Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 7/29/07

T.I.'s T.I vs. Tip slips down two spots to #5 after being bumped by Prince's newest album, Planet Earth, which debuted at #3 (96k in sales), and the Hairspray soundtrack which came in at #4. T.I. vs. Tip sold 64k this week, bringing the southern MC to a total of 802k since his album's debut 4 weeks ago. The #1 slot is held for the 2nd week in a row by NOW 25, a top hits compilation that includes Mims, Bone and Bow Wow among others. NOW 25 had 149k in sales this week for a total of 372k albums sold.

Rihanna had a recent publicity push with her new line of umbrellas, as well as a Cover Girl cosmetics endorsement; Good Girl Gone Bad is now up two spots to #14 this week with 33k in sales (487k total), while T-Pain's Epiphany holds the #19 spot for the second consecutive week with 29k sold this week (501k total). Though Timbaland's Shock Value sold only 1k more than his previous week (21k) he managed to climb 4 spots to #29 with total album sales of 491k.

Yung Berg's Almost Famous debuts at #32 this week with 19k in sales, while R.Kelly's Double Up had 19k in sales (a total of 775k), falling 11 spots to #36. DJ Khaled's We The Best has dropped another 20+ slots for the second week in a row bringing him from #82 to #105 and selling only 7k this week (for a total of 170k).