Billboard Charts

Kanye West Top Billin' on Billboard


Not quite making the mark of the previous Platinum-in-a-week 'Graduation', Kanye's '808's & Heartbreak' reached number one with 450,000 sales upon it's initial week's end. Recession, internet piracy and a creative effort swaying against the grain can be formed into reasons of weaker sales for kanyeezy, but still impressive for today's industry.

But aspiring to be better than Elvis Presley?...

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
01 Kanye West 808's & Heartbreak 450,145 451,395
04 Beyonce I Am...Sasha Fierce 257,377 740,554
05 Ludacris Theater Of The Mind 213,493 214,126
16 T.I. Paper Trail 74,792 1,303,834
21 T-Pain Thr33 Ringz 48,769 278,318
Posted on Thu, 04/12/2008 - 04:53
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T.I.'s Paper Trail Almost First on Billboard 100


T.I.'s "Paper Trail" (Grand Hustle/Atlantic) is on course to début at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 next week. The rapper's sixth studio set leads Nielsen SoundScan's Building chart, released today (Oct. 3). Unweighted sales of "Paper Trail" through the close of business yesterday stood at 357,000.

Billboard estimates the nine merchants who report to Nielsen SoundScan's Building chart -- Trans World Entertainment, Best Buy, Circuit City, iTunes, Starbucks, Borders, Target, Anderson Merchandisers and Handleman Co. -- comprise about 80% of all U.S. album sales.

The 357,000 figure is the third-largest Friday Building Chart sum of the year, trailing only Lil Wayne's Cash Money/Universal Motown set "Tha Carter III" (630,000) and Coldplay's Capitol album "Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends" (459,000). Those two albums finished their first full week in stores shifting 1 million and 721,000, respectively.

If "Paper Trail" does hit No. 1, it will be T.I.'s third straight chart topper on The Billboard 200, following "King" in 2006 and "T.I. Vs. T.I.P." in 2007. "King" bowed with 522,000 while "T.I.P." landed with 468,000.

T.I. - "Whatever You Like" (First Single):
[No. 1] Billboard 100
[No. 1] Hot Digital Songs

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Posted on Fri, 03/10/2008 - 05:50
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Nas Top BIllin' Bumps Young Mr. Carter


The 9th studio drop, Untitled from Nas is top billin on the Billboard charts this week. According to Nielsen's Soundscan the first week sales of Untitled pushed 187,078 units bumping Lil Wayne off the number one spot.

Weezy's new released album at six weeks old has now come within reach of double platinum. According to Nielsen, Tha Carter III scanned 105,590 units this week, collectively making grand total sales of the album to 1,912,052.

BILLBOARD HIP HOP ALBUM SALES WEEK ENDING 7/20/08

Rank

Artist Album This Week Total
01 Nas Untitled 186,640 187,078
02 Lil Wayne Tha Carter 3 105,490 1,912,052
08 David Banner Greatest Story Ever Told 51,805 51,902
24 G-Unit T.O.S. 21,219 159,369
26 Plies Definition of Real 20,522 400,789
29 Three 6 Mafia Last 2 Walk 18,431 156,835
58 Rick Ross Trilla 9,702 629,610
74 Tech N9ne Killer 8,076 57,771


Posted on Thu, 24/07/2008 - 12:47
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