Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 12/21/08

Taylor Swift‘s Fearless reigned supreme yet again. R&B took the top of the charts, as Keyshia Cole‘s A Different Me [click to read] bumped B at #2. Jamie Foxx [click to read] followed right after, with his Intuition [click to read] album taking #3, an impressive debut for the multi-talented superstar. Beyonce sank just slightly to #5 with her I Am…Sasha Fierce [click to read].

Kanye West followed closely with 808’s & Heartbreak [click to read] fell out of the Top 10 for the first time yet. Anthony Hamilton‘s [click to read] The Point Of It All came right after ‘Ye’s #11 position at #12.

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

Plies [click to read] entered the charts at #14 with his third major label full length in two years. Da REAList [click to read] was followed by fellow southern rap recent sensation Soulja Boy [click to read], who came nearly 30 spots lower with his iSouljaBoy [click to read].

Lil Wayne [click to read] is back in the Top 50. Tha Carter III [click to read] trudges towards three million sold in the States.

Meanwhile, Scarface [click to read] is holding rank with Emeritus [click to read], his reported last album from the onetime platinum rapper. Lil Wayne entered the charts twice this week, as DJ Drama and Aphilliates Music Group released a retail version of Dedication 3 [click to listen], that sold just under 10,000 units last week.

Other Notables

How will R&B and Hip Hop battle it out next week, and will holiday sales shift up the charts? Stay tuned to HipHopDX for next week….