Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 7/27/2008

Lil Wayne is bumped down from #2 to #5, taking the backseat to Miley Cyrus, Sugarland, the Mama Mia soundtrack, and Kid Rock, respectively. But with total sales at 1,997,218 , Weezy is just on the horizon of double platinum with Tha Carter III . After reigning supreme last week at #1 Nas' Untitled holds down the #8 spot this week selling 63,200 this week. Rihanna's re-release of Good Girl Gone Bad comes in at #11 with 33,700 sold while Usher's Here I Stand sells 23,500 and lands the #18 spot. Rounding out the Top 5 Hip Hop/ R&B artists is David Banner at #20. The Greatest Story Ever Told sold 21,200 copies this week.

Plies grabs the #27 spot with 17,100 copies of Definition of Real sold this week. At #33 Three 6 Mafia's Last 2 Walk sold 13,918 copies this week. Following right behind them with a deficit of only 37 CDs, G-Unit sold 13,881copies of Terminate On Sight, earning them the #34 spot. In the first full sales week since Rick Ross was exposed as a former corrections officer, the Miami "boss" dropped over 20 spots on the chart to #74 with Trilla selling about 8,000 copies this week. Finally, Bronx rapper Hell Rell debuted Black Mask Black Gloves at #131 this week with just under 5,400 sold.

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