Dr.Dre New "Compton Sound Track" Reaches #2 on Billboard top 200 Chart

Dr.Dre New "Compton Sound Track" Reaches #2 on Billboard top 200 Chart 

BHR Hollywood Reports..........Not only did Straight Outta Compton put up big numbers at the box office, the companion album also makes a big debut this week.

Dr. Dre’s Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre, inspired by the N.W.A biopic, opens at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 this week.

Compton 

Drake and Future remain in the top 10 album sales. Kendrick Lamar climbs the charts and returns to the top 10 Rap & R&B albums after spending four weeks out of the list.

The N.W.A movie Straight Outta Compton was released to theaters Friday (August 14) and created renewed interest in the Rap group, whose album with the same name as the movie appears at the #30
spot on the chart.

Dr.Dre

According to Reports, Dre’s first album in 16 years sold 295,000 equivalent album units, with 276,000 of them pure album sales.

Compton also debuts at No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, Dre’s third chart-topper on that list.

Dre’s previous album, 2001, was released in 1999 and spent four non-consecutive weeks at No. 2. His debut, 1993’s The Chronic, peaked at No. 3 and held the spot for six non-consecutive weeks.