Rick Ross's latest album entitled Mastermind topped the album charts with 179,000 copies sold on the first day of its release. Despite the massive publicity garnered by Pharrell Williams with his song "Happy" and despite its release on the morning after the Oscars where Williams performed, Rick Ross still topped him in the charts. However, Pharrell's single "Happy" still remained on top of Billboard's singles for 4 weeks in a row with over 490,000 downloads and 8 million streams.

Rick Ross is an American rapper who has managed to top the Billboard previously with several hit songs as well as enjoying a solid number of album sales. In fact, he did well enough to found the record label Maybach Music Group in 2009. In his own studio, he released the albums Deeper Than Rap in 2009, Teflon Don in 2010 and God Forgives, I Don't in 2012. His recent album release called Mastermind comes 2 years after his last studio album and was highly anticipated by his followers.

Among the songs included in this album are "Drug Dealers Dream," "Shots Fired," "War Ready" featuring Jeezy, "Sanctified" featuring Kanye West and Big Sean, and "Thug City" featuring Lil Wayne and Supreme. His opening sales came as a surprise since Pharrell's single topped the chart immediately after its debut. It also pushed back the Academy award winning song "Let It Go" to third place.    

Ross's album also comes in a deluxe edition, which includes 3 more songs: Blessing in Disguise, Paradise Lost and FuckWithMeYouKnowIGotIt. Avid fans of the rapper may download the songs from im1music, albumjams, and dopehood.

Despite the controversial lyrics of Ross' songs along with the scandals he has been involved with in the past, his songs never fail to gain support from listeners. This album is expected to break more records in the future with the surging increase in the number of downloads.