Kid Cudi Makes Nielsen History With Fourth Best Selling Album On Vinyl

Kid Kudi Man on the Moon III: The Chosen finally arrived on vinyl earlier this month and it’s made a big splash. the album sold 41,500 vinyl copies in the last week, making it the fourth best-selling album of the period behind only Adele’s 30, Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) and Bo Burnham’s Inside (The Songs) But that isn’t the album’s only achievement. More importantly, has broken the record for the biggest vinyl sales week for both a male artist and a rap album in Nielsen history An ecstatic Kid Cudi took to Instagram to celebrate his record-breaking feat, writing, “This is HUGE. I wanna thank everyone who went out and copped the vinyl! This is all because of YOU! I LOVE YOU ALL!! Nevertheless, Man on the Moon III: The Chosen represented a commercial resurgence for the Cleveland rapper. The album, which dropped in December 2020, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 144,000 album-equivalent units in its first week — a return-to-form following the lackluster sales of 2015’s Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven and 2016’s Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin’ “Yall dont understand. I haven’t had a solo gold album in YEARS. Since INDICUD. 2013,” he wrote on Twitter earlier this month. “Never be discouraged. Keep ragin forward. Stick w it. Never give up. I am proof u can rise from the ashes.

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