Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 8/24/08

Make room for the originators! Ice Cube debuts at #5 this week, selling 69,700 copies of Raw Footage. Cube was bested by releases from The Jonas Brothers, Kid Rock, Staind, and the Mamma Mia soundtrack, respectively. Lil Wayne takes the #7 spot this week, selling 56,800 more copies of his double platinum album Tha Carter III. MTV reality stars Shwayze (comprised of rapper Shwayze and guitarist Cisco Adler) debuted their self titled album at #10 this week. The duo sold 46,500 copies. Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad continues its reign, this week coming in at #12 with 39,300 copies sold. R&B crooner Lloyd rounds out the top 5 for Hip Hop and R&B at #24 with 15,600 copies sold of Lessons in Love.

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

Rank	Artist	Album	This Week	Est. Total
5	Ice Cube	Raw Footage	69,763	69,763
7	Lil Wayne	Tha Carter III	56,820	2,263,325
10	Shwayze	Shwayze	46,584	46,584
12	Rihanna	Good Girl Gone Bad	39,301	1,675,974
24	Lloyd	Lessons in Love	15,611	88,997

Nas holds on to the #25 position with 15,000 copies of his untitled album sold this week, while M.I.A continues to see the effects of her "Paper Planes" exposure in the film Pineapple Express. Kala sold just under 11,000 copies and landed her the #37 spot. Plies' Definition of Real takes #39 with 10,800 sold, as David Banner follows closely behind at #40 selling 10,600 copies of Greatest Story Ever Told. Wu-Tang Clan member GZA debuted ProTools at #52 with just over 9,000 copies sold.

Other Notables

Rank	Artist	Album	This Week	Est. Total
25	Nas	untitled	15,075	349,813
37	M.I.A	Kala	10,999	282,974
39	Plies	Definition of Real	10,835	469,638
40	David Banner	Greatest Story Ever Told	10,658	123,688
52	GZA	Pro Tools	9,027	9,027