In another HUGE week at music retail...a slew of blockbuster albums blasted into the Top 10...Hip Hop rules as the Top 3 albums come from a retiring rapper, a deceased rapper, and a mega-hot rapper and his clan...

Remember Jay Z and G-Unit were both released on Friday (with many sales coming in earlier)...so they're sales figures represent mainly 4 full days of sales!

ARITST/TITLE/CURR WK SCANS/SCANS TO DATE
1-JAY-Z/BLACK ALBUM/463,300/463,300
2-2PAC/RESURRECTION/432,100/432,100
3-G-UNIT/BEG FOR MERCY/376,900/376,900
4-JOSH GROBAN/CLOSER/376,800/376,800
5-TOBY KEITH/SHOCK N Y'ALL/227,100/812,800
6-VARIOUS/NOW 14/195,700/517,800
7-SARAH MCLACHLAN/AFTERGLOW/191,100/553,500
8-KID ROCK/KID ROCK/188,600/188,600
9-PINK/TRY THIS/147,600/147,600
10-SHERYL CROW/VERY BEST OF/141,750/389,200

OTHER DEBUTS...
14-BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN/ESSENTIAL COLL/90,000/90,000
15-PEARL JAM/LOST DOGS/89,700/89,700

how do you find this info out?

It's sent to me weekly...I work in the industry...

VANITYSprisonBYTCH said:

oh, cool...

when you get the info on this weeks onsales, please post them. i want to see how tori, britney and michael faired.

Pink didn't do all that well considering the hype. I guess you have to see if it has legs or not. Haha! Arista put all of its eggs in one basket and fucked up (probably) and I'm sure the Avril album will fail as well. I'm sure Whitney, Toni and TLC are yucking this one up!

standard chart ...