Billboard 200: 8/6/2011: Adele #1 (11th wk): 77K

Wow- a 15K difference between HITS and SoundScan? :o

I wonder if the label shipped physical stock in the wake of her passing, or will just let the digital version enjoy the sales.

Frank sees a four-position gain from its initial peak.

I would love either Kelly Rowland or Amy to hit #1 next week. As for some reason, I feel it could be either one's last chances for a #1 album (well, Amy's posthumous album could hit #1 later this year too).

Did Amy finish the material for a third album? I've heard conflicting reports.

What's with that Brandy and Ray J title listed at HITS? Is that not released?

Actually, I wonder what cause the final numbers to be so high since Billboard also estimated 20k~25k as of yesterday.

It's great seeing one of the best album of the last decade in the top 10, but so sad it's under these circumstances :( RIP Amy.

If it ever comes out, the upcoming Winehouse album will be like MJ's 'Michael' because there was material but it wasn't properly finished.

She will appear on Tony Bennett's Duets II, released in September.

As we've seen, individual catalog titles have not been swamping the upper regions of the chart since Billboard let catalog titles chart on the Billboard 200 (overall catalog album sales are enjoying a year-to-year bump, though). And, Winehouse's album is high as result of another extraordinary circumstance (i.e. Michael Jackson's albums).

^ i hope so. She clearly would have been #1 this week had her death, well, you know...

and that's no disrespect.

It would be very surprising if Rowland's album did that much, no? The album doesn't even appear on All Access' Street Pulse Daily Sales Reports- granted, you can't go by that for determining No. 1 or anything, but to not even appear in the top 50? Kinda odd. It does appear at No. 17 on StreetPulse's Independent Retail chart.

Yeah six figures seems like a massive stretch for Kelly Rowland

www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts-articles/chart-alert/adele-s-21-marks-11th-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-1005293792.story

Adele's '21' Marks 11th Week At No. 1 On Billboard 200
July 27, 2011

By Keith Caulfield (keith_caulfield), Los Angeles

As Adele's "21" heads back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for an 11th nonconsecutive week (up two slots with 77,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan; a gain of 1%), the late Amy Winehouse returns to the top 10 with "Back to Black" at No. 9 (37,000; up 3,140%).

Winehouse's first album, 2004's "Frank," also comes back to the tally, re-entering at No. 57 with 8,000 (up 4,100%). Additionally, her digital-only "Back to Black: B-Sides" EP, released in 2008, debuts at No. 152 with 3,000 after having sold next to nothing the previous week.

On the Digital Songs chart, "Rehab" -- the biggest hit from Winehouse's 2007 "Back" album -- re-enters at No. 46 with 38,000 downloads sold. It's the only Winehouse song on the tally this week.

Back to the top 10 albums for this week: The 11-week run of Adele's "21" at the top makes it the biggest No. 1 since Taylor Swift's "Fearless" also spent 11 frames in the penthouse in late 2007 and early 2008. Since the chart began using SoundScan data in May 1991, only eight albums have been No. 1 for 11 weeks or longer. If "21" hits a 12th week at No. 1, it will tie the runs racked up by Santana's "Supernatural" (1999) and Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" (1995-1996).

At No. 2 this week, "Kidz Bop 20" debuts with 69,000, marking the third No. 2 album for the long-running children's music franchise. The Razor & Tie set also hit No. 2 with "Kidz Bop 9" in 2006 and "Kidz Bop 19" back in January. The latter arrived with a little more than 70,000 sold.

Fittingly, 3 Doors Down's latest album, "Time of My Life," debuts at No. 3 with 60,000. It's the fifth studio effort for the band, but the first to miss the No. 1 slot since its second release, "Away From the Sun," debuted and peaked at No. 8 in 2002. Its third and fourth sets, 2005's "Seventeen Days" and a 2008 self-titled album, both arrived at No. 1. The latter set entered with 154,000.

Last week's No. 1, Blake Shelton's "Red River Blue," drifts to No. 6 in its second week with 47,000 (down 60%). One step above him is DJ Khaled's "We the Best Forever," bowing with 53,000 -- his best sales week yet. "Forever" also marks his third top 10 and his highest-charting album, surpassing the No. 7 rank of "We Global" in 2008.

The final debut in the top 10 comes from veteran rock act 311, as its "Universal Pulse" races in at No. 7 with 46,000. It's the eighth top 10 album for the band. All of its studio efforts have reached the top 10 -- save for 1996's self-titled album, which climbed to No. 12.

As for the rest of the holdovers in the top 10, Jason Aldean's "My Kinda Party" falls 7-8 (43,000; up 2%) and Selena Gomez & the Scene's "When the Sun Goes Down" holds at No. 10 (28,000; down 12%).

Over on the Digital Songs chart, at No. 1, LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" keeps on partying with 209,000 downloads sold (down 3%) while Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" climbs up one rung to No. 2 with 164,000 (down 4%). Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" is also up, rising a spot to No. 3 with 154,000 (down 1%).

Two titles make big jumps within the top 10 as Hot Chelle Rae's "Tonight Tonight" zips 7-4 with 148,000 (up 13%) and Bad Meets Evil's "Lighters" (featuring Bruno Mars) skips 12-5 with 143,000 (up 56%).

Reaching the top 10 for the first time is Britney Spears' "I Wanna Go," which goes 11-9 in its sixth week on the list, selling 116,000 (up 26%).

Meanwhile, Pitbull's "Give Me Everything" slips 6-7 (127,000; down 7%), Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" is steady at No. 8 (121,000; down 7%), and Lil Wayne's "How to Love" gets pushed down 5-6 despite a gain (139,000; up 2%).

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending July 24) totaled 5.62 million units, up 1% compared with the sum last week (5.61 million) and up 6% compared with the comparable sales week of 2010 (5.3 million). Year-to-date album sales stand at 172 million, up 1% compared with the same total at this point last year (169.7 million). It's the ninth week in a row where year-to-date album volume is greater than the same time in the prior year.

Digital track sales this past week totaled 24.1 million downloads, up 5% compared with last week (22.9 million) and up 14% stacked next to the comparable week of 2010 (21 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 731 million, up 11% compared with the same total at this point last year (660.6 million).

Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2010 when: Avenged Sevenfold's "Nightmare" entered at No. 1 with 163,000, pushing the previous week's topper, Eminem's "Recovery," down to No. 2 (159,000; down 15%).

Yet another year-to-year increase- yay.

Yay to Selena Gomez holding on in the top 10. IDK who's out this week other than Kelly Rowland, but hopefully Sel G. can stay in the top 10 with 3 Doors Down, DJ Khaled & 311 most likely falling below her next week.

Hmm it might just miss it then, oh well. She has now sold more in three weeks than what she opened with . (Selena opened with 77,993 & had sold 154,890 as of last week.)