Bow Wow & Omarion don't break top ten in album debuts

I don’t think I’ve done one of these stories where I mock a rapper for debuting low on the Billboard charts since the summer of ‘06 (back then, it was shocking to see so many prominent rappers selling 60,000 copies their first week out), but you know something’s gone horribly wrong with the world when more people would rather listen to Bow Wow and the motherfucking Birdman than the Wu-Tang Clan.

Yep, the number’s for last week - probably the last really big week for these 4th Quarter rap albums, unless I’m forgetting something - are in, and the shit’s downright depressing. The week’s highest-selling hip-hop-related debut was Bow Wow and Omarion’s Face Off, which sold about 107,000 copies - which wasn’t quite enough to crack the top 10. Actually, I suppose that could be viewed as good news, in the sense that those guys’ careers are obviously in decline. I mean, if that’s the best the two of them together could do - during the big holiday shopping season, even.
Read more....[Article by Byron Crawford, XXL.com]