It was a white Christmas on the Billboard charts as Young Jeezy’s fourth album arrives in the top 3.
Thug Motivation 103: Hustlerz Ambition filled plenty of stockings this year, debuting at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 233,000 copies sold in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It becomes the Snowman’s fifth-straight top five set. His last effort, 2008’s The Recession, opened at No. 1 with 260,000.
Following Jeezy, the next highest debut of the week was from Common, whose ninth album The Dreamer/The Believer comes in at No. 18 with 69,000. His previous release, Universal Mind Control, sold 82,000 when it debuted in December 2008.
Elsewhere, Michael BublĂ© spent the holidays at No. 1 with his Christmas album (467,000), Adele continues her chart reign at No. 2 (399,000), Justin Bieber’s Under the Mistletoe falls 3-4 (225,000), Drake’s Take Care climbs 7-5 (131,000), and Rihanna’s Talk That Talk jumps 14-7 (99,000), boosted by an Amazon.com MP3 sale.





