"Hip-Hop Is Dead" Predicted To Do 200K In First Week
One day after the release of Nas' 8th solo album, Hip-Hop Is Dead, the Queens lyricist is expected to carry on Def Jam's fourth quarter onslaught by putting up solid numbers."The day it [Hip-Hop Is Dead] dropped, a lot of people bought it, Tuesday night, Wednesday morning," Kevin Weeks, an employee at Times Square's Virgin Megastore in New York City, told Sohh "He's gonna do well."
With albums steadily flying off Best Buys and Virgin shelves, experts expect the CD to sell at least 200,000 copies in its first week.
"I'm gonna say 200 [thousand] first week," Raphael George, Billboard's R&B Charts Manager, told Sohh. "He's got a lot of attention right now, a lot of people are talking about him. A lot of people are talking about what he said about 'hip-hop is dead,' people, especially from the south are taking offense to that."
"I think right now he's got a lot going in his corner," George added. "Even though radio right now might not say that, but Nas, his stuff doesn't really hit radio like that."
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Young Jeezy Enters Atop The Billboard 200
Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy debuts at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 with his second Def Jam album, "The Inspiration," The set sold 352,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, more than doubling the 172,000-unit first week for his 2005 debut, "Let's Get It: Thug Motivation."
First single "I Luv It" is top 30 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts. The Beatles' "Love" (Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol) also remains at No. 8 on a 17% boost to 178,000, followed by Mary J. Blige's "Reflections (A Retrospective)" (Geffen), which is new at No. 9.
The set sold 171,000 units, good enough to debut behind Young Jeezy's "The Inspiration" at No. 2 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Il Divo's "Siempre" (Columbia) slides 6-10 on a miniscule sales increase to 167,000.
Last week's No. 1, Ciara's "The Evolution" (LaFace/Zomba), plummets to No. 11 on a 51.5% drop to 164,000, while last week's No. 2, the Eminem-reared compilation "Eminem Presents: The Re-Up" (Shady/Interscope), slips to No. 13 on a 51% decline to 151,000. Gwen Stefani's "The Sweet Escape" (Interscope), which opened at No. 3 last week, drops significantly (No. 14, 149,000).
Fantasia's self-titled sophomore album for J debuts at No. 19 on The Billboard 200 and No. 3 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums with 133,000 copies. Her first set, "Free Yourself," started at No. 8 on The Billboard 200 in 2004 with 240,000 on its way to 1.7 million copies sold to date.
The only other debut inside the top 50 this week is Tyrese's "Alter Ego" (J), which lands at No. 23 with just shy of 116,000. The double album also charts on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums at No. 4 and on Top Rap Albums at No. 2. Meanwhile, Ghostface Killah only managed a No. 71 debut on The Billboard 200 with his second Def Jam album of the year, "More Fish," which sold 36,000. In April, "Fishscale" started at No. 4 on the big chart with 110,000 and at No. 2 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Overall, album sales are up 24% from last week's count and are down 5.6% compared to the same week a year ago at 23.39 million units. Sales for 2006 are down 4.6% compared to 2005 at 543 million units
How High???
IF you thought Nas sounded under the influence on his chart-topping records, you were right.The rap legend - who celebrated the re lease of his new CD, "Hip Hop Is Dead," at a Hennessy Paradis dinner at Gin Lane - told guests including Kelis, Mark Wahlberg and Miki Howard he was flying high during many of his early re cording sessions.
"Hennessy is responsible for at least my first three albums, so all of this makes sense," he crowed.
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