List of the best-selling rap albums in Germany

Twelve Bushido albums were recognized for a total of over 1.4 million sales

Eight Eminem albums have been recognized for a total of over 3.2 million sales

Stadtaffe of Peter Fox , with over 1.3 million outstanding sales the most successful rap album in Germany

The list of the best-selling rap albums in Germany includes music albums of the genres rap and hip-hop , which have been awarded by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI) since 1975 for over 100,000 copies sold and thus received at least one gold record . All types of music albums such as studio albums , live albums compilations or soundtracks are included. The information does not include used albums that have been resold. So far, 157 rap albums in Germany have been awarded at least one gold record.

Distribution of plate awards

Award	until September 24, 1999	until December 31, 2002	until December 31, 2012	since January 1, 2013
gold	250,000	150,000	100,000	100,000
platinum	500,000	300,000	200,000	200,000
3 × gold	750,000	450,000	300,000	300,000
2 × platinum	1,000,000	600,000	400,000	400,000
...	...	...	...	...
diamond	-	-	-	750,000

The information in the table relates to the year the album was released, not the date of the award.

List of the best-selling rap albums

1 million or more units

rank	year	title	Art	Artist	Award	Sales
1	2008	City monkey	St.	Peter Fox	13 × gold	1,300,000
2	1996	Tic Tac Toe	St.	Tic Tac Toe	2 × platinum	1,000,000
	1997	Fold the 2nd	St.	Tic Tac Toe	2 × platinum

500,000 or more units

rank	year	title	Art	Artist	Award	Sales
4th	2000	The Marshall Mathers LP	St.	Eminem	3 × platinum	900,000
	2002	The Eminem Show	St.	Eminem	3 × platinum
6th	1992	4 wins	St.	The fantastic Four	3 × gold	750,000
	1996	The Score	St.	Fugees	3 × gold
8th	1995	Bugging	St.	The fantastic Four	1 × platinum	500,000
	2005	Curtain Call: The Hits	Ko.	Eminem	5 × gold
	2012	Raop	St.	Cro	5 × gold

200,000 or more units

rank	year	title	Art	Artist	Award	Sales
11	2009	The end	St.	the black Eyed Peas	2 × platinum	400,000
12	2000	MTV Unplugged	Li.	The fantastic Four	1 × platinum	300,000
	2002	Dutty skirt	St.	Sean Paul	1 × platinum
	2004	Encore	St.	Eminem	3 × gold
	2005	Next!	St.	Seeed	3 × gold
	2009	Beautiful new world	St.	Culcha Candela	3 × gold
	2011	XOXO	St.	Casper	3 × gold
	2012	With K	St.	Power club	3 × gold
	2012	Seeed	St.	Seeed	3 × gold
	2013	Backland	St.	Casper	3 × gold
	2014	King	St.	Kollegah	3 × gold
	2014	melody	St.	Cro	3 × gold
	2014	record	St.	The fantastic Four	3 × gold
24	1990	Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em	St.	MC hammer	1 × gold	250,000
	1993	The 4th dimension	St.	The fantastic Four	1 × gold
	1994	Straight from Rödelheim	St.	Rödelheim Hartreim project	1 × gold
	1995	Gangsta's Paradise	St.	Coolio	1 × gold
	1997	Squaring the circle	St.	circle of friends	1 × gold
	1997	The new S-Class	St.	Sabrina Setlur	1 × gold
	1997	Nana	St.	Nana	1 × gold
	1998	Bambule	St.	Absolute beginners	1 × gold
	1998	Greatest hits	Ko.	Tupac Shakur	1 × gold
	1999	4:99	St.	The fantastic Four	1 × gold
	1999	Esperanto	St.	circle of friends	1 × gold
35	2003	Music Monks	St.	Seeed	1 × platinum	200,000
	2003	Elephunk	St.	the black Eyed Peas	1 × platinum
	2004	Much	St.	The fantastic Four	1 × platinum
	2004	Collision Course	Re.	Jay-Z and Linkin Park	1 × platinum
	2005	The massacre	St.	50 cents	1 × platinum
	2005	Demon Days	St.	Gorillaz	1 × platinum
	2005	Monkey business	St.	the black Eyed Peas	1 × platinum
	2006	Mercedes dance	St.	Jan Delay	1 × platinum
	2006	From the skyline to the curb back	St.	Bushido	1 × platinum
	2006	live	Li.	Seeed	1 × platinum
	2007	Shock Value	St.	Timbaland	1 × platinum
	2007	Fornika	St.	The fantastic Four	1 × platinum
	2007	7th	St.	Bushido	1 × platinum
	2007	Culcha Candela	St.	Culcha Candela	1 × platinum
	2009	We children from Soul train station	St.	Jan Delay	1 × platinum
	2009	live from Berlin	Li.	Peter Fox and Cold Steel	1 × platinum
	2010	For you still fanta you	St.	The fantastic Four	1 × platinum
	2010	MTV Unplugged Live from the MV	Li.	Sido	1 × platinum
	2010	Recovery	St.	Eminem	1 × platinum
	2010	The best	Ko.	Culcha Candela	1 × platinum
	2012	Order from the bottom	St.	Deichkind	1 × platinum
	2012	Split personality	St.	Xavas	1 × platinum
	2012	The Heist	St.	Macklemore and Ryan Lewis	1 × platinum
	2012	#Best	Ko.	Sido	1 × platinum
	2013	Engines	St.	Alligatoah	1 × platinum
	2013	The Marshall Mathers LP 2	St.	Eminem	1 × platinum
	2013	30-11-80	St.	Sido	1 × platinum
	2013	MTV Unplugged Kahedi Radio Show	Li.	Max Herre	1 × platinum
	2014	Fortunately for the future II	St.	Marteria	1 × platinum
	2014	In black	St.	Power club	1 × platinum
	2015	Level why why	St.	Deichkind	1 × platinum
	2015	MTV Unplugged: Cro	Li.	Cro	1 × platinum
	2015	Music is not a solution	St.	Alligatoah	1 × platinum
	2015	Pimp Tape Volume 4	St.	Kollegah	1 × platinum
	2016	High & hungry 2	St.	Gzuz and Bonez MC	1 × platinum
	2016	Advanced Chemistry	St.	Beginner	1 × platinum
	2016	Plastic palm trees	St.	Bonez MC and RAF Camora	1 × platinum
	2017	Sampler 4	Ko.	187 street gang	1 × platinum

100,000 or more units

rank	year	title	Art	Artist	Award	Sales
73	1999	From the point of view and with the words of ...	St.	Sabrina Setlur	1 × gold	150,000
	1999	2001	St.	Dr. Dre	1 × gold
	2000	The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book	St.	Wyclef Jean	1 × gold
	2000	The W	St.	Wu-Tang Clan	1 × gold
	2001	Gorillaz	St.	Gorillaz	1 × gold
	2001	Samy Deluxe	St.	Samy Deluxe	1 × gold
	2001	New Dubby Conquerors	St.	Seeed	1 × gold
	2002	Nellyville	St.	Nelly	1 × gold
81	2003	Get Rich or Die Tryin '	St.	50 cents	1 × gold	100,000
	2003	Speakerboxxx / The Love Below	St.	Outkast	1 × gold
	2004	mask	St.	Sido	1 × gold
	2004	D12 World	St.	D12	1 × gold
	2004	Max Herre	St.	Max Herre	1 × gold
	2004	Electro ghetto	St.	Bushido	1 × gold
	2004	Aggro announcement No. 4	Ko.	aggro Berlin	1 × gold
	2004	R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece	St.	Snoop Dogg	1 × gold
	2005	Built on the water	St.	Fat bread	1 × gold
	2005	The Trinity	St.	Sean Paul	1 × gold
	2005	Public Enemy No. 1	St.	Bushido	1 × gold
	2005	Aggro announcement No. 5	Ko.	aggro Berlin	1 × gold
	2006	St. Elsewhere	St.	Gnarls Barkley	1 × gold
	2006	The Dutchess	St.	Fergie	1 × gold
	2006	I	St.	Sido	1 × gold
	2006	vendetta	Ko.	ersguterjunge	1 × gold
	2007	Cockfight	St.	KIZ	1 × gold
	2007	Curtis	St.	50 cents	1 × gold
	2008	Me and my mask	St.	Sido	1 × gold
	2008	Heavy metal payback	St.	Bushido	1 × gold
	2009	Relapse / Relapse: Refill	St.	Eminem	1 × gold
	2009	aggro Berlin	St.	Sido	1 × gold
	2009	Shock Value II	St.	Timbaland	1 × gold
	2010	Times change you	St.	Bushido	1 × gold
	2010	Etching Music Vol. 2	St.	The etching	1 × gold
	2010	Fortunately in the future	St.	Marteria	1 × gold
	2010	The beginning	St.	the black Eyed Peas	1 × gold
	2011	Planet pit	St.	Pit bull	1 × gold
	2011	Sorry for party rocking	St.	LMFAO	1 × gold
	2011	Black-and-white	St.	Samy Deluxe	1 × gold
	2011	23	St.	Bushido and Sido	1 × gold
	2011	aura	St.	Kool Savas	1 × gold
	2011	Air rate	St.	Culcha Candela	1 × gold
	2011	Blutzbrüdaz - the Mukke to the film	Ko.	Various artists	1 × gold
	2012	Hello World!	St.	Max Herre	1 × gold
	2012	AMYF	St.	Bushido	1 × gold
	2013	Young, brutal, handsome 2	St.	Kollegah and Farid Bang	1 × gold
	2013	compass without North	St.	Prinz Pi	1 × gold
	2013	DNA	St.	Genetics	1 × gold
	2013	Rich Kidz	St.	Kay One	1 × gold
	2014	Sonny Black	St.	Bushido	1 × gold
	2014	Killa	St.	Farid Bang	1 × gold
	2014	FVCKB! TCHE $ GETMONE ¥	St.	Shindy	1 × gold
	2014	martyr	St.	Kool Savas	1 × gold
	2014	Crackstreet Boys 3	Ko.	Trailer park	1 × gold
	2015	From the shadow into the light	St.	Against K	1 × gold
	2015	Carlo Cokxxx hookers 3	St.	Bushido	1 × gold
	2015	Eighth day	St.	Genetics	1 × gold
	2015	Mirage	St.	KC Rebell	1 × gold
	2015	mummy	St.	MoTrip	1 × gold
	2015	Hurray the world is ending	St.	KIZ	1 × gold
	2015	VI	St.	Sido	1 × gold
	2015	Ebb tide	St.	Gzuz	1 × gold
	2015	CLA $$ IC	St.	Bushido and Shindy	1 × gold
	2016	labyrinth	St.	Against K	1 × gold
	2016	DREAMS	St.	Shindy	1 × gold
	2016	The golden album	St.	Sido	1 × gold
	2016	distance	St.	KC Rebell	1 × gold
	2016	Emperor	St.	Kollegah	1 × gold
	2017	Good night	St.	Against K	1 × gold
	2017	Roswell	St.	Marteria	1 × gold
	2017	No night for no one	St.	Power club	1 × gold
	2017	Black Friday	St.	Bushido	1 × gold
	2017	anthracite	St.	RAF Camora	1 × gold
2017	Blyat	St.	Capital Bra	1 × gold
2017	#DIY	St.	Trettmann	1 × gold
2017	Royal bunker	St.	Kool Savas and Sido	1 × gold
2017	revival	St.	Eminem	1 × gold
2018	Captain Fantastic	St.	The fantastic Four	1 × gold
2018	Earth and bones	St.	Against K	1 × gold
2018	cloud 7	St.	Gzuz	1 × gold
2018	Berlin lives	St.	Capital Bra	1 × gold
2018	Plastic palm trees 2	St.	Bonez MC and RAF Camora	1 × gold
2019	CB6	St.	Capital Bra	1 × gold
2019	They wanted water but got gasoline	St.	Against K	1 × gold
2019	Berlin lives 2	St.	Capital Bra and Samra	1 × gold
2019	plate	EP	Apache 207	1 × gold

Legend

• Extended Play (EP)
• Compilation (Ko.)
• Live album (left)
• Remix album (right)
• Studio album (St.)

Albums by number

Artist number Artist Excellent overall sales 12 Bushido 1,400,000 11 Sido 1,400,000 10 The fantastic Four 3,050,000 8th Eminem 3,200,000 5 Seeed 1,150,000 Against K 500,000 4th the black Eyed Peas 900,000 Culcha Candela 800,000 Kollegah 700,000 Kool Savas / Xavas 500,000 Capital Bra 400,000 3 Cro 1,000,000 Power club 600,000 Bonez MC 500,000 50 cents 400,000 Gzuz 400,000 Marteria 400,000 Max Herre 400,000 RAF Camora 400,000 Shindy 300,000 2 Tic Tac Toe 2,000,000 Peter Fox 1,500,000 Casper 600,000 circle of friends 500,000 Beginner / Absolute Beginner 450,000 Alligatoah 400,000 Deichkind 400,000 Jan Delay 400,000 Sabrina Setlur 400,000 Sean Paul 400,000 Gorillaz 350,000 Timbaland 300,000 Samy Deluxe 250,000 aggro Berlin 200,000 Farid Bang 200,000 Genetics 200,000 KC Rebell 200,000 KIZ 200,000 1 36 artists

nation number nation 124  Germany 37  United States 3  Austria 2  Jamaica  United Kingdom Album type number Art 139 Studio albums 10 Compilations 6th Live albums 1 EPs Remix albums

See also

• German album charts
• German hip-hop charts
• List of rap albums that reached number one in the German charts
• List of number one albums in the German hip-hop charts
• List of the best-selling music albums certified by BVMI in Germany
• List of the best-selling rap songs in Germany

Web links

• Official website of the music industry in Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guidelines for awarding gold / platinum awards (PDF) In: Bundesverband Musikindustrie . April 6, 2018. Retrieved April 25, 2018.