Powerballin is the second studio album by the rapper Chingy, released on November 16, 2004, through Capitol Records and Chingy's Slot-A-Lot label. The album entered the Billboard 200 at number 172 with first week sales of 7,000 copies in the US, but then climbed to number 10 with another 120,000 copies sold in the following week. It has since been certified Platinum by the RIAA for shipping over a million copies in the US. The song "I Do" was used in the video game Need for Speed: Underground 2.

Critical reception

Powerballin received mixed reviews from music critics who noted at Chingy's attempt to replicate the success he had with Jackpot. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 59, based on 9 reviews.

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! scope="row"|Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)

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! scope="row"|Canadian R&B Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)

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!scope="row"|Japanese Albums (Oricon)

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! scope="row"| UK Albums (OCC)

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Year-end charts

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! scope="row"| US Billboard 200

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! scope="row"| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)

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Certifications

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