List of Billboard number-one rap albums of 2013

These are the U.S. number-one rap albums of 2013, per the Billboard Rap Albums chart.

Note that Billboard publishes charts with an issue date approximately 7–10 days in advance.

Chart history

Key

Indicates best-charting rap album of 2013[1]

Issue date	Album	Artist(s)	Ref.
January 5	Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head	T.I.	[2]
January 12			[3]
January 19	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City	Kendrick Lamar	[4]
January 26	Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head	T.I.	[5]
February 2	Long. Live. ASAP	ASAP Rocky	[6]
February 9			[7]
February 16			[8]
February 23	No Love Lost	Joe Budden	[9]
March 2	Long. Live. ASAP	ASAP Rocky	[10]
March 9	The Heist	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	[11]
March 16			[12]
March 23			[13]
March 30			[14]
April 6			[15]
April 13	I Am Not a Human Being II	Lil Wayne	[16]
April 20	Wolf	Tyler, The Creator	[17]
April 27	Hotel California	Tyga	[18]
May 4	Indicud	Kid Cudi	[19]
May 11			[20]
May 18	The Heist	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	[21]
May 25			[22]
June 1			[23]
June 8	Excuse My French	French Montana	[24]
June 15	The Heist	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	[25]
June 22			[26]
June 29	The Wack Album	The Lonely Island	[27]
July 6	Yeezus	Kanye West	[28]
July 13	The Gifted	Wale	[29]
July 20	Born Sinner	J. Cole	[30]
July 27	Magna Carta Holy Grail	Jay-Z	[31]
August 3			[32]
August 10			[33]
August 17			[34]
August 24			[35]
August 31			[36]
September 7	Doris	Earl Sweatshirt	[37]
September 14	Hall of Fame	Big Sean	[38]
September 21	Stay Trippy	Juicy J	[39]
September 28	B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time	2 Chainz	[40]
October 5	Self Made Vol. 3	Maybach Music Group	[41]
October 12	Nothing Was the Same	Drake	[42]
October 19			[43]
October 26			[44]
November 2			[45]
November 9			[46]
November 16			[47]
November 23	The Marshall Mathers LP 2	Eminem	[48]
November 30			[49]
December 7			[50]
December 14			[51]
December 21			[52]
December 28	Because the Internet	Childish Gambino	[53]

See also

• 2013 in music
• List of number-one rap songs of 2013 (U.S.)
• List of number-one R&B albums of 2013 (U.S.)
• List of number-one albums of 2013 (U.S.)

References