In another slow week on the charts, Alicia Keys‘ As I Am reigns supreme for the second week in a row, now less than 300k away from triple platinum status. Mary J Blige grabs the #3 spot this week and passes the platinum mark with
1.04M sold total, while 1st runner up went to the Juno Soundtrack.
The highly anticipated debut of Raheem Devaughn‘s Love Behind the Melody came in at #4 selling 45k, while John Legends
Show Me Live debuts at #7 selling just under 33k.
Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Total |
| 1 | Alicia Keys | As I Am | 60,519 | 2,786,454 |
| 3 | Mary J Blige | Growing Pains | 51,615 | 1,040,011 |
| 5 | Raheem Devaughn | Love Behind the Melody | 44,903 | 45,118 |
| 7 | John Legend | Show Me Live | 32,809 | 32,809 |
| 9 | Chris Brown | Exclusive | 29,193 | 1,151,030 |
Lupe Fiasco continues to have the #1 Rap album in the country. The Cool comes in at #26 this week selling 18.5k (268k total), while Souljaboy
claims the #2 Hip Hop spot at #37 selling 14k (711k total). In comparison to his current rival, GZA (Click Here for article ), this week Wu-Tang‘s 8 Diagrams has dropped 21 places to #107 and sold 6k (146k total).
Other Notables…
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Total |
| 26 | Lupe Fiasco | The Cool | 18,526 | 268,283 |
| 37 | Soulja Boy | Souljaboytellem.com | 14,195 | 711,182 |
| 38 | Birdman | 5*Stunna | 13,465 | 221,568 |
| 45 | Jay-Z | American Gangster | 12,889 | 941,200 |
| 107 | Wu-Tang Clan | 8 Diagrams | 6,002 | 145,860 |
Next week watch for Royce Da 5’9 to try to make a splash in a stagnant music industry, as well as Koch Record‘s Big Noyd. The two will battle it out with identical January 22nd release dates.
