Thursday Billboard Update - 2/25/10

Sade's Soldier Of Love moves another 190,500 and hold on to her #1 for a 2nd week. Nothing else really interesting happened in the top here so lets move on to the Hot 100.

The Black Eyed Peas' Imma Be does this week what I thought it'd do last week, and that's take over the #1 spot from Ke$ha's TiK ToK. Jumping into the top 10 at #10 is Trey Songz's Say Aah. I could be wrong (though I'm probably not), but this is Trey's first trip into the top 10 as the lead on a song. Congrats.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Sade - Soldier Of Love (1-1)
2. Lady Antebellum - Need You Now (2-2)
3. Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D. (8-3)
4. Lady Gaga - The Fame (7-4)
5. Lil Wayne - Rebirth (4-5)
6. Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream (9-6)
7. Alicia Keys - The Element Of Freedom (12-7)
8. Jaheim - Another Round (3-8)
9. Josh Turner - Haywire (5-9)
10. Taylor Swift - Fearless (7-10)

• Freeway and Jake One's Stimulus Package debuts at #63 with 9,100 sold. Not only did I not know this came out, I didn't even know it was an album. I thought the shit was a mixtape. Oh well.
  

The Billboard Hot 100 1-10
first time top 10's in bold

1. Black Eyed Peas - Imma Be (3-1)
2. Ke$ha - TiK ToK (1-2)
3. Young Money - Bedrock (4-3)
4. Lady GaGa - Bad Romance (5-4)
5. Lady Antebellum - Need You Now (6-5)
6. Artists For Haiti - We Are The World 25 (2-6)
7. Train - Hey, Soul Sister (7-7)
8. Ludacris - How Low (8-8)
9. Jason Derulo - In My Head (9-9)
10. Trey Songz - Say Aah (12-10)

• B.o.B's Nothin' On You is on a BEP-esque pace as it jumps another 17 spots 38-21. In 2 more week this track could be well into the top 10. This good news doesn't come without reward as his debut album has been pushed up to an April 27th release date.
• With the success of the video, Rihanna's Rude Boy soars 41 spots 61-23 in its 2nd week.
• Jay-Z's On To The Next On jumps 10 spots 51-41.
• Usher's Hey Daddy (Daddy's Home) is up 9 spaces 56-47 this week. (Side note: How out of place is Plies on this record?? He totally fucks up the tempo of the song with his raspy ass aggressive verse. Who is working at Usher's label that let this bullshit fly?? Sad, sad, sad.)
• DJ Khaled's All I Do Is Win featuring Ross, Snoop, T-Pain, & Luda debuting at #64 and has already seen more success than his first single Fed Up.
• Usher's There Goes My Baby comes in at #71 this week. Watch out for this record.
• Coming in dead last is Mariah Carey's Up Out My Face with Nicki Minaj at #100.