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This article summarises the events, album releases, and album release dates in hip hop music for the year 1995.
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Released albums
Highest-charting singles
Title | Artist | Peak position |
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"Gangsta's Paradise" | Coolio | 1 |
"One More Chance" | The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Faith Evans & Mary J. Blige | 2 |
"Hey Lover" | LL Cool J featuring Boyz II Men | 3 |
"I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By" | Method Man featuring Mary J. Blige | |
"Big Poppa" | The Notorious B.I.G. | 6 |
"I Got 5 on It" | Luniz featuring Michael Marshall | 8 |
"Dear Mama" | 2Pac | 9 |
"Keep Their Heads Ringin'" | Dr. Dre | 10 |
"Player's Anthem" | Junior M.A.F.I.A. | 13 |
"How High" | Method Man & Redman | |
"I Wish" | Skee-Lo | |
"1st of tha Month" | Bone Thugs-n-Harmony | 14 |
"Feel Me Flow" | Naughty by Nature | 17 |
"Too Hot" | Coolio | 24 |
"Sugar Hill" | AZ | 25 |
"Give It 2 You" | Da Brat | 26 |
"Ice Cream" | Raekwon | 37 |
"I Seen a Man Die" | Scarface |
Highest first-week sales
Number | Album | Artist | 1st-week sales | 1st-week position | Refs |
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1 | E. 1999 Eternal | Bone Thugs-n-Harmony | 307,000 | 1 | Midwest Hip Hop |
2 | Dogg Food | Tha Dogg Pound | 277,500 | 1 | West Coast Hip Hop |
3 | Me Against the World | 2Pac | 240,000 | 1 | West Coast Hip Hop |
4 | Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom | Cypress Hill | 142,000 | 3 | West Coast Hip Hop |
5 | Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... | Raekwon | 130,000 | 4 | East Coast Hip Hop |
6 | Friday | Various Artists | 123,000 | 1 | West Coast Hip Hop |
7 | Cocktails | Too Short | 101,000 | 6 | West Coast Hip Hop |
8 | On Top of the World | 8Ball & MJG | 83,000 | 8 | Southern Hip Hop |
9 | Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version | Ol' Dirty Bastard | 81,000 | 7 | East Coast Hip Hop |
10 | Mr. Smith | LL Cool J | 80,000 | 20 | East Coast Hip Hop |
See also
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References
- ^ "The Top 150 Hip-Hop Albums of 1995".