Well, Barry Manilow’s topping the Billboard 200 album chart and most of the rest of the top 10 is a battleground for classical and R&B acts.

Eminem’s Curtain Call is at no. 7 but that’s about it for hip hop excitement.  Guess we’ll just have to wait till next week’s report reflecting the release of Dem Franchize Boyz’ On Top Of Our Game. 

On the other hand, since snap music is really a singles/ringtone phenomenon, the album may not have the impact Dem Franchize Boyz would like.  In fact, though D4L’s Laffy Taffy broke one week digital download records, their album Down 4 Life did ok without being anything special.

Although Dem Franchize Boyz member Pimpin’ thinks that they’ll beat out D4L’s sales due to the fact that "people recognize" that they’re the "originators", respecting someone’s place in history has never assured decent album sales.

Kelefa Sanneh took a closer look last month in the NY Times at D4L’s singles/album dichotomy and pondered the place of digital downloads.