American Idol alum Kelly Clarkson took this week’s #1 spot for a second straight week with her RCA Records release All I Ever Wanted. The Pop star had some debut company. After U2′s No Line On The Horizon and the Twilight soundtrack, The-Dream’s fell two spots with Love Vs. Money. Def Jam’s hit-making songwriter, producer and performer sold roughly a third of the units moved during his previous week’s debut.

Bad Boy Records’s Gorilla Zoe was a Top 10 debut, with his sophomore Don’t Feed Da Animals. The Boyz N The Hood front-man moved over 30,000 first week units, despite limited radio and video play of his emotionally-charged single “Lost.”

Although not at the top of the pack this week Jamie Foxx and Beyonce remained neck-and-neck. Intuition trailed I Am…Sasha Fierce by just over 1,000 units for the second straight week. Beyonce cracked the two million mark, putting her in an elite class with Rihanna and Lil Wayne as the three urban artists presently in Top 200 to do so.

T.I.’s [click to read] Paper Trail approaches two million units sold, hot off the added promotion of the rapper’s MTV Road To Redemption series.

Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)
Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
4
The-Dream
Love Vs. Money
55,513
206,976
8
Gorilla Zoe
Don’t Feed Da Animals
31,257
31,325
9
Beyonce
I Am…Sasha Fierce
26,743
2,003,901
10
Jamie Foxx
Intuition
24,192
765,069
12
T.I.
Paper Trail
20,723
1,816,745

With Brother Ali and Project Pat departing from the Top 200, it also came as a shock that Saigon and Statik Selektah’s All In A Day’s Work failed to debut in the Top 200.

After a lengthy group hiatus, Capone-N-Noreaga returned with the SMC Records to deliver Channel 10 . The album, which featured help from Havoc and DJ Premier, debuted at #136, having sold approximately 4,000 units. K’naan’s Troubador has been on the charts for over a month now, at #189.

Lil Wayne sold just under 12,000 copies of Tha Carter III , placing him at #38 this past week, three spots higher than last week, despite less units.

Other Notables

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
38
Lil Wayne
Tha Carter III
11,584
3,082,227
64
Lonely Island
Incredibad
7,379
110,971
88
Ludacris
Theater Of The Mind
5,965
596,569
136
Capone-N-Noreaga
Channel 10
3,928
4,085
189
K’naan
Troubador
2,824
28,356

Will Jim Jones get a #1 spot? Is Slim Thug’s Koch’s new flagship urban artist? Stay tuned to HipHopDX.