newssourcedotcom: Kanye West tops 50 Cent on charts

'Graduation' beats 'Curtis' for top spot

By PHIL GALLO

'Graduation'

Kanye West not only won last week's head-to-head competition with 50 Cent, the rapper-producer-songwriter posted the highest one-week sales mark in 2½ years.

The pair combined to generate the biggest sales week ever for two debuting albums.

West's "Graduation" (Roc-A-Fella) sold 957,000 copies in its first week, the highest total since March 2005, when 50 Cent's "The Massacre" sold 1.1 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

SOURCE: Variety Headline Newsletter and VARIETY.COM

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