Rapper LIL WAYNE has cemented his status as America's biggest name in hip-hop by scoring the biggest album sales week in over three years.
The tattooed hitmaker has stunned chart watchers by debuting his new album Tha Carter III at the top of the new Billboard 200 chart with over one million first week sales.
It's the first time any artist has scored a sales week of over a million copies of an album since 50 Cent debuted big with The Massacre in 2005.
It's a good week for rap and hip-hop all round as Plies debuts Definition of Real at two, with 215,000 opening week sales.
Chart compilation Now 28, last week's chart topper from rockers the Disturbed and Usher's Here I Stand complete the new top five.
Other high new entries on the countdown include N.E.R.D.'s Seeing Sounds at number seven and Alanis Morissette's Flavors of Entanglement at eight.
And, after thrilling Bonnaroo Festival fans with a three-hour set on Friday night (13Jun08), My Morning Jacket score their first top 10 album - Evil Urges debuts at nine.
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