Hip-Hop Fans Support Artist Despite Hard Times

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Although America is under a recession hip-hop fans still go out and show they favorite artist support by buying they albums. T.I maintains to be the best selling rap artist on this week’s sales chart after pushing close to another 80,000 copies of his "Paper Trail.

Lil Wayne fall from 11 to number 17 following selling close to 23,000 more copies of "Tha Carter III" at the same time as Young Jeezy lost 11 spots landing at number 27 with just under 18,000 more copies sold of his "Recession." The Game raps up the list of rappers on the top 50 albums this week after his "L.A.X." sold 14,125 more copies.
 
On the R&B list, John Legend released his new album "Evolver" last week and landed at number 4 for his entrance selling 136,475 copies while Ne-Yo fell 7 spots to land at number 15 before selling just over 27,000 copies of "Year of the Gentleman." Rihanna dropped 8 spots landing at number 22 as her "Good Girl Gone Bad" album sold another 20,000 copies.

Rapbasement.com: http://www.rapbasement.com/sales-charts/110508-hip-hop-and-rb-soundscan-billboard-sales-charts-for-the-week-ending-november-2nd.html