Drake’s Iceman leads hip-hop’s biggest first-week sales of 2026

Iceman moved 463,000 equivalent album units in its first seven days.

XXL has highlighted the hip-hop projects with the biggest first-week sales in 2026 so far. Drake’s Iceman leads the list with 463,000 equivalent album units.

Author: Робот Source: XXL Magazine

A hip-hop artist performing onstage — Drake’s Iceman recorded the biggest first-week sales for a hip-hop project in 2026. Illustrative photo. Photo: GabboT / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

Hip-hop projects have posted strong first-week sales in 2026, according to a roundup by XXL.

YoungBoy Never Broke Again released his 17th album, Slime Cry, on the same day as A$AP Rocky’s project. Slime Cry moved 70,000 equivalent album units in its opening week, the biggest first-week result of YoungBoy’s career.

Don Toliver released Octane at the end of January. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 162,000 equivalent album units, giving the rapper-singer his best first-week sales to date.

J. Cole’s The Fall-Off moved 280,000 equivalent album units in its first week.

Drake’s ninth studio album, Iceman, arrived on May 15 and moved 463,000 equivalent album units during its seven-day sales period. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The total was the second-largest album sales week of 2026 and the biggest first-week result for a hip-hop project.

Source: XXL Magazine

Drake’s Iceman leads hip-hop’s biggest first-week sales of 2026

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