This Week's Sales In Hip Hop

It’s over for the Boy Nelly…Good thing Khaled is on the Independent route…I know Def Jam is very dissapointed with his 1st weeks numbers…Ne-Yo did what was expected of him though and Jeezy & Wayne are still rolling…The Recession will cap off at around the same amount Ross has caped off at…Oh well that how the game goes!!!!!

The Top 5 moved around in the last seven days. In their 25th year, Metallica assumed the top spot, with their Death Magnetic, selling over 335,000 units in its second work on the charts.The new release from Ne-Yo [click to read], Year of the Gentleman [click to read] held the door for the 40-something rockers, as Def Jam's R&B sensation sold a sliver over 250,000 units in its first week. Completing the Top 3, Nelly [click to read] restored a top position on the charts, as his long-delayed Brass Knuckles [click to read] was significantly behind Ne-Yo, but at #3 nonetheless, with over 83,000 units sold.

With the top-heavy movement, Young Jeezy [click to read] and his Recession [click to read] took the #6 spot, scanning just under 60,000 units after having a stronghold in the Top 5. Jeezy may return there next week. Koch Records gets their first Hip Hop act back into the Top 10 in some time with Miami deejay and calling-card to the stars DJ Khaled [click to read]. The Terror Squad member's third album may climb higher, after an impressive start, just under 50,000 sold in We Global's first week.

What would a Top 10 in 2008 be without Lil Wayne [click to read]? Tha Carter III [click to read] sold just above 43,000 units, keeping it in the Top 10, as a hard-to-move reminder of rap's best-selling release of 2008. Not included after just one week there, LL Cool J fell to #32, selling less than 15,000 copies of his Def Jam parting shot.

Rank
Artist
Album
This Week
Est. Total

2
Ne-Yo
Year Of The Gentleman
250,069
250,601

3
Nelly
Brass Knuckles
83,717
84,005

6
Young Jeezy
Recession
59,874
410,384

7
DJ Khaled
We Global
49,385

49,573

9
Lil Wayne
Tha Carter III
43,114
2,453,109