Top 10 Soundscan Album Sales - 11/15/06

[TopDawg14]

Position/Artist/Album/Units sold TW/% Change/Units sold LW/Total Units Sold

1 VARIOUS NOW 23 336,666 999 189 336,863

2 GROBAN*JOSH AWAKE 270,353 999 559 271,668

3 URBAN*KEITH LOVE PAIN & THE WHOLE CRAZY T 267,227 999 185 267,478

4 SUGARLAND ENJOY THE RIDE 210,867 999 649 211,802

5 HANNAH MONTANA SOUNDTRACK 131,063 -36 203,475 616,365

6 JONES*JIM HUSTLER'S P.O.M.E. 94,194 999 1,799 96,007

7 BIRDMAN & LIL' WAYNE LIKE FATHER LIKE SON 72,447 -59 176,337 249,146

8 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE SOME HEARTS 71,866 59 45,130 372,2441

9 TIMBERLAKE*JUSTIN FUTURESEX/LOVE SOUNDS 67,546 -22 86,417 1,610,932 - 2X Platinum is near

10 MATTHEWS*DAVE BAND VOL. 1-BEST OF WHAT'S AROUND 65,139 999 53 65,195

Other Notables:

14 LEGEND*JOHN ONCE AGAIN 62,238 -46 114,749 409,009

15 EVANESCENCE OPEN DOOR 59,271 -17 71,620 934,739

16 BEYONCE B'DAY 57,923 -2 58,823 1,156,258

17 FERGIE DUTCHESS 57,516 4 55,358 519,294

19 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE BLACK PARADE,THE 54,059 -37 86,081 380,776

20 NICKELBACK ALL THE RIGHT REASONS 51,166 -2 52,189 3,965,163

21 FOO FIGHTERS SKIN AND BONES 48,961 999 86 49,049

26 LUDACRIS RELEASE THERAPY 38,815 -16 46,166 681,744

33 MAYER*JOHN CONTINUUM 32,853 -5 34,449 803,039

36 DIDDY PRESS PLAY 29,022 -31 42,097 302,031 - what happened, Diddy?

48 AGUILERA*CHRISTINA BACK TO BASICS 23,844 4 22,907 907,190

56 RAE*CORINNE BAILEY CORINNE BAILEY RAE 19,347 2 18,964 502,632 - Congrats on Gold album

63 YANKOVIC*WEIRD AL STRAIGHT OUTTA LYNWOOD 16,838 -13 19,279 219,983

65 DANITY KANE DANITY KANE 16,593 -9 18,268 715,308

67 JACKSON*JANET 20 Y.O. 15,924 -16 18,979 497,840

71 BANKS*LLOYD ROTTEN APPLE 15,349 -20 19,272 250,090

74 FRANKLIN*KIRK VOL. 1-SONGS FOR THE STORM 14,792 999 174 13,430

82 ROSS*RICK PORT OF MIAMI 13,686 -13 15,806 608,237

84 THICKE*ROBIN EVOLUTION OF ROBIN 13,504 5 12,819 84,272 - slowing gaining ground

85 BLUNT*JAMES BACK TO BEDLAM 13,377 17 11,470 2,281,350

87 PUSSYCAT DOLLS PCD 13,333 -9 14,585 2,289,080

89 FURTADO*NELLY LOOSE 13,025 1 12,873 846,978

97 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS STADIUM ARCADIUM 12,356 0 12,389 1,504,487

98 GNARLS BARKLEY ST. ELSEWHERE 12,332 0 12,326 1,054,392

105 STUDDARD*RUBEN RETURN 11,380 -35 17,511 122,871

107 CHINGY HOODSTAR 11,200 -8 12,186 208,735 - falling off

112 MONICA MAKINGS OF ME 10,358 -15 12,151 176,305

113 BROWN*CHRIS CHRIS BROWN 10,225 -3 10,569 1,641,306

115 SHAREEFA POINT OF NO RETURN 9,916 -36 15,548 62,090

116 HOGAN*BROOKE UNDISCOVERED 9,844 -28 13,756 53,400

124 LADY SOVEREIGN PUBLIC WARNING 9,109 -50 18,296 27,447

129 FIASCO*LUPE LUPE FIASCO'S FOOD & LIQUOR 8,912 -19 11,058 195,095 - real hip-hop should sell more

143 YUNG JOC NEW JOC CITY 8,081 -15 9,475 815,507

147 EMINEM CURTAIN CALL 7,525 -7 8,107 2,576,365

152 BUBLE*MICHAEL IT'S TIME 7,226 -1 7,333 2,088,424

154 JENNINGS*LYFE PHOENIX 7,144 -8 7,768 360,558

155 HAMMOND*FRED FREE TO WORSHIP 6,996 -16 8,306 76,297

160 SHAKIRA ORAL FIXATION V2 6,474 14 5,674 1,508,821

168 RIHANNA GIRL LIKE ME 6,256 -4 6,527 1,048,454

170 PRICE*KELLY THIS IS WHO I AM 6,027 -32 8,818 29,282

180 BLIGE*MARY J. BREAKTHROUGH 5,479 -1 5,543 2,636,062

182 LEGEND*JOHN GET LIFTED 5,449 -4 5,703 1,799,961

184 T.I. KING 5,406 -4 5,625 1,538,976

192 YOUNG*CHRIS CHRIS YOUNG 5,200 -20 6,498 81,511

195 CLARKSON*KELLY BREAKAWAY 5,158 4 4,954 5,565,244

[Silver Tiger]

Lupe deserves numbers WAY higher than that. The album is just produced so well. He's rappin some talent as well. I wish people (here included) would stop talking about which crappy rapper is better and start talking about why the great one's are great.

God Blessa!

[bigted]

Lupe deserves numbers WAY higher than that. The album is just produced so well. He's rappin some talent as well. I wish people (here included) would stop talking about which crappy rapper is better and start talking about why the great one's are great.

God Blessa!

I feel you there, real hip-hop ain't selling 'cause there ain't enough real hip-hop fans, that's what it comes down to, there's more teenagers making up the market that think Nelly was the pioneer of hip-hop than there is knowledgable fans that know about hip-hop so that's why it don't sell, even those so called hip-hop heads like to talk about how wack 50 Cent is more than talk about how much they like rappers like Lupe, the good news is that at least Lupe outsold K-Fed and sold as much as Chingy considering that you figure more white teenagers would want K-Fed and Chingy than Lupe, lol, but in all seriousness though who gives a f about sales, CL Smooth may not go platinum like Lil' Wayne but he's still a better mc than Lil' Wayne'll ever be, and now Robin Thicke might be able to do what Lyfe Jennings did last year, maybe at this time next year he'll be certified platinum

Edited November 16, 2006 by bigted

[TopDawg14]

I agree with both your points. It's just unfortunate that all the industry cares about is sales instead of talent. In a better world, Lupe and Robin Thicke would be 2X platinum by now instead of the garbage that sells.

Just got to continue to support real music and real artists no matter what.

[bigted]

Well nobody's going 2X platinum anymore anyway except for people like Justin and Beyonce, it's good to know that the crap artists ain't selling like they used to, Nsync used to go 13X platinum, so only going double platinum for Justin Timberlake is a big time fall off from those days he was with them, btw that Ludacris album is really good, he actually says quite a bit of things from his heart on there, I actually brought back that post about his album to talk about how much I actually been feelin' it since I gave it a listen a few weeks ago, and that Diddy album is actually better than I would've thought too, I'm especially feeling that track with Christina Aguilara "Tell Me" that's a single right now, when they put out weaker material they sell millions but it looks like they might not even go platinum when they actually do something good, go figure, lol, Jim Jones is "Ballin'!", I'm not a big Dipset fan but that song bangs, selling 96,000 independently in a week is great making $7 a CD sold, that's the way to go, Fat Joe gonna be getting that paper too next week

Edited November 16, 2006 by bigted

[Silver Tiger]

Lupe deserves numbers WAY higher than that. The album is just produced so well. He's rappin some talent as well. I wish people (here included) would stop talking about which crappy rapper is better and start talking about why the great one's are great.

God Blessa!

I feel you there, real hip-hop ain't selling 'cause there ain't enough real hip-hop fans, that's what it comes down to, there's more teenagers making up the market that think Nelly was the pioneer of hip-hop than there is knowledgable fans that know about hip-hop so that's why it don't sell, even those so called hip-hop heads like to talk about how wack 50 Cent is more than talk about how much they like rappers like Lupe, the good news is that at least Lupe outsold K-Fed and sold as much as Chingy considering that you figure more white teenagers would want K-Fed and Chingy than Lupe, lol, but in all seriousness though who gives a f about sales, CL Smooth may not go platinum like Lil' Wayne but he's still a better mc than Lil' Wayne'll ever be, and now Robin Thicke might be able to do what Lyfe Jennings did last year, maybe at this time next year he'll be certified platinum

I agree, but the only reason I want some decent sales is so that any future albums get acceptable promotion and work put into them.

God Blessa!

[sonic1988]

I honestly didn't know the NOW albums still did that well.