Thursday Billboard Update - 9/27/07

Kanye West took that 70% second week drop (76% to be exact) 50 Cent told us about before their Sept. 11th release, but what he failed to mention was that he was gonna have an 80% second week drop. That's right, so not only did 50 come out looking stupid after the first week sales L he took, but this week his theory of why Kanye might sale more than him backfired and he comes out on the short end of the stick once again lol. Anyway, Reba was smart and dropped her country albums the week after the Kanye/50 clash and landed at #1 this week.

On the singles chart, Lil Darryl Soulja Boy regains his #1 spot from Kanye West and his Stronger as he prepares to drop his first and last album Souljaboytellem.com next week. Timbaland and Fergie don't budge, 50 Cent and J. Holiday swap spots, and Plies exits the top 10. For the rest of the top 10 action, focus your eyes below:

The Billboard 200 1-10

1. Reba McEntire - Reba Duets
2. Kanye West - Graduation
3. 50 Cent - Curtis
4. Barry Manilow - The Greatest Songs of the Seventies
5. Kenny Chesney - Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates
6. High School Musical 2 sdtk
7. James Blunt - All The Lost Souls
8. Chamillionaire - Ultimate Victory
9. KT Turnstall - Drastic Fantastic
10. Twista - Adrenaline Rush 2007

-As I predicted Chamillionaire and Twista pretty much flopped out of the gate trying to drop one week after the Kanye/50 industry storm and sold just about what I predicted them to last week (my apologies to Keyshia Cole, I said her album was dropping last week but her label smartened up and push it back a week so look for her to do 200-350k first week).

What You Can't See:

• Last week's #5-10 ALL drop out of the top 10.
• Once neck and neck, Rihanna is finally gaining separation from T-Pain as she comes in #29 with 684,400 albums sold and he tumbles 19 spots to #51 with 663,800 albums sold.
• Rick Ross' unofficial sophomore LP Rise To Power debuts at #62 with 11,600 copies sold.
• Sadly, yet predictably, B5 drops a whopping 68 spots to #95! I won't even embarrass them any further by saying how many albums they've sold thus far lol.

The Billboard Hot 100 1-10

1. Soulja Boy - Crank That
2. Kanye West - Stronger
3. Timbaland - The Way I Are
4. Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry
5. J. Holiday - Bed
6. 50 Cent - Ayo Technology
7. Keyshia Cole - Let It Go
8. Nickelback - Rockstar
9. Pink - Who Knew
10. Colbie Caillat - Bubbly

What You Can't See:

• That little tune, I'm sure you've heard, on the new iPod nano TV ads is this week's biggest digital sales gainer and leap 61-28! If you hadn't already guessed, the song is called 1,2,3,4 and is by Canadian singer/songwriter Feist.
• J. Lo is back on the charts with her new single Do It Well debuting at #53 as this weeks highest debut.
• Playaz Circle finally crack the top 100 this week with their Lil Wayne assisted Duffle Bag Boy coming in at #91.