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 read] Troubador [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.