Billboard 200: 7/14/12: Linkin Park No. 1: 223,000

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Linkin Park Tops Maroon 5, Scores Fifth No. 1 Album With 'Living Things'
July 04, 2012 | By Keith Caulfield (keith_caulfield), Los Angeles

As projected last week, Linkin Park debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with its new album, "Living Things," ahead of the also-debuting "Overexposed" by Maroon 5 at No. 2.

However, the race for No. 1 turned out to be much closer than initially expected. Linkin Park starts with 223,000 while Maroon 5 enters with 222,000 according to Nielsen SoundScan. A little over 1,000 copies sold separates the two titles -- the smallest gap between Nos. 1 and 2 on the chart since the Dec. 11, 2011 tally.

That week, the gap was less than 1,000 between the top two rungs. Nickelback's "Here and Now" debuted at No. 2 with just under 227,000, while Michael Buble's "Christmas" rose 2-1 with a little more than 227,000.

Linkin Park's "Living Things" secures the band its fifth No. 1 on the chart. In the span of time since 2000 -- when Linkin Park debuted on the Billboard 200 -- no other band has had more No. 1 albums.

Linkin Park's previous studio effort, "A Thousand Suns," was released in 2010 and also bowed at No. 1 -- with 241,000. Of the act's five studio releases, all but its first reached No. 1. That album, 2000's "Hybrid Theory," peaked at No. 2 for four nonconsecutive weeks in early 2002. Though it never hit No. 1, "Hybrid Theory" did finish 2001 as that year's top selling album.

In addition to four No. 1 studio sets, Linkin Park also earned a No. 1 album with its Jay-Z collaboration effort "MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups Presents: Collision Course."

In the runner-up slot on the Billboard 200 this week is Maroon 5, with its new album "Overexposed." It's the band's fourth studio album, and follows 2010's "Hands All Over." The latter set also bowed (and peaked) at No. 2, selling 142,000 in its first week.

"Overexposed's" start marks Maroon 5's best sales week for an album since 2007's "It Won't Be Soon Before Long" debuted at No. 1 with 429,000. That large sum was driven by the band's building success over the previous five years, thanks to the steady sales of its debut album "Songs About Jane." That album was released in June of 2002, though it didn't reach a Billboard chart until December of that year.

"Overexposed" comes after a very buzzworthy year for Maroon 5. In April of 2011, the group's frontman Adam Levine debuted as a coach on NBC's breakout TV show "The Voice." Shortly thereafter, he notched a No. 4 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 as the featured guest on Gym Class Heroes' single "Stereo Hearts." Also last summer, Maroon 5 teamed with Levine's fellow "Voice" coach Christina Aguilera for the Hot 100 No. 1 "Moves Like Jagger." The group followed that up with its current hit, "Payphone," the lead single from "Overexposed." It has reached No. 2 on the Hot 100.

Back on the Billboard 200, last week's No. 1 album, Justin Bieber's "Believe," falls to No. 3 with 115,000 (down 69%).

At No. 4, the "Maybach Music Group Presents: Self Made 2" compilation album starts with 98,000. The first "Self Made" set arrived almost a year ago, and bowed at No. 5 with 59,000. The new effort includes Wale's current top 20 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs hit "Bag of Money," featuring Maybach label chief Rick Ross, along with Meek Mill and T-Pain.

Right behind the "Self Made 2" set at No. 5 is R. Kelly, who debuts his latest album, "Write Me Back," with 68,000. It's his 14th top 10 album and follows 2011's "Love Letter," which launched at No. 6 with 154,000. "Write Me Back" is R. Kelly's first studio album to bow with less than 100,000 since his first solo set, 1993's "12 Play," debuted with 44,000.

As for the rest of the top 10 albums: Kenny Chesney's "Welcome to the Fishbowl" slips 2-6 (61,000; down 68%), Adele's "21" holds at No. 7 (42,000; down 12%) and One Direction's "Up All Night" is steady at No. 8 (39,000; down 6%). Usher's "Looking 4 Myself" slides 6-9 with 36,000 (down 26%) and the "Rock of Ages" soundtrack dips 5-10 with 28,000 (down 42%).

Over on the Digital Songs chart, Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" is a non-mover at No. 1, selling 251,000 downloads (down 5%). In fact, the entire top five titles are stationary this week. Katy Perry's "Wide Awake" (207,000; down 6%), Maroon 5's "Payphone" featuring Wiz Khalifa (186,000; down 15%), Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" featuring Kimbra (156,000; down 11%) and Ellie Goulding's "Lights" (152,000; up 2%) round out the rest of the Nos. 2-4 slots, respectively.

At No. 6 is the Digital Songs chart's highest new entry, "Good Time" by Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen. It debuts with 140,000 downloads.

David Guetta's "Titanium," featuring Sia, slips 6-7 with 125,000 (down 1%) and Flo Rida's "Whistle" flies 32-8 with 113,000 (up 115%). The song has been featured in recently TV commercials on The CW touting the network's summer lineup.

Rihanna's "Where Have You Been" moves 7-9 (110,000; down 9%) and Usher's "Scream" rounds out the top 10, falling 8-10 with 102,000 (down 14%).

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending July 1) totaled 5.74 million units, down 3% compared with the sum last week (5.94 million) and down 9% compared with the comparable sales week of 2011 (6.34 million). Year-to-date album sales stand at 150.46 million, down 3% compared with the same total at this point last year (155.46 million).

Digital track sales this past week totaled 25.17 million downloads, down 1% compared with last week (25.38 million) and down less than 1% stacked next to the comparable week of 2011 (25.29 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 672.73 million, up 6% compared with the same total at this point last year (635.35 million).

Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2011 when: Beyonce's "4" held at No. 1 for a second week, selling 115,000 (down 63%). The highest debut came from Lloyd's "King of Hearts" at No. 10 with 26,000.

MMG's numbers are astounding!

Kels underperformed a bit but he usually has some longevity (at least Love Letter had)

Brilliant sales in top 5 btw.

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Week Ending July 1, 2012. Albums: Keeping Adam Humble
By Paul Grein | Chart Watch – Wed. July 4, 2012

Everything's going Adam Levine's way, right? He has a hit TV show, and has sung lead on three giant hits in the past year, Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger" and "Payphone" and Gym Class Heroes' "Stereo Hearts." (Combined sales: 11,812,000). Well, the Billboard charts are working to keep Levine humble. "Payphone" has so far been unable to rise above #2. And now Maroon 5's latest album Overexposed debuts at #2 behind the latest by fellow L.A. band Linkin Park. But it was close. Extremely close. If Maroon 5's album had sold just 2K more copies, it would have taken the #1 spot. This is the group's second album in a row to just miss debuting at #1. Hands All Over debuted at #2 in September 2010. If it had sold 12K more copies, it would have seized the crown from Zac Brown Band's You Get What You Give.

Levine has been on such a roll lately that he can't get too upset at just missing out on two #1 albums. Even so, most artists don't like to come in second—especially when it's this close. But it's not like Maroon 5 has never had a #1 album. Its 2007 album It Won't Be Soon Before Long debuted in the top spot with sales of 429K.

Overexposed starts with sales of 222K, which marks a healthy jump over Hands All Over, which opened with sales of 142K. Incidentally, Hands All Over has become a solid hit despite that so-so debut. It has sold 1,132,000 copies. It rebounds from #115 to #37 in its 89th week on the chart.

Overexposed is #1 on Top Digital Albums. It sold 134K digital copies, compared to 122K digital copies for Linkin Park's Living Things.

(They don't give a Grammy for Best Album Title, but if they did, Overexposed would be a leading candidate. It's a great example of self-deprecating wit. Another in this vein: Sugar Ray's 1999 album 14:59.)

Linkin Park and Maroon 5 are on very similar release schedules. Their last two albums were released one week apart. This time around, the two bands went head-to-head.

Living Things is Linkin Park's fifth #1 album. Only three other hard rock bands have landed five or more #1 albums. Led Zeppelin leads the pack with seven. Metallica and Van Halen have also had five. Linkin Park's previous #1 albums were Meteora, Collision Course (with Jay-Z), Minutes To Midnight and A Thousand Suns.

Living Things sold more copies in one week than any other rock album so far this year. Runners-up are Bruce Springsteen's Wrecking Ball (196K), Van Halen's A Different Kind Of Truth (187K) and Jack White's Blunderbuss (138K). (The Fine Print: The Hunger Games soundtrack, which sold 175K in its first week, features a wide range of pop and rock acts.)

Living Things also enters the Official U.K. chart at #1. It's the band's third album to reach #1 in both the U.S. and the U.K. Only one hard rock band has had more "transatlantic #1" albums. That's Led Zeppelin with six. Metallica has also had three.

R. Kelly's Write Me Back debuts at #5. It's the R&B star's 14th top 10 album (counting two collabos with Jay-Z). This puts R. Kelly in a tie with Prince for the most by a non-rap R&B male artist. (If you combine Michael Jackson's solo tally with the Jackson 5/Jacksons, he leads with 15.)

Adele's 21 holds at #7 for the second week in its 71st week. It has been in the top 10 the entire time. The album this week ties the top 10 longevity of the Dr. Zhivago soundtrack, which logged 71 weeks in the top 10 from June 1966 to January 1968. (The album is best known for "Lara's Theme," which became a top 10 hit for Ray Conniff as "Somewhere My Love.")

Only five albums have logged more than 71 weeks in the top 10 since 1963, when Billboard combined its separate mono and stereo charts into one comprehensive listing. They are: The Sound Of Music soundtrack (109 weeks), Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A. (84 weeks), Michael Jackson's Thriller (78 weeks), Def Leppard's Hysteria (78 weeks) and Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill (72 weeks). Which means if 21 spends one more week in the top 10, it will tie Pill for the longest run in the top 10 by a female solo artist. Will Adele do it? Stay tuned.

Shameless Plug: 21 sold 3,668,000 copies in the first half of 2012, which is more than any other album has sold in the first half of the year since 50 Cent's The Massacre blew through 4,022,000 copies in the first half of 2005. 21 sold more copies in the first half of this year than it did in the first half of 2011 (2,517,000), when it was a new release. It's the first album to finish as the top-seller of the first half of the year twice since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard in 1991. Otherwise, the album sales news was grim. 21 was the only album that sold 1 million copies in the first half. Eleven albums sold 500K copies. This is down from past years. I'll have all the news in a Chart Watch Extra on album sales in the first half of the year that will be posted shortly.

One Direction's Up All Night logs its 16th straight week in the top 10. In addition, the boy band's DVD, Up All Night: The Live Tour, is #1 for the fifth week on Top Music Videos. It sold 18,000 copies this week, bringing its five-week total to 178K.

Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" holds at #1 on Hot Digital Songs for the seventh straight week. Only one other song has had seven weeks at #1 so far this year. That's "We Are Young" by fun. featuring Janelle Monae. Will "Call Me Maybe" also hold at #1 on the Hot 100? Probably, but you'll find out for sure later today when we post Chart Watch: Songs.

Shameless Plug II: I'll also have a Chart Watch Extra on digital song sales in the first half of the year. It'll go up tomorrow morning.

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

The Top Five: Linkin Park's Living Things debuts at #1 (223K). It's the band's seventh top 10 album; its fifth #1…Maroon 5's Overexposed debuts at #2 (222K). It's the group's fourth top 10 album…Justin Bieber's Believe drops from #1 to #3 in its second week (115K)… Maybach Music Group Presents: Self Made, Vol. 2 debuts at #4 (98K)… R. Kelly's Write Me Back debuts at #5 (68K). It's Kelly's 14th top 10 album.

The Second Five: Kenny Chesney's Welcome To The Fishbowl drops from #2 to #6 in its second week (61K). It's #1 on Top Country Albums for the second week…Adele's 21 holds at #7 for the second week in its 71st week (42K). It has been in the top 10 the entire time… One Direction's Up All Night holds at #8 for the second week in its 16th week (39K). The former #1 album has been in the top 10 the entire time…Usher's Looking 4 Myself drops from #6 to #9 in its third week (36K). It's the third week in the top 10 for the former #1 album…The Rock Of Ages soundtrack drops from #5 to #10 in its fourth week (28K). It's #1 on Top Soundtracks for the fourth week.

Fiona Apple's The Idler Wheel Is Wiser drops from #3 to #11...Smashing Pumpkins' Oceania drops from #4 to #19… Luke Bryan's Tailgates & Tanlines drops from #9 to #13…Rush's Clockwork Angels drops from #10 to #26.

The Offspring's Days Go By debuts at #12. It's the band's seventh top 20 album (though it failed to follow the other six into the top 10)…The Pentatonix's PTX, Vol. 1 EP debuts at #14. The artist was the winner on NBC's The Sing Off…Memphis May Fire's Challenger bows at #16.

Sleeping With Siren's If You Were A Movie, This Would Be Your Soundtrack bows at #17. This isn't the first non-soundtrack to have the word "soundtrack" in its title. 10cc had a top 15 album in 1975 titled The Original Soundtrack.

Led Zeppelin's 2007 album Mothership vaults from #157 to #20 in its 130th week on the chart. It jumps to #1 on this week's Top Catalog Albums chart. Now get this: This marks the first time that Led Zeppelin has topped the catalog chart since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard in 1991. That's surprising because the band is one of the best-selling acts in music history. Led Zep has sold 24,561,000 albums since 1991, mostly due to catalog sales. Mothership, a two-disk album, reached #7 in December 2007.

Chris Cagle's Back In The Saddle debuts at #27. The title plays off Gene Autry's 1939 classic "Back In The Saddle Again," which the singing cowboy sang in the movie Rovin' Tumbleweeds. Autry's recording is in the Grammy Hall of Fame. Aerosmith had an original top 40 hit titled "Back In The Saddle" in 1977.

Usher's 2004 album Confessions tops the 10 million mark in U.S. sales this week. It's only the 19th album to reach that milestone since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard in 1991. Confessions is the best-selling R&B album in this period (excluding hip hop). Here's the rest of the top five among R&B albums: Boyz II Men's II (8,586,000), TLC's CrazySexyCool (7,342,000), Janet Jackson's janet. (7,035,000) and Boyz II Men's Cooleyhighharmony (6,971,000). (The Fine Print: I'm classifying Nelly's Country Grammar, 50 Cent's Get Rich Or Die Tryin', Dr. Dre's 2001 and Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill as hip-hop. I'm classifying Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard soundtrack and Mariah Carey's Daydream and Music Box as pop.)

Confessions was a Grammy finalist for Album of the Year for 2004. It lost to Ray Charles' Genius Loves Company. I think even some people at the Recording Academy would privately concede that Confessions should have won. No disrespect intended to the great Ray Charles, who should have won for his 1962 ground-breaker, Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music. (It lost to Vaughn Meader's The First Family, an album few have played since 1963.)

Ted was #1 at the box-office over the weekend.

Coming Attractions: Chris Brown's Fortune is expected to be next week's top new entry. Also due: Flo Rida's Wild Ones and the straight-to-DVD release, Mac & Devin Go To High School. (That's the stoner movie that gave us "Young, Wild & Free" by Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa featuring Bruno Mars.)

^Absolutely. Remember when she won the Grammy for Album of the Year? She said it was crazy, "this is hip-hop music." But, it's also R&B.

Damn would have wished M5 got the top spot, didn't think it would be that close. "Hands All Over" surged back into the Top 50 I believe as well, I wonder if people thought that was the new album or just picked it up along with it.

No, I didn't, but it's not that important. Wonderful album at the end of the day. "21" stands a little under 9.5 (9,497).

Only 1k difference between Linkin Park and Maroon 5? at the outcome.

The Billboard 200

1 NEW 1 Living Things, Linkin Park
2 NEW 1 Overexposed, Maroon 5
3 1 2 Believe, Justin Bieber
4 NEW 1 Maybach Music Group Presents: Self Made 2, Various Artists
5 NEW 1 Write Me Back, R. Kelly
6 2 2 Welcome To The Fishbowl, Kenny Chesney
7 7 71 21, Adele
8 8 16 Up All Night, One Direction
9 6 3 Looking 4 Myself, Usher
10 5 4 Rock Of Ages, Soundtrack
11 3 2 The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than..., Fiona Apple
12 NEW 1 Days Go By, The Offspring
13 9 47 Tailgates & Tanlines, Luke Bryan
14 NEW 1 PTX: Volume 1, Pentatonix
15 12 3 Let It Shine, Soundtrack
16 NEW 1 Challenger, Memphis May Fire
17 NEW 1 If You Were A Movie, This Would Be Your Soundtrack (EP), Sleeping With Sirens
18 14 9 NOW 42, Various Artists
19 4 2 Oceania, The Smashing Pumpkins
20 157 130 Mothership, Led Zeppelin
21 31 97 Teenage Dream, Katy Perry
22 11 4 Thirty Miles West, Alan Jackson
23 16 19 Some Nights, fun.
24 15 9 Blown Away, Carrie Underwood
25 20 49 Chief, Eric Church

26 10 3 Clockwork Angels, Rush
27 NEW 1 Back In The Saddle, Chris Cagle
28 13 3 NOW That's What I Call Country: Volume 5, Various Artists
29 61 119 Sigh No More, Mumford & Sons
30 19 6 Born And Raised, John Mayer
31 24 26 Making Mirrors, Gotye
32 17 3 Punching Bag, Josh Turner
33 34 9 Project X, Soundtrack
34 NEW 1 L'enfant Sauvage, Gojira
35 27 13 Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, Nicki Minaj
36 22 14 Tuskegee, Lionel Richie
37 115 89 Hands All Over, Maroon 5
38 66 110 Brothers, The Black Keys
39 39 87 My Kinda Party, Jason Aldean
40 29 3 +, Ed Sheeran
41 28 4 Americana, Neil Young With Crazy Horse
42 33 2 Brave, Soundtrack
43 30 13 My Head Is An Animal, Of Monsters And Men
44 38 13 The Lumineers, The Lumineers
45 35 11 Love Is A Four Letter Word, Jason Mraz
46 23 4 That's Why God Made The Radio, The Beach Boys
47 26 3 Triple F Life: Fans Friends & Family, Waka Flocka Flame
48 37 32 Talk That Talk, Rihanna
49 45 13 Boys & Girls, Alabama Shakes
50 21 2 Rhythm And Repose, Glen Hansard

51 32 9 ...Little Broken Hearts, Norah Jones
52 44 10 Blunderbuss, Jack White
53 58 33 Take Care, Drake
54 46 141 19, Adele
55 55 30 El Camino, The Black Keys
56 52 9 Strange Clouds, B.o.B
57 56 10 Hard 2 Love, Lee Brice
58 53 36 Stronger, Kelly Clarkson
59 167 214 Greatest Hits, Queen
60 43 10 Up All Night, Kip Moore
61 129 109 Lungs, Florence + The Machine
62 41 11 California 37, Train
63 50 46 Halfway To Heaven, Brantley Gilbert
64 125 73 Barton Hollow, The Civil Wars
65 RE-ENTRY 32 Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac
66 71 42 Own The Night, Lady Antebellum
67 65 13 Changed, Rascal Flatts
68 54 36 Mylo Xyloto, Coldplay
69 76 27 Bangarang (EP), Skrillex
70 59 20 Hunter Hayes, Hunter Hayes
71 75 93 You Get What You Give, Zac Brown Band
72 49 3 Synthetica, Metric
73 198 7 Not Your Kind Of People, Garbage
74 RE-ENTRY 807 Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd (Diamond Certification) 15

75 93 54 Sorry For Party Rocking, LMFAO
76 94 4 Vans Warped Tour '12: 2012 Tour Compilation, Various Artists
77 79 35 Ceremonials, Florence + The Machine
78 63 12 Slipstream, Bonnie Raitt
79 69 4 Analog Man, Joe Walsh
80 RE-ENTRY 14 Let It Roll: Songs By George Harrison, George Harrison
81 68 14 Amaryllis, Shinedown
82 105 22 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey
83 92 188 The Foundation, Zac Brown Band
84 18 2 Cabin By The Sea, The Dirty Heads
85 74 3 The Best Of Both Worlds, Charles Jenkins & Fellowship Chicago
86 86 8 Go Get It (Soundtrack), Mary Mary
87 60 5 What We Saw From The Cheap Seats, Regina Spektor
88 51 3 Edens Edge, Edens Edge
89 48 3 The Lion The Beast The Beat, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
90 90 90 The Band Perry, The Band Perry
91 NEW 1 Suzy Cracks The Whip, Blues Traveler
92 70 5 Here, Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros
93 NEW 1 The Duke, Joe Jackson
94 131 11 Pluto, Future
95 160 4 Celebration Rock, Japandroids
96 102 56 Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites (EP), Skrillex
97 40 221 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey (Diamond Certification) 15
98 RE-ENTRY 109 [Hybrid Theory], Linkin Park (Diamond Certification) 10
99 113 82 Licensed To Ill, Beastie Boys
100 96 6 The Hurt & The Healer, MercyMe

101 NEW 1 Casey Abrams, Casey Abrams
102 77 4 Victorious: Victorious 2.0: More Music From The Hit TV Show (EP), Soundtrack
103 122 88 Speak Now, Taylor Swift
104 81 106 Recovery, Eminem
105 158 24 Kidz Bop 21, Kidz Bop Kids
106 67 4 Live From The Underground, Big K.R.I.T.
107 106 21 NOW 41, Various Artists
108 101 3 The Best Of Donna Summer: 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection, Donna Summer
109 83 32 Here And Now, Nickelback
110 118 58 Torches, Foster The People
111 121 50 Whitney: The Greatest Hits, Whitney Houston
112 85 4 Bear Creek, Brandi Carlile
113 RE-ENTRY 150 Number Ones, Michael Jackson
114 143 26 Unbroken, Demi Lovato
115 NEW 1 Marvin L Winans Presents: The Praise + Worship Experience, Marvin L Winans
116 150 22 Lights, Ellie Goulding
117 104 10 The Wanted, The Wanted
118 183 7 Rize Of The Fenix, Tenacious D
119 NEW 1 Invisible Stars, Everclear
120 NEW 1 Una Noche de Luna: Mas En Vivo Desde Buenos Aires, Marco Antonio Solis
121 112 36 Clancy's Tavern, Toby Keith
122 114 51 Red River Blue, Blake Shelton
123 78 6 Apocalyptic Love, Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators
124 136 21 Home, Dierks Bentley
125 82 147 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival Featuring John Fogerty

126 132 41 Nothing But The Beat, David Guetta
127 127 19 Careless World: Rise Of The Last King, Tyga
128 123 117 The Very Best Of The Beach Boys: Sounds Of Summer, The Beach Boys
129 103 12 Courageous, Soundtrack
130 RE-ENTRY 6 Aim And Ignite, fun.
131 91 35 Four The Record, Miranda Lambert
132 36 2 Walk The Moon, Walk The Moon
133 64 3 Blow Your Pants Off, Jimmy Fallon
134 NEW 1 Presents: Prank Phone Calls Vol 5: Church Folks Gotta Laugh Too, Thomas Miles aka Nephew Tommy
135 144 44 Tha Carter IV, Lil Wayne
136 98 38 American Capitalist, Five Finger Death Punch
137 109 7 Trespassing, Adam Lambert
138 130 91 Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars
139 NEW 1 The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends, The Flaming Lips
140 108 4 Jana Kramer, Jana Kramer
141 184 63 The Essential Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson
142 110 23 Emotional Traffic, Tim McGraw
143 97 54 Planet Pit, Pitbull
144 119 7 Bloom, Beach House
145 RE-ENTRY 113 Songs About Jane, Maroon 5
146 141 28 TM:103: Hustlerz Ambition, Young Jeezy
147 137 10 The Ultimate Bee Gees, Bee Gees
148 178 7 Continued Silence (EP), Imagine Dragons
149 174 15 Shake It Up: Live 2 Dance: Music From The Disney Channel Series, Soundtrack
150 176 42 Neon, Chris Young

151 116 4 The One, Eric Benet
152 146 47 Watch The Throne, Jay Z Kanye West
153 RE-ENTRY 105 Meteora, Linkin Park
154 153 34 Life At Best, Eli Young Band
155 73 3 Up & Away, KiD iNk
156 NEW 1 Evita, New Broadway Cast Recording
157 RE-ENTRY 39 Megalithic Symphony, AWOLNATION
158 RE-ENTRY 111 The Eminem Show, Eminem (Diamond Certification) 10
159 172 11 Picture Show, Neon Trees
160 180 41 Barefoot Blue Jean Night, Jake Owen
161 134 49 The Best Of Lionel Richie: 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection, Lionel Richie
162 169 39 Clear As Day, Scotty McCreery
163 151 22 Ronnie Dunn, Ronnie Dunn
164 80 243 Greatest Hits, Guns N' Roses
165 107 4 The Stoned Immaculate, Curren$Y
166 154 119 My World 2.0, Justin Bieber
167 149 45 Hell On Heels, Pistol Annies
168 NEW 1 Traveler, Jerry Douglas
169 168 67 Number One Hits, Tim McGraw
170 142 76 Greatest Hits II, Kenny Chesney
171 120 7 Heroes, Willie Nelson
172 RE-ENTRY 33 Femme Fatale, Britney Spears
173 147 32 Ultimate Hits: Rock And Roll Never Forgets, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
174 173 82 Doin' My Thing, Luke Bryan
175 177 229 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers (Diamond Certification) 10

176 140 6 Vows, Kimbra
177 RE-ENTRY 9 The Strange Case Of..., Halestorm
178 NEW 1 Super Hits, Bob Dylan
179 42 2 Evolution, Blood On The Dance Floor
180 47 2 Whitechapel, Whitechapel
181 194 147 The Wall, Pink Floyd (Diamond Certification) 23
182 RE-ENTRY 7 This Is How I Feel, Tank
183 RE-ENTRY 162 Curtain Call: The Hits, Eminem
184 175 76 The Very Best Of The Eagles, Eagles
185 RE-ENTRY 126 Need You Now, Lady Antebellum
186 RE-ENTRY 9 Mirrorball: Live & More, Def Leppard
187 RE-ENTRY 149 Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac
188 195 13 I Win, Marvin Sapp
189 128 17 Wrecking Ball, Bruce Springsteen
190 166 4 Our Version Of Events, Emeli Sande
191 RE-ENTRY 131 The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem (Diamond Certification) 10
192 RE-ENTRY 261 Led Zeppelin IV, Led Zeppelin (Diamond Certification) 23
193 NEW 1 Magic Mike, Soundtrack
194 RE-ENTRY 60 Rolling Papers, Wiz Khalifa
195 161 4 Beyond Hell/Above Heaven, Volbeat
196 148 3 Mud Digger: Volume 3, Various Artists
197 193 15 The Hunger Games: Songs From District 12 And Beyond, Soundtrack
198 NEW 1 La Salsa Vive: "Salsa Lives", N'Klabe
199 181 49 The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac
200 RE-ENTRY 36 Come To The Well, Casting Crowns

Idol albums

Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (15,000, -16%, 602,000) (#23 Billboard 200)
Kelly Clarkson, Stronger (7,000, -17%, 846,000) (#54 BB200)
Casey Abrams, Simple Life (4,000, debut, 4,000) (#87 BB200)
Adam Lambert, Trespassing (4,000, -22%, 135,000) (#115 BB200)
Scotty McCreery, Clear as Day (3,000, -2%, 1.079 million) (#133 BB200)
Haley Reinhart, Listen Up! (2,000, -11%, 41,000) (#189 BB200)
Mandisa, What If We Were Real (1,000, -11%, 191,000)

Idol-related albums

One Direction, Up All Night (39,000, -6%, 899,000) (#8 Billboard 200)
Soundtrack, Rock of Ages (28,000, -26%, 131,000) (#10 Billboard 200)
Various, Now That's What I Call Music! 42 (17,000, -10%, 336,000) (#18 BB200)
Jason Aldean, My Kinda Party (10,000, -7%, 2.662 million) (#36 BB200)
David Guetta, Nothing but the Beat (4,000, -2%, 338,000) (#106 BB200
Tyga, Careless World (4,000, -3%, 257,000) (#107 BB200)
Various, WOW Hits 2012 (3,000, +8%, 294,000) (#166 BB200)


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Good for Carrie to pass 600k. 700k will be easy. Kelly slowing down but i really hope it can outsell All i ever wanted and become her first platnium selling album since Breakaway. Bad debut for Casey. Mandisa's sales are really good.

The recent discounted albums on amazon.com has just been MP3 albums, correct?

I've always been impressed with Mandisa's sales... Definitely not a mega star, but her steady sales success has definitely gone severely unnoticed. She's sold over 500,000 albums, which to me is very impressive.

^For it to re-enter, I gather it was marked down somewhere last week?

keelyskorner.com/category/soundscan/

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 7/1/12)

1) Linkin Park – Living Things – 223,420
2) Maroon 5 – Overexposed – 222,201
3) Justin Beiber – Believe – 114,985 (After 2 weeks – 489,543)

Other Debuts

4) Maybach Music Group Presents – MMG Presents: Self Made Vol. 2 – 97, 547
5) R. Kelly – Write Me Back – 67,653
12) Offspring – Days Go By – 23,939
14) Pentatonix – PTX, Vol. 1 – 18, 497
16) Memphis May Fire – Challenger – 18,117
17) Sleeping With Sirens – If You Were A Movie This Would Be Your Soundtrack – 17, 486
26) Chris Cagle – Back In The Saddle – 14,719

Yasss for Flo + company :)