T.I.’s King Rules the Charts, Ghostface Catches the #4 Spot

 •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  43 Comments

TI.jpgT.I.’s fourth album King has officially conquered the album charts, selling 531,000 units in its first week, making it the highest-selling debut of 2006 so far. The album will enter the Billboard 200 Albums chart at #1, which marks the first time the Atlanta rapper has topped the chart.

Additionally, Ghostface’s critically-hailed Fishscale will debut on the album chart at #4, selling over 110,000 units. This marks the Staten Island native’s highest debut since Ironman debuted at #2 in 1996. King and Fishscale will take the #1 and 2 spots on the Hip-Hop/R&B album chart, respectively.

  • http://blahblahblahwtvr.com EpOi Boi

    Thats what the fuck im talkin bout, Them boyz gettin they money I havent heard the “Fishscale” album ,but i think im gonna look into it now seeing as its movin so well and i already got that” King”that shit is heavy do ya thing peoplez.

  • http://www.officialslick.com/www.sizzerb.com slick

    Thats all great, but why didnt ATL come in at number one in the box office? TI im sure will not be pleased that both his cd and movie didnt come in at number one..as he said in xxl he wanted both number ones..but KING is the best cd of the year yet, period..TI basicially killed every beat he touched and the album is gonna get even more sales with females and people who dont know Ti and what the south about when he releases why u wanna cuz that crystal waters sample is killin it rite now’big up to TI AND ATL

  • Jerz!

    Damn, that boi TI killed it foreal. 533??? And he does destroy those beats. But let’s not get it twisted…Fishscale is lyrically, conceptually, and musically the best album of the year.

  • Jizzle

    TI is gay why are you people supporting his bullshit
    Syke he is pretty tight I havent coped KING yet but I’v heard most of it that CD would just be Trap Muzic Pt.2 if it wasn’t for the production big ups to Just Blaze and Manny Fresh they had some dope beats on there
    What’s really hot is Fichscale Ghostface killed it he had badass production too big ups to MF Doom & Pete Rock on the beats, The Album is like Wu tang 06′ he stays true to his Staten Isle Roots and straight gutta style that should have pushed 500,000 units

  • gerv

    Anybody talkin about Gostface’s album is better than TI”s is from the east coast and it shows. Get over it the east coast ain’t running rap right now.Yeah I’m from the west coast that’s why I call it like I see it.Ghostface’s album it tight as fuck but TI got him beat and TI can rap regardlest of what east coast haters might say.I’m not talking about the whole east coast either.Only the mad muthafuckas that hate that they coast ain’t on top.So they talk bad about the south and any west coast artist that has a serious buzz.

  • chico34

    dats wut it do t.i. im along time fan,every since “im serious”,i knew what da business was long before dis album T.I. IS DA NEWS.p.s.GERV;I feel ya pimp

  • Jerz!

    I’m definitly with the fact that TI can rap his ass off, I don’t believe myself specifically came across as a hater. But King better than Fishscale? It’s hard to event type that. While a dope, dope, album, King doesnt cover all the grounds that Fishscale does. Between the skits, the lyrics, the music itself, and concepts? Ghost is clearly on a different level than the rest of the game. And thats not to say anything bad about any coast, cause @ first I hoped that Nas wouldn’t come out this year because I don’t think he could get years best over Fishscale either. But yeah there it is, no hate, happy to have 2 more quality albums in the collection.

  • SummerZ

    i knew that T.I could pull it thru, but i’m maaaad proud that ghost is up there too, its been a long time coming…

  • amanda

    T.I new ablum is off the chain,he really went all out on this ablum.And his movie went beyond my expection,it is diffently a movie I would go see again.

  • grand dragon

    am 50/50 on who’s albums best but buzzin to see them up there ghost got the push he needed and t.i just gets better and better trap musik (good)/ urban legend (great)/king (world class) p.s right now the south’s on top and am lovin it. but big up all coasts

  • http://xxlmag andre

    T.I. is the shyte nobody can hate on that dude, im loving that “ride wit me” got go see the movie now.

  • BIG D from harlem

    man im from NY big ups to ghost…but TI IS WAAAAYYY BETTER no doubt the south got the game on lock…which is sad to say the we have fallen off but not completely g-unit and dipset will put us back on da map

  • diNERO

    YO WTF GHOST SHOULD HAD THE NUMBER ONE SPOT I AINT MAD AT T.I BUT HIS ALBUM AINT NO WAY NEAR GHOST NOT EVEN CLOSE GOOD SEE HIM DO GOOD I MEAN I DIG BOY STYLE SINCE THE JOINT BACK IN THE DAY WITH FOXXY LIKE 2003 OR SOMETHING ANYWAY IT A BLESSING HE ON THE COME UP NOW HE CAN ACTUALLY REALLY BACK UP THE STUFF HE SAY BUT GHOST ALBUM IS IMPRESSIVE AND I HOPE THE SUCCESS CONTINUES FOR BOTH OF THEM

  • Jerz!

    lol dude said g unit will put us back on the map.

  • http://www.ananzi.co.za PHONY YAYO

    TI IS DA FUCKEN MAN!!!!!!!! LIL FLIP CAN DIE SLOW…..WELL AND AS FOR GHOST,IF SOLD HALF OF HIS UGLY RINGS COLLECTION, HE COULD OF HAD ENOUGH LOOT TO BUY HIS OWN ALBUM AND DEBUT AT #1…GGGGGGG-UNOT

  • Young T

    Why’s it gotta be a fucking competition? Ghost and T.I. are completely different and are both sick in their way. And of course T.I. is gonna sell more he’s way more commercial.

  • Mozeek

    BIGUP to T.I. and Ghost. I copped both
    of their albums. NOTHIN’ BUT FIRE!!!

  • tfab

    damn! what more can i say???
    he’s on the top of the game now without a doubt!!! T.I. is the real king now gold on the 1st week!
    congratualation kingofthasouth

  • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AusarsPlace The God

    TI is way to corny. this is THE weakest dude out of the south. how the hell he get a record deal. It says something about a person who run around callin himself the King. titles like that are given by the people, not self given. he want to be important sooooo bad. TI should be dead last in my book. Ghost on the other hand IS hip hop. This God is tight and has been from jump. He has never sold out like TI commericals

  • http://yahoo South Repasenta

    T.I. got the game on lock. U cant hate da man cause he shows everybody love except that old lame ass rapper lil flip. I’m from texas and the dude is the worst rapper we got, and for ghostface he keeps puttin it down every time.

  • SROW

    Damn I can’t wait for that blood money to come out

  • jasmine

    t.i is hot ghost face is hot to so thats big for hiphop keep it up homie

  • TbLeE

    I can feel t.i. shit and all but hes not the king of the south. My nigga scarface is da king of the south

  • Jizzle

    GERV fuck you dickface im not an southern hater from the east Im a bitch hater from the south, Texas Biatch and i do like some southern rap but Im not into that pop sounding shit i love the shit we bumped back in the day when i lived in Cali (where i was born by the way) shit like 2pac biggy nas jay even old school shit has a good sound to me so fuck you GERV t.i. and yes fishscale is better than QUEEN you bitch as nigga, only talk cuz you like to hear yourself biatch eat a dick!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • breakdown

    Fuck all yall newyork bitch haters. Ti is the shit. I’m from the atl, his music is for the dope boys. I can’t feel some of the the people coming from the south but t.I. And the snowman run this shit. Get t.I. First cd. He said {you allmost gold that what I sold in one week}. We run this shit. Atlanta bitch

  • Jizzle

    Fuck you BREAKDOWN lick my balls Atl is running nothing but a gang of faggots like you but with a few exceptions t.i. jeezy luda outkast being the few exceptions the west is back dick and you know this man

    Westside I’m out you bitch
    breakdown
    BREAKDOWN Deez Nutz

  • Young

    dat shit is serious every body go cop dat album
    i got dat get it get it got dat get it wat u need

  • Big O

    I copped T.I. and personally I think T.I. is hot, but I got one thing on my mind why is everybody gunning at NYC, my boys on the Westside, Cali big up!!! they over there calling yall out and yall still yappin to us, wassup with that?? Punk asses is scared, on top of that a lot of atl is full of NYC, but yall aint up here talkin all of that shit? Things that make you say huumm?

  • Big O

    except Gerv, no exception

  • http://xxlmag nigga 3 fist

    Ghost is the man aint no better Everybody get that straight WUTang Muthfuckas WuTang

  • Jared

    Fishscales is brilliant…I dont give a fuck whether 100 or 100 million buy this cd, it doesnt change ANYTHING about how i feel about ghostface or fishscales. Record sales don’t mean shit because most people don’t know good hip hop anyway. And how the fuck can you compare east coast to west coast? Not only did Wu-Tang(greatest rap group ever) come out of NY, ARE WE FORGETTIN ABOUT BIG L. IF BIG L NEVER GOT SHOT HE WOULD BE KING OF NY. But for now its ghostface and im cool with that. FUCK DIPSET

  • LocaDiff

    Ghost’s just keepin it real.. T.I. i havent heard his album yet, but im on my way to coppin it, but GHosts muaafockin tight. representin Shaolin REAL hard, YUP!”

  • Ironman4lyfe

    Yo ghostface 4 lyfe to all u muthafucking haters. Fishscales is some crazy ass shit. He is on the top of his fucking game. TI is sick but Ghostface burns him like bitch. Fuck g-unit. Long live the Ironman

  • http://n/a T$treetz

    i got bout 4 copies of T.I. shits hot!!! i aint heard ghostface’s shit yet but im sure it tight.

  • http://mackmaineeeee mscarter_weezygirl_flygirl

    fuck t.i…how the fuck he gon to say he the king of the south…he ain’t no muthafuckin king..

  • http://TheDirtyCountry Southern Alumnist

    BREAKDOWN don’t worry about dees westside niggas I’m gonna address dey asses right now, starting wit (JIZZLE).First off, ya name make you sound like a cake boy.Second off,until da west coast stop ridin Ice Cube and Snoop nutts and bring out some more artist, Shut yo MUTHA FUCKIN MOUTH. Man da west coast suck. Why you think Dre ain’t been scoutin over there?Every one he done fucked wit was from da MW or East.50 had to bring the Game to his attention.Ya’ll niggas garbage. Ya’ll cain’t even get a winna on 106-n-Park’s freestyle friday.Da East Coast took off dey belt like Pops off da Wayne’s Bros show and beat ya’ll ass in the late 90′s.Now the south is fixin to do what ya’ll tried so long to do and dat’s eliminated east coast hip hop.BITCH!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://TheDirtyCountry Southern Alumnist

    I GOT TITLE FIGHT TICKETS
    50 CENT V. T.I.
    FOR LYRICAL HEAVY WEIGHT BELT OF THE WORLD

    DOWN GOES 50! DOWN GOES 50!

  • http://I Little Rock Nigga

    ALREADY T.I.P. you holdin da south down

  • Chrash test dummy

    got Ghosts album and its off the chain, Cant wait for Only Built pt.2
    im sure Tis album is cool too..

    to Southern ALUMNIST: wtf is you talking bout 50 going down, hes been down for a long time.. and it was not due to “the king”

  • CALVIA

    t.i music is the shit i love it hes also fine as fuck im his # 1 fan

  • southern boi

    Aye now I have ti’s new album. It is the shit no doubt but I feel he should have received better recognition for I’m Serious. Man that was the SHIT!! But all yall south haters out cheah yall niggas need to go and cop that UGK a.k.a. Jay’s favorite rap group. Um talkin bout that old UGK pimpin. Now you tell me what niggas up cheah have came harder than UGK, Geto Boys, Outkast, Cash Money, the Dungeon Family huh? That’s what I thought. I got a pocket full of stones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Andrew

    50 is the best sells 1.15 million in first week, had 4 songs in the top 10 on billboard at the same time, ti sucks

  • http://hotmail.com 615bANGA

    King is better than Fishscale but since a lot of people are talkin about the albums and whos better than who , maybe T.I and Ghostface should work together