Billboard 200: 5/15/10: B.O.B. #1 84k

thanks for the info. I can't believe Daddy yankee debuted at the top 30 on the billboard. DY is so talented. I bought his new album and I really like it.
29) Daddy Yankee – Daddy Yankee Mundial – 13,024[/quote]

Supposedly, Madges' Celebration held up relatively well in the post-"Glee" week- I would not have been surprised to have seen the album drop right off the chart, with sales falling back to where they were in the pre-"Glee" week (less than 1,900).

The album drops from 86 to 161, scanning 3,592, a drop of 42%- cume stands at 229,856.

The Fame is out of the top 10 after a 22 week stint, presumably it will re-enter next week after her Idol appearance.

Very happy to see BoB at number 1. And 84k in this sales climate is not bad for a debut album. Along with a number 1 single and another top 10 already, I would say he is doing very well for himself. His album is amazing.

I cringe when I look at the album sales. Weekly totals are now approaching 5 million copies (and nearly 30% are downloads). I wonder how long the brick and mortar record stores will last.

new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/52687/week-ending-may-2-2010-i-want-to-be-like-puff-daddy/

Week Ending May 2, 2010: I Want To Be Like Puff Daddy
Posted 6 minutes ago by Paul Grein in Chart Watch

B.o.B Presents The Adventures Of Bobby Ray debuts at #1 on this week's Billboard 200. The album's smash single, "Nothin' On You" (featuring Bruno Mars), spent the past two weeks at #1 on the Hot 100. B.o.B is the first rap or hip-hop performer to pull off this double chart victory (a debut album that hit #1 and included a #1 single) since Puff Daddy way back in 1997, when B.o.B (real name: Bobby Ray Simmons) was just 8 years old.

Puffy scored with No Way Out and its #1 singles "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" (featuring Ma$e) and "I'll Be Missing You" (with Faith Evans and featuring 112). Puff won two Grammys that year and was nominated for Best New Artist.

In the history of hip-hop, only two other artists have reached #1 with a debut album that featured a #1 single. Vanilla Ice scored in 1990 with To The Extreme and its big hit "Ice Ice Baby." The teen duo Kris Kross scored in 1992 with Totally Krossed Out and its smash "Jump."

With its touches of pop, soul and hip-hop, "Nothin' On You" is a perfect song for these times. But B.o.B is already on to his next hit. "Airplanes" (featuring Eminem and Hayley Williams of Paramore) jumps from #3 to #2 on Hot Digital Songs. ("Nothin' On You" drops from #1 to #6.) B.o.B also has the week's fifth-highest new entry on Hot Digital Songs: "Magic" (featuring Rivers Cuomo of Weezer), which bows at #47.

(It's the top new entry if you exclude songs by the cast of Glee).

B.o.B's album sold 84,000 copies, which is the lowest sales total for the best-selling album in the country since Chrisette Michele's Epiphany rang the bell in May with sales of just 83,000. This is the third week in a row that the #1 album has posted weekly sales of less than 100,000.

Digital accounted for just a hair under half of the sales of B.o.B's album. That would have constituted an all-time in any week prior to 2010. But things are changing fast. Digital has accounted for an even higher percentage of the weekly sales tally of four #1 albums so far this year: Hope For Haiti Now (100%), Ke$ha's Animal (76%), Glee: The Power Of Madonna (75%) and Vampire Weekend's Contra (60%).

Shameless Plug: B.o.B is the 25th act in the past 25 years to pull off this double whammy (a debut album that hit #1 and included a #1 single). If you think that's a natural for a Chart Watch Extra, you're right. The list has an exceptionally diverse cast, running the gamut from Guns N' Roses to Milli Vanilli. Look for it on Friday.

Bruno Mars, the smooth singer on "Nothin' For You," already has another hit. He's also featured on Travie McCoy's charming "Billionaire," which leaps from #31 to #19 on Hot Digital Songs. Mars, 23, co-wrote both of these songs. He also co-wrote Flo Rida's monster hit "Right Round." Mars' debut EP, It's Better If You Don't Understand, is slated for release next week, with an album due later in the year.

"OMG" by Usher featuring will.i.am jumps to #1 on the Hot 100. It's Usher's ninth #1 hit. Silvio Pietroluongo, Billboard's Director of Charts, came up with a great item. "Since Usher first led the Hot 100 on Valentine's Day week in 1998 with ‘Nice & Slow,' no other artist has outpaced his No. 1 production. Mariah Carey and Rihanna have the second-most chart-toppers in that span with six each."

I have something to add to that. Usher's current album, Raymond V Raymond, is his fifth consecutive studio album to spawn at least one #1 single. It follows My Way ("Nice & Slow"), 8701 ("U Remind Me" and "U Got It Bad"), Confessions ("Yeah!," "Burn," "Confessions Part II" and "My Boo") and Here I Stand ("Love In This Club"). Usher is the first artist to pull at least one #1 single from five consecutive studio albums since Mariah Carey did it with at least one hit from six consecutive studio albums from 1990 to 1999.

"OMG" also jumps from #2 to #1 in its fifth week on Hot Digital Songs. The song sold 217,000 digital copies, bringing its five-week total to 763,000. It's Usher's third #1 digital hit, following "Yeah!" (featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris) and "Love In This Club" (featuring Young Jeezy). It's will.i.am's second #1 digital hit as a support act, following Fergie's "Fergalicious."

Lady Antebellum's Need You Now holds at #2 in its 14th week on The Billboard 200. The album is #1 on Top Country Albums for the 14th week. It's the first album to spend its first 14 weeks at #1 on the country chart since Kenny Chesney's When The Sun Goes Down in 2004. How much longer will Lady A stay on top? Stay tuned. Need You Now has sold 1,928,000 copies in its first 14 weeks. It may top the 2 million mark next week.

Melissa Etheridge's Fearless Love bows at #7. It's Etheridge's third top 10 album, following Your Little Secret (#6 in 1995) and Skin (#9 in 2001). Etheridge first charted in June 1988 with her eponymous debut album.

Pop Quiz: Etheridge won an Oscar three years ago for writing "I Need To Wake Up" for the Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Truth. She is one of only two women in the 76-year history of the Best Song category to win for a song she wrote by herself (without a collaborator). Name the other. Answer below.

Miranda Cosgrove's debut album Sparks Fly bows at #8. If you have to ask who she is, you're obviously not a teenager or living with one. Cosgrove, 16, is the star of iCarly, which has been a hit on Nickelodeon since it premiered in September 2007. Cosgrove performed four songs on the iCarly soundtrack, which has sold 213,000 copies since its release in June 2008. The soundtrack debuted (and peaked) at #28 on The Billboard 200.

Glee: The Power Of Madonna drops from #1 to #10. The three Glee albums have sold a combined total of 1,541,000 copies. Songs from the three albums have sold a combined total of 4,136,000 digital copies. And there's no end in sight: This week's top four new entries on Hot Digital Songs are by the Glee cast (with an assist by last week's guest star, Kristin Chenoweth.) "One Less Bell To Answer"/"A House Is Not A Home" bows at #26, "Beautiful" opens at #30, "Fire" starts at #32 and "A House Is Not A Home" opens at #38. Glee has so thoroughly penetrated pop culture that it's hard to imagine that the show is less than a year old. It premiered on Fox on May 19.

Quiz Answer: Carly Simon is the only other woman to win an Oscar for Best Song for a song she wrote by herself. Simon won for writing "Let The River Run" from the 1988 movie Working Girl.

Here's the low-down on this week's top 10 albums.

1. B.o.B, B.o.B Presents The Adventures Of Bobby Ray, 84,000. This new entry is the second rap album hit #1 so far this year. It follows Ludacris' Battle Of The Sexes. Five songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Airplanes" (featuring Eminem and Hayley Williams), which jumps from #3 to #2.

2. Lady Antebellum, Need You Now, 76,000. The former #1 album holds at #2 in its 14th week. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs. "Need You Now" dips from #8 to #9. "American Honey" drops rom #25 to #31.

3. Bullet For My Valentine, Fever, 71,000. This new entry is the Welsh metal band's second album in a row to debut in the top five. Scream Aim Fire bowed at #4 in February 2008. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs. "Your Betrayal" debuts at #117. "Fever" bows at #119.

4. Justin Bieber, My World 2.0, 69,000. The former #1 album dips from #3 to #4 in its sixth week. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs. "Eenie Meenie" (a duet with Sean Kingston) jumps from #17 to #10. "Baby" (Featuring Ludacris) dips from #14 to #17.

5. AC/DC, Iron Man 2 soundtrack, 52,000. The soundtrack dips from #4 to #5 in its second week. It's the week's #1 soundtrack. The movie, starring Robert Downey Jr., opens Friday.

6. Usher, Raymond V Raymond, 48,000. The former #1 album dips from #5 to #6 in its fifth week. Four songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "OMG" (featuring will.i.am) which jumps from #2 to #1.

7. Melissa Etheridge, Fearless Love, 47,000. This new entry is Etheridge's third top 10 album. Etheridge is the highest-ranking female solo artist on this week's chart, replacing Lady Gaga.

8. Miranda Cosgrove, Sparks Fly, 36,000. This new entry is the first album by the star of iCarly. "Kissin U" leaps from #63 to #29 on Hot Digital Songs.

9. Various Artists, NOW 33, 30,000. The compilation drops from #6 to #10 in its sixth week. The album has sold 424,000 copies.

10. Various Artists, Glee: The Power Of Madonna, 29,000. The EP drops from #1 to #10 in its second week. Four songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Like A Prayer," which drops from #10 to #63.

Four albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Jimmy Buffett's Encores dives from #7 to #17, Justin Bieber's My World drops from #8 to #12, Zac Brown Band's The Foundation drops from #9 to #13 and Lady Gaga's The Fame dips from #10 to #11.

Hole's third studio album, Nobody's Daughter, debuts at #15. It's the reconstituted band's first studio album since Celebrity Skin, which hit #9 in 1998.

Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster jumps from #24 to #21. The EP topped the 1 million mark in sales last week. It's now up to 1,029,000. It's the third EP from the past year to reach this sales level, following Miley Cyrus' The Time Of Our Lives (1,361,000) and Justin Bieber's My World (1,290,000). Before this flurry of releases, only one EP in the past decade had topped the 1 million mark. That's The Cheetah Girls, which has sold 1,751,000 copies since its release in 2003.

Tenth Avenue North's Over & Underneath jumps from #49 to #44. The Contemporary Christian album is the #1 catalog album for the fourth straight week.

The Broadway cast album to American Idiot drops from #43 to #129 in its second week. On Tuesday, the show was nominated for a Tony as Best Musical, where it is competing with Fela!, Memphis and Million Dollar Quartet.

Pop Quiz: American Idiot, which is based on Green Day's 2004 album of the same name, is only the second musical based on a classic rock album to be nominated in this category. Name the first. Answer below.

You may not know Samuel Bayer's name, but I bet you know his work. Bayer has directed hundreds of music videos, including Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Green Day's "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams," Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet With Butterfly Wings," Metallica's "Until It Sleeps" and Sheryl Crow's "My Favorite Mistake." Why am I bringing up Samuel Bayer? He directed the weekend's #1 movie, a reboot of the 1984 hit A Nightmare On Elm Street. It's Bayer's first feature film.

Sometimes, musical offspring do better than their parents. Whitney Houston achieved things that Cissy Houston, a gifted singer in her own right, probably never even imagined. There are two current examples. You probably know that Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum is the daughter of Linda Davis, who had a #1 country hit in 1993 with "Does He Love You," a duet with Reba McEntire. But you may not know that Ke$ha's mother, Pebe Sebert, co-wrote Dolly Parton's "Old Flames Can't Hold A Candle To You," a #1 country hit in 1980. (It pays to keep an eye on that country chart!)

Quiz Answer: The Who's Tommy, which was nominated for Best Musical in 1993, was based on The Who's 1969 album of the same name. In addition, a few "jukebox musicals" based on entire bodies of work by top pop-rock acts (but not specific albums) have been nominated for Best Musical. These are Mamma Mia! (ABBA), Movin' Out (Billy Joel) and Jersey Boys (The 4 Seasons).

Useless Information: Bullet For My Valentine, which has cracked the top five on The Billboard 200 with its last two albums, is one of the most successful acts ever to come from Wales. Tom Jones had three top five albums in 1969: Help Yourself, This Is Tim Jones and Tom Jones Live In Las Vegas. Bonnie Tyler hit #4 in 1983 with Faster Than The Speed Of Light. Duffy hit #4 in 2008 with Rockferry.

Heads Up: Godsmack is expected to debut at #1 next week with its new album, The Oracle. It would be the band's third consecutive full-length studio album to hit #1. Other albums that are candidates for top 10 debuts include (in descending order): MercyMe's The Generous Mr. Lovewell, the Deftones' Diamond Eyes, Carole King/James Taylor's Live At The Troubadour, Court Yard Hounds' Court Yard Hounds, Toni Braxton's Pulse, Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony's Uni-5: The World's Enemy and Trina's Amazing. Court Yard Hounds is a pop/rock-oriented side project by Martie Maguire and Emily Robison of Dixie Chicks. There are also two more high-profile live albums in the mix: the Zac Brown Band's Pass The Jar: Live From The Fabulous Fox Theater in Atlanta and Barbra Streisand's One Night Only-At The Village Vanguard.

Shameless Plug II: If you missed my Chart Watch Extra listing the 27 songs by American Idol contestants to sell 1 million or more digital copies, here's a link. I added Daughtry's "No Surprise," which I inadvertently left out when the blog was first posted. Daughtry, Carrie Underwood and Jordin Sparks have all had four million-sellers, but one Idol contestant surpasses them. (How could anybody resist a tease like that?)

Lady A's chart run is just astounding. No doubt their album will end up in the top 3 this year in terms of album sales. Perhaps even #1. They can easily sell 2.7m or more by the year end.

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SHANIA TWAIN GREATEST HITS 7,000 3,988,000
RASCAL FLATTS UNSTOPPABLE 4,000 1,210,000
SHAKIRA SHE WOLF 4,000 306,000
SHANIA TWAIN COME ON OVER 1,000 15,491,000


Other debut of the week:
33. SONS OF SYLVIA REVELATION - 12,000

www.mtv.com/news/articles/1638472/20100505/bob_7_.jhtml

That lists as 1000 rounded - that could be 501 for all we know

No new RIAA certifications this week.

The Billboard 200
Issue Date: 2010-05-15

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
on Imprint | Catalog No. | Distributing Label Position
Chart
1 1 B.o.B Presents: The Adventures Of Bobby Ray, B.o.B  1
2 2 3 14 Need You Now, Lady Antebellum  1
3 NEW 1 Fever, Bullet For My Valentine  3
4 3 1 6 My World 2.0, Justin Bieber  1
5 4 2 Iron Man 2 (Soundtrack), AC/DC  4
6 5 4 5 Raymond V Raymond, Usher  1
7 NEW 1 Fearless Love, Melissa Etheridge  7
8 NEW 1 Sparks Fly (EP), Miranda Cosgrove  8
9 6 6 6 NOW 33, Various Artists  3
10 1 2 Glee: The Music, The Power Of Madonna (EP), Soundtrack  1
11 10 7 79 The Fame, Lady Gaga  2
12 8 10 24 My World (EP), Justin Bieber  5
13 9 15 76 The Foundation, Zac Brown Band  9
14 14 8 17 Animal, Ke$ha  1
15 NEW 1 Nobody's Daughter, Hole  15
16 16 14 47 The E.N.D., The Black Eyed Peas  1
17 7 2 Encores, Jimmy Buffett  7
18 13 36 31 Revolution, Miranda Lambert  8
19 15 9 6 Still Standing, Monica  2
20 17 13 8 Battle Of The Sexes, Ludacris  1
21 24 21 23 The Fame Monster (EP), Lady Gaga  5
22 36 31 30 Crazy Love, Michael Buble  1
23 NEW 1 Punk Goes Classic Rock, Various Artists  23
24 23 12 12 Soldier Of Love, Sade  1
25 21 38 26 Play On, Carrie Underwood  1
26 25 25 77 Fearless, Taylor Swift  1
27 18 2 3 Congratulations, MGMT  2
28 NEW 1 The Age Of Miracles, Mary Chapin Carpenter  28
29 NEW 1 Mundial, Daddy Yankee  29
30 27 23 7 Here I Am, Marvin Sapp  2
31 35 40 20 The Element Of Freedom, Alicia Keys  2
32 31 26 23 Rated R, Rihanna  4
33 NEW 1 Revelation, Sons Of Sylvia  33
34 22 78 15 Crazy Heart, Soundtrack  18
35 NEW 1 Drowning Pool, Drowning Pool  35
36 20 2 Country Music, Willie Nelson  20
37 40 37 35 Ready, Trey Songz  3
38 37 32 13 Rebirth, Lil Wayne  2
39 46 27 4 I Learned The Hard Way, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings  15
40 44 45 76 Dark Horse, Nickelback  2
41 29 20 5 NEW AMERYKAH: Part Two: Return Of The Ankh, Erykah Badu  4
42 39 39 26 Glee: Season One: The Music Volume 1, Soundtrack  4
43 34 30 8 Plastic Beach, Gorillaz  2
44 49 48 36 Over And Underneath, Tenth Avenue North  39
45 32 28 3 Achin' And Shakin', Laura Bell Bundy  28
46 45 43 25 Save Me, San Francisco, Train  17
47 28 2 Chicken & Biscuits, Colt Ford  28
48 58 46 23 I Dreamed A Dream, Susan Boyle  1
49 50 59 107 Lady Antebellum, Lady Antebellum  4
50 47 47 21 Glee: Season One: The Music Volume 2, Soundtrack  3
51 38 24 4 Women + Country, Jakob Dylan  12
52 33 16 4 Slash, Slash  3
53 41 22 5 Freight Train, Alan Jackson  7
54 51 2 Come Rain Or Come Shine, Peggy Lee  51
55 1 Any Port In A Storm, The Dirty Heads  55
56 52 33 8 Valleys Of Neptune, Jimi Hendrix  4
57 61 54 56 Wide Open, Jason Aldean  4
58 12 2 Cold Day Memory, Sevendust  12
59 55 42 22 Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Soundtrack  6
60 57 76 30 Doin' My Thing, Luke Bryan  6
61 53 35 23 For Your Entertainment, Adam Lambert  3
62 110 2 Trans-Continental Hustle, Gogol Bordello  62
63 65 50 36 Awake, Skillet  2
64 54 17 3 Leave Your Sleep, Natalie Merchant  17
65 59 41 8 Broken Bells, Broken Bells  7
66 69 44 19 We Are Young Money, Young Money  9
67 70 53 31 Kiss And Tell, Selena Gomez & The Scene  9
68 RE-ENTRY 66 Greatest Hits, Shania Twain  2
69 66 57 34 The Blueprint 3, Jay-Z  1
70 68 49 12 Another Round, Jaheim  3
71 63 34 6 Volume Two, She & Him  6
72 NEW 1 Jesus Saves: Live, Travis Cottrell  72
73 42 5 3 Year Of The Black Rainbow, Coheed And Cambria  5
74 19 2 Rise Up, Cypress Hill  19
75 71 51 9 Easton Corbin, Easton Corbin  10
76 84 65 12 Tonight, tobyMac  6
77 56 11 3 Emotion & Commotion, Jeff Beck  11
78 93 82 35 The Man I Want To Be, Chris Young  19
79 11 2 Blue Sky Noise, Circa Survive  11
80 64 79 24 Until The Whole World Hears, Casting Crowns  4
81 67 55 9 Hillbilly Bone (EP), Blake Shelton  3
82 78 60 24 Battle Studies, John Mayer  1
83 79 62 42 Ocean Eyes, Owl City  8
84 80 52 9 Jason Derulo, Jason Derulo  11
85 81 73 33 The Resistance, Muse  3
86 89 67 79 Funhouse, Pink  2
87 85 71 31 Dear Agony, Breaking Benjamin  4
88 83 63 84 Only By The Night, Kings Of Leon  4
89 96 83 50 Relapse, Eminem  1
90 60 19 3 Burrrprint(2) HD, DJ Holiday + Gucci Mane  19
91 103 88 97 The Sound Of Madness, Shinedown  8
92 26 2 Long Live The Kings, Kottonmouth Kings  26
93 74 66 49 Greatest Hits II, Kenny Chesney  3
94 98 70 12 Haywire, Josh Turner  5
95 91 86 50 Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Phoenix  37
96 92 74 42 Leave This Town, Daughtry  1
97 102 75 16 Contra, Vampire Weekend  1
98 87 56 19 STRONGER withEach Tear, Mary J. Blige  2
99 130 120 36 Breakthrough, Colbie Caillat  1
100 101 81 30 The Script, The Script  64
101 106 84 33 So Far Gone (EP), Drake  6
102 145 13 Buffett Live: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Jimmy Buffett  37
103 NEW 1 Party Heard Around The World, Lonestar  103
104 NEW 1 Dynasty, Kaskade  104
105 82 85 85 Learn To Live, Darius Rucker  5
106 NEW 1 Unmistakable: Trilogy: Love, Jo Dee Messina  106
107 123 113 30 WOW Hits 2010, Various Artists  33
108 94 15 Avatar, Soundtrack  31
109 113 91 133 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers  (Diamond Certification) 10 54
110 115 97 29 Man On The Moon: The End Of Day, Kid Cudi  4
111 72 126 31 #1s ... And Then Some, Brooks & Dunn  5
112 105 94 116 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey  (Diamond Certification) 15 10
113 95 64 8 Get Off On The Pain, Gary Allan  5
114 121 106 5 Radio Disney Jams 12, Various Artists  26
115 119 92 55 Number Ones, Michael Jackson  13
116 100 93 37 Keep On Loving You, Reba  1
117 138 11 Buffet Hotel, Jimmy Buffett  17
118 99 61 29 The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Soundtrack  1
119 125 110 9 WOW Worship (Purple), Various Artists  88
120 77 2 I Am What I Am, Merle Haggard  77
121 116 99 14 WOW Gospel 2010, Various Artists  40
122 30 2 Infestation, Ratt  30
123 111 89 26 NOW 32, Various Artists  5
124 117 148 44 American Saturday Night, Brad Paisley  2
125 62 2 My Best Friend Is You, Kate Nash  62
126 120 100 21 Timbaland Presents Shock Value II, Timbaland  36
127 144 125 31 Brand New Eyes, Paramore  2
128 124 90 14 Kidz Bop 17, Kidz Bop Kids  12
129 43 2 American Idiot, The Original Broadway Cast Recording  43
130 158 187 4 La Roux, La Roux  130
131 135 95 21 The State Vs. Radric Davis, Gucci Mane  10
132 109 130 14 The Sea, Corinne Bailey Rae  7
133 132 98 9 My Best Days, Danny Gokey  4
134 151 111 14 Songs From The Heart, Celtic Woman  9
135 118 145 28 Southern Voice, Tim McGraw  2
136 141 107 5 Somewhere Down The Road, Amy Grant  41
137 73 18 3 Jason Castro, Jason Castro  18
138 122 115 57 Defying Gravity, Keith Urban  1
139 182 180 31 Tri-Polar, Sick Puppies  31
140 178 185 56 Unstoppable, Rascal Flatts  1
141 154 121 32 Life Starts Now, Three Days Grace  3
142 142 119 184 Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift  5
143 126 72 97 Oracular Spectacular, MGMT  38
144 131 108 9 Smoke & Mirrors, Lifehouse  6
145 133 96 78 Twilight, Soundtrack  1
146 107 58 4 Sticky & Sweet Tour, Madonna  10
147 140 124 49 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival  99
148 165 138 51 Cage The Elephant, Cage The Elephant  67
149 143 134 27 War Is The Answer, Five Finger Death Punch  7
150 139 103 31 Black Gives Way To Blue, Alice In Chains  5
151 129 116 20 xx, The xx  94
152 104 29 3 With A Twist, Straight No Chaser  29
153 112 77 9 The Love & War Masterpeace, Raheem DeVaughn  9
154 NEW 1 Thank You Mr Churchill, Peter Frampton  154
155 NEW 1 Played In Space!: The Best Of Something Corporate, Something Corporate  155
156 147 123 27 Michael Jackson's This Is It (Soundtrack), Michael Jackson  1
157 163 131 158 Greatest Hits, Guns N' Roses  3
158 RE-ENTRY 39 License To Chill, Jimmy Buffett  1
159 156 117 36 The Time Of Our Lives (EP), Miley Cyrus  2
160 157 136 105 Scars & Souvenirs, Theory Of A Deadman  26
161 153 122 76 I Am...Sasha Fierce, Beyonce  1
162 86 12 Celebration, Madonna  7
163 160 152 30 The Essential Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson  54
164 166 141 21 This Is War, Thirty Seconds To Mars  19
165 137 102 10 American VI: Ain't No Grave, Johnny Cash  3
166 127 69 4 Go, Jonsi  23
167 148 160 63 Little Bit Of Everything, Billy Currington  13
168 194 171 54 Wicked, Original Broadway Cast Recording  128
169 RE-ENTRY 15 She Wolf, Shakira  15
170 149 112 20 Sex Therapy: The Session, Robin Thicke  9
171 162 159 43 BLACKsummers'night, Maxwell  1
172 176 140 129 Greatest Hits, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band  8
173 172 158 89 Mothership, Led Zeppelin  7
174 114 68 5 Wu-Massacre, Meth/Ghost/Rae  12
175 RE-ENTRY 12 Volume One, She & Him  71
176 173 195 89 Love On The Inside, Sugarland  1
177 179 190 95 Tha Carter III, Lil Wayne  1
178 164 80 23 Waking Up, OneRepublic  21
179 RE-ENTRY 7 Dejarte De Amar, Camila  64
180 RE-ENTRY 44 The Last, Aventura  5
181 RE-ENTRY 104 Call Me Irresponsible, Michael Buble  1
182 155 127 24 Them Crooked Vultures, Them Crooked Vultures  12
183 188 181 135 Back In Black, AC/DC  (Diamond Certification) 22 37
184 185 161 128 It's Time, Michael Buble  7
185 170 154 25 Memento Mori, Flyleaf  8
186 186 155 15 Greatest Hits, Motley Crue  94
187 171 146 32 Justin Moore, Justin Moore  10
188 NEW 1 Crystal Castles (II), Crystal Castles  188
189 180 177 24 The Fall, Norah Jones  3
190 90 2 No Guts. No Glory., Airbourne  90
191 161 132 26 The Bridge, Melanie Fiona  27
192 150 109 9 Alice In Wonderland: Almost Alice, Soundtrack  5
193 181 157 761 Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd  (Diamond Certification) 15 1
194 190 166 124 Gold -- Greatest Hits, ABBA  63
195 NEW 1 New Morning, Alpha Rev  195
196 152 104 5 I Got Your Country Right Here, Gretchen Wilson  34
197 184 192 34 NOW That's What I Call Country Vol. 2, Various Artists  10
198 RE-ENTRY 153 Come Away With Me, Norah Jones  (Diamond Certification) 10 1
199 97 2 Swim, Caribou  97
200 RE-ENTRY 63 The Very Best Of The Eagles, Eagles  3

Congrats to Lady A. Reading that they are the first country artist/group to have 14 weeks at #1 since Kenny C. is impressive. It's very refreshing how loyal country fans are to their artists with their record sales. I hope Lady A takes the #1 album for the year.

Melanie's label needs to pump up her new singles and rebound this album!

Looks to be 28 catalog albums on the chart this week, with just five in the top 100 (top two ranked at #44 and #68).