The Numbers Game: Mariah Kills It at #1
Another day, another dollar. It’s time to once again see who does what on the charts…well at least in the top 50…and on the R&B/Hip-Hop side. This week, once again, not really any high profile Hip-Hop/Rap releases (Well, not counting J-Bo). This time, one of R&B’s reigning queens comes back in a big way while a rapper from M-I-Yayo gets closer to Gold status. Okay, enough already…
#1 Mariah Carey/E=MC2 (Last Week: NA) – 463,000; Total: NA
#11 Rick Ross/Trilla (Last Week: #8) – 26,700; Total: 443,100
#14 Danity Kane/Welcome To The Dollhouse (Last Week: #10) – 23,000; Total: 422,300
#16 Jordin Sparks/Jordin Sparks (Last Week: #17) – 22,600; Total: 677,900 (Gold)
#20 Gnarls Barkley/The Odd Couple (Last Week: #27) – 19,800; Total: 121,200
#21 Day26/Day26 (Last Week: #18) – 19,600; Total: 284,600
#30 Alicia Keys/As I Am (Last Week: #24) – 17,100; Total: 3,400,000 (3x Platinum)
#31 Flo Rida/Mail On Sunday (Last Week: #22) – 16,894; Total:185,600
#35 Ray J/All I Feel (Last Week: #7) – 15,477; Total: 54,700
#36 Mary J. Blige/Growing Pains (Last Week: #39) – 14,500; Total: 1,427,900 (Platinum)
#37 Snoop Dogg/Ego Trippin’ (Last Week: #30) – 14,122; Total: 278,100
#38 Chris Brown/Exclusive (Last Week: #37) – 14,100; Total: 1,476,400 (Platinum)
#39 Amy Winehouse/Back To Black (Last Week: #35) – 13,900; Total: 1,893,400 (Platinum)
#40 Keyshia Cole/Just Like You (Last Week: #42) – 13,800; Total: 1,345,000 (Platinum)
#42 Trina/Still Da Baddest (Last Week: #28) – 13,200; Total: 78,200
well, according to the response we got from Bizzy Bone’s album, he should be #1 next week in the Numbers Game!
Once again, the economy is so bad, rappers are gonna go broke.
AMEN!
The economy didn’t hurt Keys, Cole, or Mary J sales. All those albums leaked just like the rap albums did. Audience? Content? Well, Rick Ross is about to go gold which is the new platinum for rap.
Yea Thic, you right. But why is it hitting rappers the hardest?
Audience homie. Bootleggin’ and hip hop go back like hairlines man. We (hip hop fans in general) will download some shit and pass it on more than we will go into a record store and cop. The other side of the coin is that Keys, Mary J, and Cole have an audience that is also full of older folks (pre download age folks) that would rather have the cd jacket and liner notes. By the time they learn how to/take time to download the cd, then upzip the file, then learn how to burn it to a cd, they could have dropped a 10-15 bucks down and had the actual copy.
I think the artists got FAT back in the 90’s and a lot of cats got MONEY. It’’s not that easy anymore, you have to tour, make dope music, and do the footwork the label used to do.