Oct 28 - Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 10/25/2009

Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 10/25/2009
October 28th, 2009 | Author: Jake Paine

Jay-Z [click to read] climbed slipped just one space with Blueprint 3 [click to read], as the emcee tours North America, including a stop tomorrow night in The Bronx to continue his promotion of the Yankee hat. Jay joins Eminem and The Black Eyed Peas [click to read] as the lone three platinum 2009 Rap albums. The trio is within 300,000 units of each other, with Jay-Z and Black Eyed Peas gaining close on Marshall.

Speaking of, the Peas [click to read] refuse to quit. The E.N.D. [click to read] held rank from last week, after being out for over three months. The California veterans are striking new chords with their latest single "Meet Me Halfway."

Mariah Carey's latest, Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel [click to read] went to #14, heading towards 300,000. The singer recently landed a LG phone campaign to bolster her market presence. This effort gained street support with help from Gucci Mane [click to read] on "Obsessed (Remix)." Whitney Houston reamained in the Top 20 with I Look To You, one of the biggest comeback albums of 2009. The effort still stands a chance of reaching platinum by year's end.

Just units short of 200,000, Drake's EP, So Far Gone [click to listen] stayed in the Top 25. The sneak attack Cash Money Records EP has proven to be one of the most successful in its format of all times.




* please note: figures below approximated to nearest thousandeth.
Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)
Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
4
Jay-Z
Blueprint 3
43,000
1,159,000

6 Black Eyed Peas
The E.N.D.
35,000
1,270,000

14
Mariah Carey
Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel 21,000
275,000

20
Whitney Houston
I Look To You
19,000
750,000

23
Drake
So Far Gone
17,000
197,000

Like Drake, Kid Cudi [click to read] is chasing the 200,000 mark, with his debut Man On The Moon: End Of Day [click to read]. The Cleveland rapper/singer was at #61 last week. A place behind, Eminem continues to lead Relapse [click to read] as the top-selling Rap album of 2009, bringing the Shady/Aftermath reign back as 50 Cent [click to read] and Dr. Dre are expected to follow-up.

Lil Boosie [click to read] is approximately a week away from six-figure sales of his Superbad: The Return of Boosie Badazz [click to read]. The rapper has recently been ordered to serve a felony jail sentence, and rumors swirl that he's already completed his next album's worth of material to release during incarceration.

The big debut on last week's shelves was Royce Da 5'9" [click to read] with his four-years-in-the-making album, Street Hop [click to read]. Executive produced by DJ Premier, a producer who's worked with Royce since his earliest releases, the project featured an all-star cast and a new label, The Orchard.

Lastly, Jay-Z cosigned artist and DXnext alum Melanie Fiona [click to read] snuck attack her much-delayed LP The Bridge. The SRC Records release debuted in Top 130, a dismal debut from an artist that had such buzz at the top of the year.




Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
61
Kid Cudi
Man On The Moon: End Of Day
8,900
183,000

62
Eminem
Relapse
8,500
1,490,000

95
Lil Boosie
Superbad: The Return Of Boosie Badazz
5,500
95,000

111
Royce Da 5'9"
Street Hop
4,600
4,600

129
Melanie Fiona
The Bridge
4,000
4,200

From HipHopDX.com

Originally Posted by T_Buck

Royce selling 4600

Originally Posted by DIPSET101

Guess yall can't laugh at fat joe anymore.

Originally Posted by kmoney626

damn 200k off a mixtape is alot of bread

Originally Posted by ash1990

where cormega born & raised???????

Originally Posted by 606robin

Damn royce
So far gone making cake after its been on peoples hard drives legally for months got damn thats some return on investment plus profit (200,000 )

Originally Posted by Hardkore

i'm surprised fiona ain't sell that much.