“Crack a Bottle” by Eminem featuring Dr. Dre and 50 Cent, is the first single to be released for Eminem’s Relapse album. It has jumped 77 places to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, setting a new first-week record for download sales. The single sets a new sales record by selling 418,000 downloads, surpassing the prior record of 335,000 downloads from last October’s single by TI & Rihanna “Live Your Life”.
The Game’s album “L.A.X.” dropped from #10 to #14 on the The Billboard 200 chart after 5 weeks of being released.
Ice’s Cube’s album “Raw Footage” dropped from #56 to #83 after 6 weeks of being released. Ice Cube’s album peaked at #6 on its opening week.
UPDATE (10/3): Raw Footage is released internationally today.
After it debuted at #2 on the Billboard chart, selling 239,000 albums, L.A.X drops to #10 after four weeks on the charts. Currently, the album sold about 418,000 copies in the United States and 516,000 worldwide.
Wikipedia:
The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Top 200, with 238,382 copies sold, just behind Alternative metal band Slipknot’s All Hope Is Gone. At first it looked like LAX had debuted ahead of All Hope Is Gone by 13 copies, with such a close difference, Slipknot’s labels Warner Music Group and Roadrunner Records asked for a SoundScan recount, a historic first. Nielsen proceded to the recount, which placed LAX at No.2 with 238,382 copies, and Slipknot in first position with 239,516 copies scanned, a margin of 1,134 copies. Billboard then immediately proceded to the corrections.
