ALBUM SALES

Here's your music industry round-up for 2016. Desiigner had the year's most-streamed song with "Panda."

It's early, but projections are saying J. Cole could move up to a half mill in the opening week.

"We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service," A Tribe Called Quest's first No. 1 album in over 20 years, achieves the third-highest first-week sales of 2016 hip-hop albums.

Travis Scott is expected to get his first No. 1 album with "Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight."

Here are the first-week projections for Frank Ocean's "Blonde," which is expected to take No. 1 by a long shot.

Here is the early forecast of the first-week sales for Tory Lanez' debut album, "I Told You."

It doesn't looks like "Sremmlife 2" or "PartyNextDoor 3" will be able to dethrone Drake or Suicide Squad.

DJ Khaled's "Major Key" debuts at No. 1, taking the top spot from "VIEWS," which had been there for a total of 12 weeks.

Drake's "VIEWS" goes No. 1 for a 12th week, beating out Gucci Mane's comeback album, "Everybody Looking."

"Country Grammar" becomes the 9th hip hop album ever to sell 10 million records.

"VIEWS" reaches more milestones, becomes the first album since Taylor Swift's "1989" to spend 11 weeks as the No. 1 album in the U.S.

Drake's "VIEWS" reclaims the top spot for the 10th time, while ScHoolboy Q's "Blank Face LP" debuts at No. 2.

The top spot on the Billboard albums chart has finally been taken from Drake, as Blink-182's new album makes its debut at No. 1.

Nine in a row for Drake, who just passed Eminem to gain the No. 3 spot on the list of hip-hop artists with the most weeks spent at No. 1 on the albums chart.

Drake earns his sixth consecutive No. 1 album. "VIEWS" sells over a million U.S. copies in its first week.

Prince sold enough albums on the day of his death to take the top two spots on this week's Billboard 200 chart.

Kanye West's "The Life of Pablo" is finally ready to chart, and it will reportedly become the first album to ever go No. 1 off streams alone.

A look at how hip-hop and R&B releases fared on this week's charts.

Kendrick Lamar gets his second No. 1 album in under the year.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "This Unruly Mess I've Made" underperforms its predecessor but manages to crack the top 5 with its debut on Billboard.

Kevin Gates reveals that Apple told him his album, "Islah," outsold Rihanna's "Anti."

The week in rap and R&B sales, and a quick glance at chart placements on Billboard.

Chris Brown's "Royalty" had some impressive first-week numbers, but it was no match for the increased Xmas sales put forth by Justin Bieber's "Purpose" and Adele's record-setting "25."

Another record for the best-selling album of all time.

G-Eazy reigned supreme among new hip hop releases.

50 Cent says Rick Ross is buying his own album to boost the numbers.

Jadakiss' "Top 5 Dead Or Alive" did pretty well for its opening week.

"If You're Reading This It's Too Late" has sold 143,000 more digital copies than any other album through Q3 of 2015.