Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 01/02/07

[king g703]

Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)

Rank	Artist	Album	This Week	Total
1	Mary J Blige	Growing Pains	204,258	835,436
2	Alicia Keys	As I Am	193,211	2,543,224
5	Chris Brown	Exclusive	86,700	1,051,276
14	Lupe Fiasco	The Cool	54,398	198,477
17	Jaheim	Makings of a Man	53,995	230,328

Other Notables…

Rank	Artist	Album	This Week	Total
21	Soulja Boy	Souljaboytellem.com	49,629	658,480
26	Jay-Z	American Gangster	45,276	887,335
30	Kanye West	Graduation	43,366	1,891,918
55	Timbaland	Shock Value	26,148	1,003,040
77	Wu-Tang Clan	8 Diagrams	19,798	120,981

21

Soulja Boy

Souljaboytellem.com

49,629

658,480

 

[dmv is rnb]

@ Jay. This was the most EFFORTLESS platinum certification I haveseen in a long time. No attention, no promo, and you dont even be hearing him on the radio. Billboard has already certified the album as platinum, andit'll officially be at 1 Mil in just a couple weeks. Crazy.

And I love Mary

 

[x Buddha Bless x]

Damn! good for Alicia I havent heard anybody affiliated with hip hop that makes good music goin double plat in a long time. Good for her damn I wanna smash

 

[4wrestling]

Glad to see Timbo went platinum.

I still haven't heard Lupe a single time on a Philly radio station. It's a real shame.

 

[young dr0]

smh ...

 

[rwfanatic]

at Lupe's numbers

 

[shoalin23jordan]

how is the wu-tang album? i havent heard any of it but judging by those numbers its not so good... what did you guys think?

 

[immagetmine]

timbo finally went plat...lol

 

[jiggaman414]

I'm still tryna find out how Jaheim did those numbers. I never even heard any of his singles

 

[jrellcuse10]

Good and loyal fanbase unlike Lupe.

 

[you big dummy]

Lupe needs a new single

 

[DYNAMICS]

- WOW @ Mary's numbers that's crazy she should continue to drop her Album around Christmas time.
- I see Timbo finally went Plat
- Jaheim numbers are pretty good and I didn't hear %$!%, just saw the commercial once in a while.

 

[ayohov]

Originally Posted by xBuddha Blessx

Damn! good for Alicia I havent heard anybody affiliated with hip hop that makes good music goin double plat in a long time. Good for her damn I wanna smash

that was hella random.

 

[lurkin2long]

Originally Posted by DiPlOmAt TDOt

- WOW @ Mary's numbers that's crazy she should continue to drop her Album around Christmas time.

Co-sign, it must be the older ladies buyin it, cuz I know chicks like my sis dont even like Mary J music like that anymore, album before this one too. Herolder stuff way better. They rather hear keyshia cole these days.

 

[deenyce]

Originally Posted by DMV is RNB

@ Jay. This was the most EFFORTLESS platinum certification I have seen in a long time. No attention, no promo, and you dont even be hearing him on the radio. Billboard has already certified the album as platinum, and it'll officially be at 1 Mil in just a couple weeks. Crazy.

And I love Mary

you kidding me? As president of Def Jam at the time he used all the marketing money on himself. This album got MAD promo. Why you think all these artistsare mad? they don't got no marketing budget.

 

[toanotherlevel]

Lupe's number are misleading..the low numbers are not an indication that the album is sub-par. I really think that people just aren't ready for him,brain washed by the normal hip hop we here daily. I.E. big cars, rims, money, etc. The album is great IMO. I hope he keeps making music.

 

[diligo]

Originally Posted by ToAnotherLevel

Lupe's number are misleading..the low numbers are not an indication that the album is sub-par. I really think that people just aren't ready for him, brain washed by the normal hip hop we here daily. I.E. big cars, rims, money, etc. The album is great IMO. I hope he keeps making music.

Co-sign. A artist like Lupe would never sell huge even though he deserves it in the state hip hop is in.

 

[born to be fly]

Lupe needs to get on that 2nd single ASAP. I really don't think the music world is ready for an artist like him [see Soulja Boy].

 

[x Buddha Bless x]

You guys need to stop it with this Lupe talk yall know he wasnt gonna sell great even if the album was a classic alth these sales are really low to me but mygague on hip hop sales is still in the 90s. We all know for any artist sales dont equal talent, yall woulda been better off expecting him not to sell n maybethen be surprised if he did.

@ yall cryin over Lupe sales when illmatic should be quadruple diamond.

 

[greatwallofjohnnynguyen]

Will Lupe be able to sell as much as Soulja Boy?

If he does that willbe huge for him imo.

 

[rwfanatic]

Originally Posted by ToAnotherLevel

Lupe's number are misleading..the low numbers are not an indication that the album is sub-par. I really think that people just aren't ready for him, brain washed by the normal hip hop we here daily. I.E. big cars, rims, money, etc. The album is great IMO. I hope he keeps making music.

I agree with everything that was said.

 

[jomitm]

@ yall cryin over Lupe sales when illmatic should be quadruple diamond.

true

 

[uncle ice]

I must be the only dude who doesnt think Lupe's numbers are bad. 198,000 in two weeks for an Artist like Lupe in 2008 with only one single out and i'msure they will give him another video. Food abd Liquor only sold like 100,000 more than that with three singles, be patient. It would be a success if he wentgold.

 

[dj entendre]

Alicia doin numbers like Soduku lol

 

[thekingofva]

Congrats to Timbo getting that plaque. Congrats to Chris Brown going plat already even though his new cd isn't good.