In today’s music world, it seems like everybody either knows or wants to know the weekly sales figures of their favorite artists. Even your everyday fan knows a stat or two about whose album went platinum or whose album flopped. Well, with today’s current sales figures steadily going down, we at nappyafro.com think it’s important to keep the people informed (While I personally think first week sales importance are way overblown, but people still wanna known. What do you do?). Welcome to our new weekly column, The Numbers Game, where every week we give you the figures of The Billboard 200 (Album Sales). Enjoy. (Also see: Low Record Sales: Is Hip-Hop on life support?)
#4 Day26/Day26 (Last Week: #1) – 50,900; Total – 241,100
#6 Trina/Still Da Baddest (Last Week: NA) – 47,000; Total – NA
#7 Danity Kane/Welcome To The Dollhouse (Last Week: # 4) – 46,600; Total: 371,700
#9 Rick Ross/Trilla (Last Week: #6) – 41,400; Total: 382,000
#15 Flo Rida/Mail On Sunday (Last Week: #9) – 28,000; Total: 147,000
#21 Snoop Dogg/Ego Trippin’ (Last Week: #13) – 23,600; Total: 245,900
#22 Gnarls Barkley/The Odd Couple (Last Week: #12) – 23,100; Total: 83,100
#24 Alicia Keys/As I Am (Last Week: #17) – 22,500; Total: 3,363,300 (3X Platinum)
#31 Jordin Sparks/Jordin Sparks (Last Week: # 25) – 19,100; Total: 631,300 (Gold)
#35 Amy Winehouse/Back to Black (Last Week: #21) – 18,100; Total: 1,863,400 (Platinum)
#37 Chris Brown/Exclusive (Last Week: #31) – 16,800; Total: 1,446,800 (Platinum)
#39 Keyshia Cole/Just Like You (Last Week: #34) – 15,700; Total: 1,318,300 (Platinum)
#40 Mary J. Blige/Growing Pains (Last Week: #32) – 15,600; Total: 1,393,400 (Platinum)
#45 Janet Jackson/Discipline (Last Week: #30) 14,200; Total: 340,100