Thursday Billboard Update - 2/21/08

As expected after the Grammys, record sales are way up this starting with 5x Grammy winner Amy Winehouse who's sophomore album Back To Black shot right up to #2 this week selling 115,300 copies. Also way up is the fluke that stole Kanye's Album Of The Year award, Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters, which leaped a whopping 154 spots to #5 this week. Of course everything that goes up must come down so expect things to be back to normal then while anticipating the return of This Week In Flops since someone is finally dropping an album Tuesday lol.

The Hot 100 wasn't as fortunate as everything seems to have remained the same besides Webbie landing his first top 10 hit with Independent.

The Billboard 200 1-10

1. Jack Johnson - Sleep Through The Static
2. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
3. Alicia Keys - As I Am
4. Various Artists - 2008 Grammy Nominees
5. Herbie Hancock - River: The Joni Letters
6. Various Artists - Juno sdtk
7. Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift
8. Sheryl Crow - Detours
9. Mary J. Blige - Growing Pains
10. Various Artists - Step Up 2: The Streets sdtk

• My man John Legend jumps back in the game this week skyrocketing 50 spots 62-12 this week with his Live From Philadelphia album. So far the live set, which is only sold at Target, has moved 123,700 discs with 40,400 coming this week.
  
• Kanye West's Graduation jumps 24 spots 64-40 this week and finally, officially, goes double platinum selling 22,500 this week. After 23 weeks on the charts 'Ye has sold 2,005,800.
• After going gold last week, J. Holiday's debut Back Of My 'Lac drops out of the top 50 falling 34-51.
  
• On a week where real music seemed to be going north, the poor music went south as Soulja Boy's weedplate dropped 20 spots 36-56.
• After Amy Winehouse's 2nd album Back To Black skied all the way to #2 this week, her first album Frank jumped 76 spots 143-67 this week.
  

The Billboard Hot 100 1-10

1. Flo Rida - Low (1-1)
2. Chris Brown - With You (2-2)
3. Rihanna - Don't Sleep The Music (3-3)
4. Alicia Keys - No One (4-4)
5. Sara Bareilles - Love Song (6-5)
6. Timbaland - Apologize (5-6)
7. Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction (8-7)
8. Sean Kingston - Take You There (9-8)
9. Buckcherry - Sorry (10-9)
10. Webbie - Independent (13-10)

• Ray-J and Yung Berg shoots 23 spots up 52-29 this week with Sexy Can I. Maybe this will be a hit after all.
• Remember Yael Naim?? Yeah she was the big story 2 weeks ago after debuting at #9 off the strength of that new Apple MacBook Air commercials and moved up to #7 last week. Welp, that song as cooled off mightily falling 35 spots this week to #42.
• Mariah Carey's Touch My Body is this week's top debut at #57.
• Amy Winehouse's remix of You Know I'm No Good with Ghostface re-enters Hot this week landing at #77