Earning his way back to the top at #3 this week is Kanye West. Over the past week, Ye has been busy doing what he does best--- entertaining a crowd. He performed at the 2005 VH1 Hip-Hop Honors paying tribute to the late Notorious B.I.G. alongside Lil' Cease, Faith and Ludacris. West also recently launched his "Touch the Sky" tour. His entertaining skills helped him sell an additional 125,951 copies this week. Sales to date for Late Registration stand at 1,436,716 LPs.

Next up at #6 is David Banner. His recent offering, Certified hit the stores last week. Banner has been all over the country performing in his "Heal the Hood" concert to raise money for the Hurricane Katrina victims. His first single off, "Play" is slowly paving the way for the album to live up to its name. David Banner moved 89,682 units in its first week.

Continuing to phunk up the charts at #8 this week is Monkey Business. Still riding high on their 2004 release, Elephunk, the Black Eyed Peas grabbed two nods from the American Music Awards. More than 4 months since its release, Monkey Business moved an additional 81,756 units last week, bringing their total sales to 1,540,380 CDs.

Respectively following in the 9th position is Paul Wall. With a #1 debut last week, The People's Champ slid down the charts this week. The Swisha House rapper performed at the Boost Mobile Rock Corps Concert for volunteerism on Saturday at Radio City Music Hall in NYC. With his "Sittin' Sideways" spinning on video and radio, P. Wall has sold an additional 69,780 records last week. So far The People's Champ totals 246,573 copies sold.

Representing for "The A" this week at #10 is T.I. Presents the P$C with 25 To Life. With their single "I'm A King" buzzing in the south and included on the soundtrack for "Hustle & Flow," The Grand Hustle family sold 62,139 copies in their opening week.

Holding down #12 is Young Jeezy. Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 moved a notch up this week. This week, The Snowman kept it frosty selling 54,026 CDs. Jeezy's sales total 694,172 units so far.

Sliding down to #21 is 50 Cent with The Massacre. His re-released album is putting up big numbers. Look out for Fiddy to drop his videogame 50 Cent: Bulletproof towards the end of the year. His autographical film, Get Rich Or Die Tryin' is also set to hit the big screen in November. As an incentive to pre-order the videogame, consumers will receive an exclusive 50 Cent DVD of his European tour entitled, No Fear, No Mercy Live. The Massacre Reloaded moved 42,986 CDs this week, bringing his total to 4,568,058 units.

Lastly, Damian Marley takes a hit, Bow Wow bounces down a few and Tony Yayo satisfies his curiosity. Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley grabbed the 22nd spot with his Welcome to Jamrock LP. Marley slipped down and out of the top 20 this week selling 41,782 records. To date Welcome to Jamrock has sold 127,754 copies. Bow Wow holds down the 35th slot this week. Roll Bounce hit the box office this past weekend and showed a different side of Bow Wow. The film helped Bow bounce 26,795 more LPs of Wanted, for a total of 548,411 copies to date. Closing out at #37 is Thoughts of A Predicate Felon. G-Unit member Tony Yayo continues to serve it up another week for his fans. Although Yayo's debut dropped 33%, he managed to move 26,043 records, rounding off his numbers to 350,276 copies.

Next week, look out for Atlantic Records to reign over the top seats of the charts with Lil' Kim's Naked Truth and Sean Paul's The Trinity.

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