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Watch Charles Hamilton debut his new single "New York Raining" during a live performance in L.A.

It was estimated last week that Drake's surprise release, If You're Reading This It's Too Late, would move around half a million units in its first week out. Today the numbers have arrived from HDD, and the initial numbers come extremely close to the 500k mark.

TeeFlii's new album, and debut studio LP, arrived today and with that Spotify has a stream of the album up. Yesterday we featured our interview with the fast-rising r'n'b singer, where he discussed his gospel roots and being a back-up dancer for Chris Brown.

Game dropped his debut album, The Documentary on January 18th, 2005, and if you were old enough to buy the album then, you'll probably feel pretty old when you realize it's celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2 weeks.

Most of the world was introduced to West Chester University sophomore Tunji Ige via the Michael Christmas & iLoveMakonnen-assisted remix of his everyman anthem "Day2Day," and with his subsequent tracks, he proved the jam wasn't a fluke. Well, now his debut effort, The Love Project, has arrived.

Jay Elec blesses the crowd with previously unheard material.

Watch producer Flying Lotus debut a previously unheard Kendrick Lamar verse during a live show.

Chris Webby is gearing up to drop his debut album, Chemically Imbalanced, via his self-started imprint Homegrown Music and eOne. The Connecticut-raised rapper is releasing the new album on October 28th, but before then, Billboard has unleashed a full stream of the project.

Stalley is gearing up for his debut album, Ohio, to be released on October 27th. In a similar fashion to Black Milk, for whom we just received an album stream in advance of If There's A Hell Below, Stalley also lets go a full stream of Ohio one week prior to its release date. 

Boaz has been heavy on the site lately, as he's been dropping off leak after leak from his debut album Intuition.

Another album stream for your listening pleasure today. We've already received streams for Tinashe's Aquarius album, and two Prince albums, Art Official Age and PlectrumElectrum. Elijah Blake now lets go his Drift EP to stream on Spotify.

Last week, Cozz ended the week with the release of a new record "Wait's Over," declaring that his debut mixtape on the Dreamville imprint would be arriving shortly.

The numbers have arrived for Chris Brown's long-awaited album X. The projections determined that Breezy's new album would sell around 120,000 units opening week. However, the final numbers surpass this.

The race between Lecrae and Jhene Aiko for the Billboard 200 #1 spot was a close one, but Lecrae has come out on top. The rapper's new album Anomaly snagged a #1 debut, after moving a reported 88,299 units, according to Hits Daily Double. 

J. Cole and Chance The Rapper give their audience a preview of a new collaboration called "Thotty."