FINAL #S FOR THIS WEEKS CHARTS ARE IN...

[Lunatic]

 LW TW artist / album label power index % change
-- 1 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 WALT DISNEY RECORDS 618,502 --
SOUNDTRACK
4 2 HANNAH MONTANA 2 - MEET MILEY WALT DISNEY RECORDS 82,421 +8%
SOUNDTRACK
-- 3 DAVE MATTHEWS AND TIM REYNOLDS RCA/RMG 75,871 --
LIVE AT RADIO CITY
3 4 NOW 25 UTV 65,478 -25%
VARIOUS ARTISTS
6 5 HAIRSPRAY NEW LINE 64,219 -7%
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
8 6 FERGIE A&M/INTERSCOPE 52,684 +5%
THE DUTCHESS
1 7 U.G.K. JIVE/ZLG 52,235 -67%
UNDERGROUND KINGZ
5 8 JONAS BROTHERS HOLLYWOOD 41,292 -41%
JONAS BROTHERS
7 9 COMMON GEFFEN 38,909 -25%
FINDING FOREVER
9 10 T.I. ATLANTIC/ATL G 38,476 -14%
T.I. VS. T.I.P.
13 11 LINKIN PARK WARNER BROS. 37,130 -4%
MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
14 12 NICKELBACK ROADRUNNER 36,294 +2%
ALL THE RIGHT REASONS
12 13 AMY WINEHOUSE UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 35,943 -8%
BACK TO BLACK
42 14 PARAMORE FUELED BY RAMEN 34,970 +143%
RIOT!
2 15 PLIES WARNER BROS. 32,923 -64%
REAL TESTAMENT
30 16 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL WALT DISNEY RECORDS 31,338 +54%
SOUNDTRACK
16 17 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 29,374 -13%
TAYLOR SWIFT
15 18 SEAN KINGSTON EPIC 28,805 -17%
SEAN KINGSTON
-- 19 BLAQK AUDIO INTERSCOPE 28,293 --
CEX CELLS
11 20 KORN VIRGIN 27,604 -32%
UNTITLED
10 21 KIDZ BOP KIDS RAZOR & TIE 27,059 -39%
KIDZ BOP 12
19 22 MAROON 5 A&M/OCTONE 26,606 0%
IT WON'T BE SOON BEFORE LONG
25 23 AVRIL LAVIGNE ARISTA/RMG 25,382 +10%
BEST DAMN THING
18 24 RIHANNA DEF JAM/IDJMG 25,270 -5%
GOOD GIRL GONE BAD --
25 LUKE BRYAN CAPITOL 24,405 --
I'LL STAY ME
17 26 BON JOVI ISLAND 23,617 -12%
LOST HIGHWAY
21 27 T-PAIN JIVE/ZLG 23,483 -7%
EPIPHANY
34 28 TIM MCGRAW CURB 22,667 +13%
LET IT GO
22 29 PLAIN WHITE T'S HOLLYWOOD 22,626 -6%
EVERY SECOND COUNTS
23 30 BRAD PAISLEY RCA/RMG 22,279 -6%
5TH GEAR
26 31 MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE 22,085 +2%
CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE
28 32 TIMBALAND INTERSCOPE 21,442 +2%
TIMBALAND PRESENTS SHOCK VALUE
27 33 DAUGHTRY RCA/RMG 20,821 -3%
DAUGHTRY
32 34 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE JIVE/ZLG 19,450 -4%
FUTURE SEX/LOVE SOUNDS
24 35 KELLY CLARKSON RCA/RMG 19,335 -18%
MY DECEMBER
29 36 HANNAH MONTANA WALT DISNEY RECORDS 19,185 -8%
SOUNDTRACK
33 37 WHITE STRIPES WARNER BROS. 18,416 -8%
ICKY THUMP
37 38 COLBIE CAILLAT UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 18,173 +3%
COCO
-- 39 MAE CAPITOL 17,800 --
SINGULARITY
-- 40 2 PAC KOCH 17,447 --
NU MIXX KLAZZICS, VOL. 2
20 41 PRINCE COLUMBIA 17,027 -34%
PLANET EARTH
38 42 CARRIE UNDERWOOD ARISTA/RMG 15,874 -9%
SOME HEARTS
31 43 MARC ANTHONY SONY BMG LATIN 15,549 -23%
EL CANTANTE SOUNDTRACK
36 44 TOBY KEITH SHOW DOG/UNIVERSAL NASH 15,478 -13%
BIG DOG DADDY
35 45 FABOLOUS DEF JAM/IDJMG 14,832 -21%
FROM NOTHIN' TO SOMETHIN'
41 46 NE-YO DEF JAM/IDJMG 14,656 -4%
BECAUSE OF YOU
39 47 ALY & AJ HOLLYWOOD 14,364 -11%
INSOMNIATIC
47 48 RASCAL FLATTS LYRIC STREET 13,671 0%
ME AND MY GANG
-- 49 DEAN MARTIN CAPITOL 13,156 --
FOREVER COOL
40 50 SMASHING PUMPKINS REPRISE 13,112 -15%
 
T.I. will be platinum in no time...38,000 for the 7th week is damn good

2 bad to see UGK have a 67% decrease in sales

Common struggling as well...both him & UGK are gona struggle 2 hit gold

looks like WC barely didnt make the top 50

[KURUPTION-81]

i hope ugk and wc end up with good sale numbers

[Lunatic]

i hope ugk and wc end up with good sale numbers

yea, well the good news is that sales always get a boost (at least on this site) at the end...I dont understand how UGK is like 400 copies ahead of T.I. only right now

hopefully WC pulls in at least 8-12,000

[Oklin]

Common made a dope album.. But now he isnt doing that good on the charts, guess I cant hear that album anymore!

[Lunatic]

Common made a dope album.. But now he isnt doing that good on the charts, guess I cant hear that album anymore!

i wasn't saying that...i just want them to see them sell well

[Oklin]

Common made a dope album.. But now he isnt doing that good on the charts, guess I cant hear that album anymore!

i wasn't saying that...i just want them to see them sell well

I didn't say you was saying that

[Blu Lacez]

Well..i don't know..things are happening in the world right now..so that could be the reason why pple ain't picking up albums..mite be a different story in the next couple of weeks..
i figured sales don't matter???

WC TI & UGK, will make their cash in the end..it won't be as fast as they figured..

[Invincible]

This is sad news but as long as the people buying this music like it, thats what matters. At the moment I can't afford to buy any albums due to the high prices here in England and I am poor. If I had the money, I would be buying all the CD's I wanted to help these 4 artists mentioned in this thread.

[Narrator]

You really can't make an accurate assessment with only 33% of the sales in.  Especially since some retail chains are MUCH slower than others at turning in their latest data.

That being said, I hope nobody here had particularly high expectations in the first place.  UGK is dope and all, but it was all of their EXTREMELY loyal fans who had been waiting six years for "Underground Kingz" who went out and bought this album its first week.  Same with Common.  Anyone who's selling only to their fans is going to see a significant drop-off in second- and third-week sales.

As for T.I...same case.  "T.I. vs. T.I.P" hasn't produced a really big hit like "Bring 'Em Out" or "What You Know" yet.  He'll go Plat again for sure, but this time, he's probably just gonna sell around 1 million even, instead of selling 1.7 million like he did with "King".

Oh, yeah, and WC?  Homeboy sold about 200K of his last album (if memory is correct) on DEF JAM back in 2002 (when hip-hop was still at its peak), so what makes you think he gon top that on an indie label (even if it's Cube's label)?

[jeromechickenbone]

There's businesses that I look at everyday that gross $10,000,000 in sales, yet still turn a loss.  Then there's some businesses that gross $20,000 and still net a profit and can still eat.  Don't trip about units pushed.  This will only continue to drive cats to indie labels which will be on a much smaller scale in both cost and production, will allow them or force them to do their own style of music, they will have a more individual sound, etc. etc.  The mainstream rap game is wack as fuck for the most part.

I love UGK / Common / WC.  I want them to be successful.  But everytime something released on a major flops like a motherfucker I love it because it just means that we're another step closer to the inevitable crash of major labels and a complete rebuild of the business model in hip hop and music overall.  And by the way, UGK & Common obviously didn't flop, and WC was indie, I was just showing that I'd love it if they moved massive units but I'm not losing sleep if they dont. 

[GangstaBoogy]

WC ain't gonna sell shiet. No hatin just bein real. Outside of California, not too many people are checkin for him. And if they are then its still hard for them to know that he has an album out considering he didn't do a video.

[Soopahigh]

There's businesses that I look at everyday that gross $10,000,000 in sales, yet still turn a loss.  Then there's some businesses that gross $20,000 and still net a profit and can still eat.  Don't trip about units pushed.  This will only continue to drive cats to indie labels which will be on a much smaller scale in both cost and production, will allow them or force them to do their own style of music, they will have a more individual sound, etc. etc.  The mainstream rap game is wack as fuck for the most part.

I love UGK / Common / WC.  I want them to be successful.  But everytime something released on a major flops like a motherfucker I love it because it just means that we're another step closer to the inevitable crash of major labels and a complete rebuild of the business model in hip hop and music overall.  And by the way, UGK & Common obviously didn't flop, and WC was indie, I was just showing that I'd love it if they moved massive units but I'm not losing sleep if they dont. 

Real Talk !

[wcsoldier]

Don't care about sales people , there are other ways to get paid for these artists , especially in the rap industry ... even if some aren"t multi-million men , they have a very good standard of life .... and I agree 100% with Jrome spot ... mainstream (which is 90 % wack) rap flopping is a good thing for the quality of music in long terms

[Lucifuge]

t.i. gonne flop yea

[Lunatic]

t.i. gonne flop yea

first platinum rapper in 2007