The Numbers Game: Mike Jones & Tech N9ne Debut; Soulja Boy Returns

It’s Thursday and it’s time for another edition of The Numbers Game (What an intro huh?). This week we see debuts on the charts from Tech N9ne and Mike Jones…Who? Mike Jones! (Sorry. I couldn’t resist…damn I’m lame)

The Numbers Game: Kanye Goes Platinum

Damn, it’s 2009 already? After almost doing this column 40 times now, it still feels like I just started this yesterday. What does ‘09 hold for Hip-Hop on the charts? We’ll see a new Eminem album, maybe Detox, hopefully Blueprint 3 as well as a host of other releases (January looks slack as hell by [...]

The Numbers Game: Soulja Boy Debuts At #43

What? You thought I was gonna miss out on telling you how much Plies and Soulja Boy sold last week. Consider this a early X-Mas present; The Numbers Game is here a day early (Now in paragraph format!). A lot of artists benefited from the holiday shopping boost (while some didn’t). Well since H20’s iSouljaboytellem [...]

Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em|iSouljaBoyTellem

Soulja Boy Tell Em’ seems to get a lot of hate in the game: when he first showed up on the scene with a record-breaking single that was catchy enough to get him a Grammy nomination AND sold 3x Platinum; people immediately had their opinions of him. All the teenagers were doing the dance and [...]