Thursday Billboard Update - 9/18/08

Welp, in just 3 days on the market (it came out last Friday instead of last Tuesday), Metallic's Death Magnetic pretty much beat its competition the fuck up by pushing 490,000 units. The #2 album on the 200, Young Jeezy's The Recession, moved 400,000 less than that lol. Shout out to Jessica Simpson who, on top of not jinxing us in that Philly game Monday, had her first country album Do You Know debut at #4 with 65,000 sold. I thought it was over for Tha Carter III in the top 10, but the lil nigga is resilient as he jumps back up 2 spots to #8. And lastly, LL Cool J's 13th studio album Exit 13 came in at #9 with just 44,000. I wonder if he's gonna blame Jay-Z again?? lol.

After a couple of weeks atop the Hot 100, T.I.'s boring ass single Whatever You Like is knocked off by Pink's new single So What. Debuting at #5 is T.I.'s extremely lackluster track Swagger Like Us featuring Jay-Z, Kanye, and Lil Wayne. Interesting, I didn't even know it was a single or even officially released lol. Also entering the top for the first time this week are T-Pain and Wayne's Can't Believe It (12-8), Estelle's American Boy (53-9), and Wayne and T-Pain's Got Money (15-10).

The Billboard 200 1-10

1. Metallica - Death Magnetic (1)
2. Young Jeezy - The Recession (1-2)
3. Kid Rock - Rock N Roll Jesus (4-3)
4. Jessica Simpson - Do You Know (4)
5. Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone (5-5)
6. Jonas Brothers - A Little Bit Longer (6-6)
7. The Game - L.A.X. (3-7)
8. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III (10-8)
9. LL Cool J - Exit 13 (9)
10. Various Artists - Mamma Mia! sdtk (7-10)

• Eric Benet's Love & Life debuts at #11 with 40,000 sold. That might be a little to most BUT if you've been keeping track of his career you'd know he's never debuted that high seeing that he's mainly known for being the fool that cheated on Halle Berry. What an idiot lol.
• Gym Class Heroes' The Quilt debuts at #14 with just 32,000 sold. I thought these guys were famous?? Oh well.
• Kardinal Offishall's latest album Not 4 Sale flopped hard by just selling 12,000 and coming in at #40.
• And just I wanna take this time to acknowledge that I was waaaaay off on all of my picks last week. I should get a pass though since I had to do it in a rush at work lol.
  

The Billboard Hot 100 1-10

1. Pink - So What (2-1)
2. T.I. - Whatever You Like (1-2)
3. Rihanna - Disturbia (3-3)
4. M.I.A. - Paper Planes (5-4)
5. T.I. - Swagger Like Us (5)
6. Chris Brown - Forever (4-6)
7. Ne-Yo - Closer (8-7)
8. T-Pain - Can't Believe It (12-8)
9. Estelle - American Boy (53-9)
10. Lil Wayne - Got Money (15-10)

• Ne-Yo's Miss Independent jumps 7 spots 27-20.