NaS Leads Album Sales This Week

About time Wayne gets taken out.

Via HipHopDX.com

After endless weeks of controversy, Nas' Untitled [click to read] album reigns the charts with 186,600 copies sold in its first week. Grabbing the #2 spot is Lil Wayne's Tha Carter 3 [click to read] with just under 105,500 copies sold. If Wayne's sales continue at this pace, he'll be due for a double platinum plaque by next week! David Banner's latest effort The Greatest Story Ever Told [click to read] debuted this week at #8 selling 51,800 in its first week. Rihanna maintains her spot in the top 10 with the re-release of Good Girl Gone Bad selling 41,200 copies in its 59th week on the charts. Usher's Here I Stand [click to read] rounds out the top 5 leading Hip Hop/ R&B artists at #19 with 26,000 copies sold this week.

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

Rank Artist Album This Week Total
1. Nas
Untitled
This Week: 186,640
Total: 187,078

2. Lil Wayne
Tha Carter 3
This Week: 105,490
Total: 1,912,052

8. David Banner
Greatest Story Ever Told
This Week: 51,805
Total: 51,902

10. Rihanna
Good Girl Gone Bad
This Week: 41,269
Total: 1,482,574

19. Usher
Here I Stand
This Week: 26,071
Total: 906,641


G-Unit takes a drop from #9 last week to #24 this week with Terminate On Sight [click to read] selling 21,200 copies this week--a 42% decline from last week's numbers. Plies' Definition of Real [click to read] comes in at #26 selling 20,500 copies. Three 6 Mafia grabs the #29 spot with Last 2 Walk [click to read] selling 18,431 units this week. After reports surfaced that the self-proclaimed drug pushin', gun toting "boss" Rick Ross is in actuality a former corrections officer, his sales have yet to suffer this week. Trilla [click to read] sold 9,700 copies this week, only a 4% decline from last week. However, next week's numbers (the first full sales week after this week's revelations about Ross' past) will be the true sign of any fan backlash.

Other Notables

Rank Artist Album This Week Total
24. G-Unit
Terminate On Sight
This Week: 21,219
Total: 159,369

26. Plies
Definition of Real
This Week: 20,522
Total: 400,789

29. Three 6 Mafia
Last 2 Walk
This Week: 18,431
Total: 156,835

58. Rick Ross
Trilla
This Week: 9,702
Total: 629,610

74. Tech N9ne
Killer
This Week: 8,076
Total: 57,771


Will August heat up on the charts with new albums on the horizon from heavy-hitters like The Game, Ne-Yo and Nelly? Or will the youngins get schooled by new projects from Ice Cube and LL Cool J? Can femcee/ producer Missy Elliot come in for the sneak attack and shock the charts? Stay tuned as DX brings the play by play.

Untitled Will Be NaS's 5th Number One Album

About time someone recognizes real hip hop.

Via HipHopDX.com

Fueled by both controversy and critical praise, Nas' latest album Untitled is headed for the number one spot this week.

According to Billboard, the rap legend is projected to not only land in the top spot, but has sold approximately 113,000 units as of Friday (July 18) - better than the majority of first week sales in Hip Hop this year.

By comparison, this puts Nas just slightly behind Rick Ross' Trilla, a March release which managed 116,000 b y Friday. Whether the Queensbridge rapper's album will topple Ross' 198,000 mark by the end of the week remains to be seen.

Nas' last number one album was the December 2006 release Hip-Hop Is Dead, which sold 354,000 copies during Christmas week.

NaS - Sly Fox

This is probably old news as this has been out for about a week. But here is a video off of NaS' Untitled album. It's a diss directly at Fox News. Enjoy.