Thursday Billboard Update - 7/22/10

Eminem's Recovery makes it a 4th week atop the charts with another 195,500 sold. Recovery doesn't seem to be losing much momentum, but it looks like it will be knocked from its birch next week by Rick Ross' Teflon Don. I can hear folks now who aren't "in the know" bragging about this victory for Ross, when the truth of the matter will be that he outsold Eminem's album in its 5th week in stores. It's not like these 2 albums are going head-to-head, Recovery will be 5 weeks in at that point and still will only be slightly outsold. Now I'm not saying any of this to put down Ricky or his album, but the truth is that Recovery sold more in its 4th week than Teflon Don will sell in its 1st, so be careful with all the potential "Rick Ross beat Eminem" accolades next week.

Eminem's Love The Way You Lie featuring Rihanna finally overtakes Katy Perry's California Gurls for the #1 spot. It's crazy Eminem only had 1 #1 single in the first 10 years of his career and has had 3 in the last past 2.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Eminem - Recovery (1-1)
2. Korn - Korn III: Remember Who You Are (2)
3. Drake - Thank Me Later (2-3)
4. Newsboys - Born Again (4)
5. Justin Bieber - My World 2.0 (5-5)
6. Sting - Symphonicities (6)
7. Jerrod Niemann - Judge Jerrod & the Hung Jury (7)
8. Hellyeah - Stampede (8)
9. M.I.A. - /\/\ /\ Y /\ (9)
10. Various Artists - The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (4-10)

• Curren$y's Pilot Talk debuts at #39 with 10,800 sold first week.
• Paul Wall's Heart Of A Champion debuts at #58 with 7,600 sold.
• Capone-N-Noreaga's War Report 2 fails to cracks the top 100 debuting at #104 with 4,700 sold.
• All signs point to Stat Quo's Statlanta not charting on the Billboard 200.
  

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

1. Eminem - Love The Way You Lie (2-1)
2. Katy Perry - California Gurls (1-2)
3. B.o.B - Airplanes (3-3)
4. Taio Cruz - Dynamite (6-4)
5. Usher - OMG (4-5)
6. Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me (7-6)
7. Travis McCoy - Billionaire (5-7)
8. Enrique Iglesias - I Like It (8-8)
9. Drake - Find Your Love (9-9)
10. Jason Derulo - Ridin' Solo (10-10)

• Usher and Pitbull's DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love is this week's top debut, checking in at #19.
• Maroon 5's Misery jumps another 16 spots 44-28 this week. Good momentum building for this record.
• B.o.B's Magic soars 19 spots 68-49.
• After Rick Ross' B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast) featuring Styles P debuted at #98 last week, it flies 16 spots 98-82 this week.
• Monica's Love All Over Me debuts at #94.

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This Week In Flops 7/13/10

This promises to be a slow sales week for new Hip-Hop releases, but let's proceed anyway.

First up we have the sequel to Capone-N-Noreaga's 1997 classic debut album, The War Report 2. Last year's CNN release Channel 10 didn't do so well in the sales department, but I expect a biggest number this time around. Not much bigger, but still bigger. I'm guessing somewhere in the 10-40k range.

Don't look now, but Paul Wall is now dropping his 5th studio album. Paul Wall hasn't seen much mainstream success since the Houston, TX movement fell off, but that hasn't stopped him from making music and cranking out albums like it has some other (i.e. Mike Jones, Chamillionaire, etc). That's a good thing. I'm gonna guess 20-60 for Mr. Wall.

Whenever I talk about albums that never dropped, Statlanta is routinely included on every occasion. Well that's no more as Stat Quo's debut album has been released today on Sha Money XL's Dream Big Ventures label after being on the self for a whopping 7 years.

Anyway, there wasn't much promo for Statlanta, but I'm sure he finally wanted to drop it and move on with his career. I'll be shocked mightily if sells more than 10,000 copies first week. I know that sounds bad, but when an album has been on the shelf that long and is just dropped without warning, you can't expect much higher. I say 3-10k.

(Side note: I guess I gotta take Statlanta off my "Top 10 Debut Albums That Will Never Debut" list. Good thing I haven't recorded that podcast yet lol.)

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This Week In Flops 5/12/09

Killa returns to stores today with Crime Pays and its gonna be interesting to see what he can do. His singles are doing that number on the internet, but have yet to even make a dent on Billboard. Jadakiss proved that's not a problem, but can Cam do the same?? I'm gonna say kinda and guess that Crime Pays does somewhere between 60-80k in its first week.

Everyone has been making such a big deal about Gucci Mane, but you wanna know what's funny?? None of it matters and his new album is still gonna be a major brick. Yes, very sad lol. I can't see this shit selling any more than 25,000 so I'm gonna say 10-25k. Don't be surprised if it dips a little lower than 10,000 either.

Does Paul Wall even have a single out?? Man, Texas rap fell off fast! It was just like 2005 when people like Mike Jones and Paul Wall were doing big numbers and now in 2009 they can't even get a song on the radio or get any promotion for their albums. Sad. I'm gonna go with 7-20k.

Believe it or not, I'm actually very familiar with Haystak. Back in like 2002 I downloaded a bunch of his tracks and used to jam them all the time. Can't remember, what any of them were called, but it did happen lol. Anyway, I'm glad to see he's still around. I'm not too familiar with this album so I'm not sure if it'll sell much, but just wanted to shout out Haystak.

First off, Afroman still livin'?? I was unaware seeing his career died in the late 90s after his one-hit stopped spinning lol. Anyway, how terrible is that album cover?? Just sad, I tell ya. I'm gonna pretend like this didn't happen and wish you guys a happy Tuesday.

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MuZik Pt. 2

Rick Ross - Throw 'Em In The Sky (feat. Triple C's & Frank Linens)

I loved the cadence of Ross' flow on this track. Dope beat too so I fucks with this. Would've liked it better if he was the only one it it though lol.

Drake - Funk Flex Freestyle

Are we sure he's not on Young Money?? Every time you say that his fans are quick to say he's not but he's rapping more and more like Wayne everyday and he references them as if he's signed with them. Whatever the situation is, its more than just an "affiliation."

Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow (Remix) (feat. 50 Cent)

50 kinda snapped on this shit....then it went back to sucking soft dick once he finished lol. I mean seriously, "We so 3008, you so 2000-late"?? I understand why Jamie Foxx went off on them last week lol.

Trey Songz - Be Where You Are

Not bad.

Spliff Star - Sniper (feat. Busta Rhymes & N.O.R.E.)

This track is crazy! Busta probably should've kept them one for himself lol.

Reed Dollaz - We Run This (feat. Freeway)

What the fuck is wrong with Reed Dollaz' voice?? This nigga sounds different every time I hear him on wax. That's not a good thing either because he's always doing some weirdo voice I can't fuck with.

Paul Wall - Lemon Drop (feat. Baby Bash)

Wack.

Mistah F.A.B. - Hit Me On Twitter

Enough with the Twitter bullshit!

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Houston, TX For Obama!

I'm still high off my vote yesterday! Anyway, check out the latest buddy track from Houston.

Bun-B, Chamillionaire, Paul Wall, Cory Mo, & Trae - Obama '08


Yeah we need to turn Texas blue! Probably won't happen any time soon, but we need to in the future. Shout out to all these dudes for this record.

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Lil Hop: Welcome To The South

I've been working on the new website (that shit is gonna be crazy!) all weekend so I haven't had a chance to post since Friday so here's a little something for starters.


Great animation, but the comedy and voices could've been better. If he could've got those Filno dudes to do the voices this would've been better, but it was still aight.

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Katt Williams - Shinin' (feat. Mike Jones and Paul Wall)

Check out Katt's new song with Mike Jones and Paul Wall called Shinin':

Katt Williams - Shinin' (feat. Mike Jones and Paul Wall)


Uhhh...Katt, maybe you should just stick with the comedy bruh lol.

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I Know You Don't Care But... Chamillionaire & Paul Wall Made Up

Who knows, maybe you do care BUT I know I don't lol. [FULL STORY]

Honestly, I'm more concerned with why Cham is on BET's College Tour... Nigga you got a Grammy! Go do some real shows, not this new artist B.S. in front of a measly 2,000 people. I mean dammit man come on, I know your album aint selling, but have some respect for yourself! lol.

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