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- Tuesday, August 19, 2008
- Teen With Nooses Gets Jail Time
- Wendy Williams' Fox TV Show Syndicated
- DJ Red Alert To Celebrate 25 Years On Radio
- Nas Appears On Tavis Smiley Show
- Do Cam'ron and Juelz Santana Have Beef?
- News Bits (Ted Lucas Holds Competition, U-N-I In One)
- End Of The Weak Celebrates 8-Year Anniversary
- Monday, August 18, 2008
- LL Cool J Speak On Future Projects, Clothing Line
- 50 Cent Tops Forbes' Hip-Hop Cash Kings 2008 List
- Heltah Skeltah Talk Future Projects
- More Olympians Say Rap Music Helps Them Compete
- Why Did Game Say "Hip Hop Broke My Heart?"
- Congotronics' New Afrobeat Volume, Longest Album Title Ever
- M.I.A. A Terrorist?
- New Jack City Sequel In Works, Franchise Creator Not Pleased
- Friday, August 15, 2008
- Charles Imagines A Jay-Z Collaboration
- Rage To Perform During Democratic National Convention
- Master P Debuts Cable Network
- Jin To Release Album In Hong Kong
- Church Group To Protest Bernie Mac's Funeral
- The Source Preps 20th Anniversary Issue
- Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes Teams Up w/ HipHopDX
- Jay-Z Sells Las Vegas 40/40 Club?
- DX-clusive: Plies Lied About Criminal Past?
- Rappers Weigh In On Rick Ross
- The Game Clears Up Eminem/Proof "Diss"
- Rick Ross Exposed By TheSmokingGun.com
- Game Begs For Beef With Jay-Z
- Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 7/20/08
- Tony Yayo Disses Young Buck, Game & Fat Joe
- 50 Cent Talks Detox
- Lil Wayne Is The Music Of Champions, Ask Michael Phelps
- Cam'ron Sells Juelz Santana To Def Jam For $2 Million
- DX-clusive: Plies Lied About Criminal Past?
- Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 7/20/08
- Game Begs For Beef With Jay-Z
- United States Government Apologizes For Slavery?
- Soulja Boy Says Better Lyrics Will Ruin His Reputation
- Tony Yayo Disses Young Buck, Game & Fat Joe
- Nas & 620,000 Others Appear Outside Of Fox News
- Rick Ross Exposed By TheSmokingGun.com
- Nas' Untitled To Be Fifth No. 1 Album
- Church Group To Protest Bernie Mac's Funeral
Hip Hop News
Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 7/6/08
Lil Wayne is back on top this week as he sells 156,300 copies of Tha Carter III, putting him over the half ¾ mark to double platinum already. G-Unit's debut of Terminate On Sight grabbed the #4 spot with 101,600 sold. They were beaten out by albums from Coldplay and Camp Rock, respectively.
Usher's Here I Stand takes #8, while the re-release of Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad comes up one spot to #9 with 40,100 sold. Rounding out the Top 10 for Hip Hop/ R&B is Three 6 Mafia's Last 2 Walk at #11 which sold 37,100 copies this week.
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Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Total |
| 1 |
Lil Wayne |
Tha Carter 3 |
156,370 |
1,681,885 |
| 4 |
G-Unit |
Terminate On Sight |
101,622 |
101,802 |
| 8 |
Usher |
Here I Stand |
41,461 |
847,317 |
| 10 |
Rihanna |
Good Girl Gone Bad |
40,166 |
1,394,188 |
| 11 |
Three Six Mafia |
Last 2 Walk |
42,893 |
114,013 |
Indie rapper Tech N9ne makes a surprise entrance at #12 with Killer selling 36,100 copies this week. Plies' Definition of Real still resides within the top 20 at #15 selling 30,700. Jim Jones and The Byrd Gang just barely managed to slip into the top 30 at #29 selling 17,100 copies of M.O.B this week. Rick Ross' Trilla grabs the #55 spot with 10,600 sold while The RZA tries to hold onto the Top 200 charts at #195 with Digi Snacks selling 3,200.
Other Notables
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Total |
| 12 |
Tech N9ne |
Killer |
36,199 |
36,244 |
| 15 |
Plies |
Definition Of Real |
30,732 |
356,204 |
| 43 |
Jim Jones & The Bird Gang |
M.O.B. |
17,176 |
17,258 |
| 55 | Rick Ross | Trilla | 10,653 |
609,381 |
| 195 |
RZA |
Digi Snacks |
3,216 | 9,939 |
This week Killer Mike [click to read] declared his new album to be "classic." Will the charts reflect that? Will Nas' controversial new album live up to its hype? Stay tuned as DX brings the play by play.
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