Hip Hop takes the backseat to other debuting genres this week as country music’s Rascal Flatts‘ Still Feels Good entered at #1 this week (575k sold). R&B’s Keyshia Cole‘s Just Like You took #2 with 282k sold, and the soulful Jill Scott made her return at #4, just under the Foo Fighters at #3. Jill‘s latest work, Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol 3 sold 148k.
All of these new releases have bumped Mr. Kanye West from #2 to #5. Graduation sold 133k this week, a 41% decrease from last week (1.3M total).Meanwhile, Jagged Edge‘s comeback album came in at #8. Baby Making Project, sold 78k in its first week, placing the R&B group ahead of 50 Cent‘s Curtis, which is at #9, selling just under 71k, a 50.4% decrease since last week (906k total).
Femcee pioneer Queen Latifah is back as well, but don’t expect her to be spittin any rhymes this time around. Trav’lin Light Music, an eclectic song selection that includes soul, bossa nova, jazz and blues, debuted this week at #11 selling 51k.
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…but back to Hip Hop…
Southern rapper Gorilla Zoe‘s Welcome to the Zoo entered the charts at #18 selling 35k this week, while Chamillionaire‘s Ultimate Victory took a nose dive from #8 to #30, selling 27k (107k total). Will.I.Am‘s much talked about Songs About Girls debuted at #38 with just under 21k units sold.
Twista‘s Adrenaline Rush 2007, which entered the charts at #10 last week, has dropped all the way to #48. The Chicago rapper sold 17k (58k total). Hell Rell‘s album, For the Hell of It, came in at #55 its first week selling 16k copies. Gucci Mane‘s Trap-A-Thon also debuted this week, landing 12k copies the #69 spot, and Rick Ross‘ Rise to Power, which debuted at #62 last week has fallen to #164 with 4.5k sold (16k total).
