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Fiddy Blocks Beck and Beanie
04/06/2005 5:20 PM, E! Online
David Jenison
It looks like Beck and Beanie are the latest victims of the 50 Cent
massacre.
In a week that saw new releases fill up five of
the top seven spots on the charts, it's hard to believe that 50 Cent
still reigns supreme. In his fifth consecutive week at number one, the
rapper sold another 211,000 copies of his latest disc, The
Massacre, which will likely pass the 3 million-copy mark by the
week's end.
The biggest challenger to the current chart,
alt-icon Beck, actually scored the best sales week of his career,
despite falling 48,000 copies short of the number one seat. Beck's
Guero, which re-teams the artist with the Dust Brothers (the
producers behind Becks legendary Odelay disc), sold 162,000
copies to open at number two.
Meanwhile, Jay-Z cohort Beanie
Sigel landed the number three spot with his latest, B.Coming. The
Philly native, whose other projects include the State Property movies
and clothing line, is currently serving a one-year term for a gun charge
and still faces attempted murder charges for allegedly shooting a man in
the stomach in 2003.
In what proved to be a strong week for
urban music, soulful R&B singers 112 and rapper-actor Will Smith opened
at numbers four and six, respectively. 112s new album, Pleasure &
Pain, sold 117,000 copies for the hit-making foursome. Meanwhile,
Smiths latest, Lost & Found, sold 98,000 copies, which may have
been bolstered by the recent box office success of his film
Hitch.
The final Top 10 entry belonged to redneck
comedian Larry the Cable Guy. His new album The Right To Bare
Arms - a title which 50 Cent and Beanie Sigel would certainly give a
thumbs up to - sold 92,000 copies for its number seven bow.
The rest of the Top 10, all holdovers, included Now That's What I
Call Music! 18 at five, Jack Johnsons In Between Dreams at
eight, Frankie Js One at nine, and Green Days American
Idiot in the ten spot.
The weeks other heavy-hitter, The
Bravery, sold 34,000 copies of its self-titled debut to open at 18. The
groups debut benefited from its hit single, Honest Mistake.
Other noteworthy debuts included Billy Deans Let Them Be Little
at 50, Maes Everglow at 51, The Games reissued West Coast
Resurrection at 53, Theory of a Deadmans Gasoline at 58 and
Morrisseys Live From Earls Court at 118.
Finally,
showing that reggaeton is one of the fastest rising musical movements,
Daddy Yankees reissued Los Homerun-es opened at 157 and
Hitmakers of Reggaeton at 188.
To recap, the Top 10
albums for the week ended April 3 included:
1. The
Massacre, 50 Cent
2. Guero, Beck
3.
B.Coming, Beanie Sigel
4. Pleasure & Pain, 112
5. Now That's What I Call Music! 18, Various
6. Lost &
Found, Will Smith
7. Right To Bare Arms, Larry The Cable
Guy
8. In Between Dreams, Jack Johnson
9. One,
Frankie J
10. American Idiot, Green Day
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