Tha Carter 4 At Number 1: Rap Albums on The Billboard Charts

Yeah, it is finally here...the moment you have all been waiting for...to know howmany copies Carter 4 sold in its first week out. The figures i put up yesterday were a couple of tens of thousands of copies more, so i present my apologies to that effect. Carter 4 is the number one album in America this week...Carter 4 is number 1 on Billboard top 200 album charts and it sold 964,000 copies after one week in stores. Just 36,000 copies more and it would have done a million. But, i think we can still say it did a million.

Jay-Z and Kanye West are up next with their duo album, Watch The Throne, which sold 80,000 copies this week. Although there is a far margin between it and Lil Wayne's Carter 4, it should be considered that it has been on the charts for 4 weeks, and it dropped less than 20% in sales from last week. But, this would give Lil Wayne some bragging rights...because Jay-Z has always been known to pull that "numbers don't lie stunt" on rappers that test him on the mic. He can't say anything about that right now...what goes around comes around.

Game is up next, with more than 50% drop in his sales from last week's 98,000 debut. He sold 39, 000 copies this week...to now total at 137,000 copies in 2 weeks. Hmm! Can Game crack 500k with this type of sales? I am a big fan, and i love the R.E.D album, but i think he needs to do something about marketing fast. And one more thing, i think Game is Psychic. Read these lines from his Good Girls Go Bad track on R.E.D album- He on the top of the charts next to Beyoncé Right under Kanye. It is funny that he is really under Kanye (kanye and jay), and next to beyonce (beyonce also sold exactly 39,000 copies this week...the same thing game sold.)

18,000 copies of Bad Meets Evil Ep, Hell: The Sequel sold through the week, and eminem and royce da 5'9 are now at a total of 499,000 copies sold. Let us just say 500k. I still see this album going Plat...just wait and see. By next week, i see the sales of the album rising to like 25- 30k, when people get into that Lighters video.

Tyler, The Creator's Goblin album sold 9,700 copies this week, and now totals at 118,000 copies. Cash Money artist, Glasses Malone's Beach Cruiser album débuts on the chart this week, with 2,700 copies sold after one week out. I guess this is evidence that gangsta rap nolonger sells...and the funny thing is that this album is pretty decent.





Slim Thug Presents Boss Hogg Outlawz- Serve and Collect Part 3 (Immahogg) sold 2,400 after one week out. People wont learn the basics. Why would you have a long unfriendly name for your album title...i guess that is why it sold so low. Make it simple for people to know what you are saying. I am sure some Slim Thug fans didn't get the album. I am a fan by the way...but i haven't seen a copy of the album in stores over here.