Music Thread #1 For 7/14/10: Big Boi Only Sells 62 K As Eminem Tops The Charts For A Third Straight Week

Maybe Big Boi (and The Roots) should have said that their album featured Eminem on it:

Eminem's "Recovery" is the first album to notch three consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since March, as it holds atop the tally with 229,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The last album to string three weeks in a row at No. 1 was Sade's "Soldier of Love" back in March.

The chart's top debut comes from OutKast's Big Boi with his debut solo album "Sir Lucious Left Foot ... The Son of Chico Dusty" starting at No. 3 with 62,000.

62,000.

So while Eminem easily goes platinum in two weeks, both "The Roots" and "Big Boi" can't even push over 100,000 the first week.

I guess despite either being on Jimmy Fallon's Late-Night show or apart of one of rap music's recognized and renown top duos ever doesn't help the CD get the push in the suburbs it appears.

It could have been worse for Big Boi, because his numbers weren't as dreadful as one former heart thob of many:

Enrique Iglesias' "Euphoria" is the tally's second-highest new entry, bowing at No. 10 with 27,000. His last studio set, 2007's "Insomniac," debuted and peaked on the Billboard 200 at No. 17 with 45,000 sold in its first week. Iglesias' new album was preceded by the single "I Like It," featuring Pitbull, which last week became Iglesias' first top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in eight years. Previous to "Like," he last visited the top 20 with 2002's "Escape."

Has his star fallen or what?

But at least Enrique Iglesias isn't like this other former popular figure gone irrelevant now, even though this is ironically her highest first week sales ever:

The final new arrival in the top 20 is Kylie Minogue's "Aphrodite," starting at No. 19 with 18,000. That sales figure triples what her last studio album "X" started with when it debuted and peaked at No. 139 in 2008 with 6,000. "Aphrodite" is also the pop diva's second-highest charting album -- only 2002's "Fever" was bigger, as it bowed and peaked at No. 3. Its fortunes were bolstered by its lead single: the No. 7 Billboard Hot 100 hit "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" ... On the Billboard 200, she's also charted with "Body Language" (No. 42 in 2004) and "Kylie" (No. 53 in 1989).

Meager, meager, meager.