Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 3/30/08

It looks like Diddy is at it again! Making the Band male-group Day 26 rules the charts with their self-titled debut album selling 189k this week. The ladies of Diddy's Danity Kane, though #1 last week, have dropped to #4 selling 88k. They were beat out by debuts from Panic at the Disco and Counting Crows, respectively. Rick Ross' Trilla comes in at #6 with 51k, while Flo Rida slips in at #9 (33k sold) to round out the Hip Hop/ R&B artists in the top 10 for the first week of April.

Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)

Rank	Artist	Album	This Week	Total
1	Day 26	Day 26	189,632	190,205
4	Danity Kane	Welcome to the Dollhouse	88,702	325,112
6	Rick Ross	Trilla	51,447	340,747
9	Flo Rida	Mail on Sunday	33,562	119,744
12	Gnarls Barkley	The Odd Couple	28,912	59,921

The eclectic sounds of Gnarls Barkley move up on the charts this week from a #18 debut last week to #12 this week. The Odd Couple sold just under 29k. Snoop Dogg's Ego Trippin', which has been met by luke-warm reviews, lands the #13 spot with 28k units this week. In her 55th week on the chart, troubled songstress Amy Winehouse still manages a #21 spot on the charts, her revival coming after multiple Grammy wins for 2007. Back to Black sold just under 21k this week and is nearing double platinum with over 1.8M sold to date.

Erykah Badu's New Amerykah picks up a little speed from #37 last week to #28 this week with 16.7k sold while at #57 Lupe Fiasco still strives towards gold with a total of just under 431k sold. Rocko's Self Made album takes a large drop in its 2nd week from #21 to #62 (9.8k sold this week), while Fat Joe and Sheek Louch stumbled downwards as well. Fat Joe's Elephant in the Room fell from #56 to #74 in only its 3rd week with 8.8k sold, while Sheek's Silverback Gorilla dropped from #41 to #86 in its 2nd week (7.9k sold). Detroit mainstay Guilty Simpson debuted his latest effort, Ode to the Ghetto, with 2k units sold while The Show, the debut album from new group EMC sold just over 1k total. Def Jam artist Freeway managed to finally break 100k this week with Free At Last selling 511 copies this week (100.2k total).

Other Notables...

Rank	Artist	Album	This Week	Total
13	Snoop Dogg	Ego Trippin	28,060	222,254
57	Lupe Fiasco	The Cool	10340	430911
--	Guilty Simpson	Ode to the Ghetto	2,019	2,113
--	EMC	The Show	711	1091
--	Freeway	Free At Last	511	100,206

Will Diddy's takeover continue through the month? Or will new music from The Roots' highly anticipated album reign supreme? Can the offbeat sounds of cross-over group Gnarls Barkley find more momentum to climb the charts some more? Stay tuned as DX brings the play-by-play.