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Hip Hop Album Sales: This Week

In this week’s Sales Wrap Ne-Yo just misses the top spot landing at No. 2, Nelly under a 100k, but nabs No. 3 spot, and DJ Khaled’s latest effort debuts in Top 10.

Bringing R&B back atop the charts this week is Ne-Yo who proves chivalry isn't dead as Year of the Gentleman moves an impressive 250,600 units this week. According to Nielsen Soundscan, the Def Jam singer missed the No. 1 spot for the first time landing at No. 2 on Billboard’s Top 200. The release is led by his VMA nominated hit “Closer” and new single “Miss Independent.”


Making his return to store shelves after a four-year hiatus is Nelly with Brass Knuckles debuting at No. 3 selling a total of 83,715 albums. Following-up his platinum-selling albums Sweat and Suit, the St. Lunatic teamed up with a star-studded line-up including Akon, Jermaine Dupri, Fergie, T.I., LL Cool J, R.Kelly, Ciara, Rick Ross and more.

Trap star rapper Young Jeezy fell four spots to No. 6 this week as The Recession pushed out a solid 59,875 albums. His third Def Jam solo release placed popular producers behind the boards including DJ Toomp, Don Cannon and The Inkredibles who are responsible for his latest single “Vacation.” After three weeks in stores, the album has sold a total of 410,380 units.

Known for popularizing the saying “We Tha Best,” DJ Khaled debuted in the Top 10 this week landing at No. 7 selling 49,570 copies. Believed to be his final Koch Records contractual release, the album We Global features the usual Florida-based line-up including T-Pain, Rick Ross, Plies, Trick Daddy, Pitbull, Flo Rida, Ace Hood plus New York rappers Fat Joe, Busta Rhymes, Nas and Fabolous.

Slipping one spot on this week’s charts is multi-platinum selling rapper Lil’ Wayne who reached No. 9. Following the announcement of his upcoming documentary The Nino Brown Story, Tha Carter III sold a steady 43,110 units with the help of his current hit single “Mrs. Officer” featuring Bobby Valentino. After recently winning the "Best Hip-Hop Video" for “Lollipop” at this year’s VMAs, Weezy’s latest effort has moved 2,453,110 copies in only 15 weeks.

Black Wall Street leader The Game dropped three spots over the week landing at No. 10 with his L.A.X. selling 41,535 copies. Recently featured throughout the Internet with former rap rival Joe Budden, Game’s album offers hip-hop fans a heavy group of varied artists including DMX, Ne-Yo, Common, Ludacris, Keyshia Cole, Bilal and others. His third and final album is headed towards gold status sitting at 418,640 after four weeks on shelves.

R&B vixen Rihanna has fallen two spots to No. 14 as her re-released Good Girl Gone Bad sold 31,680 albums this week. Rihanna’s newly updated version offers fans three additional tracks on top of her smash hits including the Grammy award-winning single “Umbrella” featuring Jay-Z and her latest gem “Take A Bow.” Her third Def Jam release has sold 1,812,031 albums after 68 weeks on the charts.

Returning to store shelves after four years is R&B singer Raphael Saadiq with The Way I See It debuting at No. 19 selling 23,431 copies in its’ first week. The fourth solo album by the musician and vocalist features an interesting guest line-up including Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z and Joss Stone.

British soul singer Leona Lewis, who recently reached platinum, moved up one spot as she continues to sell records with her debut album Spirit moving 22,240 copies this week landing her at No. 21. After 24 weeks in stores, Lewis has sold a total of 1,108,120 units.

Grammy-nominated singer Eric Benet dropped 15 spots as Love & Life landed the No. 26 spot on the charts with 18,541 copies sold. Former husband to movie star Halle Berry, Benet’s new single “You’re The Only One” is reportedly making its way up charts and is his most recent song to hit Top 20 in two years. After 14 days on the charts, the album is stuck at 58,940 units.

Despite excitement about his final Def Jam release being his most anticipated album, LL Cool J has failed to draw in sales as Exit 13 sold a low 14,723 albums this week. Allegedly claiming the label is to blame for the lack of promotion, LL fell 23 spots to arrive at No. 32. His 13th album follows the certified gold 2006 release, Todd Smith, and features appearances from 50 Cent, Lil’ Mo, Wyclef Jean plus the club smash “Baby” featuring The Dream.

Led by lead singer, Travis McCoy, Gym Class Heroes have also suffered a significant loss with The Quilt dropping 24 spots to No. 38 this week selling 12,380 copies. Assisted by production from Cool & Dre, the group’s latest effort showcases guest appearances by Estelle, Busta Rhymes and The Dream. After two weeks on the charts, the group has sold a total of 44,650 albums.

Check back next week to see how newcomer Jazmine Sullivan performs on the charts with her debut album.


Rapheal Saadiq
The Way I See It
23,430 23,623

Plies
Definition of Real
8,631
505,199

Nas
Untitled
6,520
386,939

David Banner
Greatest Story Ever Told
5,650
153,203

B.G. & Chopper City Boyz
Life In The Concrete Jungle
5,209
5,258

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Hip Hop Album Sales: This Week

Continuing to show he’s here for the long haul, Young Jeezy stays a top contender in album sales this week as The Recession pushes out an easy 89,940 units. According to the Nielsen Soundscan, Jeezy moved one slot down to No. 2 on this week’s Billboard 200. Going in to his second week on the charts, his new album features a star-studded line-up including Kanye West, Jay-Z and Nas. As of today, the disc has sold a total 350,510 albums.

The West Coast is still alive in Top 10 as The Game slide four spots to No. 7 with his L.A.X. selling 49,240 copies this week. Coming off of the recent success defeating Bow Wow in his much-publicized Madden '09 match-up, Game offers hip-hop fans a steady line-up of varied artists including DMX, Ne-Yo, Common, Ludacris, Keyshia Cole, Bilal and others. His third and final album has sold a total 377,100 copies after just three weeks in stores.

Moving up two spots on this week’s charts is multi-platinum selling rapper Lil’ Wayne who landed the No. 8 spot. Tha Carter III sold an impressive 47,350 units over the past seven days with the help of his current hit single “Mrs. Officer” featuring Bobby Valentino. After recently winning the "Best Hip-Hop Video" for “Lollipop” at this year’s VMAs, Weezy’s latest effort has moved 2,410,000 copies in just 14 weeks.

The most notable release of the week came from Hip-Hop’s “G.O.A.T” LL Cool J as he made his long-awaited return. LL’s Exit 13 debuted at No. 9 this week. Following-up his certified gold 2006 release, Todd Smith, LL Cool J’s final Def Jam release sold 43,646 copies in its opening week. The disc features guest appearances from 50 Cent, Lil’ Mo, Wyclef Jean plus the club smash “Baby” featuring The Dream.

Grammy-nominated singer Eric Benet also debuted this week with his latest release Love & Life reaching the No. 11 spot on the charts with 40,135 units sold. His new single “You’re The Only One” is reportedly making its way up charts and is his most recent song to hit Top 20 in two years.

R&B vixen Rihanna moved up one spot to No. 12 as her re-released Good Girl Gone Bad sold 34,880 albums this week. The newly updated version features three additional tracks on top of her smash hits including the Grammy award-winning single “Umbrella” featuring Jay-Z and her latest gem “Take A Bow.” Her third Def Jam release has sold a remarkable 1,780,360 albums.

Led by lead singer, Travis McCoy, Gym Class Heroes made their long-awaited debut on the charts this week as their new album The Quilt landed at No. 14 with 32,196 copies pushed out of stores. With production by Cool & Dre, the group’s latest effort also features guest appearances by Estelle, Busta Rhymes and The Dream.

British soul singer Leona Lewis, who recently reached platinum, continues to sell records as her debut album Spirit moved a solid 21,520 copies this week landing her at No. 22. After 23 weeks on the charts, Lewis has sold a total of 1,085,880 units.

Despite the smash hit “Dangerous” featuring hook slayer Akon, Kardinal Offishall’s new project Not 4 Sale made little buzz as it debuted at No. 40 this week selling 11,870 copies. Kardinal’s fourth studio release features mega hitmakers T-Pain, Sean Paul, Rihanna, Glenn Lewis, The Clipse and many others.

Former NWA rap slayer Ice Cube has dropped to No. 41 as his latest release Raw Footage sold 11,770 albums this week. His eighth solo release features appearances by fellow Californian rappers WC, The Game, as well as hip-hop lyrical greats Nas and Scarface. After four weeks on the charts, Cube has seen 130,560 copies sold.

Chris Brown makes his return to the charts this week moving up seven spots to No. 46 as his Exclusive sold 10,130 copies this week. Showing he can hang with the superstars, his sophomore album features special guests T-Pain, Lil’ Wayne, Big Boi and the Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am. After 45 weeks on the charts, Chris Breezy has sold a grand total of 1,788,230 copies.

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HIP-HOP CHARTS: Young Jeezy Claims No. 1 W/ 260K,

In this week’s charts Young Jeezy puts out a No. 1 album, Bad Boy’s Donnie Klang makes into the Top 20, and Usher nabs his fourth straight platinum-selling album.

Young Jeezy showed his latest effort is more than fancy cars and flaunting cash, by selling an impressive 259, 780 units. According to the Nielsen Soundscan, Jeezy’s The Recession debuted at the No. 1 spot on this week’s Billboard 200. Following up his platinum-selling The Inspiration, the Def Jam artist teamed up with fellow labelmates Kanye West, Jay-Z and Nas for his third studio album.

The Game slid one slot to No. 3 in his second week on the charts. L.A.X. sold a steady 88,710 units. The former G-Unit member’s third and alleged final album features production from a variety of mega hitmakers including Scott Storch, Hi-Tek, DJ Toomp, Kanye West, and others. Proving once again that he can sell records on his lonesome, Game has sold a solid 327,860 copies to date.

In the surprise position of the week Lil’ Wayne barely hung on to a Top 10 ranking. Coming in at No. 10, the self-proclaimed “best rapper alive” sold 46,580 units of Tha Carter III this week. Walking home with the Best Hip-Hop Video for “Lollipop” at this year’s VMAs, Weezy’s other single “Mrs. Officer” featuring Bobby Valentino has continued to hit national airwaves. After just 13 weeks on the charts, the album has sold an astonishing 2,362,650 units.

R&B vixen Rihanna slipped one spot to No. 13 as her re-released Good Girl Gone Bad sold 32,130 copies this week. The newly updated version features three additional tracks on top of her smash hits including the Grammy award winning single “Umbrella” featuring Jay-Z and her latest gem “Take A Bow.” Her third Def Jam release has sold a total of 1,745,480 albums after 65 weeks on the charts.

“Making the Band 4” alumni Donnie Klang debuted within the Top 20 this week as Just a Rolling Stone pushed 22,000 records this week. The latest Bad Boy newcomer hit the studio with producers Channel 7, Mario Winans, Soul Diggaz, The Dream and others on his highly anticipated debut.

British R&B singer Leona Lewis, who reached platinum status two weeks ago, continues to soar as her debut album Spirit moved 21,640 copies this week landing her at No. 20. After 22 weeks on the charts, Lewis has sold a total of 1,064,360 units.

West Coast rap icon Ice Cube has dropped to No. 26 as his latest release Raw Footage moved 18,490 units this week. His eighth solo release features appearances by fellow Californian rappers WC, The Game, as well as major players Nas, Scarface and Young Jeezy. After three weeks on the charts, Cube has seen 118,590 copies sold.

R&B bad girl Solange has been caught up in some controversy lately, but it has not done much to affect her album sales. Sol-Angel and The Hadley St. Dreams, fell to No. 28 with a steady 17,620 albums sold this week. The project features The Neptunes-produced smash single “I Decided” and features by Q-Tip, Lil’ Wayne, Estelle and Bilal. After two weeks in stores, Beyonce’s lil’ sis has sold a total of 63,930 copies.

Actor-turned-singer Terrence Howard tried his hand at singing with his debut album Shine Through It which landed the No. 31 spot. The Academy Award-nominated performer sold 14,190 albums of his debut, which he has reportedly been working on since March 2007.

Always controversial rapper Nas continues to slip down the chart as his latest effort Untitled landed at No. 45 with 10,140 copies this week. Powered by production from Polow da Don and Keri Hilson' vocals on the single “Hero,” the Queensbridge rapper’s second Def Jam release has pushed a total of 372,660 units to date.

Slim Thug is back on the block with an album from his Boss Hogg Outlawz crew. Back by Blockular Demand: Serve & Collect II failed to generate much buzz as it debuted at No. 48 this week with a 9,820 units sold. The second studio album from the Houston collective appears on Koch Records and features group members Killa Kyleon, J-Dawg, Chris Ward, Young Black and PJ.


The honorable mention of the week goes to R&B King Usher. The soon to be daddy (for the second time) can also celebrate the fact that his sixth studio album Here I Stand has finally reached platinum status. Coming in at No. 56 spot with 8,960 albums sold this week, the disc marks his fourth consecutive platinum-selling album. Usher has moved a grand total of 1,008,383 units after 15 weeks on the charts,

Check back next week to see how LL Cool J’s final Def Jam release stands against Akon associate Kardinal Offishall.

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Gas For Only .87 Cents A Gallon ?

SALT LAKE CITY — The best deal on fuel in the country right now might be here in Utah, where people are waiting in lines to pay the equivalent of 87 cents a gallon. Demand is so strong at rush hour that fuel runs low, and some days people can pump only half a tank.

It is not gasoline they are buying for their cars, but natural gas.

By an odd confluence of public policy and private initiative, Utah has become the first state in the country to experience broad consumer interest in the idea of running cars on clean natural gas.

Residents of the state are hunting the Internet and traveling the country to pick up used natural gas cars at auctions. They are spending thousands of dollars to transform their trucks and sport utility vehicles to run on compressed gas. Some fueling stations that sell it to the public are so busy they frequently run low on pressure, forcing drivers to return before dawn when demand is down.

It all began when unleaded gasoline rose above $3.25 a gallon last year, and has spiraled into a frenzy in the last few months.

Ron Brown, Honda’s salesman here for the Civic GX, the only car powered by natural gas made by a major automaker in the country, has sold one out of every four of the 800 cars Honda has made so far this year, and he has a pile of 330 deposit slips in his office, each designating a customer waiting months for a new car.

“It’s nuts,” Mr. Brown said. “People are buying these cars from me and turning around and selling them as if they were flipping real estate.”

Advocates for these cars see Mr. Brown’s brisk sales as a sign that natural gas could become the transport fuel of the future, replacing much of the oil the nation imports. While that remains a distant dream, big increases recently in the country’s production of natural gas do raise the possibility of making wider use of the fuel.

To a degree, it is already starting to happen in Utah, where the cost savings have gotten the public’s attention. Natural gas is especially cheap here, so that people spend about 87 cents for a quantity of gas sufficient to propel a car approximately the same distance as a $3.95 gallon of gasoline.

The word about natural gas cars has been spreading in news reports and by word of mouth, and so many people in Utah are now trying to get their hands on used natural gas vehicles that they are drying up the national supply. Used car lots are stocking up, and beginning to look like county government parking lots with multiple lines of identical white Civic GXs once used in out-of-state fleets.

Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr. got into the act last year, spending $12,000 out of his own pocket to convert his state sport utility vehicle to run on natural gas. “We can create a model that others can look to,” Mr. Huntsman said in an interview. “Every state in America can make this a reality.”

In fact, some unique factors apply in Utah. Natural gas prices at the pump here are controlled and are the cheapest in the country, while the price of conventional gasoline is one of the highest. Questar Gas, the public utility, has compressed-gas pumps around the state open to the public, a fueling infrastructure that few states can match.

Special factors or not, the sudden popularity of natural gas vehicles here demonstrates their potential, according to advocates like T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oil billionaire who is financing a national campaign promoting wind power and natural gas to replace imported oil. “Utah shows that the technology is here and the fuel works and the fuel is better than foreign oil,” Mr. Pickens said.

Natural gas cars produce at least 20 percent less greenhouse gas per mile than regular cars, according to a California study.

No official figures are available on how many natural gas vehicles Utah has, in part because so many people go to garages that install conversion kits that are not certified by the Environmental Protection Agency and are therefore illegal.

(Governor Huntsman has expressed concern, and some in the installation business have requested that the E.P.A. close down the unauthorized operations; the agency says it does not comment on possible investigations.)

But Questar estimates the number at 6,000 and growing by several hundred a month. That is small compared with the 2.7 million vehicles registered in the state, but natural gas executives and state government officials say it makes Utah the fastest-growing market in the country for such cars.

Cars fueled by compressed natural gas have been available intermittently in the United States for decades, and have found wide use in fleets, but have never attracted much consumer interest. The situation is markedly different abroad. Of the eight million natural gas vehicles operating worldwide, only about 116,000 were in the United States, mostly as fleet vans, buses and cars, according to a 2006 Energy Department estimate.

Congress mandated the use of fleets capable of using alternative fuel cars for governments and some energy companies in the early 1990s, but public interest petered out as gasoline prices plummeted. Over the years, all the major car companies except Honda dropped their production in the United States.

The cars have two major disadvantages — a shortage of fueling stations and limited range. (A typical natural gas car goes half as far on a full tank as a gasoline car.) Utah is one of the few states where a driver can travel across the state without being out of range of a station.

The situation is a Catch-22: Carmakers do not want to make natural gas cars when few filling stations are set up for them, and few stations want to install expensive equipment to compress gas with so few cars on the road.

Hundreds of stations supply compressed gas in a few states like California, New York and Arizona, but most are either closed to the public or charge only modestly less than regular gasoline prices.

Retail natural gas prices in some states are triple the price in Utah. The only state that comes close to Utah’s low gas prices is Oklahoma, and a surge of natural gas car buying is going on there, too.

The natural gas industry and some politicians are pushing to open up the market to gas-powered vehicles across the country. Even in states without fueling stations, a few drivers have switched by spending several thousand dollars to install a home gas compressor.

A proposal on the ballot in California this fall would allow the state to sell $5 billion in bonds to finance rebates of $2,000 and more to buyers of natural gas vehicles. Legislation has been introduced in Congress to offer more tax credits to producers and consumers and mandate the installation of gas pumps in certain service stations, with the goal of making natural gas cars 10 percent of the nation’s vehicle fleet over the next decade.

“If the incentives are right and the fuel and cars are available, natural gas can work,” said Gordon Larsen, supervisor for natural gas vehicle operations at Questar Gas. But he said that any drop in gasoline prices douses enthusiasm among drivers considering the switch.

With gasoline hovering just below $4 a gallon for unleaded regular here, interest in the Salt Lake City area is strong.

Questar reports that the volume of natural gas pumped at its 21 filling stations is up 240 percent this year from last, after a 50 percent rise in 2007. Demand has grown so fast that the compressors at many of Questar’s stations run low during the day, forcing drivers to settle for half a tank or fill up during off-peak hours.

The natural gas car surge in Utah is because of several factors. Questar has had filling pumps around the state to fuel its own fleet of service vehicles since the 1980s, and because it had excess capacity, it opened those stations to the public. Natural gas prices are cheap because under Utah regulations, the utility is obliged to offer about half of the gas that it sells to its retail customers at the cost of production.

The state and a few municipalities are preparing to open more filling stations. If the trend continues, it could eventually lower the environmental impact of driving in Utah.

For now, demand for compressed-gas cars is outstripping supply.

“People get into a frenzy and they just have to buy,” said Rick Oliver, owner of a company that converts vehicles. He said that in a recent online auction, a Utah buyer paid $19,000 for a 2001 Civic GX with 50,000 miles — the price a buyer of a new GX would pay after state and federal tax credits.

Gary Frederickson, a 48-year-old computer technician, has bought six natural gas vehicles on Craigslist over the last year, flying as far as Portland and Oakland to pick up the cars. One 1998 Ford Contour he bought for $3,000 in effect cost him nothing because he will receive a $3,000 state tax credit for buying an alternative fuel car.

“It’s crazy to be in Utah and have access to 85-cent-a-gallon fuel and not take advantage of it,” he said before a recent 2-cent increase.

Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 8/31/08

Always surrounded by controversy, The Game [click to read] made his big debut of LAX [click to read] at #2 this week. The former G-Unit member sold 238,000 copies of his highly anticipated album, and was beat out by a new release from Slipknot. Lil Wayne [click to read] takes the #6 spot this week, selling 54,000 more copies of his double platinum album Tha Carter III [click to read]. Looks like stardom runs in the Knowles family as Beyonce's little sister Solange debuts her sophomore effort Sol Angel &The Hadley St. Dreams at #9 this week with 46,200 copies sold. Rihanna's re-release of Good Girl Gone Bad holds down the #12 spot for the second week in a row with 37,300 copies sold. Ice Cube [click to read] rounds out the top 5 for Hip Hop and R&B at #14 with 30,300 copies sold of Raw Footage

Nas holds on to the #36 position with 12,200 copies of his Untitled [click to read] album sold this week, while Plies' [click to read] Definition of Real [click to read] takes #44 with 10,600 sold. M.I.A continues to see the effects of her "Paper Planes" and the numerous rappers jumping on the remix. Kala sold 9,200 copies and landed her the #48 spot. Rumor has it that since seeing her new popularity on the charts, M.I.A has begun to re-think her plans for an early retirement from music. David Banner [click to read] comes in at #51 selling 9,100 copies of Greatest Story Ever Told [click to read] while V.I.C debuted Beast [click to read] at #73 with just over 7,000 copies sold.

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