Here’s our weekly overview of Hip-Hop and R&B album sales in the U.S., along with an update on where each album ranks on the Billboard 200 chart — this time for week 23 of 2026.
This week’s recap includes the first-week sales of Latto’s new album Big Mama, which debuts at No. 16.
Source: HITS Daily Double
| Chart # | Artist(s) | Album title | Sales | Sales + Streams |
| 1 | Drake | ICEMAN | 678 | 173,392 |
| 8 | Drake | HABIBTI | 221 | 41,428 |
| 13 | Don Toliver | OCTANE | 2,044 | 36,939 |
| 16 | Latto | Big Mama | 2,178 | 32,953 *DEBUT* |
| 18 | Drake | MAID OF HONOUR | 190 | 30,468 |
| 20 | SZA | SOS | 781 | 29,439 |
| 25 | Post Malone | The Diamond Collection | 152 | 26,427 |
| 30 | Bruno Mars | The Romantic | 3,824 | 24,041 |
| 31 | Justin Bieber | SWAG | 347 | 23,379 |
| 32 | Drake | Take Care | 1,229 | 22,620 |
| 47 | Chris Brown | BROWN | 109 | 19,370 |