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Chris Daughtry, the Beatles, Snoop, Tupac make top 10 during big sales week.



When one of the most successful hip-hop artists of the last decade comes out of a self-imposed hiatus, people are going to have expectations.

Kingdom Come, Jay-Z's homecoming LP and one of the year's most anticipated releases, was predicted to top country darlings Rascal Flatts' Me & My Gang as this year's biggest-selling debut, with early sales projections providing a ballpark figure of 850,000 scans during one of the busiest shopping weeks of the year.

But while Kingdom Come's more than 680,000 sales easily score him the #1 spot on Billboard's albums chart, Jay-Z is going to have to settle for third place when it comes to the year's biggest debuts. Kingdom Come doesn't top the nearly 722,000 the Flatts sold during Me & My Gang's first week in stores, nor could it best the 684,000 first-week sales of Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSounds.

Along with topping every other album this week, Jay's latest album has beaten his personal best. Kingdom Come surpassed sales of 2000's The Dynasty: Roc La Familia — which, at about 558,000, earned the rapper the Billboard albums sales chart's #1 position the week after its release — to earn him his biggest opening-week showing and his seventh career chart-topper.

It was a rather robust week for record retailers, with national sales of the albums that comprise this week's Billboard top 200 reported to be close to 7.6 million — a huge surge from the previous week's 4.5 million-plus. All but 39 of the discs on this latest chart experienced sales boosts, whether slight (such as the 2 percent rise of Gnarls Barkley's St. Elsewhere, which sold close to 11,700 units for the chart's #137 slot) or significant (Switchfoot's Nothing Is Sound jumped 320 percent, returning to the chart at #91 with close to 18,000 copies sold).

New releases didn't do too shabbily either. In all, a total of 24 newcomers invaded Billboard's latest chart, with five cracking the coveted top 10. In at #2, with close to 304,000 scans, is the self-titled debut offering from Daughtry, the band fronted by "American Idol" contestant Chris Daughtry. Now That's What I Call Music! 23 — a collection of hit singles from Fergie, Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Nickelback and others — holds #3 with sales of 289,000, while Love, an album commissioned as the soundtrack to a Cirque du Soleil stage show and billed as the first authorized Beatles remix project, opens at #4 with 271,000 units snatched up. Snoop Dogg's latest, Tha Blue Carpet Treatment, debuts at #5 with 264,000 scans.

Following at #6 is Beyoncé's B'Day, selling another 173,000 copies its 12th week in stores. The soundtrack to the Disney Channel original series "Hannah Montana" slides two spots to #7 with 167,000 sold, and Akon's Konvicted drops six spaces to #8, racking up 164,000 in week-two sales.

In at #9 is another new release — Tupac Shakur's latest posthumous offering, Pac's Life, which features contributions from Ludacris, Snoop Dogg, Keyshia Cole, T.I., Ashanti, Young Buck and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, among others. The record sold 159,000 units, to finish just in front of Keith Urban's Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing, which slips to #6 with 157,000 sold.

U2's retrospective collection U218 Singles opens at #12 with 134,000-plus sales, while Latin pop outfit RBD's Celestial debuts at #15 with 117,000 scans. Il Divo's Siempre bows at #17 with 108,000 copies scanned, bagged and carried away from the country's record shops, and coming in at #31 is the latest from Brand New, The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me, which put up week-one sales topping 60,000. New England metallers Killswitch Engage's As Daylight Dies follows 500 copies behind at #32 with nearly 60,000 scans.

Tom Waits' Orphans claims the chart's #74 slot with opening-week totals of 21,000, while The Gospel According to Patti LaBelle debuts at #86 with more than 18,000 copies sold. Oasis' Stop the Clocks collection bows at #89 with nearly 18,000 scans, followed at #101 by the self-titled debut from Rock Star Supernova, which sold close to 17,000 copies its first week of release. Sufjan Stevens' Presents Songs for Christmas finishes at #122 with 13,000 units scanned and The Legend of Johnny Cash, Vol. 2 claims #145 with sales of 11,000 and change.

P.O.D.'s Greatest Hits: The Atlantic Years opens at #152 with 10,000 copies grabbed up, Kiss Alive! 1975-2000, the new box set from the rock legends, follows at #167 with 9,000 sold. Just making the cut at #199 is the Kottonmouth Kings' Hidden Stash III, selling more than 7,000 units.

Source: MTV

Obey Me

I don't see gayme on that list. FFFFFF-FLOP!!!!!!! he wont get plat. Jay doin his thing but I wonder if he gon do bigger numbers when 50 drops.

vokal_guy

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Y'all Motherfuckers be catching emotions like bitches

ComptonsKid

props man good stuff, jay is bankable

ThaTRUTH06

hmmmmmm................good for jay

TheInspiration175

propz...too bad Kingdom Come had about 3 good songs...

painislove

YOU SAID GAME FLOP . SO PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT DID BANKS AND THE REST OF GUNIT DID FOR THEN SLEF.I DONT WANT TO HERE ANGTHING ABOUT THE MASSACARE THAT FROM LAST YEAR.THINK BERFORE YOU TALK GAME IS ON HIS WAY TOLD WHILE BANK STUCK AT 270K NOT EVEN CLOSE TO GOLD.270KS ughhh

freedom

how about this,,,,,,,game and banks flop ughhhhhhhhh

freedom

people can say what they want but jay is right,,, men lie women lie but numbers dont,,,jay is putting up big numbers

painislove

so i guess your saying snoop flop too.every body flop in gunit using game for excuse is just the lost hope for you.mobb flop banks flop yayo flop on the list will go on so get use to it little kid. gunit is DEAD AS A DOG.BANKS 270KS ughhh.

painislove

banks 270ks ughh.you flop bad jarule last album R.U.L.E sold more copy than rotten apple combine. and this is the time 50 cent suppose to kill is career.270ks 270ks 270ks no way near gold he will be of the chart soon.

freedom

[QUOTE=painislove;1039162]so i guess your saying snoop flop too.every body flop in gunit using game for excuse is just the lost hope for you.mobb flop banks flop yayo flop on the list will go on so get use to it little kid. gunit is DEAD AS A DOG.BANKS 270KS ughhh.[/QUOT

g-unit is not dead,,stop fooling yourself..yayo album was garbage so it did not sell,, mobb deep album was garbage so it did not sell and banks album was not good enough so it did not sell,,, game Being a boss and he is number 13 his second week ughhhhhhhhh

Mail Man

game cd was the worst cd in 2006
blackwallstreet sucks like poo

Mail Man

banks cd was amazing way better then games and game made out with all those producers on his album to get them to make a crappy beat

freedom

keep it real men,,game cd was not good,, but it was not the worst,, and is blackwallsreet a real label ?,,cause i heard that the blackwallstreet logo was not even on game cd,,

mEatwaD

who does a topic about jay-z owning the boards right now turn to how game and banks flopped. first im a g-unit fan but game didnt flop.. he flopped second week just like banks did... dont dickride you aint gotta worry about numbers just listen to the music whats good to you is good dont hate... your not in the beef just keep it to yoself

Zhiwai

Props on this

freedom

when we as fans watch football we are not playing, but we consider ourselves part of our team,,, so hip hop is like that now,, i did not make it that way but,, like 2 pac said,,, hey thats the way it is

_RottenApple_

Snoop Did Flop Faggit. So Is All Your JaFool Memebers When They Drop Next Year. If That

The Real

damn ya'll need 2 stop talking about game & G-unit, theres other artist out there 2. those guys R washed up and girl to (Oliver I meen Oliva).

freedom

so why are you talking about them?

LouDubbs

Jay z sold this many albums with a pushed out record, dood knows the formula

mEatwaD

i know what your sayin but at least keep it to the topics about game and g-unit...

Bad News

game floppeddd

The Real

im talking about them because some poeple need 2 know what they keep on saying over and over("freedom")
and thats a fact