda” - 51,452 (1,137,214)

#4. Bobby Shmurda - “Hot Boy” - 50,813 (402,159)

#5. iLoveMakonnen feat. Drake - “Tuesday” - 41,341 (175,292)

#6. Big Sean feat. E-40 - “I Don’t F**k With You” - 41,130 (147,494)

#7. Rich Gang feat. Young Thug & Rich Homie Quan - “Lifestyle” - 33,502 (330,996)

#8. Drake - “0 To 100/The Catch Up” -  28,389 (546,790)

#9. John Legend - “All Of Me” - 25,130 (4,925,505)

#10. Rae Sremmurd - “No Type” - 24,843 (86,919)

Last Week's Single Sales