this week's charts

[Stone Cold is Bout It, Bout It]

Falling three notches down from last week, the Black Eyed Peas come in at #5. Monkey Business is making a lot of noise and bringing in sales of 154,556 copies this week. Since dropping, the Peas' have sold 446,158 records according to Soundscan.

Dropping this week at #6 is the new release from Joey Crack. Fat Joe raises the stakes as he give us All Or Nothing. The Don proves he can "Get It Poppin" his premier week by selling a strong 107,012 units.

Grabbing the 13th place is G-Unit general, 50 Cent. While 50 currently works on his autobiographical Get Rich Or Die Trying film, The Massacre adds a few more decimals to his stash. His album sold an additional 65,309 copies this week; while totaling 3,916,626 records to date.

Lastly, Common keeps it going, Mike Jones takes us back and Will Smith continues to sell. Windy City lyricist Common had to "Go" to the 19th position this week as Be sold another 44,137 copies. Com's sales total 357,725 units sold according to Soundscan. Who Is Mike Jones? moves down one spot to #21 this week. Things have changed for the Swishahouse rapper since "Back Then." Mike's sales moved 42,210 albums this week, totaling 607,670 copies to date. Closing out the charts this week and holding down # 37 is Will Smith's Lost & Found. Will has "Switch" positions a few times, but has managed to move 30,511 CDs this week. The album has sold 479,114 units.

Next week, check for Dirty South to take over the charts with a debut release from Boyz N Da Hood and new music from the Birdman.

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