T.I., John Legend, Lil Rob, And Pink Are Just Some Of What’s Selling At Circles Records & Tapes

By Benjamin Leatherman Hip-hop, R&B, and other urban jams have always been big sellers at Circles Records & Tapes, 800 North Central Avenue. So it’s only natural a majority of the shop's top 10 best-selling albums for this week are chartbusters from those genres. For instance, the No. 1 album...

By Benjamin Leatherman

November 5, 2008

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By Benjamin Leatherman

Hip-hop, R&B, and other urban jams have always been big sellers at Circles Records & Tapes, 800 North Central Avenue. So it’s only natural a majority of the shop's top 10 best-selling albums for this week are chartbusters from those genres.

For instance, the No. 1 album is rapper T.I.'s blockbuster 18-track disc, Paper Trail. Here's a look at the rest of what's selling at Circles.

1. T.I., Paper Trail (Grand Hustle) 2. John Legend, Evolver (G.O.O.D. Music) 3. Rise Against, Appeal to Reason (Geffen) 4. Lil Rob, Twelve Eighteen, Pt. 2 (Upstairs) 5. Pink, Funhouse (LaFace) 6. Robin Thicke, Something Else (Star Trak) 7. Shiny Toy Guns, Season of Poison (Universal Motown) 8. Jon B., Helpless Romantic (Arsenal) 9. Jasmine Sullivan, Fearless (Arista) 10. Ne-Yo, Year of the Gentleman (Def Jam)

Benjamin Leatherman is a staff writer for Phoenix New Times where he focuses primarily on arts, culture, music and nightlife. He joined New Times in 2003. Prior to that, he contributed to magazines such as Tips & Tricks and The Wrestler. Benjamin has earned multiple awards from the Arizona Press Club including an award for sports enterprise reporting in 2009 and an award for statewide arts reporting in 2014. He holds a bachelor’s of arts in journalism from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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