This week on the Billboard 200 Nicki Minaj drops to #8 but stays in the Top 10… not the same for Future, though, who dropped ten spots to #18… Monica’s New Life album fell to #26 and Drake’s Take Care album, after 25 weeks, is still pushing units. He sold almost 12,000 this week, holding […]
This week on the Billboard 200, Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded drops to #3 behind Lionel Richie’s #1 debut of his album Tuskegee and Adele’s eight-times platinum album 21. Nicki sold 81,000 this week taking the two-week total tally for Pink Friday to 335,000 units sold.
Album sales looking very slow for Rihanna’s ‘Talk That Talk’ album and Mary J. Blige’s ‘My Life II: The Journey Continues.’ RiRi is only predicted to push around 185,000 copies in her first week while Mary is expected to debut at approx. 130,000 copies.
Drake reaches Gold status and ‘Takes Care’ of the competition, as his new album debuted at #1 this week and sold almost 632,000 copies. However, he’s projected to drop to #3 next week behind Michael Buble’s xmas album and Nickelback.
When it comes to breaking records in the hip hop arena, Eminem is the man to beat. Besides selling millions of albums in a rapidly declining industry, Em is one of  two rappers to have won the Best Rap Album Grammy each time they’ve released a disc. The other person in that club is Kanye West. […]
All the Team Barb’s will be happy to know that Nicki Minaj is hangin’ tough at number 4 on the Billboard R&B/Hip Hop album charts. Meanwhile, Kanye’s album which dropped on the same date, has dipped from number 4 to number 9 this week. I wonder if the Nicki will eventually out sell him and […]
Our favorite American Idol Fantasia's "Back To Me" album earned the highest chart debut of her career on the Billboard 200, landing at No. 2 with an impressive 122,000 copies sold. "Back to Me" also came in at No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
The internet was all abuzz with folks predicting what they thought hip-hop’s flavor of the moment, Drake, would sell during his first week.
