Pop princess Hannah Montana assumed the #1 spot again, after a week at #2. Bad Boy Records‘ Day 26 [click to read] shocked some with a debut #2 position of their latest, Forever In A Day. L.O.X./D-Block member Jadakiss [click to read] fell three spots in a second week of his The Last Kiss [click to read]. Jada inches closer to the 200,000 mark, impressive for the Def Jam artist.
Keri Hilson‘s In A Perfect World… [click to read] remained in the Top 15 for a fourth week, maintaining her status as Interscope‘s present R&B flagship artist, with considerable radio and video play. Hip Hop favorite Prince fell to Top 15, with his Target-exclusive three-album set, LOtUSFLOW3R independent project. The-Dream closed out the top five selling urban artists, with his Love Vs. Money [click to read] sophomore album, another Def Jam product. The work, selling 20,000 a week at this point, may stretch to go gold.
Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)
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| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 2 | Day 26 | Forever In A Day | 113,208 | 113,314 |
| 6 | Jadakiss | The Last Kiss | 44,785 | 179,706 |
| 13 | Keri Hilson | In A Perfect World… | 26,367 | 190,607 |
| 15 | Prince | Lotus Flo3er | 22,226 | 257,176 |
| 20 | The-Dream | Love Vs. Money | 19,222 | 314,459 |
UGK [click to read] fell considerably from previous weeks with UGK 4 Life [click to read]. Pimp C‘s posthumous group album with Bun B still continues to defy expectations, as the group’s nearly 20 year tenure with Jive Records comes to its final release.
Boss Of All Bosses [click to read], Slim Thug‘s [click to read] latest, continues to push towards six figure sales, impressive for a Rap independent. Another southern Rap veteran, Pastor Troy, did an impressive 4,000-plus debut week units of his latest, SMC Records project, Feel Me Or Kill Me [click to read]. The record was just units above MIMS‘ [click to read] sophomore, Guilt [click to read], a EMI major label release.
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DOOM (formerly MF DOOM and Zevlove X of KMD) stayed on the charts for a third week with his BORN INTO THIS [click to read] release, selling just under 3,000 units. iTunes offers an exclusive Radiohead remix to one of the album’s tunes, pushing it past the 20,000 mark.
Other Notables
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| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 28 | UGK | UGK 4 Life | 14,570 | 117,474 |
| 66 | Slim Thug | Boss Of All Bosses | 7,409 | 68,192 |
| 121 | Pastor Troy | Feel Me Or Kill Me | 4,261 | 4,267 |
| 122 | MIMS | Guilt | 4,253 | 16,664 |
| 198 | DOOM | BORN LIKE THIS | 2,649 | 21,318 |
Will Ross or Roth take the top urban spot next week? How will Mr. Lif fare? Stay on HipHopDX to know.
