A shift in royalty has taken place on the Billboard 200 album charts, with T.I.’s new album King dethroning Prince’s 3121 in the top slot.
The Grand Hustle/Atlantic set sold 522,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, marking the biggest sales week of an album thus far in 2006. King is also No. 1 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, Top Rap Albums chart, on iTunes, and on the Top Digital albums chart.
Elsewhere in the top 10, Ghostface Killah's fifth solo release, Fishscale, bows at No. 4 with sales of 110,000 and at No. 2 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The Def Jam release gives the rapper his second-best career sales week behind the opening frame of 1996's Ironman (156,000).
The Grand Hustle/Atlantic set sold 522,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, marking the biggest sales week of an album thus far in 2006. King is also No. 1 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, Top Rap Albums chart, on iTunes, and on the Top Digital albums chart.
Elsewhere in the top 10, Ghostface Killah's fifth solo release, Fishscale, bows at No. 4 with sales of 110,000 and at No. 2 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The Def Jam release gives the rapper his second-best career sales week behind the opening frame of 1996's Ironman (156,000).