September 23, 2009
We are back
with the ChartWatch for the week of September 23, 2009. Hopefully by now everyone has gotten the
jokes and photoshopped pictures of Kanye and Lil Mama out of their system. Let’s get into the charts.
First off,
I don’t think it should be a surprise to anyone that the number one artist this
week is Jay Z. His eleventh studio
album, The Blueprint 3, moved 300,000
copies to claim the number one spot.
This amount is well above the rest in the top ten and a good start as
the first release off of Roc Nation. You
can say he is getting old or losing touch but he is still connecting with a
number of fans out there. About 300,000
worth.
Coming in
the number two spot is comeback queen Whitney Houston. Her latest studio album, I Look To You, sold 165,000 copies.
I still can’t believe that Whitney “show me the receipts” Houston is
back on the countdown. Does this mean we
can look forward to a Bobby Brown comeback?
I’ve been waiting for a “My Prerogative” or “We’ve Got Something in
Common” part 2. (Did you know that’s how you spell prerogative? I’ve been mispronouncing that song for the
last decade or so).
Next up is
the rock band Muse. They had a
performance on the MTV awards. I don’t
know much about them but this is a Hip Hop site so it doesn’t really
matter. I made fun of 3oh!3 few weeks ago and they were on the MTV awards
too. Apparently they have a following.
Who knew?
At the
number four spot is the stonned Kid Cudi.
His debut album, Man on the Moon:
The End of Day, moves 104,000 copies and places him in a good position on
the charts. Hopefully he will be able to
retain his spot for the upcoming week.
Miley Cyrus
is at number five with an album I’m sure no one on this site cares about.
My
apologies for this next album. I didn’t
include it in “Dropping This Week” last time because I figured everyone already
had it and it probably would not move lot of copies. I was wrong.
About 72,000 people picked up a copy of Drake’s So Far Gone placing the album in number six spot.
Drake is
followed by The Beatles whose re-release of Abbey
Road claims the number seven spot.
Michael
Jackson’s Number Ones continues to
move units jumping up two spots to number eight.
At the
number nine spot is Lil Boosie. His
latest release from Asylum, Superbad: The
Return of Boosie
sells 46,000 copies.I got a couple of messages this last week saying I didn’t mention
anything about Lil Boosie. He was in
“Dropping This Week” in the last column but since that was not enough…..Lil
Boosie is at number nine! Lil Boosie is
at number nine! Lil Boosie is at number nine! Moving on…
Finally at
the number ten spot is Taylor Swift with her latest album Fearless. The album jumps
from number seventeen to ten on the heels of the Kany—–Taylor….I’m sorry to
interrupt your album at the ten spot….but Michael Jackson’s Number One’s was at the ten spot last
week and he was the greatest ever…so….alright that’s it.
Beyond the
top ten we have The Black Eyed Peas with The
E.N.D at number thirteen. The
Hip-Pop group managed to move another 39,000 copies of their fifth studio
album.
Then we
have Raekwon who sells 17,000 copies of the sequel to his classic Only Built For Cuban Linx. Only
Built for Cuban Linx II
drops from the number five position to thirtyfour.
Then we
have Eminem at the number 43 spot with his latest studio album Relapse.
The Detroit MC moves about 13,000 more copies of his comeback album.
Finally,
Pitbull holds the number 48 spot with his newest album Rebelution. The Miami MC
moves another 12,000 copies of his latest studio album.
Dropping This Week
Before I
even get started with “Dropping”, last week I said that Big Pun died a little
over a decade ago. Liquidswords95 caught my mistake because Pun passed a little under
a decade ago. Hate to get stuff like
that wrong so thanks for pointing it out.
Now on to dropping where we have some nice underground stuff this week.
First up we have Brother Ali from the Rhymesayers
camp. His latest album
comes on the heels of his well received album The Undisputed Truth. His
sixth studio album, Us, has guest appearances by Chuck D,
Freeway, Joell Ortiz and Stokley Williams of Mint Condition (That’s right.
Stokley Williams. Mint Condition. What?!).
Remember John Forte? For those of you who think Jay Z’s first
album was The Blueprint his name may
be unfamiliar. Smart guy that did some
work on Fugees hit album The Score (The Fugees….you know the group that Lauryn Hill, Wyclef, and Pras came from…Pras…he was a mc…he had a solo album or two…just look it up). Well back in 2000 he was convicted and
sentenced to 14 years prison time for accepting $1.4 million worth of liquid
cocaine. His sentenced was commuted by
George W. and he got released back in ’08.
He had a cool little single called “Ninety Nine (Flash The Message)” on
his first album. Well he’s back now with
his third album Stylefree the EP. It’s an EP and not a full album but I’m sure
there are some fans out there that still want to give this a listen.
Who’s afraid of Peanut Butter
Wolf? The DJ and founder of Stones Throw
Records drops 45 Live. It’s a live album. There’s not too much more to say other than
its Peanut Butter Wolf.
Next up is Esoteric from the duo 7L
& Esoteric. His latest solo disc is
called Saving Semus Ryan and features
Masta Ace, Main Flow, 7L, K-Flay and a few others. If you don’t recognize any of those names you
may want to pick up the album and expand your knowledge of Hip Hop.
That’s what’s dropping this week. As usual, go pick up an album or two.
