September 25, 2008

Thursday Billboard Update - 9/25/08

A whole lot of movement this week on the Billboard 200 as new 5 albums debut in the top 10! Makes me even madder than I never got a chance to do This Week In Flops last week. Anyway, unable to knock off Metallica in there hot streak, Ne-Yo's third album Year Of The Gentleman debuts at #2 with 250,000 sold. Coming in right after that is Nelly's Brass Knuckles moving a lowly (by his standards) 84,000 units. I saw this coming a mile away because as you all know, in the music biz, once its over, its over...and its over for Nelly musically. I mean why else do you think it took him 4-5 singles to release this album?? And none of those singles popped off at all, even the one with Fergie and she's coming off a year where she had like 5 #1's lol. Lastly, down at #7 is DJ Khaled's We Global which managed 49,000 in its first week. Damn good for a Koch album so big ups to Khaled. Unfortunately for him it won't be such a happy day come Oct. 14th when Ace drops lol.

Like I told you yesterday, Kanye's Love Lockdown debuted at #3 on the Hot 100 today. That is the high debut of his career, I know, weird lol. Anyway, everything else pretty much remained the same besides Taylor Swift's Love Story (16-5) and Katy Perry's Hot N Cold (12-9) replacing T.I.'s Swagger Like Us (5-22) and Chris Brown's Forever (6-11).

first week debuts in bold

1. Metallica - Death Magnetic (1-1)
2. Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman (2)
3. Nelly - Brass Knuckles (3)
4. Kid Rock - Rock N Roll Jesus (3-4)
5. Darius Rucker - Learn To Live (5)
6. Young Jeezy - The Recession (2-6)
7. DJ Khaled - We Global (7)
8. Buckcherry - Black Butterfly (8)
9. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III (8-9)
10. The Game - L.A.X. (7-10)

  • Raphael Saadiq's The Way I See It debuts at #16 with 29,000 sold. Pretty darn good considering most didn't even know it was out.


The Billboard Hot 100 1-10

first week debuts in bold

1. T.I. - Whatever You Like (2-1)
2. Pink - So What (1-2)
3. Kanye West - Love Lockdown (3)
4. Rihanna - Disturbia (3-4)
5. Taylor Swift - Love Story (16-5)
6. M.I.A. - Paper Planes (4-6)
7. Ne-Yo - Closer (7-7)
8. T-Pain - Can't Believe It (8-8)
9. Katy Perry - Hot N Cold (12-9)
10. Estelle - American Boy (9-10)

  • Kevin Rudolf's Lil Wayne featured Let It Rock continues its rise (though I still never heard it) by jumping 33-21 this week.
  • Lil Wayne shows up again a few spots down at #24 as his new single Mrs. Officer jumps 10 spots.
  • Finally Nelly can say he has a single that's somewhat working for him this time around as his latest single Body On Me with Akon and Ashanti skies 29 spots 71-42.
  • John Legend's first single Green Light from his new album Evolver jumps 35 spots 79-44 this week. I'm glad because that shit is jammin'
  • I dunno if this is gonna be Khaled's new single, but Go Hard featuring Kanye and T-Pain just debuted at #69.

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