Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 9/5/2010

Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 9/5/2010


by J-23



posted September 08, 2010 03:34:00 PM CDT

Shady rules. Eminem stays number 3 with Recovery and remains top 100 with Relapse and top 200 with Curtain Call



Eminem continues to dominate the charts with 3 entries in the Top 200. He failed to regain the top spot with releases from Disturbed and Now 35 taking the top spots. But Mr. Mathers still holds down the 3, 87, and 137 spots. While Usher lost ground on both his entries, Drake moved up a couple spots to 16.



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



Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total

3

Eminem

Recovery 92514 2420354



13

Usher

Versus 22450



68379



16

Drake

Thank Me Later 19849

1033575



16

Rick Ross

Teflon Don

16106

368746



30

Usher

Raymond v. Raymond

13866

1051181



Fabolous debuted on the charts this week, his official Def Jam mixtape debuting at the 32 spot. Outkast's Big Boi fell from the Top 50 to #62. Meanwhile his southern counterpart Bun B fell 11 spots as he approaches 100,000 for Trill O.G.



Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total

68

Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty 6447

160918



66

Bun B

Trill O.G.

6541

82773



119

Mike Posner

31 Minutes To Takeoff

3954

48098



131

Ludacris

Battle of the Sexes

3744

528575



145

The Roots

How I Got Over

3474

139994



Kill Devil Hills, the acclaimed collaboration between DJ Muggs and Ill Bill failed to crack the Top 200. Tune in next week to see how releases from Young Buck, Dorrough and Q-Unique perform.

From HipHopDX.com
 
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.12168/title.hip-hop-album-sales-the-week-ending-9-5-2010

Busta Rhymes, L.O.N.S. Sued Over '91 Song

Busta Rhymes, L.O.N.S. Sued Over '91 Song


by Salima Koroma



posted September 07, 2010 at 3:08PM MST

Busta and members of the Leaders Of the New School face a lawsuit for a song they performed 19 years ago.



Busta Rhymes and other former members of the Leaders Of the New School are being sued for copyright infringement on a song they made in 1991. 19 years after the song released, executives at the Drive-In Music Company say the track, "Case of the P.T.A." on the group's debut album is an illegal sample of the Dyke and The Blazers song "Let A Woman Be A Woman, Let A Man Be A Man." The company explained that it had no clue of the song's existence until recently.



In addition to suing the group, Drive-In Music Company is also filing suit against the group's former home, Elektra Records.



The lawsuit asks the judge to place a permanent injunction on the sale of the album and insists that copies of the CD be removed from shelves.

From HipHopDX.com
 
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.12157/title.busta-rhymes-lons-sued-over-91-song

J. Cole To Drop New Mixtape, "Villematic"

J. Cole To Drop New Mixtape, "Villematic"


by Slava Kuperstein

posted September 07, 2010 at 12:12AM MST
Inspiration strikes as J. Cole readies a project for his fans.



You can count J. Cole among the fans of Kanye's latest song, "Devil In A New Dress."



In fact,J. Cole is such a fan of the song that it has inspired him to do an entire mixtape, which he has titled Villematic.



"I'm in a zone. Fuck it. I'ma do a mixtape," wrote the Roc Nation signee on his Twitter account (@JColeNC).



"That beat is incredible, shout to Yeezy," Tweeted Cole regarding Kanye's latest offering. "Much Love. Shout to Bink. I could write a million verses to that."



Although no release date has been set for the project, J. Cole leaked an image that will presumably serve as its cover. The image is a play on Illmatic's, with a translucent picture of an infant J. Cole over top of a picture of a building.



From HipHopDX.com
 
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.12150/title.j-cole-to-drop-new-mixtape-villematic