Some
of you guys must have hit Best Buy over the weekend because we have
a couple of artists from the “dropping this week” section last week make it
on the charts in a major way this week. I’m not saying we at AllHipHop.com had anything
to do with that, I’m just saying it’s a nice coincidence.
I
know I might have made fun of them last week (along with Flo Rida and
anyone else who makes Hip Pop) but the Black Eyed Peas enters this week’s
chart at number one. Their new studio album The E.N.D knocks
off the Dave Matthews Band whose album, Big Whiskey and the
GrooGrux King,falls to number two.
Eminem
continues his chart topping sales with Relapse and also earns Em another platinum plate. His raps about drugs, violence, and Mariah Carey make me feel like its 2002 again. Incidentally, Mariah Carey has a “diss record” against Shady on her new album. It’s like she is just asking for abuse. Somebody warn her and Nick Cannon. Chicken Foot follows Eminem at number four with their self titled debut.
Now
ya’ll know how I feel about Lady Gaga. Well apparently a bunch
of people don’t feel the same as I do because her album, The Fame,
continues to sell and comes in on the chart this week at number five.
That’s followed by Disney’s Hanna Montana: The Movie soundtrack.
Green
Day falls a few positions with their album, 21st Century
Breakdown holding at number seven.
I
don’t know what bachata music is so if anyone does please school me
on it. Aventura, a group from the Bronx, does bachata and apparently
they do it well because they enter the charts this week at number eight
with their 8th studio album The Last.
A few years a R&B group by the name of Pretty Ricky started making noise and climbing the charts. As they got popular I thought…Who the hell is Pretty Ricky? Then came the devastating news that Pleasure P was leaving the group. This time I thought…Who the hell is Pleasure P? Well apparently Pleasure P is rising to the top doing all the things to your girl that you won’t do. His album,
The Introduction of Marcus Cooper
, debuts this week at number nineon the strength of the single Boyfriend #2.
Finally,
Dante Terrell Smith a.k.a Mos Def enters the chart this week at number
10 with his album The Ecstatic. He was on the “Dropping
this Week” section along with The Black Eyed Peas last week.
Let’s see who might make it on the charts for next week.
DROPPING THIS WEEK
Tupac’s
birthday just passed and a former member of the group he founded over
a decade ago releases a new album. Former member of The Outlawz,
Hussein Fatal, releases his fourth studio album, Born Legendary.
Bay
Area rapper The Jacka drops his third album Tear Gas. It’s
been a minute since he released a studio album and now he returns in
full force with an album featuring Freeway, Devin the Dude, Mistah F.A.B,
Paul Wall, and others.
Finally,
it looks like the members of Three Six Mafia are each putting out solo
albums. Juicy J comes out with his second solo album Hustle
Til I Die. Read the AllHipHop interview right here!
