| Hip-hop/R&B Charts - Top Singles and Albums For The Week Of Jan. 20, 2007 |
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 R&B/Hip-hop charts this week: Dreamgirls tops the chart, Beyonce continues her dominant ways and Mos Def takes a giant step up.
During what is traditionally a slow week on the music charts, the soundtrack from Dreamgirls tops the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, where it rises 4-1, as well as the Billboard 200 where it dreamily ascends 3-1. The irony is the album dropped 36% in sales and ranks as the lowest sales total for a No. 1 album since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991, according to Billboard. Conversely, the set also counts as the first film soundtrack to rise to the top since "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" in 2002. Not only is it a slow sales week, the dramatic decrease in sales for rap albums (Young Jeezy fell 51%, while Nas fell 50%) adds fuel to the firey debate of the lack of staying power, and declining quality of mainstream rap and R&B albums. According to Nielsen SoundScan, R&B and rap albums suffered the biggest sales drop, while album sales across genres continue to drop.
Despite embarrassing sales declines, Young Jeezy's The Inspiration rises 2-1 on the Top Rap Albums list, while Nas's Hip-hop Is Dead falls one space to No. 2. While Dreamgirls rules album land, one of the film's stars, Beyonce, remains queen of the singles. "Irreplaceable" is No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for a seventh week, a sixth week on the Billboard Hot 100, and snatches the Pop 100 No. 1 from Fergie's "Fergalicious" which had replaced it briefly last week. The song also ranks as the week's airplay gainer on the Hot 100. It counts as the second best in terms of radio spins only behind Mariah Carey's 2005 smash "We Belong Together." New singles this week include just two: Three Six Mafia's "Doe Boy Fresh" featuring Chamillionaire at No. 85. and Christina Aguilera's "Candyman" at No. 99. |
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