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7/10/08,
Quick Billboard Update
From Billboard magazine issue dated July 19, 2008.
E=MC²Billboard 200 Albums: #33 (Last Week #25)
Sales this week: 16,077 (-7%)
Total sales: 1,079,507
"Bye Bye"Billboard Hot 100: #84 (Last Week #69)
"I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time"Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100: #24 (Debut)
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs: #54 (Last Week #62)
"I'm That Chick" Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs: #90 (Last Week #85)
Chart Bits• E=MC² is currently the #4 best selling album of 2008, behind Lil' Wayne's Tha Carter III (1.68 million), Jack Johnson's Sleep Through The Static (1.25 million) and Coldplay's Viva La Vida (1.12 million).
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E=MC² is #70 (from #56) in Japan this week selling 2,941 copies for a total of 139,595 copies. By comparison The Emancipation of Mimi was #51 on the Japanese charts, selling 4,082 copies and it had sold a total of 204,857 copies by it's 12th week.
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E=MC² has been certified Platinum (1,000,000) in the US, making it the first known country that the album has reached Platinum status. The album is also Gold in Japan (100,000), United Kingdom (100,000), Australia (35,000), Philippines (10,000) and Thailand (9,000).
