A LOOK AT THE BILLBOARD CHARTS

This week on the charts does not feature a lot rap albums, but you still have the man himself, the man that makes a lot of your favorite rappers top 5 list, JAY-Z holding it down with his 11th album; blueprint 3. At the rate he is going, he might outsell EMINEM's RELAPSE, as the highest selling rap album of 2009. I think eminem is at 1.6 mill sold, and i don't think he is going to be moving more units of the relapse album, since RELAPSE 2 is on the way.

This week on the charts, jay-z moves 33,000 copies, that is really impressive, considering the number of weeks he has spent on the charts so far. I think, looking at the strengths of albums, he has done the best, as far as any rap album is concerned this year. He is at a total of 1,271,000 copies sold.

WALE, the NIGERIAN origin rapper, born in the US, debuted on the charts this week. He had earlier complained that his album was under-shipped by the parent label he is under; i guess that would be his excuse for selling 30k copies first week in stores. But on the contrary, i think he did good, being a new artist with not too much buzz, asides from the fact that he is signed to jay-z ROC NATION label. I did like his single with JAZZMINE SULLIVAN though.

KID CUDI'S "man on the moon" cd sold 6,100 copies this week,bringing the singer/rapper's total to 203,000. I wish him luck on going gold.

RICK ROSS's rap group, TRIPPLE C's did 3,400 numbers this week, bringing their total to 21k sold in 3 weeks. That is low, but at least those dudes are unknown to anybody, asides from rick ross himself. So if he is giving his guys a chance to get some money, no matter how little it is, i respect him for that. For even having the guts to put out the cd, when those guys are unknown, i respect him for that.

Another notable artist on the charts is WYCLEF, debuting this week with his new cd 'from the hut, to the project, to the mansion.' It did 3,300 in it's first week. It's such a pitty when you see former heavy weights like wyclef doing pitiful numbers like this. I remember back in 1996 when 'the fugees' were killing the charts, and when he went solo, he was still killing the charts, but this is a sorry case. That is why you have to give props to guys like JAY-Z for still staying relevant and moving numbers; or someone like NAS, who is still doing okay on the charts.