RUMOR MILL
Monday, August 25, 2003
WEEK IN PREVIEW:
NEPTUNES ON TOP
Hip-Hop Producers Beat Alan Jackson,
as Bow Wow, T.I., Juelz Santana Come
Out Swinging, Too
as Bow Wow, T.I., Juelz Santana Come
Out Swinging, Too
As the tallying of sales reports continues, it looks like Arista’s Neptunes will indeed see their The Neptunes Present... Clones top this week’s chart with about 230k-240k in first-week sales.
As previously prognosticated, that’ll be enough to beat Alan Jackson’s Arista Nashville greatest-hits collection, which looks headed for a second week on the order of 170k.
Columbia’s Bow Wow, meanwhile, now appears likely to log a first week of around 130k for his sophomore Unleashed. Atlantic rapper T.I. will likely have moved about 100k of his Trap Muzik in its first week, once the counting's done, while Roc-A-Fella/IDJ’s Juelz Santana appears headed for the same for his From Me to U. All three are Top Five contenders.
Next up are Mary J. Blige, Hilary Duff and Nappy Roots, all of which hit the streets tomorrow.
