Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 01/02/07

    With the holidays over, Josh Groban lost his longstanding hold on the #1 slot for sales last week. As Noel sank to #3, it gave way for “Queen of Hip Hop/R&B” Mary J Blige to get a second-week #2 with her Growing Pains, selling 204,258 units (835,436 total). Filling out the middle of the top three, Alicia Keys inched closer to three million with 193,211 units sold last week (2,543,224 total) of her acclaimed As I Am.

    In Hip Hop, Lupe Fiasco climbed a spot to #14 with his year-end-list heralded The Cool, selling 54,398 copies (198,477 total) after two weeks. Soulja Boy held the #21 spot, selling 48,277 copies (658,480 total).

    Bottoming out the Top 200, Styles P bookended the charts, selling 8,917 units of his Super Gangster (56,865 total). The bigger news might be Timbaland finally achieving platinum status from his single-studded summer release. Will this garner an Interscope follow-up in 2008, or simply greater development of The Mosely Music Group through One Republic and Kerri Hilson?

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

    Rank Artist Album This Week Total
    1

    Mary J Blige

    Growing Pains

    204,258

    835,436
    2

    Alicia Keys

    As I Am

    193,211

    2,543,224

    5

    Chris Brown

    Exclusive 86,700

    1,051,276

    14

    Lupe Fiasco

    The Cool

    54,398

    198,477

    17

    Jaheim

    Makings of a Man

    53,995

    230,328

    Other Notables…

    Rank Artist Album This Week Total
    21

    Soulja Boy

    Souljaboytellem.com 49,629 658,480
    26

    Jay-Z

    American Gangster 45,276

    887,335
    30

    Kanye West

    Graduation 43,366 1,891,918
    55

    Timbaland

    Shock Value

    26,148

    1,003,040
    77

    Wu-Tang Clan

    8 Diagrams

    19,798 120,981

    As March becomes the next pivotal release month, will Lil Wayne or another rapper deliver a sneak attack to warm the winter? Or will Lupe Fiasco stretch to go gold while Soulja Boy pushes to platinum?

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