Albums: Now THAT'S What I Call Music 32 Represents!

Hated by many, yet Now THAT'S What I Call Music 32 is the only album repping hip hop in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the second week in a row!

Top 10 Albums on the Billboard 200:

1. Bon Jovi - The Circle
2. Andrea Bocelli - My Christmas
3. Carrie Underwood - Play On
4. Michael Jackson - This Is It
5. Taylor Swift - Fearless
6. Now THAT'S What I Call Music 32
7. Michael Bublé - Crazy Love
8. Flyleaf - Memento Mori
9. Soundtrack - Glee
10. Soundtrack - The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Albums: NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 32 Represents for Hip Hop!

This is one of those weeks where hip hop is represented in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 album chart by NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 32.

Top 10 Albums on the Billboard 200:

1. Carrie Underwood - Play On
2. Michael Jackson - This Is It
3. Andrea Bocelli - My Christmas
4. Soundtrack - Glee
5. NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 32
6. Taylor Swift - Fearless
7. Weezer - Raditude
8. Michael Bublé - Crazy Love
9. Sting - If On A Winter's Night
10. Soundtrack - The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Available on iTunes: NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 32

Albums: Michael Jackson's This Is It #1

Michael Jackson's This Is It debuts at no. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart moving 373,000 copies which is fifth best for the year.  However, if you add in all those back catalog sales that aren't allowed on the Billboard 200 chart, you'll see that [Dead] Michael Rules 2009!

Top 10 Albums on the Billboard 200:

1. Michael Jackson - This Is It
2. Creed - Full Circle
3. Taylor Swift - Fearless
4. Rod Stewart - Soulbook
5. Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Night Castle
6. Sting - If On A Winter's Night
7. Michael Bublé - Crazy Love
8. Soundtrack - The Twilight Saga: New Moon
9. Tim McGraw - Southern Voice
10. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3

Albums: Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 at #4

Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 shows some staying power as it enters its 7th week in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 album chart though Billboard seems to be putting it in its 8th week. I'm not getting their math.

Top 10 Albums on the Billboard 200:

1. Soundtrack - The Twilight Saga: New Moon
2. Tim McGraw - Southern Voice
3. Michael Bublé - Crazy Love
4. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
5. Miley Cyrus - The Time of Our Lives
6. The Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.
7. Taylor Swift - Fearless
8. Owl City - Ocean Eyes
9. Barbra Streisand - Love Is the Answer
10. Joss Stone - Colour Me Free

Available on iTunes: Jay-Z

Albums: Black Eyed Peas' The E.N.D. Returns to Top 10

The Black Eyed Peas' The E.N.D. return to no. 6 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

Top 10 Albums on the Billboard 200:

1. Michael Bublé - Crazy Love
2. Soundtrack - The Twilight Saga: New Moon
3. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
4. Barbra Streisand - Love Is the Answer
5. Miley Cyrus - The Time of Our Lives
6. The Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.
7. Taylor Swift - Fearless
8. Flaming Lips - Embryonic
9. Mario - D.N.A.
10. Mariah Carey - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel

Albums: Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 at #5

Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 maintains a solid position on the Billboard 200 album chart at no. 5.

Top 10 Albums on the Billboard 200:

1. Michael Bublé - Crazy Love
2. Kiss - Sonic Boom
3. Toby Keith - American Ride
4. Barbra Streisand - Love Is the Answer
5. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
6. Luke Bryant - Doin' My Thing
7. Mariah Carey - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
8. Miley Cyrus - The Time of Our Lives
9. Backstreet Boys - This Is Us
10. Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony

Albums: Barbra Streisand Snatches That No. 1 Mic!

Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 slips to no. 6 as Barbra Streisand surprises everyone with a top showing on the Billboard 200 album chart due to her use of "non-traditional" outlets like Starbucks, QVC and her own website!!!

Hey, maybe love is the answer...

Top 10 Albums on the Billboard 200:

1. Barbra Streisand - Love Is the Answer
2. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
3. Mariah Carey - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
4. Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony
5. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
6. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
7. Madonna - Celebration
8. Miranda Lambert - Revolution
9. Selena Gomez and the Scene - Kiss and Tell
10. Pearl Jam - Backspacer

Available on iTunes: Jay-Z

Albums: Drake & Jay-Z Remain in Top 10; Kid Cudi, Lil Boosie & Black Eyed Peas Exit

The Black Eyed Peas had a nice run in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart and they might be back but the party's already over for Kid Cudi and Lil Boosie.

Jay-Z slips to no. 2 in the face of Pearl Jam, which brings no shame, while Drake's remastered mixtape goes for week two in the Top 10 and that's the most impressive part of all this news.

Top 10 Albums on the Billboard 200:

1. Pearl Jam - Backspacer
2. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
3. Three Days Grace - Life Starts Now
4. Whitney Houston - I Look To You
5. Miley Cyrus - The Time of Our Lives
6. Brand New - Daisy
7. Five Finger Death Punch - War Is The Answer
8. Harry Connick, Jr. - Your Songs
9. Drake - So Far Gone
10. Muse - The Resistance

Albums: Jay-Z #1, Kid Cudi #4, Drake #6, Lil Boosie #7, Black Eyed Peas #10

Wow! Young rappers, old rappers, they're all doing it big this week on the Billboard 200 album chart. The biggest surprise to me is Drake's So Far Gone which did much better than some of us expected given it's wide and free availability online.

Not sure how many of those sales are hard copy but it just shows how far we've come in a 3 1/2 year period from the days when folks could get away with claiming that free was a bad look. Now it's more about how to work with free as a pricing strategy.

Top 10 Albums on the Billboard 200:

1. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
2. Whitney Houston - I Look To You
3. Muse - The Resistance
4. Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day
5. Miley Cyrus - The Time of Our Lives
6. Drake - So Far Gone
7. Lil Boosie - Superbad
8. Taylor Swift - Fearless
9. Megadeth - Endgame
10. Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.

Albums: Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 #1 Puts Him Ahead of Elvis

Blueprint 3's no. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 album chart puts him behind only the Beatles for most no. 1 albums:

"Jay-Z's No. 1 achievement with "Blueprint 3" will push him ahead of Elvis Presley as the solo act with the most No. 1 albums in the more-than 50-year history of the Billboard 200. And Jay will now have the second-most No. 1 albums among all acts. Fittingly, only the Beatles, with 19 No. 1s, have more."

Tell that to baby boomers that still don't get hip hop. They might not like it but they won't forget it!

On a very different note, though there seem to have been some distribution snags for Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II, it still makes the top 10 at no. 4.

Top 10 Albums on the Billboard 200:

1. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
2. Miley Cyrus - The Time of Our Lives
3. Whitney Houston - I Look To You
4. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II
5. Brooks and Dunn - #1s ... And Then Some
6. Trey Songz - Ready
7. Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.
8. Boys Like Girls - Love Drunk
9. Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
10. Taylor Swift - Fearless

Albums: Insane Clown Posse #4, Pitbull #8

Whitney's I Look To You rules the world as the Black Eyed Peas' The E.N.D. exits the top 10 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

However, it's a decent week for hip hop as Insane Clown Posse's Bang! Pow! Boom! debuts at no. 4, giving them their second top 10 and pointing to the power of building your tribe, while Pitbull's Rebelution debuts at no. 8.

Top 10 Albums on the Billboard 200:

1. Whitney Houston - I Look To You
2. Miley Cyrus - The Time of Our Lives
3. Trey Songz - Ready
4. Insane Clown Posse - Bang! Pow! Boom!
5. Colbie Caillat - Breakthrough
6. Chevelle - Sci-Fi Crimes
7. Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
8. Pitbull - Rebelution
9. Taylor Swift - Fearless
10. The Used - Artwork

Over at Hip Hop Press:
WHITNEY HOUSTON'S I LOOK TO YOU DEBUTS AT NO. 1 ACROSS THE GLOBE

Available on iTunes:
Whitney Houston: I Look To You
Insane Clown Posse: Bang! Pow! Boom!
Pitbull: Rebelution

Albums: Country is King

Reba and George are looking good on this week's Billboard 200 album chart!

Top 10 Albums on the Billboard 200:

1. Reba McEntire - Keep On Loving You
2. George Strait - Twang
3. Third Eye Blind - Ursa Major
4. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
5. The Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.
6. Neil Diamond - Hot August Night/NYC
7. Soundtrack - Hannah Montana: The Movie
8. Taylor Swift - Fearless
9. Daughtry - Leave This Town
10. Now That's What I Call Music! 31

Albums: The Deadness of Top 10 Hip Hop

Move along. Nothing happening here or on the Billboard 200 album chart's top 10.

Top 10 Albums on the Billboard 200:

1. George Strait - Twang
2. Neil Diamond - Hot August Night/NYC
3. The Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.
4. Cobra Starship - Hot Mess
5. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
6. Now That's What I Call Music! 31
7. Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night
8. Daughtry - Leave This Town
9. Taylor Swift - Fearless
10. Justin Moore - Justin Moore

Albums: Kidz Bop 16 Debuts at No. 10

Kidz Bop 16

Kidz Bop 16, featuring kids versions of hits, debuts at no. 10 on the Billboard 200 album chart in another week of blistering hip hop fueled action!!!

Michael Jackson - Number Ones

Actually, Michael Jackson has the top selling album in the land over on the Top Comprehensive Albums chart for the sixth non-consecutive week with Number Ones, which isn't included in the Billboard 200 due to its catalog status.

Top 10 Albums on the Billboard 200:

1. Sugarland - Live on the Inside
2. Now That's What I Call Music! 31
3. Gloriana - Gloriana
4. The Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.
5. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
6. Daughtry - Leave This Town
7. Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night
8. Taylor Swift - Fearless
9. Fabolous - Loso's Way
10. Kidz Bop 16

Available on iTunes:
Kidz Bop 16
Michael Jackson: Number Ones

Albums: Loso's Way is Fabolous' First #1

Fabolous gets his first no. 1 album as Loso's Way debuts at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart.

Top 10 Albums on the Billboard 200:

1. Fabolous - Loso's Way
2. Daughtry - Leave This Town
3. Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night
4. Now That's What I Call Music! 31
5. The Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.
6. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
7. Soundtrack - Hannah Montana 3
8. Demi Lovato - Here We Go Again
9. Taylor Swift - Fearless
10. Lady GaGa - The Fame

Available on iTunes:
Fabolous: Loso's Way