Album Sales Charts – Week Ending 1/17
Alicia Key’s Element of Freedom stays at the top of the charts falling only 1 postion to number 5 with selling forty seven thousand copies. The indi rock band Vampire Weekend ended up debuting at number 1 this week. With British singer Susan Boyle coming in at number 2. Omarion enters the charts this week with his new release Ollusion. Ollusion is Omarion’s third album and features Gucci Mane, Jay Rock, Tank and Marques Houston. However Ollusion only ended up selling twenty one thousand copies in its first week landing it at number 17.
Lil Wayne's Young Money compilation album stays steady sellling a little over twenty thousand this week, landing it at number 19. This can lead way for solo albums from Young Money artists like Drake and Nicki Minaj for after Lil Wayne’s Rebirth rock album. Eminem remained constant again this week selling fifteen thousand copies of his Relapse: Refill bringing it closer to 2 million
total sold.
| Number | Last Week | Artist | Album | Sales |
| 5 | 4 | Alicia Keys | Element Of Freedom | 47,056 |
| 8 | 5 | Mary J Blige | Stronger (With Every Tear) | 33,708 |
| 9 | 8 | Black Eyed Peas | E.N.D. | 32,112 |
| 14 | 11 | Rihanna | Rated R | 23,762 |
| 17 | - | Omarion | Ollusion | 21,679 |
| 19 | 13 | Young Money | We Are Young Money | 20,522 |
| 25 | 15 | Eminem | Relapse & Refill | 15,165 |
| 27 | 22 | Jay-Z | Blueprint 3 | 14,688 |
| 38 | 39 | Gucci Mane | State vs Radric Davis | 11,439 |
| 41 | 29 | Beyonce | I Am Sasha Fierce | 10,778 |
| 42 | 46 | Snoop Dogg | Malice in Wonderland | 10,683 |
Alicia Keys – Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart
Mary J Blige – I Am
Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
Young Money ft Lloyd – Bedrock
Eminem, Drake, Kanye West, Lil Wayne – Forever
Jay-Z ft Swizz Beatz – On To The Next One
Gucci Mane – Heavy
50 Cent ft Governor – Do You Think About Me
