Congrats LeToya! The “Preacher’s Kid” DVD/BLU-Ray (and Digital) are selling like hotcakes. It hit #4 on itunes (in the drama genre) and #33 on the general chart (all genres). Many retail stores like some of Wallmart locations are already sold out. Warner is advertising it a lot on BET and I think they should have done the same when it was on the movie theaters because you have thousands of haters tweeting about it thinking it’s a straight to DVD movie WHICH IT IS NOT. Can’t wait to see LeToya’s role in “Killers” out June 4th and see her have the lead character in an another movie.

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Whohooo! LeToya’s “Lady Love” just passed the 100,000 mark with Lady Love! (103,003 to be exact) You might say it’s not that good  but it’s not bad at all if you take in consideration the slow start at 33,000.  Usually if you sell that low, your album just disappear and you get stuck with that low number. LeToya managed to sell steadily for the past few months thanks to the hit “Regret” (which if it had been first single, the story would be so much different). Still a lot of people don’t even know the album is already out. I’m sure a few national television shows would’ve helped to boost that number. Can we get a 106 & Park performance of “Regret” BET?!!

Below is the official numbers from soundscan for the Hip-hop and R&B albums sales of 2009 (so far, the year is not over) and it’s not looking good at all for ANYONE. If it continues this way, the music industry will be dead sooner then what we all think. I suggest all these artists to look for a plan B for their income and keep music as a hobby. I can see Mc Donalds being overstaffed next year around this time. Seriously it’s time people PAY for their music.

By the way it’s funny how for Billboard, if you’re black then you are “Hip-Hop-R&B”. Rihanna, Seal and Akon shouldn’t be on that list. Also a lot of these albums have been released in 2008 but are listed here since they have been selling during this year.

I also think Billboard should change their requirements when it comes to their certifications. Platinum and Gold from 5 years ago ain’t the same today. In term of percentage of people who’s getting recognition, if we want to keep it decent, it should be 500,000 for Platinum and 100,000 for Gold. (and maybe 4 million for Diamond). They should also introduce plastic and aluminum.

HIP-HOP R&B US SALES

ARTIST – THIS WEEK’S SALES … TOTAL SALES

LIL’ WAYNE 5375 … 3,307,623
BEYONCE 22733 … 2,556,075
T.I. 2201 … 2,039,619
WEST*KANYE 1189 … 1,613,508
EMINEM 8370 … 1,541,554
BLACK EY 49575 … 1,490,470
JAY-Z 27869 … 1,365,061
NE-YO 1557 … 1,118,190
FOXX*JAMIE 1232 … 1,058,633
JACKSON*M 75093 … 965,474

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Blame it on the economy,  blame it on the sucky distribution, blame it on the lack of promotion, blame it on the Knowles, blame it on her official site, Blame it on Capito-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ol! Whoever you wanna blame it on LeToya will not even make the Top 10 on the next Billboard’s chart with only 29,665 copies of “Lady Love” sold.  #15. (The numbers might changed a little bit tomorrow when announced by Billboard but not from much). Yes it hurts to get this type a news. Didn’t expect a such great album would flop so hard.

The question now is is: Will she be able to recover from that and pull out a Lady Gaga/ Robin Thicke with a poor first week sale and end-up platinum or Is she gona be dropped Capitol Records (or even better: QUIT their dumb asses). Only time will tell.

UPDATE: Capitol only shipped 110,000 copies of the album versus 400,000 for the first album.