Kanye Debuts At Number 1, Ludacris Breaks 200K, E-40 Balls Out W/30K In 1st week

[Elano]

Taking a shot at R&B with his new album 808s and Heartbreak, mega rap star Kanye West has locked in No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 with over 450,100 copies sold in his opening week.

According to the Nielsen SoundScan, Ye's fourth project followed in 2007's multi-platinum Graduation landing atop the charts for a third consecutive time. Unlike his previous discs known for various collaborations, the Grammy-winning rapper's new LP features only four collaborations by Kid Cudi, Young Jeezy, Lil' Wayne plus Mr. Hudson and is led by popular hits "Heartless" and "Love Lockdown."

Fellow Def Jam labelmate Ludacris also debuted high on the charts this week with Theater of the Mind securing the No. 5 spot with 214,100 sold records. Following his Grammy-winning 2006 project, Release Therapy, and led by singles like "One More Drink," Luda's new album is highlighted by an assemble of guest appearances including The Game, T.I., Jamie Foxx, Chris Brown, Plies and more.

Despite not outselling Ye, the Southern rapper recently told SOHH his anticipation going head-to-head with Mr. West.

"I honestly felt great about it," Luda told SOHH. "Competition is one thing...this is my sixth album. You win some, you lose some. Who knows what's going to happen here but I feel like its going to be a winning day for the both of us."

Another big rapper making the charts this week is E-40 whose Ball Street Journal landed at No. 42 with over 30,700 albums sold. The Bay area icon tagged along a big list of collaborations for his 11th disc including Snoop Dogg, Akon, Bun B, Gucci Mane, Too Short, Ice T, T-Pain, Shawty Lo and more.

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Taking a shot at R&B with his new album 808s and Heartbreak, mega rap star Kanye West has locked in No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 with over 450,100 copies sold in his opening week.

That is disturbing news.

[K.Dub]

I knew it

[Elano]

E-40 only 30.000 

[Lunatic]

Kanye did WAY less than his last album which he rapped on 

['EclipZe]

screw the album

[GangstaBoogy]

Damn, MTO said Ye did 600,000

[Detox Iz Not Active]

Kanye actually did GREAT numbers


for a rapper to put out an album with all singing and completely isolate his main fanbase and still sell 400,000+ the first week is crazy, and he probably had 1/10 the airplay that Graduation had

[K.Dub]

I wonder who bought that album.

[Chamillitary Click]

wow, Kanye goin after Wayne...i think he's takin him!

autotune = sales, end of story...

[Blood$]

E-40's album was the only one of those that I copped, he should have sold more but fuck it

I honestly thought Kanye was gonna sell more like around 600-700K but those are still pretty good numbers

[Crockett]

i wanna know who the fuck contributed to the overall Kanye and thinks there listning to hip hop...

[Chamillitary Click]

i wanna know who the fuck contributed to the overall Kanye and thinks there listning to hip hop...

my guess is the SAME EXACT people who contributed to Tha Carter III...

[Crockett]

i wanna know who the fuck contributed to the overall Kanye and thinks there listning to hip hop...

my guess is the SAME EXACT people who contributed to Tha Carter III...

yea some more bullshit i mean damn that carter shit how hyped was that damn...

[K.Dub]

i wanna know who the fuck contributed to the overall Kanye and thinks there listning to hip hop...

my guess is the SAME EXACT people who contributed to Tha Carter III...

I bought Carter III but I won't be buying Kanye's bs.