Country’s Keith Urban took this week’s pole position with his Defying Gravity. Hip Hop favorite Prince came close behind though, with his Target-exclusive three-album set, LOtUSFLOW3R independent project.
As predicted at mid-week, UGK [click to read] did earn a Top 10 debut with UGK 4 Life [click to read]. Pimp C‘s posthumous group album with Bun B outsold its high predictions of 75,000 units, and just as Underground Kingz [click to read] did in 2007, placed the southern Hip Hop icons in the elite company of top artists – this time without the same strong radio backing. The group outsold discs from younger artists, both Flo Rida‘s R.O.O.T.S. [click tp read], and Bow Wow‘s [click to read] New Jack City Part 2.
Between Flo and Bow, Interscope feature queen Keri Hilson‘s In A Perfect World… [click to read] returned for a second strong week, surpassing predictions.
Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 2 | Prince | LOtUSFLOW3R |
168,420 | 168,458 |
| 6 | UGK | UGK 4 Life | 76,419 | 76,600 |
| 8 | Flo Rida | R.O.O.T.S. | 55,285 | 55,356 |
| 11 | Keri Hilson | In A Perfect World… | 37,030 | 131,527 |
| 16 | Bow Wow | New Jack City Part II | 30,851 | 30,944 |
The second week for Boss Of All Bosses [click to read], saw Slim Thug [click to read] outsell Sony Records flagship artist Jim Jones [click to read] and his Pray IV Reign [click to read]. Although Jones has more overall units scanned, the two artists surprise many with that close range competition.
Bad Boy Records‘s Gorilla Zoe [click to read] slid just below the Top 50 with his sophomore Don’t Feed Da Animals [click to read]. The Boyz N The Hood front-man moved over 50,000 overall units.
Lil Wayne [click to read] sold just under 10,000 copies of Tha Carter III [click to read], his usual sum from recent weeks.
DOOM (formerly MF DOOM and Zevlove X of KMD) fell considerably on the charts with his BORN INTO THIS [click to read] release, selling a third of his first week units, and descending nearly 100 spots. iTunes offers an exclusive Radiohead remix to one of the album’s tunes, making it a release to watch.
Other Notables
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 32 | Slim Thug | Boss Of All Bosses | 16,891 | 49,612 |
| 40 | Jim Jones | Pray IV Reign | 13,704 | 56,686 |
| 55 | Gorilla Zoe | Don’t Feed Da Animals | 10,862 | 57,685 |
| 62 | Lil Wayne | Tha Carter III | 9,964 | 3,102,399 |
| 139 | DOOM | BORN LIKE THIS | 4,516 | 15,411 |
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