Thursday Billboard Update - 10/14/10

Before we start, I just wanted to apologize for my This Week In Flops predictions from last week. They were truly awful, and I accept full responsibility.

Back to your regularly scheduled program.

Debuting at #3 this week is Bruno Mars and his first album Doo-Wops & Hooligans. The set sold 54,800 copies, which isn't bad considering it only has 10 damn songs on it. At #6 comes Waka Flocka's extra loud and tiresome debut Flockaveli, which sold 37,200 first week.

There's one newbie in the top 10 this week as Taylor Swift's Speak Now debuts at #8.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Toby Keith - Bullets In The Gun (1)
2. Kenny Chesney - Hemingway's Whiskey (1-2)
3. Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans (3)
4. Eminem - Recovery (5-4)
5. Zac Brown Band - You Get What You Give (3-5)
6. Waka Flocka - Flockaveli (6)
7. Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns (8-7)
8. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (18-8)
9. Trey Songz - Passion, Pain & Pleasure (7-9)
10. Selena Gomez & the Scene - A Year Without Rain (10-10)

• Faith Evans' return Something About Faith debuts at #15 with 23,600 sold.
• Pimp C's posthumous Naked Soul Of Sweet Jones checks in at #25 with 17,900 sold. Bun B's II Trill got 5 mics, but the Pimp's album is better if you ask me.
  

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

1. Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are (1-1)
2. Far*East Movement - Like A G6 (2-2)
3. Nelly - Just A Dream (4-3)
4. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (3-4)
5. Usher - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love (5-5)
6. Rihanna - Only Girl (In the World) (8-6)
7. Taio Cruz - Dynamite (6-7)
8. Taylor Swift - Speak Now (8)
9. Flo Rida - Club Can't Handle Me (10-10)
10. Eminem - Love The Way You Lie (3-7)

• Kanye West's Runaway featuring Pusha T debuts at #12. I knew it was coming eventually.
• Waka Flocka's No Hands jumps 13 spaces 43-30.
• Will.i.am and Nicki Minaj's Check It Out moves 16 spots north 50-34.
• Newcomer Miguel's All I Want Is You featuring J. Cole moves up 13 spots 85-72 in its first week on the charts.
• Bruno Mars' The Lazy Song debuts at #82.

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This Week In Flops 10/5/10

Current #1 single in the country, prior feature on the #1 song in the country, and an arrest on cocaine charges. There's no way Bruno Mars doesn't comes out on top of these deep crop of albums. I'm gonna say he falls in the 130-165k range.

Wait a minute, "Flockaveli" is really the name of his debut album?? Man, I thought this shit was a mixtape! The corny title mixed with the cartoon-ish cover just screams mixtape, but if this is really his album then so be it. I'm gonna go 60-90k for Flockaveli.

(Side note: I'm poised to be wrong on this.)

I don't know much about this album, but it's Faith, so she should be good for at least 30,000 copies first week. I'll say 40-60k.

I still can't believe Pimp C is dead. Are they still trying to push the lie that his death had nothing to do with sizzurp and that he died of natural causes at 32??

Anyway, Pimp always gets love so I think he's gonna fall in the 15-35k range.

What a horrible, piece of shit album cover. I know B.G. isn't on the top of the game, but fuck! This shit looks like a mixtape even more than Flockaveli. Oh well, I'm going with 5-15k for B. Gizzle.

Canibus is lyrically an all-time great, but the name has like 4 albums since 2000 that haven't charted. Although I'm sure it'll be a very good album, it's probably will fall in the range of 1-3k.

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Jadakiss - Letter To B.I.G (Feat. Faith Evans) Video

I don't know how I missed this yesterday, but here's the official video directed by my boo Va$htie (which makes it even weirder I forgot to check for the joint when I was just looking at the behind the scenes shit on her blog last week lol).



Tight video, I fucks with it! And I definitely fucks with Va$h, she's so fine!! lol.

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