Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 2/8/09

Rock band The Fray shook things up at the top of the charts last week, with their self-titled effort. Them, Taylor Swift, and Bruce Springsteen ran the charts, sending Beyonce and her I Am...Sasha Fierce [click to read] to #5. Jamie Foxx [click to read] climbed ahead of, Keyshia Cole's A Different Me [click to read] and Kanye West's 808's & Heartbreak [click to read]. The trio of releases have shifted throughout the last two months.

T.I. [click to read] came back into the top five urban releases too, with his Paper Trail [click to read], trucking towards two million units sold.

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

Rank	Artist	Album	This Week	Est. Total
5	Beyonce	I Am...Sasha Fierce	51,371	1,788,206
8	Jamie Foxx	Intuition	36,550	578,032
9	Kanye West	808's & Heartbreak	33,882	1,291,218
10	Keyshia Cole	A Different Me	33,593	666,127
19	T.I.	Paper Trail	22,919	1,661,189

Rhymesayers Entertainment Doomtree member, and DXnext alum [click to read] member P.O.S. suprised some with an appearance on the Top 200, with his Punk/Rap effort Never Better [click to read].

Also newsworthy, Lil Wayne [click to read], by projections, is one week away from three million records sold of Tha Carter III [click to read], a likely feat after his Grammy appearance [click to read].

Other news saw Common [click to read] break the 200,000 mark with his Universal Mind Control [click to read] release.

Other Notables

Rank	Artist	Album	This Week	Est. Total
22	Lil Wayne	Tha Carter III	20,158	2,985,147
66	Young Jeezy	The Recession	9,404	765,503
106	P.O.S.	Never Better	6,148	6,173
131	Common	Universal Mind Control	4,700	200,234
174	Scarface	Emeritus	3,585	104,841