Rap Albums On The Billboard Chart

Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy    496,000(496,000)

Nicki Minaj- Pink Friday   375,000(375,000)

Eminem- Recovery  48,000(3,053,000)

Lloyd Banks- The Hunger For more2   45,000(45,000)

Lil Wayne- I Am Not A Human Being  37,000(511,000)

Curren$y- Pilot Talk 2  15,000(15,000)

Those are the numbers for this week, and i guess a lot of people guessed right when they said Kanye would be untop this week. I have not heard the album, so i can not make any comment on it. It sold a little more copies than his last album(808 & heartbreaks) in its first week, so you can say he made some improvements.

And you have Nicki's album next, and it is no surprise either, because it was expected. She had a huge buzz before her album dropped, and she made a lot of guest appearnces on other artists records, that blew up, so it is only natural that her album would do so good.

And the pope of rap, Eminem is still moving units with his latest album; Recovery. It has crossed the 3 million mark, and i think it would end up selling like 3.5million copies.

Llloy Banks album, The Hunger For More2, did 45k; i think that is what i was expecting it to do. Okay, the album might be cool, but it is root rap; no pop shit, and i guess it is the poppish shit that is selling now. So, no one should look at his album as a flop.

Let us see how Kanye and Nicki fare in weeks to come.