The Numbers Game: Young Jeezy Gets #1 Spot (by B-Easy)
September 11, 2008 by nappyafro.com Staff
Of course we all knew Jeezy would take the #1 spot on the Billboard charts. King Jerm predicted The Recession to go Gold in the first week. I personally said he’ll do about a little over what The Game did last week. With a official total of 260,569, we see who won that contest (Come on Jerm, I write a column every week about this shit!). Actually, I wasn’t trying to low ball Young Jeezy, that’s still a good amount of records to sell in this…uh, recession. If I’m not mistaken, I think he might have the second highest Hip-Hop/Rap debut in 2008 (If I am mistaken act like I never said anything). I also see that Slim Thug’s crew Boss Hogg Outlawz surprisingly made the Top 50 with Back By Blockular Demand (Hey, moving 10,000 units these day independently ain’t bad either). Diddy’s “great white hope” Donnie Klang, from MTV’s Making The Band 4 show, lands at #19 and fails to match the success of Day26 or Danity Kane. Oh yeah, that reminds me, I forgot to put Shwayze on last week’s list. But since you all didn’t call me on it, I’ll take that as a “who gives a damn” sign. Other than that, Usher finally goes platinum, Weezy stays in the Top 10, & The Game falls to #3 (but in 2 weeks almost matches what Nas did in 8). I’m tired and that’s the buzzer…
#1 Young Jeezy/The Recession (Last Week: NA) - 260,569; Total: NA [Debut]
#3 The Game/L.A.X. (Last Week: #1) - 88,705; Total: 327,859 [2 Weeks]
#10 Lil’ Wayne/Tha Carter III (Last Week: #6) - 46,575; Total: 2,362,650 (2X Platinum) [13 Weeks]
#13 Rhianna/Good Girl Gone Bad (Last Week: #12) - 32,126; Total: 1,745,476 (Platinum) [66 Weeks]
#19 Donnie Klang/Just A Rolling Stone (Last Week: NA) - 21,997; Total: NA [Debut]
#26 Ice Cube/Raw Footage (Last Week: #14) - 18,485; Total: 118,589 [3 Weeks]
#28 Solange/Sol Angel & The Hadley St. Dreams (Last Week: #9) - 17,620; Total: 63,930 [2 Weeks]
#31 Terrance Howard/Shine Through It (Last Week: NA) - 14,190; Total: NA [Debut]
#35 Shwayze/Shwayze (Last Week: #28) - 12,106; Total: 77,155 [3 Weeks]
#45 Nas/Untitled (Last Week: #36) - 10,136; Total: 372,661 [8 Weeks]
#48 Boss Hogg Outlawz/Back By Blockular Demand: Serve & Collect II (Last Week: NA) - 9,816; Total: NA [Debut]
#56 Usher/Here I Stand (Last Week: #41) - 8,960; Total: 1,008,383 (Platinum) [15 Weeks]
Damn, Untitled is possibly the best hip-hop album that came out this year, and it gets no attention.
Word. I wish Untitled had C3’s sales, and vice versa!
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Good shit on Jeezy landing the #1 spot on the charts, I figured that he was going too after listening to ‘The Recession’. He put up some good numbers, but the test will be to if he goes Platinum cause I know he’s expected to at least reach that with his buzz and fan base.
Damn, that’s a shame that The Game got the same numbers as Nas in only two weeks and it took Nas eight weeks (I guess people don’t recognize good music when it’s starring them right in the face). I really hope Nas reaches that Gold status though in due time (It took ‘Illmatic’ 7 years to finally reach Platinum status and that’s a classic album…people will wake up sooner or later).
Good to hear that Usher finally got that Platinum plaque, it was well deserved (15 weeks was long enough). Yeah 10,000 copies sold is pretty good for an independent release, I guess Slim Thug and his crew are on their grind down in H-Town. Lol, Donnie ain’t gonna put up any numbers close to Day26 or Danity Kane (shit they hardly featured him on the show, I didn’t even know his album was released).’
Good biz with the numbers this week EZ!…Get ya rest fam.
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