Beyoncé assumed control again of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on Thursday with "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)." The tune rose one place to No. 1, trading places for the second time in recent weeks with T.I.'s "Live Your Life" featuring Rihanna. Lady GaGa's "Just Dance" featuring Colby O'Donis rose one place to No. 3, flip-flopping with Britney Spears' "Circus." T.I.'s "Whatever You Like" held at No. 5, as Spears' "Womanizer" rebounded four places to No. 6 and Kanye West's "Heartless" blasted nine places to No. 7 thanks to strong airplay. Katy Perry's "Hot N Cold" fell one place to No. 8, Beyonce's "If I Were a Boy" dropped three to No. 9, and West's "Love Lockdown" was off two to No. 10. The Hot 100's top debut was Jamie Foxx's "Just Like Me" featuring T.I. at No. 75. The Oscar-winning actor's new album, "Intuition," was released this week.
As expected, Britney Spears' "Circus" makes a big bow at the top of The Billboard 200, becoming her fifth No. 1. The Jive set moved 505,000 copies in the United States, making Spears the only act in Nielsen SoundScan history to have four albums debut with 500,000 or more. Since SoundScan began tracking data in 1991, only four acts -- aside from Spears -- have notched three 500,000-starts: 2Pac, 50 Cent, Garth Brooks and Jay-Z. Previously, her second, third and fourth sets all racked up half-million weeks: 2000's "Oops! I Did It Again" started with 1.3 million, 2001's "Britney" debuted with 746,000 and 2003's "In the Zone" entered the chart with 609,000. Among female artists, only four have earned more No. 1 albums: Barbra Streisand (eight), Madonna (seven) and Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson (both with six). On the Billboard Hot 100 to be released tomorrow, Spears scores her first top 10 debut as the set's title cut debuts at No. 3. The song, which she performed live on ABC's "Good Morning America" the day "Circus" hit retail, opens at No. 1 on Hot Digital Songs with 212,000 downloads. With her former No. 1 single "Womanizer" at No. 10 on the Hot 100, Spears places two tracks simultaneously in that chart's top 10 for the first time in her career.
| LW | TW | artist / album | label | power index | % change | |
| 1 | 1 | T.I. | GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC | 169,694 | -71% | |
| PAPER TRAIL | ||||||
| -- | 2 | RISE AGAINST | DGC/INTERSCOPE | 68,299 | -- | |
| APPEAL TO REASON | ||||||
| 5 | 3 | METALLICA | WARNER BROS. | 66,613 | -25% | |
| DEATH MAGNETIC | ||||||
| 2 | 4 | JENNIFER HUDSON | ARISTA/RMG | 61,207 | -73% | |
| JENNIFER HUDSON | ||||||
| -- | 5 | OASIS | REPRISE | 52,963 | -- | |
| DIG OUT YOUR SOUL | ||||||
| -- | 6 | BOB DYLAN | COLUMBIA | 48,203 | -- | |
| TELL TALE SIGNS-BOOTLEG SERIES 8 | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | KID ROCK | ATLANTIC | 47,743 | -16% | |
| ROCK N ROLL JESUS | ||||||
| 6 | 8 | NE-YO | DEF JAM/IDJMG | 47,166 | -35% | |
| YEAR OF THE GENTLEMAN | ||||||
| -- | 9 | TIM MCGRAW | CURB | 42,112 | -- | |
| GREATEST HITS, VOL. 3 | ||||||
| 4 | 10 | JAMES TAYLOR | HEAR MUSIC/CONCORD | 41,439 | -55% | |
| COVERS | ||||||
| 37 | MICHELLE WILLIAMS | COLUMBIA | 14,618 | -- | ||
| UNEXPECTED | ||||||
digital copies and peaked at No. 36 on the Hot 100. The band's last studio effort, 1994's "Face the Music," bowed at No. 37 with 27,000. "The Block" gives the band its best charting week since "Step by Step" climbed to No. 1 in 1990.
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.
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.
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%),
As stated last week, Lil' Wayne was projected to sell at least 850,000 albums because of his tremendous first day sales records, while peaking number one on U.S Charts, he didn't sell so well in the U.K debuting at 23 and 34 on the Irish Charts. Wayne has truly broken records and making history pulling in these astonishing numbers. This is the first album to ever sell over a million records in the first week since, 50 Cents 2005 Album, The Massacre and the biggest selling album so far this year, of course, lol. While no word is back from Lil' Waynes camp with his reactions on the great news, i'm pretty sure he's jumping for joy! Did any of you think he would do this good?? I mean I know the anticipation was high, but I didn't think he would instantly go platinum like this. Congrats to Wayne and the Universal/Cash Money Records Camp.
It's all about Lil Wayne this week as The Billboard 200 prepares for the arrival of "Tha Carter III." The rapper's new Cash Money/Universal album will easily bow at No. 1 next week, as it leads Nielsen SoundScan's Building Chart, to be released this afternoon (June 11) at 5 p.m. ET.
Unweighted first-day sales of "Tha Carter III" at nine leading accounts through the close of business yesterday (June 10), stood at 423,000. Sources close to the album project "Carter" could shift between 850,000-950,000 in its first full week. That would easily give Wayne the biggest sales week of the year, and the best since Kanye West's "Graduation" started with 957,000 last year.
