Nas To Shift 200K First Week//Billboard News

According to the one-day, first day sales reports that are coming in, Nas will top next week's sales charts. His new album is set to sell around 200,000 copies in its first week. Thats enough to get Lil Wayne off the top spot.

Although im a huge Nas fan, I didnt think the album would do this this well. But this is good news.

For a third non-consecutive week, Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter III” (Cash Money/Universal) tops The Billboard 200. The set moved 125,000 copies during the tracking week, pushing the album’s total sales to 1,806,500 copies. Almost Double Platinum.

In its 58th week on the chart, Rihanna’s “Good Girl Gone Bad” (SRP/Def Jam) ascends 9-8 with 47,000, a 17% increase. G-Unit’s sophomore set, “T.O.S. (Terminate on Sight)” (G-Unit/Interscope) sold 36,000 (-64%),


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Plies moves one spot up to No. 16. Definition Of Real scans 24,000 discs this week, bringing the album’s total sales to 380,200 copies.

Posted at No. 18 is Three 6 Mafia. Last 2 Walk bags up 24,300 units this week. After 3 weeks on the chart, the album has sold 138,400 copies.