Thursday Billboard Update - 9/24/09

Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 hangs on to his #1 spot with 297,913 copies sold in its 2nd week on shelves. He should be getting his platinum plaque in 2 weeks. Whitney's comeback album I Look To You bounces back to #2 this week and also goes gold with 155,600 in its 3rd week. KiD CuDi's debut album Man On The Moon shits on my prediction and sells 104,300 while coming in at #4. Drake's So Far Gone EP goes just over what I predicted and does 73,600 at #6. If he can do that with an EP filled with songs he gave out for free just months ago, imagine what Thank Me Later is gonna do. Right behind Drake is Lil Boosie at #7 as his Superbad sells 48,900. This is Boosie's first top 10 of his career.

A lot of action going on on the Hot 100 this week. Jay-Z and Drake dominate this week in a major way. Jay's Run This Town with Kanye West and Rihanna shows no signs of slowing down as it moves to a new high at #2. At #5 is Empire State Of Mind with Alicia Keys which sold 205,000 in digital downloads over the past week (shout out to Lil Mama lol). Drake makes his first dent with Forever featuring Kanye, Lil Wayne, and Eminem starting out at #8.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Jay-Z - Blueprint 3 (1-1)
2. Whitney Houston - I Look To You (3-2)
3. Muse - The Resistance (3)
4. KiD CuDi - Man On The Moon: The End Of Days (4)
5. Miley Cyrus - The Time Of Our Lives (2-5)
6. Drake - So Far Gone EP (6)
7. Lil Boosie - Superbad: The Return Of Boosie Bad Azz (7)
8. Taylor Swift - Fearless (10-8)
9. Kings of Leon - Only By The Night (7-9)
10. Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D. (7-10)

• Trick Daddy's Finally Famous checks in at #34 with 13,300 sold. I'm not sure what label he's on right now but we need to get him on a real label that will actually attempt to promote his project.
• The New Boyz's debut Skinny Jeanz & A Mic (which I didn't even know came out) comes in at #56 with a pathetic 9,800 records sold. Its a wrap for these niggas.
• KRS-One and Buckshot's album dropped last today also and it opens up at #62 with 8,600 sold.
• Q-Tip's Kamaal The Abstract (had no idea this existed) starts at #77 with 6,500 sold.
  

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

1. Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (1-1)
2. Jay-Z - Run This Town (4-2)
3. Jay Sean - Down (2-3)
4. Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me (6-4)
5. Jay-Z - Empire State Of Mind (50-5)
6. Miley Cyrus - Party In The U.S.A. (3-6)
7. Lady GaGa - Paparazzi (18-7)
8. Drake - Forever (8)
9. Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody (5-9)
10. Jason Rulo - Whatcha Say (7-10)

• Drake's Successful with Trey Songz see's a sizeable jump for the 1st time in a few week as it goes 48-17 this past week.
• Beyonce's Sweet Dreams is up 15 spots 33-18.
• Drake has another new debut this week with I'm Going In featuring Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy at #40. I could've sworn this was Jeezy's song since it was on his Trappin' Ain't Dead mixtape but whatever.
• Jay-Z's Young Forever debuted at #75 last week and then proceeded to soar 34 spots to #41 this week.
• Leona Lewis is back on the charts this week as Happy debuts at #50.
• KiD CuDi joins the action at #59 with Pursuit Of Happiness (Nightmare).
• LMFAO's La La La debuts at #61. That girl with the piercing in her chest from Real World Cancun is in the video if you didn't know.
• New artist Ester Dean takes her track Drop It Low with Chris brown 31 spots north to #63 this week.
• Mariah Carey's I Want To Know What Love Is comes in at #66. I wonder how Nick Cannon feels about this song??
• The Black Eyed Peas' Meet Me Halfway debuts at #75.