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Nas' new Def Jam album may not have a title, but it will have a home at No. 1 on The Billboard 200. The veteran rapper is on course to notch his fifth topper on the big chart, as he leads Nielsen SoundScan's Friday Building chart with 113,000 copies.

The artist's last No. 1 album, "Hip-Hop Is Dead," arrived in late December 2006, selling 354,000 copies during Christmas week.

Source: http://www.billboard.biz/

Update: One rapper replaces another atop The Billboard 200 this week, as Nas' untitled Def Jam album dethrones Lil Wayne's Cash Money/Universal set "Tha Carter III." Nas' album sold 187,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, becoming the rapper's fifth No. 1 here. (http://www.billboard.biz/)

Well atleast he's number one but honestly the numbers just aren't impressive. Luckily he put his album out last week because if it was this week he would've have definitely come in second to Miley Cyrus. Hip Hop is Dead sold 354,000...and I must add that the album release party was fabulous....
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