Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 12/21/08

Taylor Swift's Fearless reigned supreme yet again. R&B took the top of the charts, as Keyshia Cole's A Different Me bumped B at #2. Jamie Foxx followed right after, with his Intuition album taking #3, an impressive debut for the multi-talented superstar. Beyonce sank just slightly to #5 with her I Am...Sasha Fierce.
Kanye West followed closely with 808's & Heartbreak fell out of the Top 10 for the first time yet. Anthony Hamilton's The Point Of It All came right after 'Ye's #11 position at #12.

Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)
Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
2
Keyshia Cole
A Different Me
321,758
322,085

3
Jamie Foxx
Intuition
265,196
265,362

5
Beyonce
I Am...Sasha Fierce
195,392
1,247,935

11
Kanye West
808s & Heartbreak
138,910
858,810

12
Anthony Hamilton
The Point Of It All
133,233
133,556


Plies entered the charts at #14 with his third major label full length in two years. Da REAList [click to read] was followed by fellow southern rap recent sensation Soulja Boy who came nearly 30 spots lower with his iSouljaBoy.

Lil Wayne is back in the Top 50. Tha Carter III trudges towards three million sold in the States.

Meanwhile, Scarface is holding rank with Emeritus, his reported last album from the onetime platinum rapper. Lil Wayne entered the charts twice this week, as DJ Drama and Aphilliates Music Group released a retail version of Dedication 3, that sold just under 10,000 units last week.

Other Notables

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
14
Plies
Da REAList
114,438
114,674

43
Soulja Boy Tell Em
iSouljaBoy
45,507
45,565

49
Lil Wayne
Tha Carter III
37,822
2,816,607

142
Scarface
Emeritus
11,425
68,860

185
DJ Drama & Lil Wayne
Dedication 3
8,198
8,284

wtf

how did soulja boy do 45k?

^^plus thats not jamie foxx's debut cd bruh...where did u get this info?

Soulja boy did 35 K...
not 45 K
this information is bogas..

lol

that means wayne carter 3...thats been out for what 6 months is still beating him lol

hell yeah...
Plies just about tripled what he did..
lol.

datboiV84 wrote:^^plus thats not jamie foxx's debut cd bruh...where did u get this info?

Debut meaning it was his first week album sales not his debut album LMMFAO!

yaboyja23 wrote:Soulja boy did 35 K...
not 45 K
this information is bogas..

bougas?...looks up the word bogas lmfao

lmaoo u no wat i mean bro..

Na I just fuckln' round

i know bro...
lol.

Landing all the way down at the number 43 position is teenage phenom Soulja Boy with his sophomore release iSouljaboytellem. Selling over 10,000 more copies then the 35K projections, SB managed to scan about 45,500 discs in his first week.



MY SHIT AIN'T BOGUZ!!!! I get real stats when I post record sales people.

it was only a matter of time with soulja boy....he gotta find a new gimmick

TREND$ETTER wrote:Landing all the way down at the number 43 position is teenage phenom Soulja Boy with his sophomore release iSouljaboytellem. Selling over 10,000 more copies then the 35K projections, SB managed to scan about 45,500 discs in his first week.



MY SHIT AIN'T BOGUZ!!!! I get real stats when I post record sales people.

lmfaoo..
my bad bro...
im sorry i just heard 35K to the point that i thought thats what he sold...
well he still didnt do that good...

Lol no no all good na dude sucks point blank I know you agree his albums straight flop dudes trash... suprised he even sold that much.