Billboard 200: 10/27/12: Mumford #1 3 weeks

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HipHopDX.com:

Current Albums:

Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 10/14/2012

#2. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist - 78,000 (78,000)

#4. Machine Gun Kelly (as MGK) - Lace Up - 51,000 (51,000)

#20. G.O.O.D. Music - Cruel Summer - 18,000 (306,000)

#31. 2 Chainz - Based On A T.R.U. Story - 13,000 (330,000)

#36. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1 - 10,000 (121,000)

#63. Rick Ross - God Forgives, I Don't - 7,200 (432,000)

#75. DJ Drama - Quality Street Music - 6,100 (30,000)

#124. Nas - Life Is Good - 3,600 (313,000)

#140. Xzibit - Napalm - 3,200 (3,200)

#161. XXL (Best Buy Edition) 2,700 (2,700)

* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000. Each week, HipHopDX presents top albums in Hip Hop/related, and five notables.

[HolidayGuy]

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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Score Top Billboard 200 Debut, Mumford Still No. 1
by Keith Caulfield, L.A. | October 17, 2012

As forecasted a week ago, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with "The Heist." The hip-hop set sold 78,000 in its first week according to Nielsen SoundScan, marking the best sales week yet for either artist.

The album is Macklemore's second full-length effort, and teams him with producer Lewis. "The Heist" was released independently through Alternative Distribution Alliance and comes after years of steady growth for the act. Lewis' official YouTube channel has 47,000 subscribers (a growth of 5,000 from a week ago) and 25.5 million views (up 3 million). Meanwhile the duo's SoundCloud has amassed 1 million plays from seven tracks.

With such support via online services, it's no surprise to see that 83% of the album's first week consisted of download sales.

Macklemore and Lewis recently wrapped a sold-out European tour and launched a 50-show U.S. and Canada trek last week.

Above "The Heist" this week is Mumford & Sons' "Babel," which retains the top slot for a third straight frame (96,000; down 43%).

As both titles are independently distributed ("Babel" goes through RED), this marks only the second time the top two selling albums have been indie releases since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991. It last happened on the Jan. 29, 2011 chart, when Cake's "Showroom of Compassion" and Cage the Elephant's "Thank You Happy Birthday" debuted at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively.

Going further, "Babel" is the second-longest running No. 1 indie album in SoundScan history. Only Walt Disney Records' then-indie "The Lion King" soundtrack has racked more weeks at No. 1. The title roared atop the list for 10 non-consecutive weeks between 1994 and 1995.

Mumford will likely step aside next week on the chart, as Jason Aldean's "Night Train" is steaming towards No. 1. Expect a big debut for the country star, who will capture his first leader on the Billboard 200 with the set.

As for the rest of this week's top 10, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis lead a total of seven debuts in the region. Legendary rock band KISS crashes in at No. 3 with its new studio album, "Monster," shifting 56,000 in its first week. It's the group's 25th top 40 album and ties with 1998's "Psycho-Circus" as its second-highest charting album ever. Only its last studio album, 2009's "Sonic Boom," went higher -- when it debuted and peaked at No. 2.

MGK, aka Machine Gun Kelly, sees his debut effort, "Lace Up," start at No. 4 with 51,000. The Bad Boy/Interscope effort features collaborations with Tech N9ne, Lil Jon and Waka Flocka Flame, among others. Over on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, the album lands at No. 2 behind Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.

Back on the Billboard 200, rock bands Coheed and Cambria and All Time Low debut at Nos. 5 and 6, respectively, with their latest sets, "Afterman: Ascension" and "Don't Panic." The albums bow with 49,000 and 48,000. It's Coheed's fourth top 10 while All Time Low notches its third top 10 effort.

Pop icon Barbra Streisand claims her 32nd top 10 album as "Release Me" takes a bow at No. 7 with 44,000 sold. The arrival extends her lead as the woman with the most top 10 albums in history. Among all acts, only Frank Sinatra (with 33) and the Rolling Stones (36) have earned more top 10s.

Streisand may soon overtake the Chairman, as she has been on a top 10 roll since 2003: All six of her chart entries since then have debuted in the top 10. Her current streak began with "The Movie Album" (which peaked at No. 3) and includes the No. 1 "Love Is The Answer" (2009).

P!nk's former No. 1, "The Truth About Love," falls from No. 4 to No. 8 with 36,000 (down 30%). One more non-debut appears in the top 10 this week: Muse's "The 2nd Law" slips 2-10 in its second frame, selling 31,000 (down 70%).

Ellie Goulding's "Halcyon" is the seventh and final arrival in the top 10, as the British singer's second album starts at No. 9 with 34,000. "Halcyon" easily surpasses the No. 21 peak of her debut set, "Lights."

Over on the Digital Songs chart, Taylor Swift yet again crowns the list as "I Knew You Were Trouble" bows at No. 1 with 416,000 downloads sold. It marks Swift's second-largest sales week ever for a song: Only the arrival of "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" sold more (623,000 on the chart dated Sept. 1).

"I Knew You Were Trouble" is the fourth of five tracks Swift has released in advance of her "Red" album, due out Monday, Oct. 22. Next week will see the chart debut of "State of Grace," which hit retailers at midnight Tuesday (Oct. 16) morning.

At No. 2 this week on the Digital Songs tally is PSY's "Gangnam Style," which rises two rungs despite a loss in sales. It moved 231,000 last week -- down 10%.

Adele's "Skyfall" sold 199,000 (down 24%) in its first full charting week and holds at No. 3. (Released on the night of Thursday, Oct. 4, it debuted on the chart a week ago with only three full days of sales.)

Maroon 5's "One More Night" is up a slot to No. 4 with 160,000 (down 4%), Ke$ha's "Die Young" rises two to No. 5 (139,000; up less than 1%) and fun.'s "Some Nights" climbs 8-6 with 137,000 (up 7%).

Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" falls a slot to No. 7 (124,000; down 17%), Alex Clare's "Too Close" jumps 10-8 (108,000; up 6%) and Rihanna's "Diamonds" is steady at No. 9 (just under 108,000; down less than 1%). Closing out the top 10 is the title track from Swift's "Red" album (another early-release cut). It falls from No. 2 to No. 10 with 102,000 (down 67%).

With a three songs in the top 10 on the chart this week, Swift is only the second act to manage the this year -- following Adele. The latter claimed a trio of top 10 titles on both the Feb. 25 and March 3 charts (as she basked in the glow of her multiple Grammy Award wins).

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Oct. 14) totaled 5.09 million units, down 5% compared with the sum last week (5.35 million) and down 3% compared with the comparable sales week of 2011 (5.22 million). Year-to-date album sales stand at 228.87 million, down 4% compared with the same total at this point last year (238.85 million).

Digital track sales this past week totaled 22.09 million downloads, down 5% compared with last week (23.31 million) and up 4% stacked next to the comparable week of 2011 (21.34 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 1.054 billion, up 6% compared with the same total at this point last year (993.66 million).

Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2011 when: Adele's "21" came back to No. 1, selling 106,000 (down 5%) while Casting Crowns' "Come to the Well" started at No. 2 with 99,000.

[HolidayGuy]

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Week Ending Oct. 14, 2012. Albums: “Unknowns” Beat Kiss, Streisand
By Paul Grein | Chart Watch Wed. Oct. 17, 2012

A hip-hop duo that many of you have probably never heard of has this week's top new entry on The Billboard 200. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis debuts at #2 with The Heist. The album debuts higher than new albums by such household names as Kiss (which was hoping to finally land its first #1 album) and Barbra Streisand (who was hoping to extend her streak of a #1 album in each decade).

Macklemore (real name: Ben Haggerty) and Ryan Lewis first teamed for an EP in 2009. Two of their songs entered the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart last week: "Thrift Shop" (featuring Wanz) and "Same Love" (featuring Mary Lambert). (The latter song expresses support for the legalization of gay marriage.)

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis seemingly came out of nowhere. As late as Wednesday morning, Wikipedia.com, which has an entry for just about everything, had a notice threatening to take down the entry for The Heist on the grounds of "notability." Here's what it said: "The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guide for music. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected or deleted."

I assume entering The Billboard 200 at #2 (ahead of Kiss and Streisand) constitutes "notability."

The Heist sold 96K in its first week, which is more than six times as many copies as Macklemore's previous full-length album, 2005's The Language Of My World, has sold in its entire run (15K). The Heist sold 65K digital copies this week, which enabled it to displace Mumford & Sons' Babel from the #1 spot on Top Digital Albums.

Mumford & Sons' Babel tops The Billboard 200 for the third straight week. It's the first album to spend its first three weeks at #1 since Eminem's Recovery was #1 for its first five weeks in 2010; the first rock album to do so since Metallica's Death Magnetic in 2008.

Babel has sold 865K copies in its first three weeks. It's already #5 on the year-to-date chart. It's on target to become the first rock album to rank among the year's top five best-sellers since 2008, when Coldplay's Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, Kid Rock's Rock N Roll Jesus and AC/DC's Black Ice ranked #2, #4 and #5 for the year, respectively.

Babel returns to #1 on The Official U.K. chart, after being displaced last week by Muse's The 2nd Law.

Kiss' 20th studio album, Monster, debuts at #3. The band had been hoping for its first #1 album, a mere 38-1/2 years after it first cracked The Billboard 200. Kiss shouldn't give up hope: Tony Bennett waited more than 54 years from when he first hit The Billboard 200 to when he finally hit #1 last year with Duets II. Stay strong, Kiss.

Monster is Kiss' ninth album to reach the top 10. It's the band's third studio album in a row to make the top three, following Psycho-Circus (#3 in 1998) and Sonic Boom (#2 in 2009). This is the first time in the band's history that it has made the top 10 with three consecutive studio albums.

Kiss first cracked the top 10 in December 1975 with Alive!, giving the band a nearly 37 year span of top 10 albums.

Incidentally this is the second time that an album titled Monster has made the top 10. R.E.M. debuted in the top spot with an album by that title in October 1994.

MGK's debut album Lace Up debuts at #4. The initials stand for Machine Gun Kelly. (The rapper's real name is Colson Baker.) MGK hit #46 with an EP, Half Naked & Almost Famous, which has sold 42K copies. Lace Up includes "Wild Boy" (featuring Waka Flocka Flame), which has climbed as high as #98 on the Hot 100. It also includes collabos with Tech N9ne and Lil Jon.

Coheed and Cambria's concept album The Afterman: Ascension debuts at #5. This ties the band's 2010 album, Year Of The Black Rainbow, as its highest-charting to date. This is C and C's fourth top 10 album in a row. (They're the real C & C Music Factory—an inside reference for readers who remember who remember the early '90s.) This is the first of two planned volumes. The Afterman: Descension is due in February. Will it become the group's fifth top 10 album? Stay tuned.

All Time Low's Don't Panic debuts at #6. It's the group's third top 10 album, following Nothing Personal (#4 in 2009) and Dirty Work (#6 in 2011).

Barbra Streisand's Release Me, a compilation of previously unreleased tracks, debuts at #7. It's her 32nd top 10 album. Fun With Numbers: Streisand first cracked the top 10 in July 1963 with her debut album, The Barbra Streisand Album. She landed her 16th top 10 album, Wet, in November 1979. So it took her a little more than 16 years to land her first 16 top 10 albums, and 32 years to land her next 16. This reflects both how red-shot she was in the '60s and '70s and the faster pace of album releases back then, especially in the '60s.

The album title, Release Me, is a play on the title of a hit song of the 1960s (that was first published in 1946). The ballad was a top 10 hit in 1962 for Esther Phillips and a top five hit in 1967 for Engelbert Humperdinck. (No, Streisand never covered it. The song is kind of schmaltzy for her.)

Streisand is the only solo artist to land a #1 album in five different decades (from the 1960s to the 2000s). If Release Me had debuted at #1, she would have extended her streak to six decades. Fortunately, Streisand has more than seven years to achieve this feat.

Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble" enters Hot Digital Songs at #1. It's Swift's sixth #1 hit on the digital sales chart; her third in the past two months. The song sold 416K copies in its first week, which constitutes the fourth biggest opening of the year, following Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" (623K), Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend" (521K) and "Payphone" by Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa (493K). PSY's Gangnam Style rebounds from #4 to #2 on Hot Digital Songs. Will it jump to #1 on this week's Hot 100? I believe it will. We'll find out for sure later today when we post Chart Watch: Songs.

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

The Top Five: Mumford & Sons' Babel holds at #1 for the third week (96K)…. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' The Heist debuts at #2 (78K). It's the duo's first top 10 album…Kiss' Monster debuts at #3 (56K). It's the band's ninth top 10 album…MGK's debut album Lace Up debuts at #4 (51K). It's the rapper's first top 10 album…Coheed and Cambria's The Afterman: Ascension debuts at #5 (49K). It's the band's fourth top 10 album.

The Second Five: All Time Low's Don't Panic debuts at #6 (48K). It's the band's third top 10 album… Barbra Streisand's Release Me, a compilation of previously unreleased tracks, debuts at #7 (44K). It's her 32nd top 10 album…P!nk's The Truth About Love drops from #4 to #8 in its fourth week (36K)… Ellie Goulding's sophomore album, Halcyon, debuts at #9 (34K). It's her first top 10 album… Muse's The 2nd Law drops from #2 to #10 in its second week (31K).

Seven albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Miguel's Kaleidoscope Dream drops from #3 to #11, Three Days Grace's Transit Of Venus drops from #5 to #25, Diana Krall's Glad Rag Doll drops from #6 to #17, Jackie Evancho's Songs From The Silver Screen drops from #7 to #16, Little Big Town's Tornado drops from #8 to #14 (It's #1 on Top Country Albums for the fifth week), Cher Lloyd's Sticks & Stones drops from #9 to #38, and Van Morrison's Born To Sing: No Plan B drops from #10 to #23.

The Pitch Perfect soundtrack jumps from #16 to #12 in its third week. It's #1 on Top Soundtracks for the third week. The movie was #6 at the box-office over the weekend, down from #3 last weekend. (Taken 2 was #1 for the second straight weekend.)

The Script's third album, #3, debuts at #13. This is a disappointing debut: Science & Faith reached #3 in 2011. The album reached #2 on the Official U.K. chart. The band's first two albums both reached #1 in the U.K. "Hall Of Fame" (featuring will.i.am) has climbed as high as #87 on the Hot 100.

.fun's Some Nights rebounds from #23 to #19 in its 34th week. The album has climbed as high as #3. The album advances to #10 on the year-to-date chart. It's #2 for the year-to-date among rock albums, trailing only Mumford & Sons' Babel.

The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour enters Top Music Videos at #1. The deluxe box set consists of a Blu-ray, DVD and double vinyl EP. Magical Mystery Tour is the fifth Beatles title to reach #1 on the music video chart. It follows The complete Beatles (two weeks on top in 1996), The Beatles Anthology (four weeks in 1996 and two weeks in 2003), First U.S. Visit (two weeks in 2004) and The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows (three weeks in 2010).

The release of the video boosts the Magical Mystery Tour album, which re-enters The Billboard 200 at #56. It also re-enters Top Catalog Albums at #1. The album sold 8K copies this week, bringing its total since 1991 to 1,885,000. The album topped The Billboard 200 for eight weeks in January and February 1968. It received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. The Beatles introduced six songs on the soundtrack, including "I Am The Walrus" (which was released as the B-side of "Hello Goodbye") and "The Fool On The Hill" (which became a top 10 hit in 1968 for Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66).

Rodriguez, the 70-year old folk musician who is the subject of the current documentary Searching For Sugar Man, has two albums in this week's top 100. The Searching For Sugar Man soundtrack jumps from #109 to #75 in its second week. His 1970 album Cold Fact belatedly enters the chart at #90. Rodriguez, the American-born son of Mexican immigrants who became a star in South Africa without his even being aware of it, was profiled on 60 Minutes on Oct. 7.

Coming Attractions: Jason Aldean's Night Train is a lock to debut at #1 next week. Also due: Scotty McCreery's Christmas With Scotty McCreery, Brandy's Two Eleven, Anberlin's Vital, Donald Fagen's Sunken Condos, Metalocalypse: Dethlok's DethAlbum III, Jamey Johnson's Living For A Song: A Tribute To Hank Cochran, K'naan's Country, God Or The Girl and Christina Perri's Very Merry Perri Christmas.

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MOST TOP 10 ALBUMS ON THE BILLBOARD 200

Rolling Stones 36

Frank Sinatra 33

Barbra Streisand 32 "Release Me" *new*

The Beatles 30

Elvis Presley 27

Madonna 20 "MDNA"
Bob Dylan 20 "Tempest"

Paul McCartney 18 "Kisses on the Bottom"

Elton John 17 "The Union"
George Strait 17 "Here For A Good Time"
Bruce Springsteen 17 "Wrecking Ball"
Neil Diamond 17 "Hot August Night"

Johnny Mathis 16
Mariah Carey 16 "MCIIY"

Rod Stewart 15 "Soulbook"
Dave Matthews 15 "Away From The World"

Garth Brooks 14 "Ultimate Hits"
Prince 14 "Lotus Flow3r"
Tim McGraw 14 "Emotional Traffic"
Van Halen 14 "Different Kind of Truth"
The Beach Boys 14 "That's Why God Made the Radio"
R Kelly 14 "Write Me Back"

Santana 13 "Guitar Heaven"
Barry Manilow 13 "15 Minutes"
Jay Z 13 "Watch The Throne"

Eric Clapton 12
Chicago 12
Alan Jackson 12 "Thirty"

[HolidayGuy]

^I posted the Chart Watch article right above yours, 30+ minutes prior.

MTV.com:
Just outside the top 10, the latest from sensitive rockers The Script, #3, debuted at #13 (24,000) and Adele's indomitable 21 (#15, 22,000) nearly tipped into the 9.9 million sales realm as it sneaks toward diamond sales status.

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100k to go for 21's Diamond status!

[areyoureadytojump]

^10 million status.

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keelyskorner.com/2012/10/

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 10/14/12)

1) Mumford & Sons – Babel – 95,960 (After 3 weeks – 864,797)
2) Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 78,479
3) Kiss – Monster – 55,996

Other Debuts

4) MGK – Lace Up – 50,552
5) Coheed And Cambria – Afterman: Ascension – 49,493
6) All Time Low – Don’t Panic – 48,121
7) Barbra Streisand – Release Me – 43,969
9) Ellie Goulding – Halcyon – 34,025
13) The Script – #3 (Edited Version) – 23,519
22) Between The Buried & Me – Parallax II: Future Sequence – 16,990
43) Rick Springfield – Songs For The End Of The World – 9,514
47) The Wallflowers – Glad All Over – 9,166

[HolidayGuy]

Well, the closer 21 gets to 10 million scanned, the closer it gets to 10 million units for certification. :)

[SPRΞΞ]

It's already obviously diamond shipped. It will probably be 10.2 by years end.

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From lightup:


Albums with over 400k sold:

2011

(1) Born This Way – Lady Gaga – 1.108
(1) Watch The Throne – Jay-Z & Kanye West – 436
(1) Tha Carter IV – Lil Wayne – 964
(1) Mylo Xyloto – Coldplay – 447
(1) Take Care - Drake - 631
(1) Christmas - Michael Bublé - 479
(1) Christmas - Michael Bublé - 448
(1) Christmas - Michael Bublé - 467

2011

(1) 21 – Adele – 730
(1) Babel – Mumford & Sons – 600


Jason Aldean could join this list next week. Taylor Swift will definitely make it.

I just don't see any of the new Christmas albums selling over 400k a week this year.

[HolidayGuy]

Yes- between digital sales and shipped units, 21 probably has exceeded 10 million units. :)

[areyoureadytojump]

There are only 21 Catalog albums on the Billboard 200 tis week.

Gotta love the 4th Quarter.

[areyoureadytojump]

*happy*

[cartman2002]

My awards for this week's albums

NOW 43-Various Artists (gold)
Declaration Of Independence-Colt Ford (gold)
Perfectly Imperfect-Elle Varner (gold)
American Capitalist-Five Finger Death Punch (2x platnium)

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I just got my Billboard in the mail for this chart week.

New RIAA certifications:

MDNA Gold
Five Finger Death Punch Gold
Casting crowns Gold

50 albums debut!

9 are re-entires.

5,097,000 albums were sold.

2,032,000 were digital albums.

3,065,000 were physical cds.

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Oct 18, 2012 9:47:24 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

I just don't see any of the new Christmas albums selling over 400k a week this year.

I was thinking the same thing earlier. The biggest this year is Rod Stewart's. The other major releases are Lady Antebellum (an expansion of their earlier EP), Colbie Caillat, Christina Perri, Scotty McCreery, Cee Lo Green, Blake Shelton, Katherine Jenkins and John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John.

Since Buble, Faith Hill and Groban have put out their full Christmas albums in recent years, I would think the next Christmas album to sell well would be a full album my Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift, or Carrie Underwood. I'm surprised all of them have yet to do so, and I will bet one of them does next year.

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Oct 28, 2012 0:26:36 GMT -5 @jjj said:

Oct 18, 2012 9:47:24 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

I just don't see any of the new Christmas albums selling over 400k a week this year.

I was thinking the same thing earlier. The biggest this year is Rod Stewart's. The other major releases are Lady Antebellum (an expansion of their earlier EP), Colbie Caillat, Christina Perri, Scotty McCreery, Cee Lo Green, Blake Shelton, Katherine Jenkins and John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John.

Since Buble, Faith Hill and Groban have put out their full Christmas albums in recent years, I would think the next Christmas album to sell well would be a full album my Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift, or Carrie Underwood. I'm surprised all of them have yet to do so, and I will bet one of them does next year.

Also wide release of Jackie Evancho's "Heavenly Christmas" which almost made the Billboard 200 last week. Charted #31 on Catalog Albums.