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Weekly Sales

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Let’s make this one quick because after today, I’m off until next year.  Christmas time RULES.  Anyway, Diddy and Dirty Money hit the charts along with Michael Jackson on R. Kelly.  Check out the numbers.

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
3 Michael Jackson Michael
 228,000 228,000
6 R. Kelly Love Letter 154,000 154,000
7 Diddy-Dirty Money Last Train To Paris
 101,000 101,000
8 Nicki Minaj Pink Friday 97,000 658,000
11 Rihanna Loud 84,000 579,000
Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
20 T.I. No Mercy 69,000 229,000
21 Eminem Recovery 69,000 3,214,000
22 Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 66,000 738,000
182 Lloyd Banks H.F.M. 2 (The Hunger For More 2) 5,800 69,000
198 Sheek Louch Donnie G: Don Gorilla
 5,400 5,500

After the fire incident at Diddy’s Dirty Money party, I almost went out and bought the album.  I don’t know if I should listen to Michael Jackson’s new album though, seeing how 50 Cent is on it.  Just in case you haven’t seen the chick’s hair catch on fire at Diddy’s party, you have to watch it below.  Shout out to Kevin Hart.  ”Did the camera catch that????????”  Happy Holidays.


Weekly Numbers 7/22/2010

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The weekly numbers are in again, thanks to HipHopDX, even though they are a day late.  Eminem is still sitting on top selling another 195K, Drake did another 50K and Curren$y debuts on the charts moving 11K in his first week.  Here is the top.

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
1 Eminem Recovery
 195,000 1,482,000
3 Drake Thank Me Later
 50,000 833,000
9 M.I.A. /\/\/\Y/\ 28,000 29,000
14 Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty 26,000 89,000
20 Usher Raymond v. Raymond
 18,000 935,000

And the bottom

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
38 Curren$y Pilot Talk
 11,000 11,000
56 Paul Wall Heart of A Champion
 7,600 7,600
98 Capone-N-Noreaga The War Report 2
 4,600 4,700
111 Plies Goon Affiliated 4,000 103,000
146 Drake So Far Gone
 3,300 500,000

All three new albums that I listened too last week hit the charts moving numbers like newcomers.  It’s so weird to see people who have been in the game for a while not even sell 10,000 copies.  However, I guess if your anyone but Eminem, Jay-Z or Drake you are feeling the pressure.  Until next week…..

Weekly Numbers 7/7/2010

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Eminem is still sitting on top of the charts this week and reached platinum in just two weeks of sales.  Congrats to Em, that’s pretty incredible considering the state of things.  Drake is sitting at number two and sold another 100K this week.  Love King, The Dream moved 58K in his first week.  That is kind of surprising considering that R&B seems to be the way to sell records nowadays.  Here is the top

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

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
1 Eminem Recovery
 313,000 1,058,000
2 Drake Thank Me Later
 105,000 709,000
4 The-Dream Love King
 58,000 59,000
14 Usher Raymond v. Raymond 24,000 898,000
17 The Roots How I Got Over
 21,000 72,000

And for the bottom

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
28 Dwele W.ants W.orld W.omen
 14,000 14,000
107 Trip Lee Between Two Worlds
 4,400 7,900
134 Young Money We Are Young Money
 3,800 500,000
193 Blaze Ya Dead Homie Gang Rags
 2,600 11,100
198 Z-Ro Heroin
 2,500 6,600

It’s kind of amazing that you can be on the charts by only selling 2500 copies in a week.  I feel like I could do that out of my bookbag.  Dwele sold 14K in his first week.  The Roots moved 21,000 in their second week.  One of those copies will be mine next week.  Whoever Blaze Ya Dead Homie is moved a few more units this week.  Big Boi is on the chopping block next week.  Hopefully he can do at least 100K but I’m predicting 60-75K.  Regardless, go buy his album.

Weekly Numbers 4/21/10

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Sorry for the day-late update.  The numbers from last week’s sale are in and the usual suspects are still sitting up top.  New to the charts this week is the group, MGMT.  Not sure if yall are familiar with them but they are on Kid Cudi’s album and had a song Electic Feel that was pretty big.  Ursher, Monica, Sade and Luda are still “chillin” in the top spots.  Check.

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

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
2 MGMT Congratulations
 66,000 67,000
4 Usher Raymond v. Raymond
 64,000 486,000
9 Monica Still Standing 30,000 334,000
12 Sade Soldier of Love
 25,000 1,100,000
13 Ludacris Battle of the Sexes 25,000 335,000

And for the bottom

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
19 Gucci Mane Burrrprint [2] HD
 19,000 20,000
67 Method Man, Ghostface Killah & Raekwon Wu Massacre
 6,600 56,000
84 Murs & 9th Wonder Fornever
 5,400 5,500
126 E-40 Revenue Retrievin’: Day Shift 3,700 21,000
142 Snoop Dogg More Malice
 3,400 34,000

Murs and 9th Wonder hit the charts with their album, Fornever, moving just under 6,000. Wu-Massacre is getting closer to the 60K mark and Gucci Mane hit the charts moving 20K with a new “mixtape,” Burrprint 2 HD. Stayed tuned til next week for releases from Little Brother and Devin The Dude.

Weekly Numbers 3/17/2010

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The numbers are in once again.  There were a few new releases that dropped last week and two of them hit the top of the charts.  Ludacris dropped his album, Battle of the Sexes, and debuted at number 1, moving 137K.  Right below Luda was the Gorillaz new album, Plastic Beach, debuting at number 2 with 112K.  Still up at the are Sade, Black Eyed Peas and Lil Wayne’s Rebirth.  Here is the top.

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

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
1 Ludacris Battle of the Sexes
 137,000 137,000
2 Gorillaz Plastic Beach
 112,000 112,000
6 Sade Soldier of Love 52,000 951,000
9 Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D.
 43,000 2,271,000
12 Lil Wayne Rebirth
 27,000 420,000

And for the bottom…..

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
58 Gucci Mane The State Vs. Radric Davis
 9,400 310,000
64 Eminem Relapse
 8,800 1,884,000
65 DJ Khaled Victory
 8,700 37,000
118 50 Cent Before I Self Destruct
 5,000 421,000
182 Kidz In The Hall Land of Make Believe
 2,900 2,900

Kidz in the Hall also dropped this week moving just under 3K.  I am still curious why selling 3,000 earns you a spot on the charts.  I would like to see the top 200 back in like 95 and see what the lowest numbers were.  Until next week….

Weekly Numbers 3/10/2010

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Another week is upon us and the numbers are rolling in.  Kinda.  A couple new releases dropped last week and are sitting up top despite the small numbers.  Raheem DeVaughn moved 45K while DJ Khaled sold 25K.  Sade is still sitting pretty in the number 2 slot and Black Eye Peas are in number 8.  Check the top.

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

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
2 Sade Soldier Of Love
 79,000 899,000
8 Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D.
 46,000 2,228,000
9 Raheem DeVaugn The Love & War Masterpeace 45,000 45,000
12 Lil Wayne Rebirth
 32,000 393,000
14 DJ Khaled Victory
 28,000 28,000

And for the Bottom

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
51 Gucci Mane The State Vs. Radric Davis
 11,000 301,000
52 Eminem Relapse
 11,000 1,875,000
77 Drake So Far Gone
 7,300 401,100
103 50 Cent Before I Self Destruct
 5,800 416,000
195 Freeway & Jake One The Stimulus Package
 2,700 15,000

Despite having a really dope album, Freeway and Jake One aren’t breaking any records.  However, I highly encourage everyone to go cop it because it’s really dope.  Other than that, I don’t have much else to say.  Until next time.

Weekly Numbers 2/24/2010

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Sorry for the evening post but I wanted to update everyone with some weekly numbers before the night was up.  Sade and Jaheim held tight up top.  Black Eyed Peas are STILL “selling out” of the stores and Miss Keys is holding on strong too.  Check the top

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

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
1 Sade Soldier Of Love
 190,000 694,000
3 Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D.
 65,000 2,131,000
5 Lil Wayne Rebirth 58,000 324,000
7 Alicia Keys Element of Freedom
 39,000 1,078,000
8 Jaheim Another Round
 36,000 148,000

And for the bottom.

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
32 Jay-Z Blueprint 3
 16,000 1,631,000
45 Eminem Relapse
 14,000 1,853,000
61 Freeway & Jake One The Stimulus Package
 9,000 9,100
163 Mathematics Return of the Wu & Friends
 3,400 3,400
200 Galactic Ya-Ka-May
 2,700 7,800

Freeway and Jake One dropped their album, The Stimulus Package under the Rhymesayers imprint and failed to bring hope back to hip hop fans.  Mathematics, who is a Wu-Tang affiliate also dropped an album, Return of the Wu & Friends and moved 3,4oo.  I have higher hopes for the Raekwon, Method Man and Ghostface album, Wu-Masscre as well as Little Brother’s final album, Leftback.  I guess I’ll wait until they drop.  Shout out to Sade for coming back very strong.  Until next week…..

Weekly Sales 2/10/10

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Fail on my part for posting this so late but here are the weekly sales numbers.  The only major release was from perhaps the hottest artist on the planet, Lil Wayne.  His highly anticipated album, Rebirth dropped on February 2nd.  With two singles/videos and a lot of mixed feelings, Rebirth finally came out despite the setbacks.  He debuted at number 2 moving just over 175K in his first week.  Considering how well Carter III sold and his current hype, I would call this disappointing.  However, 175K in a week is still pretty solid in these current times.  I bet his No Ceilings mixtape had over a million downloads in a few days.  Here is the top.

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

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
2 Lil Wayne Rebirth
 176,000 176,000
5 Various Artists 2010 Grammy Nominees
 71,000 165,000
6 Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. 70,000 1,999,000
11 Michael Jackson’s This Is It
 35,000 1,439,000
13 Alicia Keys Element of Freedom
 34,000 1,000,000

And for the bottom.

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
28 Young Money We Are Young Money
 21,000 291,000
30 Jay-Z Blueprint 3
 19,000 1,597,000
34 Eminem Relapse
 18,000 1,824,000
53 Drake So Far Gone
 12,000 369,000
69 50 Cent Before I Self Destruct
 8,500 387,000

Young Money is staying strong on the charts with Wayne, We Are Young Money and Drake still moving units. Alicia Keys hit platinum and Black Eyed Peas are still murdering people. Until next week, enjoy your weekend and go cop that Sade album. I heard it’s amazing.

Weekly Numbers 2/3/2010

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Sorry I slacked yesterday on updating everyone with the weekly numbers.  It will NEVER happen again.  I promise(singing Jagged Edge’s song). Anyway, here are the weekly numbers.  Not really anything exciting happening except Hope For Haiti now is still moving units.  Corraine Bailey Rae debuted selling just over 50K, Michael Jackson’s This Is It is still sitting up top and Alicia Keys is ALMOST platinum.  Here is the top.

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
2 Various Artists Hope For Haiti Now
 143,000 314,000
6 Michael Jackson’s This Is It
 55,000 1,404,000
7 Corinne Bailey Rae The Sea 53,000 53,000
10 Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D.
 40,000 1,929,000
11 Alicia Keys Element of Freedom
 37,000 965,000

And for the bottom.

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
28 Young Money We Are Young Money
 19,000 270,000
40 Jay-Z Blueprint 3
 14,000 1,578,000
41 Eminem Relapse
 14,000 1,805,000
85 Kid Cudi Man On The Moon: The End Of Day
 6,600 289,000
86 50 Cent Before I Self Destruct
 6,600 379,000

I look forward to seeing how many units Sade can next week. Her new album Soldier of Love drops February 9th. Until next week stay tuned.

Weekly Numbers 1/27/2010

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This is my first post from Los Angeles.  I touched down last night and am greeted today by beautiful weather and a trip to VIP Records in Long Beach.  Some of you may remember VIP from Snoop’s video, What’s My Name? Here is the video just to remind you.  We road around bumping the Twinz album, Conversation while enjoying the sunshine.

Anyway, here are the weekly numbers.  MTV’s Hope For Haiti project topped the charts at number one moving just under 175K.  The 2010 Grammy Nominations CD moved just under 50K while Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige and Black Eyed Peas stay up top.  Here’s the top.

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

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
1 Various Artists Hope For Haiti Now
 171,000 171,000
5 Various Artists 2010 Grammy Nominees 49,000 49,000
7 Alicia Keys Element of Freedom
 40,000 928,000
9 Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D.
 35,000 1,890,000
14 Mary J Blige Stronger (With Each Tear)
 29,000 504,000

Here’s the bottom.

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
23 Young Money We Are Young Money
 19,000 251,000
30 Eminem Relapse 15,000 1,791,000
31 Jay-Z Blueprint 3
 15,000 1,563,000
70 50 Cent Before I Self Destruct
 6,800 372,000
168 RJD2 The Colossus
 2,800 2,900

Nothing surprising here.  The produced RJD2 sold some pretty miniscule numbers but I bet he sells more at his shows then in the stores.  I can imagine it is pretty hard to find that album at your local Best Buy.  I want to remind everyone that I will be rocking in Los Angeles at The Mint this Sunday, January 31st.  Anyone in the area please come out and support.  I hear that it is cold and snowy in Chicago.  I can’t say that I miss home just yet.  Until next week……