The Numbers Game: The Game Is #2

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Even though I posted a pic of Game looking sad (He barely ever smiles), dude has a lot to grin about this week. In this day and age selling over 200,000 albums in the first week is a lot to be happy about (Hey, everybody can’t be Lil’ Wayne). Yeah, it was thought that The Game had the #1 spot locked up, but after some “readjusting” it turned out not to be so (He missed it by 10 1134 copies). Also making the Top 10 is King Jerm’s new baby mama Solange with her sophomore album Sol Angel &The Hadley St. Dreams (For some reason my girl keeps talking about Solange’s first album lately…does anybody else remember that?). Beyonce’s little sister didn’t push big numbers but her career is looking better than Kelly Rowland’s & Michelle Williams’ combined. And coming in at a low #73 is V.I.C. While H20’s review had the readers crunk, not a lot of you went to the store for the brother. But did anybody expect any other outcome? Yea, me neither. Other than that, we get to see how Young Jeezy (And now Mr. 17.5 4.5) does with The Recession next week. I wrote a lot today…

#2 The Game/L.A.X. (Last Week: NA) – 238,382; Total: NA [Debut]
#6 Lil’ Wayne/Tha Carter III (Last Week: #7) – 54,041; Total: 2,316,075 (2X Platinum) [12 Weeks]
#9 Solange/Sol Angel & The Hadley St. Dreams (Last Week: NA) – 46,305; Total: NA [Debut]
#12 Rhianna/Good Girl Gone Bad (Last Week: #12) – 37,345; Total: 1,713,350 (Platinum) [65 Weeks]
#14 Ice Cube/Raw Footage (Last Week: #5) – 30,337; Total: 100,104 [2 Weeks]
#36 Nas/Untitled (Last Week: #25) – 12,274; Total: 362,525 [7 Weeks]
#41 Usher/Here I Stand (Last Week: #38) – 11,090; Total: 999,420 (Gold) [14 Weeks]
#43 Lloyd/Lessons In Love (Last Week: #24) – 10,860; Total: 99,860 [4 Weeks]
#44 Plies/Definition Of Real (Last Week: #39) – 10,615; Total: 480,253 [12 Weeks]
#47 Chris Brown/Exclusive (Last Week: #42) – 9,690; Total: 1,769,000 (Platinum) [53 Weeks]
#73 V.I.C./The Beast (Last Week: NA) – 7,090; Total: NA [Debut]

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  1. Damn! I thought Game was gonna sell like 400, 000 or something, cuz it looked like a lot of people were going to buy it.

  2. @King Jerm

    Yeah I know man. I feel the same way as well, fuck man. The economy is really taking its toll though, but at least Lil Wayne is making some major numbers. He should be triple platinum by the end of the year. We also got to vote as well, remember vote people! No matter who you choose, just vote.

  3. Damn. Agree with all of you guys. Nas still hasn’t gotten even Gold yet? Its a quality album of 08′, and although I expected higher, I can see why The Game got so low. The album had like almost every site leaking it out, like 3 days before it came out. Funny about Usher. 999.420, only 580 till he goes Platinum. And bout Lil Wayne, damnn, 2 mil for this age of music? Thats a lot (well, right now, because of the DL age)

  4. “And bout Lil Wayne, damnn, 2 mil for this age of music? Thats a lot (well, right now, because of the DL age)”

    It’s those white people!! Wayne has won them over with his rockstar swag, and that “Lollipop” song.

  5. Lol, The Game didn’t get robbed or cheated by Soundscan…those are just the numbers. Slipknot was just able to outsell The Game (but not by that much).

    Yo, I think that’s somewhat true in what Infamous F said about Wayne’s album sales. I would like to see the sales demographics for ‘Tha Carter III’ cause I bet it was more Whites that actually purchased that album than Blacks. His crossover appeal is really the reason why he sold so many copies especially in going Platinum in the first week.

    …And it’s a damn shame that Nas can’t go Gold in 7 weeks when he released a much more quality album than C3 (but I guess Nas doesn’t have as much “crossover appeal” than Wayne…lol, must have been that almost ‘N.I.*.*.E.R.’ album title that got them).

    Lol, Usher is due to hit Gold in a week or two cause it’s been a long time coming for him with HIS sales…I just continue to hope that #44 doesn’t go Gold with that shit album (we don’t need another release).

    Jeezy should have some good numbers next week on the chart as a lot of people have been talking about his album and purchasing it. I’m looking forward to seeing what his numbers are looking like.

    Real talk…that Solange album is pretty good. Gotta take time to appreciate other genres of music other than Hip-Hop/Rap sometimes and it’s worth a listen (it’s better than her debut album). Lol, I see KJ beat me to claimin’ Solange…oh well I still got Keri Hilson sittin’ #1 on my list.

  6. I am glad to see Ice Cube doing so well. I just went to go get his autograph it was the best moment in my life.

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