Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 6/22/08

This week, Lil Wayne gets bumped out of the #1 spot by Coldplay's highly anticipated debut of Viva La Vida which sold 721,200 copies this week. The Carter III, though no longer in the top spot, still sold a very respectable 308,500 in its second week on the charts. Plies' Definition of Real, which made a surprising debut at #2 last week, fell to #5 with 67,700 copies sold this week. Usher's latest effort, Here I Stand, driven by his hit single "Love in this club", took the #6 spot with 64,900 sold. Rihanna's re-release of Good Girl Gone Bad--complete with new tracks-- re-enters the charts at #7 proving that her latest album is far from losing steam. Further down the charts N.E.R.D falls to #20 with Seeing Sounds selling 23,600 units.

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

Rank	Artist	Album	This Week	Total
2	Lil Wayne	Tha Carter 3	308,505	1,317,956
5	Plies	Definition Of Real	67,678	282,579
6	Usher	Here I Stand	64,938	754,255
7	Rihanna	Good Girl Gone Bad	63,319	1,307,446
20	N.E.R.D	Seeing Sounds	23,620	103,588

Corporate Thugz Entertainment artist Blood Raw debuted CTE Presents: My life, The True Testimony at #30 this week with 17,300 sold. Universal artist 2 Pistols takes the #33 spot with 15,700 copies sold of his debut Death Before Dishonor. Flobots fall out of the top 40 and land at #41 this week with Fight With Tools selling just under 13,800. Bun B's II Trill follows behind at #43 with 13,300 sold. Further down the charts at #55 Rick Ross sells 11,200 copies of Trilla.

Other Notables

Rank	Artist	Album	This Week	Total
30	Blood Raw	CTE Presents...	17,377	17,377
33	2 Pistols	Death Before Dishonor	15,764	15,764
43	Bun B	II Trill	13,317	195,858
55	Rick Ross	Trilla	11,236	588,711
--	Little Brother	And Justus For All	1,351	3,983

Can Lil Wayne keep the momentum going in his third week? With releases from G-Unit, Nas and Game around the corner, will Weezy have competition on the charts? Keep it tuned to DX to see how things play out.