Snoop Dogg
Da Game Is to be Sold, Not to be Told
Rap/Hip-Hop

This million-selling disc by the rapper formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg spent its first two weeks at number 1.

Fergie
The Dutchess
Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop

Top-5 pop disc. “London Bridge” opened big on the singles charts.

Uncle Kracker
Double Wide
Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock

Million-seller peaked at 7 and spawned the Top-10 hit “Follow Me”

Geto Boys
The Resurrection
Rap/Hip-Hop
Mike Jones
Who Is Mike Jones?
Rap/Hip-Hop

Million-selling, No. 1 R&B disc cracked pop’s Top 5. “Back Then” became a Top-10 rap single.

Naughty By Nature
Poverty’s Paradise
Rap/Hip-Hop
Matisyahu
Youth
Alternative, Rap/Hip-Hop, Reggae, Rock

Peaked at No. 4 on the pop album chart

Ludacris
Back for the First Time
Rap/Hip-Hop

A Top-5 pop and R&B album with real staying power. The single “Southern Hospitality” cracked R&B’s Top 10.

Chingy
Jackpot
Rap/Hip-Hop

Album peaked at 2 on the pop and R&B charts. “Right Thurr” was a Top-3 pop hit.

The Black Eyed Peas
The E.N.D.
EDM/Electronica/Techno, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop

The L.A.-based band’s fifth studio album is its first to debut at No. 1, with first-week sales of 304,000 units. …

Puff Daddy
Forever
Rap/Hip-Hop

Disc debuted at number 2

Eamon
I Don’t Want You Back
Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop

Peaked at 7 and went gold (500,000 sold). Repeated obscenities didn’t keep “F— It (I Don’t Want You Back)” from …

Nas
It Was Written
Rap/Hip-Hop
Various/Soundtrack
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
R&B, Rap/Hip-Hop, Soundtracks

This chart-topping R&B disc yielded Janet Jackson’s number-1 pop single “”Doesn’t Really Matter.””

Lil Wayne
Tha Carter III
Rap/Hip-Hop

The year’s biggest debut to date moved a million copies its first week. “Lollipop” spent more than a month at …