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Kanye Out-Bangs Stones
09/14/2005 6:39 PM, E! Online
David Jenison
Not even the World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band could roll Kanye
West from the top of the charts.
The wave-making rapper's
Late Registration easily held off the new album from the Rolling
Stones and a 50 Cent reissue, selling 283,000 copies for the week ended
Sunday, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures. This puts the album's
two-week tally at 1.15 million copies.
West benefited
from plenty of exposure. His controversial "George Bush doesn't care
about black people" remark on NBC's Sept. 2 Concert for Hurricane
Relief kept him in the headlines all last week. He also appeared on
Thursday's NFL Opening Kickoff concert on ABC and on all three
Hurricane Katrina telethons over the weekend--the multi-network
Shelter from the Storm, BET's S.O.S. (Saving Ourselves and
MTV's ReAct Now.
On Wednesday, as news broke of his
second week at number one, West announced his fall Touch the Sky Tour.
The road trip, featuring Fantasia, Keyshia Cole and Common, will kick
off Oct. 11 in Miami and run through December. A full itinerary is
forthcoming.
The only 2005 album to sell more first-week
copies than Late Registration has been 50 Cent's The
Massacre. Fiddy's disc rocketed back up to the two spot as a deluxe
reissue hit the stores. The new version features music videos for all
the songs, a trailer for his film Get Rich or Die Tryin' and a
hit remix of "Outta Control" with Mobb Deep.
With their
first album in eight years, the Rolling Stones scored a band best. Their
latest, A Bigger Bang, opened at number three, selling 129,000
copies--the most ever for a Stones studio release. The band also debuted
at three with their last studio set, 1997's Bridges to Babylon,
while their 2002 hits collection Forty Licks reached number two
on 310,000 copies.
Overall, it was a generally slow week
on the charts. Aside from the reissued Massacre, two other albums
returned to the Top 10: Green Day's American Idiot, which has
passed the 4 million sales mark, climbed four spots to eight; while
Young Jeezy moved up one slot to 10 with Let's Get It.
Otherwise, the Top was all holdovers: Black Eyed Peas'
Monkey Business at four, Mariah Carey's The Emancipation of
Mimi at five, Tony Yayo's Thoughts of a Predicate Felon at
six, Now That's What I Call Music! 19 at seven and Hilary Duff's
Most Wanted at nine.
The week's next best bow came
all the way down at 73, with rapper AZ moving just over 11,000 copies of
A.W.O.L., followed closely at 76 by Sarah McLachlan's Bloom
(Remix Album), which sold nearly an identical amount.
Other noteworthy debuts included Ryan Shupe & the Rubberband's Dream
Big at 87, Against Me!'s Searching for a Former Clarity at
114 and Between the Buried & Me's Alaska at 121.
Here's a recap of last week's Top 10 albums:
1. Late
Registration, Kanye West
2. The Massacre (reissue), 50
Cent
3. A Bigger Bang, Rolling Stones
4. Monkey
Business, Black Eyed Peas
5. The Emancipation of
Mimi, Mariah Carey
6. Thoughts of a Predicate Felon,
Tony Yayo
7. Now That's What I Call Music! 19, various
8. American Idiot, Green Day
9. Most
Wanted, Hilary Duff
10. Let's Get It, Young
Jeezy
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