Billboard 200 - 6/4/2011 - Adele 137,000

No word if GAGA debuted early?

You early-thread starter, PTB.

Info from Idol Chatter:

1. Adele, 21: 138,000 (1.848 million)
2. Seether, Holding Onto Strings Better Left: 61,000
3. Various, Now That's What I Call Music! 38: 50,000 (243,000)
4. Jason Aldean, My Kinda Party: 29,000 (1.204 million)
5. Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More: 25,000 (1.463 million)
6. Beastie Boys, Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2: 24,000 (194,000)
7. Lonely Island, Turtleneck & Chain: 24,000 (92,000)
8. Justin Bieber, Never Say Never: Remixes: 23,000 (605,000)
9. Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues: 23,000 (150,000)
10. Il Volo, Il Volo: 23,000 (24,000)

53. Matthew Morrison, Matthew Morrison: 9,000 (-43%; 25,000)

70. Jennifer Hudson, I Remember Me: 7,000 (-27%; 332,000)
71. Big Time Rush, BTR: 6,000 (-6%; 497,000)

99. Civil Wars, Barton Hollow: 5,000 (+11%; 95,000)

104. Aerosmith, Best of Aerosmith: The Millennium Collection: 5,000 (-11%; 274,000)

187. Josh Turner, Icon: 3,000 (+39%; 29,000)

195. Mandisa, What If We Were Real: 3,000 (-25%; 35,000)

Ah mannn New Boyz album is actually really good! They should have promoted way more

Doesn't get much tighter than Nos. 5-10, does it?

yeah I don't really see her increasing next week, especially with the GaGa release and "Rolling in the Deep" sales already past their peak. But yeah she'll come close enough to 2 million this week to blow right past it the following week. :) 3 million, here we come!

As expected, Adele's "21" album continues to cling to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 for a ninth non-consecutive week -- just the fourth album since 2000 to spend that long at No. 1. It sold 137,000 last week according to Nielsen SoundScan (down 12%).

In the history of the Billboard 200 chart -- dating back to 1956 -- "21" is only the 12th album by a woman to spend nine weeks or more atop the list. The longest reign for a female album is Whitney Houston's "The Bodyguard" soundtrack, with 20 weeks at No. 1.

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Surely "21" won't be No. 1 next week, as it is expected Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" will bow atop the the list with as much as 800-850,000 -- or more.

Back on this week's chart, rock band Seether arrives at No. 2 with "Holding Onto to Strings Better Left to Fray" (61,000) marking a career-high chart peak for the band and its best sales week since "Karma and Effect" bowed with 82,000 in 2005 (No. 8).

At No. 3, the "Now 38" album falls one spot (50,000; down 27%) while Jason Aldean's "My Kinda Party" sees its best rank since its No. 2 debut last November as it rises 10-4 (29,000; up 1%).

Mumford & Sons' "Sigh No More" also moves up, climbing 12-5 (25,000; though its down 10%), Beastie Boys' "Hot Sauce Committee Part 2" holds at No. 6 (24,000; down 42%) and the Lonely Island's "Turtleneck & Chain" drops 3-7 (just under 24,000; down 65%). Justin Bieber's "Never Say Never" rises 11-8 (23,000; down 18%) and Fleet Foxes' "Helplessness Blues" descends one rung to No. 9 (a wee bit over 23,000; down 32%).

Rounding out the top 10, at No. 10, is a debut from the teen Italian vocal trio Il Volo with its self-titled album, selling 23,000. The group performed last week on "American Idol" (May 19) and visited CBS' "The Early Show" (21).

Over on the Digital Songs chart, Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" is still tops, shifting another 297,000 downloads (down 16%), while Pitbull's "Give Me Everything" featuring Ne-Yo, AfroJack and Nayer, jumps 4-2 with 212,000 (up 14%). Katy Perry's "E.T." is stationary at No. 3 (173,000; down 14%) while LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" flies 13-4 with 163,000 (up 68%).

Lady Gaga's "Hair," the fourth commercially-released single from her "Born This Way" album, starts at No. 5 with 147,000. Last week, she started at No. 2 with "The Edge of Glory," which falls to No. 14 this week (95,000; down 64%).

All falling one rung apiece this week at Nos. 6-8 respectively: Bruno Mars' "The Lazy Song" (146,000; down 7%), Jennifer Lopez's "On the Floor" (138,000; down 7%) and the Black Eyed Peas' "Just Can't Get Enough" (126,000; down 9%).

Nicki Minaj charges into the top 10 with "Super Bass" zipping 16-9 (113,000; up 25%). It's her first visit to the top 10 as the lead artist on a track. Right behind her at No. 10 is her "Femme Fatale" tour mate, Britney Spears, with her "Till the World Ends," rising 11-10 (111,000; up 6%).

Pitbull, Minaj and Spears all could have seen some of their gains owed to performances of each song on ABC's Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, May 22 -- the final day of the SoundScan tracking week.

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Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending May 22) totaled 5.41 million units, down 5% compared to the sum last week (5.68 million) and down 2% compared to the comparable sales week of 2010 (5.32 million). Year to date album sales stand at 119.19 million, down 1% compared to the same total at this point last year (120.43 million).

Digital track sales this past week totaled 24.28 million downloads, down 2% compared to last week (24.79 million) and up 10% stacked next to the comparable week of 2010 (21.99 million). Year to date track sales are at 511.44 million, up 10% compared to the same total at this point last year (466.26 million).

Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2010 when: "Glee, the Music: The Showstoppers" held at No. 1 for a second week (63,000; down 54%), blocking the Stone Temple Pilots' from a No. 1 debut, as the band's self-titled set settled for a No. 2 arrival (62,000).

www.billboard.com/news#/news/seether-scores-top-billboard-200-debut-adele-1005200382.story

Sales are up 2%, not down...

I saw that too, second week in a row the same mistake happened.

Yeah they keep mixing "down"/"up" -- annoying.

Gaga will certainly pull the YTD total closer to last year's next week, but I'm not sure if she'll be quite enough to bring 2011 ahead of 2010.

It was always 350-450k for the first day. The numbers are being printed by all different outlets who have access to all different kinds of info. This is doing over 1 million this week.

It was also said in another article that UMG is being cautious with predicting the first week sales. So the 800-850k is being cautious. Meaning, they think it could be higher, they just don't wanna make it official.

Another week where there's a typo for year-to-year comparisons. Yah, next week, we should see total sales out of the black.

True, and it also peaked (at least for now) in airplay this past week

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 5/22/11)

1) Adele – 21 – 137,626 (After 13 weeks – 1,847,883)
2) Seether – Holding Onto Strings Better Left To Fray – 61,283
3) Various Artists – Now 38 – 50,108 (After 3 weeks – 242,993)

Other Debuts
10) Il Volo – Il Volo – 23,202
11) Danger Mouse/Danielle Luppi – Rome – 22,718
13) Michael Grimm – Michael Grimm – 21,924
15) Ben Harper – Give Till It’s Gone – 19,443
18) Parachute – Way It Was – 17,850
20) Tinie Tempah – Disc-overy – 16,435
26) Newsong – One True God – 14,426
30) Book Of Mormon – Original Broadway Cast Recording – 13,061
44) Pirates Of The Caribbean Soundtrack – 10, 523