Week Hip Hop Album Sales

Michael Jackson found gold-status in just two weeks of the This Is It soundtrack. The collection includes Jackson hits like the Hip Hop favorite “Human Nature” various demo and single versions of other hits throughout the last three decades.

Jay-Z slipped to #15 with Blueprint 3 in a week that saw seven charting debuts before him. With a new video to “Empire State Of Mind,” the Atlantic Records-distributed effort could beat out Black Eyed Peas and Eminem as 2009’s top-selling Rap album, although 50 Cent and Lil Wayne loom on the horizon, with releases.

Speaking of, The Black Eyed Peas fell to the Twenties on the charts for the second time in the span of The E.N.D. The Electro-Pop work may be a departure from even the group’s more recent two albums, but the Good Life-birthed outfit remains an underground Hip Hop success story.

Two divas, once known for wearing the same brown Vera Wang dress to the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey rubbed shoulders on the charts. Houston’s massive comeback I Look To You edges towards platinum, while Carey’s more recently-released Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel chases gold.