Can Busta Bust Back To The Beginning?
After a sales misstep with Anarchy, his final album for Elektra Records, Busta Rhymes is hoping that his just-released LP, Genesis, will provide just that a new beginning. Thanks to “woo-hah” hot sales, Genesis, Rhymes’ first album as part of a new deal with J Records, moved more than 185,000 copies last week and will crash next week’s Billboard 200 albums chart at #7 (see “Creed Won’t ‘Sacrifice’ Pole Position On Billboard Chart”), becoming Busta’s second straight record to debut in the top 10. Busta’s previous album, Anarchy, posted similar numbers upon its release last year, selling 167,000 copies to debut at #4 in June 2000. Even though it was released in conjunction with Busta Rhymes’ theatrical appearance in the John Singleton-Samuel Jackson remake of “Shaft,” Anarchy is the smallest-selling album in the Brooklyn MC’s solo catalog. Anarchy spent only 14 total weeks during its chart tenure on the Billboard 200 and has tallied just 656,000 in sales, according to SoundScan. The numb
