[UPDATE] Snoop is #3 and on pace of selling 120-125k (behind Rick Ross & Now27)

[pootypooty]

From hitsdailydouble.com:

ROSS IS BOSS    
IDJ Rapper, Now 27, Snoop Dogg Battle It Out for Top Spot

March 12, 2008

South Beach rapper Rick Ross is ready to take his spring break…at the top of the charts.

The IDJ hip-hop star follows up his hit 2006 debut Port of Miami with Trilla, which appears the odds-on favorite to debut at #1 on next week’s HITS Album sales chart.

Based on one-day sales reports from those retailers not hightailing to Austin for SxSW, and even some that are, the gangsta hip-hopper looks set for between 165-175k in first-week sales.

Now 27, the latest edition of the long-running hits compilation series, comes out through John Ingrassia’s SBMG Commercial Music Group, is running just behind Ross with 160-170k, and could challenge for the top spot yet.

Behind the two leaders is Geffen’s perennial Snoop Dogg, whose new album Ego Trippin’ is a lock for #3 with what appears around 130k in sales.

Terror Squad/Capitol rap vet Fat Joe’s The Elephant in the Room cannot be ignored. It looks to be in the 50k range, which will be good enough for a Top 10, maybe even a Top 5, bow.

Sony’s Now ‘80s, a variation on the formula, now looks like it could sell around 40k, which would put it within sniffing distance of the Top 10 these days.

Concord’s Randy Jackson album, Randy Jackson’s Music Club, Vol. 1, seems to be headed for the 15-20k range, but could go higher with some expected on-air Idol mentions.

The market was down 3% vs. last week, down 11% vs. same week last year and now down 12% year-to-date.

Hey, it could be worse. You could be Eliot Spitzer. Or Client 9, for that matter.
   

[~Lucien~]

lol @ rick ross selling more than snoopy...
nowadays people don't recognize what good music is.
it's a shame

ego trippin is the shit! buy it!
http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7624174

[Mackin]

^^well i'm not surprise that Rick Ross is out selling Snoop..U just have to check his album out and know why..
His style is very much different, plus it's what is reigning or what's 'Hot' right now..
Not saying nothing bad about Snoop's album, cuz i'm more of a snoop fan than i am of Rick Ross..just saying it like it is...

[~Lucien~]

^^^I heard rick ross' album... it's just another hip hop record for me.
garbage in my opinion

[topshotta]

It's not just a shame it's fuckin insane Snoop doesn't sell more than Rick Ross. Big Snoopy is coming with a fresh breeze, Ross on the other hand be coming with that same ol same ol.. He's just fooling these youngstas (or whoever is buying his album), style ain't hot, that shit been done too many times! Support the West buy Ego Trippin instead!

[Lunatic]

no fuckin way ross is gonna outsell snoop 1st week or beyond..mark my words

[AnybodyKilla]

130k first week, WTF? I was thinking AT LEAST 200k!!!

[Laconic]

Snoopy only dropped yesterday.  His numbers will most certainly be higher than Ross by next week.  if not, then...

[Detox Iz Not Active]

if true, then that's pathetic





if he sells 130k he won't ever see gold, even with one of the biggest tracks of his life

[Lunatic]

^he'll certainly go gold

Plies sold like 90K first week and he's about to hit gold

[Brutus]

this is sales only for one day
....

[~Lucien~]

snoop wil sell 260k
mark my words

[snopafly]

snoop wil sell 260k
mark my words

  hopefully he will sell more than rick ross, but i dont know. The last times he realeased in november- dec , people usely buy more cds couse of cristmas and such .. march is a more dead month, i hope snooop sell okay first week . I think he will sell the same like janet jackson

[wc-reppin]

That rick ross cd was straight garbage to me. I hope that Snoop outsells that bullshit.

[snopafly]

  does soundscan also count amazon sales and mp3 album sales??

snoop dogg is number one in hiphop with 34 on amazon bestsellers in music

and he is number 10 in mp3 albums on amazon