Rock band The Fray shook things up at the top of the charts last week, with their self-titled effort. Them, Taylor Swift, and Bruce Springsteen ran the charts, sending Beyonce and her I Am…Sasha Fierce [click to read] to #5. Jamie Foxx [click to read] climbed ahead of, Keyshia Cole‘s A Different Me [click to read] and Kanye West‘s 808’s & Heartbreak [click to read]. The trio of releases have shifted throughout the last two months.
T.I. [click to read] came back into the top five urban releases too, with his Paper Trail [click to read], trucking towards two million units sold.
Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 5 | Beyonce | I Am…Sasha Fierce | 51,371 | 1,788,206 |
| 8 | Jamie Foxx | Intuition | 36,550 | 578,032 |
| 9 | Kanye West | 808’s & Heartbreak | 33,882 | 1,291,218 |
| 10 | Keyshia Cole | A Different Me | 33,593 | 666,127 |
| 19 | T.I. | Paper Trail | 22,919 | 1,661,189 |
Rhymesayers Entertainment Doomtree member, and DXnext alum [click to read] member P.O.S. suprised some with an appearance on the Top 200, with his Punk/Rap effort Never Better [click to read].
Also newsworthy, Lil Wayne [click to read], by projections, is one week away from three million records sold of Tha Carter III [click to read], a likely feat after his Grammy appearance [click to read].
Other news saw Common [click to read] break the 200,000 mark with his Universal Mind Control [click to read] release.
Other Notables
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 22 | Lil Wayne | Tha Carter III | 20,158 | 2,985,147 |
| 66 | Young Jeezy | The Recession | 9,404 | 765,503 |
| 106 | P.O.S. | Never Better | 6,148 | 6,173 |
| 131 | Common | Universal Mind Control | 4,700 | 200,234 |
| 174 | Scarface | Emeritus | 3,585 | 104,841 |
Will P.O.S. hang around? Can Madlib honor Dilla in the Top 200? Stay tuned to HipHopDX for next week….
