Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 8/17/08

Not a whole lot going on in Hip Hop this week as Lil Wayne continues his dominance on the charts. In his 10th week on the charts, Weezys Tha Carter 3 holds steady at #6 with 61k sold (2,204,760 sold overall). Rihannas re-release of Good Girl Gone Bad continues to surge as it pushes its way to #9 with another 42k sold in its 63rd week on the charts (1,636,704 sold to date). Lloyds Lessons In Love falls ten slots to #17 with 22k sold while Nas Untitled continues to head towards gold with just under 19k sold (335,176k sold overall). Yung Berg makes a splash with his Look What You Made Me album debuting at #20 with 19,150 sold.

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

Rank	Artist	Album	This Week	Total
6	Lil Wayne	Tha Carter 3	61,661	2,204,760
9	Rihanna	Good Girl Gone Bad	42,267	1,636,704
17	Lloyd	Lessons in Love	22,102	73,386
20	Yung Berg	Look What You Made Me	19,150	19,274
21	Nas	Untitled	18,659	335,176

Elsewhere on the charts, Usher glides towards platinum status while selling 13k units of Here I Stand. Hes only 23k shy from hitting the one million mark with 977,416 sold to date. Plies continues to sit pretty with Definition of Real at #35 (11,921) and David Banner is right behind at #36 with Greatest Story Ever Told (11,495). M.I.A. continues to thrive off of Paper Planes exposure in the film Pineapple Express as Kala sells a shade over 10k and holds steady at #47. Diddys latest signing, Janelle Monae, debuts her Metropolis: The Chase Suite at the #115 slot with 5,177 sold in its first week.

Other Notables

Rank	Artist	Album	This Week	Total
31	Usher	Here I Stand	12,354	977,416
35	Plies	Definition Of Real	11,921	458,803
36	David Banner	Greatest Story Ever Told	11,495	113,127
47	M.I.A.	Kala	10,129	272,042
115	Janelle Monae	Metropolis: The Chase Suite	5,177	5,222

Will the recent release of Ice Cube's Raw Footage crack the top ten? How will GZA fare with the recent release of Protools. Stay tuned to DX for the play by play.