Drake Finally Reaches The Top

After several close calls Drake has finally reached the top of The Chart this week as Unforgettable featuring Young Jeezy makes a twelve-spot jump to No. 1, the second biggest leap to the summit this year behind Katy Perry's Teenage Dream and the fifth biggest overall. Drake had previously only reached No. 2 on four different occasions with Best I Ever Had, Over, Mary J. Blige's The One and Timbaland's Say Something. For Young Jeezy this is his 4th chart-topper as a collaborative artist, having reached the top before with Mariah Carey's Side Effects (3 weeks), Jay-Z's Real As It Gets (2 weeks) and Akon's I'm So Paid (1 week).

Kid Cudi Jumps To #1, My Chemical Romance Returns

This is an unexpected turn, and not because Kid Cudi is stranger to begin at the top of The Chart as he has previously scored two number ones with Heart Of A Lion (3 weeks) and Hyyer (1 week), but because of how fast he got there and how he left the competition behind. Previous chart-topper The Show Goes On by Lupe Fiasco steps to No. 2. The song had been making strong rounds for the past month but falls short to this week's surprising No. 1, Ashin' Kusher, the third from Kid Cudi and the first from his new album Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager.

Kanye West, Nicki Minaj Rule Charts

From RollingStone.com:

Kanye West's critically acclaimed My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy may have easily topped the nation's albums chart with 518,775 sales in its first week of release — but he didn't even come close to matching the first week sales of Taylor Swift's Speak Now, which debuted at Number 1 on November 3 after selling 1,047,000 copies in its first week. Still, West easily beat rapper Nicki Minaj's debut, Pink Friday, which was a distant second at 371,049 sold.

Nonetheless, the album is West's fourth chart-topper. Almost exactly two years ago, his previous LP, 808s and Heartbreak , also debuted at Number 1 with approximately 450,000 sales.

Elsewhere on the charts, Justin Bieber's My Worlds Acoustic debuts at Number 7 with sales of 119,485, Ne-Yo's Libra Scale is Number 8 with 117,800, and My Chemical Romance's Danger Days is Number 9, with 112,002. Christina Aguilera and Cher's Burlesque debuts at No. 18, with 62,514 copies sold.

Both Swift and Katy Perry enjoyed sales surges, with Speak Now moving from Number 9 to 3 on 255,991 copies sold and Perry's Teenage Dream climbing from 31 to 14 with 75,178.

Kanye and Nicki Set for Big Debuts on Billboard 200

From Billboard.com:

Early prognostications from industry gurus are pointing to a very handsome first week for Kanye West's new "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy." Sources say the set could sell perhaps 550,000 by week's end on Sunday, Nov. 28, easily securing it a No. 1 bow on the Billboard 200 next week.

If it arrives atop the list, it will mark his fourth No. 1 set following "Late Registration" (2005), "Graduation" (2007) and "808s & Heartbreak" (2008). The latter began with 450,000 and was released over Thanksgiving week -- just like "My Beautiful..."

Also gunning for a big entrance next week is Nicki Minaj's debut effort, "Pink Friday," which is on target to begin with more than 400,000. It could mark the best sales week for a female hip-hop artist since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. Currently, that record is held by rapper/singer Lauryn Hill's "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill," which launched with 423,000 in 1998. (The best week for a straight-ahead female emcee was earned by Missy Elliott's "Under Construction," when it bowed with 259,000 in 2002.)

Ne-Yo's fourth studio album "Libra Scale" could launch with 125,000 while My Chemical Romance's latest, "Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys," may start with 100,000 to 110,000.

My Chemical Romance › SING

My Chemical Romance just released their new album Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys and they've also released a new video for their new single SING to go with it. The action-packed visual picks up right where their previous video for Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) left off. The mood of this song I like a lot and might be the very first song from this album to appear on The Chart.



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The Week's New Releases (Nov22,'10)

Another big week for big releases. Today is the day the world finally gets to listen to Kanye West's highly anticipated new album. There's also new releases by My Chemical Romance, Nicki Minaj, Ke$ha, Jay-Z, Ne-Yo and Röyksopp. These are some of this week's new releases:

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West
Cannibal by Ke$ha
Danger Days: True Lives of the Fabolous Killjoys by My Chemical Romance
Pink Friday by Nicki Minaj
Libra Scale by Ne-Yo
Senior by Röyksopp
H.F.M. 2 (The Hunger For More 2) by Lloyd Banks
Body Talk Pt. 3 by Robyn
The Hits Collection Volume 1 by Jay-Z

My Chemical Romance › Na Na Na

My Chemical Romance returns after quite a long break with their fourth studio album titled, wait for it... Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. Watch the band fight against the bad guys in this movie-inspired video.