The new streaming service, which debuted to much fanfare in late June, has 11 million users around the world and wants to build on that number as members’ free trials expire and they have to start paying $9.99 a month. The album is available only through iTunes and Apple Music for the first two weeks of release. I think I was much more nervous about the album coming out than I was the movie, because the album is so much more personal.” “It’s so crazy when you’re waiting for something this massive to come out. “Finally the butterflies are gone,” Dre said on his most recent “Pharmacy” episode. ‘Straight Outta Compton’: Photos of N.W.A on film and in real life Nielsen reported that the album generated 11 million streams throughout the week in the U.S.ĭre has been heavily promoting the album and the movie, which he produced, on his radio show “The Pharmacy,” which airs on Apple’s new global radio station Beats 1. Plenty of people also streamed Dre’s “Compton,” though they could do so only through Apple Music and not rivals such as Spotify or Rhapsody. In terms of streams, tracks from the N.W.A catalog were up more than 100% in the last week, according to the Swedish service Spotify. Movies like “Ray” (about Ray Charles) and “Walk the Line” (about Johnny Cash) renewed interest in their subjects’ old recordings. Best-of compilations from N.W.A and Ice Cube also earned noticeable increases.įULL COVERAGE: ‘Straight Outta Compton’ and N.W.A’s legacyīakula said the sales were similar to past biopics. Dre’s “The Chronic” and “2001” soared 95% and 86% respectively during the week. “You’re probably going to notice it even more this week as people see the movie.” “Ever since anyone’s been talking about the movie, people have been going back and rediscovering and consuming it in a lot of different ways,” Nielsen analyst David Bakula said. It landed 30th on the overall album chart, surging from 83rd in the week before. The group’s 1988 release “Straight Outta Compton” sold nearly 8,500 copies in the week that ended Aug. Other N.W.A-related recordings got sales bumps as well. 2 in overall album sales, behind country star Luke Bryan’s “Kill the Lights.” It easily topped the R&B/hip-hop chart for the week, and it came in at No. Still, the nearly parallel unveiling helped the record move a robust 295,000 units in the United States in its first week, according to Nielsen Music. The Dre release, dubbed “Compton,” is not the movie’s soundtrack nor is it an official tie-in.
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