a look at the billboard charts

It is that time of the week again when we view the rap albums on the billboard charts. Thank God there is a new rap album doing good numbers on the charts. B.o.b, the new rapper, debuted at the number one spot on the billboard top 200 albums chart this week.

I was really getting tired of quoting all the pittiful looking numbers that the rap albums on the charts were doing. Ludacriss had been leading the pack for weeks with his "battle of the sexes" album, but he has been bumped off the spot of the highest selling rap album for this week, by b.o.b.

B.o.b, the 21 year old georgia state origin, clamned the number one spot on the charts this week, with 80k sold. I did a research, and found out that the his sales is the second lowest numbers done by a number 1 album; the first is chrisste michelle's "ephinay" album, that sold 83k last year.

The young rapper, whose album titled "the adventures of bobby ray", featured two heavy weight rappers, "lupe fiasco" and "eminem", is signed to GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC.

The next rap album on the charts this week that has the closest numbers to b.o.b's album is luda's "battle of the sexes" album which did 17k numbers this week; brining the total to 373k so far.

Veteran rap group, "cypress hill", that debuted that new album in 6 years on the charts last week, did  6,800 copies this week, brining the total to 25k. I think that is not encouraging, but they would just have to accpet the fact that every year, hiphop listeners and buyers of rap albums are getting younger; they getting into the young age group that don't know them.

Gucci mane mixtape, "burrprint2", did 5,800 copies this week, bringing the total to 34k. I think that is impresive for a mixtape.

The trio of ghostface, methodman and raekwon sold 3,400 copies of their collaborative effort this week. The "wu massacre" is now at a total of 64k copies sold so far.

The other notable rap album is that of "devin the dude", which debuted last week. The album "suite #420, sold 2,500 copies this week; bringing the total to 8,700 copies in 2 weeks.

That is all for now; let us hope that new rap albums with more encouraging sales drop in the future.

BILLBOARD TOP 10 RAP ALBUMS.

10. FLO RIDA- R.O.O.T

9. DON OMAR- IDON.

8. SOULJA BOY- ISOULJABOYTELLEM.

7. T.I- PAPERTRAIL.

6. TECH N9NE- SICKOLOGY 101.

5. ASHER ROTH- ASLEEP IN THE BREAD AISLE.

4. UGK- UGK 4LIVE.

3. JADAKISS- THE LAST KISS.(20,110)

2. MIKE JONES- THE VOICE.(24,757)

1. RICK ROSS- DEEPER THAN RAP.(51,125)

BILLOBARD TOP 10 RAP ALBUMS (08/04/09)

10. PLIES- DAREALIST.

9. LIL WAYNE- CARTER 3.(9, 964)

8. SOULJA BOY- ISOULJABOYTELLEM.

7. GORILLA ZOE- DON'T FEED DA ANIMALS. (10, 862)

6. JIM JONES- PRAY IV REIGN. (13, 700)

5. SLIM THUG- BOSS OF ALL BOSSES. (16, 900)

4. T.I- PAPER TRAIL (21, 300)

3. BOW WOW- NEW JACK CITY PART 2.(30, 944)

2. FLO RIDA- R.O.O.T.S(ROUTE OF OVERCOMING THE STRUGGLE.) (55, 356)

1. UGK- UGK 4 LIFE. (76, 600)



The dynamic duo of pim c and bun b(ugk) sit at the top this week, although, sadly, pim c passed on a couple of years ago, but this album had already been recorded before then, so there is one half posthumous in the group.


Flo rida is at second place. Dissapointing if you would ask me. With all the air play his single, "right round" has been getting, and also breaking records of selling over 600,000 digital copies in its first single, you would think he would sell more than he did. He is an example of a ring tone rapper.


Another dissapointing artist debuting on the charts this week is BOW WOW. Releasing his 6th studio album since he debuted in 2000 with his first album, "beware of dog", which sold almost 250k in its first week in stores. Bow wow doing 30k, recession or not, is a flop.


Albums to watch out for next week, are albums from mims and jadakiss(the last kiss). I would put jada at between 60k-100k. As for mims, i am a fan, but i think he does not have enough promotion right now. I put his first week sales close to what bow wow did.

BILLBOARD TOP TEN RAP ALBUMS (27/03/09)

10. PROJECT PAT- REAL RECOGNISE REAL.

9. YOUNG JEEZY- RECESSION.

8. CAPPONE-N-NOREAGA- CHANNEL 10. (4,100)

7. LUDACRIS- THEATER OF THE MIND. (5,965)

6. SOULJA BOY- ISOULJABOYTELLEM.

5. PLIES- DAREALIST.

4. LIL WAYNE- CARTER 3 (11,584)

3. T.I- PAPER TRAIL. (20,700)

2. TWIZTID- WICKED. (23,000)

1. GORILLA ZOE- DON'T FEED THE ANIMALS. (31,257)


T.I has finally been knocked off the top of the top spot of the billboard top ten rap albums chart, after several weeks of reign at that spot. The new number one is bad boy records rap artist, gorilla zoe. Coincidentally, today, 27th of march, is the day t.i heads off to serve his jail sentence. His album paper trail has done very good so far, and we wish him all the best. The album is at a total sales of 1,816, 700, almost double platinum.
Elswhere on the charts, we see cappone n noreaga entering the charts with their new collaborative effort, channel 10 which sold a lousy 4,100 copies.