Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 3/22/2009

    American Idol alum Kelly Clarkson took this week’s #1 spot for a second straight week with her RCA Records release All I Ever Wanted. The Pop star had some debut company. After U2‘s No Line On The Horizon and the Twilight soundtrack,  The-Dream‘s [click to read] fell two spots with Love Vs. Money [click to read]. Def Jam‘s hit-making songwriter, producer and performer sold roughly a third of the units moved during his previous week’s debut.

    Bad Boy Records‘s Gorilla Zoe [click to read] was a Top 10 debut, with his sophomore Don’t Feed Da Animals [click to read]. The Boyz N The Hood front-man moved over 30,000 first week units, despite limited radio and video play of his emotionally-charged single “Lost.”

    Although not at the top of the pack this week Jamie Foxx [click to read] and Beyonce remained neck-and-neck. Intuition [click to read] trailed I Am…Sasha Fierce [click to read] by just over 1,000 units for the second straight week. Beyonce cracked the two million mark, putting her in an elite class with Rihanna and Lil Wayne as the three urban artists presently in Top 200 to do so.

    T.I.‘s [click to read] Paper Trail [click to read] approaches two million units sold, hot off the added promotion of the rapper’s MTV Road To Redemption series.

    Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)

    Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
    4 The-Dream Love Vs. Money
    55,513 206,976
    8 Gorilla Zoe Don’t Feed Da Animals 31,257 31,325
    9 Beyonce I Am…Sasha Fierce 26,743 2,003,901
    10 Jamie Foxx Intuition 24,192 765,069
    12 T.I. Paper Trail 20,723 1,816,745

    With Brother Ali and Project Pat departing from the Top 200, it also came as a shock that Saigon and Statik Selektah‘s All In A Day’s Work failed to debut in the Top 200.

    After a lengthy group hiatus, Capone-N-Noreaga [click to read] returned with the SMC Records to deliver Channel 10 [click to read]. The album, which featured help from Havoc and DJ Premier, debuted at #136, having sold approximately 4,000 units. K’naan‘s [click to readTroubador [click to read] has been on the charts for over a month now, at #189.

    Lil Wayne [click to read] sold just under 12,000 copies of Tha Carter III [click to read], placing him at #38 this past week, three spots higher than last week, despite less units.

    Other Notables

    Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
    38 Lil Wayne Tha Carter III 11,584 3,082,227
    64 Lonely Island Incredibad 7,379 110,971
    88 Ludacris Theater Of The Mind 5,965 596,569
    136 Capone-N-Noreaga Channel 10 3,928 4,085
    189 K’naan Troubador 2,824 28,356

    Will Jim Jones get a #1 spot? Is Slim Thug‘s Koch‘s new flagship urban artist? Stay tuned to HipHopDX.

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