Billboard 200: 5/11/13: Michael Buble No. 1- 195,000

[HolidayGuy]

As posed last evening:

www.billboard.com/articles/news/1560100/michael-buble-scores-fourth-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart

Michael Buble Scores Fourth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart
By Keith Caulfield | April 30, 2013

As predicted, Michael Buble earns his fourth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with "To Be Loved." The Reprise/Warner Bros. Records set bows with 195,000 sold in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

"To Be Loved," released last Tuesday (April 23), is Buble's fourth consecutive full-length album to hit No. 1. It follows 2011's "Christmas," 2009's "Crazy Love" and 2007's "Call Me Irresponsible." The new album follows his smash holiday album "Christmas," which became 2011's second-biggest selling release. It moved 2.45 million copies that year, second only to Adele's "21" (5.82 million in 2011).

Buble made a number of public appearances during the sales tracking week (which ended Sunday, April 28) to help promote the album. He was profiled on ABC's "Nightline" (April 24) and performed on both "Live With Kelly and Michael" (April 25) and NBC's "Today" (April 26). On Tuesday night, he'll sing on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" and will visit "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on Thursday, May 2.

The full top 10 of the new Billboard 200 will be revealed on Wednesday, May 1.

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Hip Hop Album Sales for the Current Albums Chart: The Week Ending 4/28/2013

#8. Kid Cudi - Indicud - 36,000 (167,000)

#9. will.i.am - #willpower - 29,000 (29,000)

#11. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist - 28,000 (638,000)

#12. Lil Wayne - I Am Not A Human Being II - 25,000 (383,000)

#16. Snoop Lion - Reincarnated - 21,000 (21,000)

#30. Tyga - Hotel California - 12,000 (84,000)

#33. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city - 10,000 (868,000)

#98. Andy Mineo - Heroes For Sale - 4,700 (32,000)

#100. Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge - Twelve Reasons To Die - 4,600 (20,000)

#110. Wiz Khalifa & Curren$y - Live In Concert - 4,200 (18,000)

* 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.

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www.billboard.com/articles/news/1560116/michael-buble-tops-billboard-200-fantasia-arrives-at-no-2

Michael Buble Tops Billboard 200, Fantasia Arrives at No. 2

By Keith Caulfield, Los Angeles | May 01, 2013

As reported yesterday (April 30), pop singer Michael Buble earns his fourth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart this week with the arrival of "To Be Loved." The set sold 195,000 copies in its first week according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Buble's last album, 2011's "Christmas," bowed at No. 3 with 141,000. It eventually rose to No. 1 four weeks later, remaining there for five consecutive frames.

To compare To Be Loved" to his last regular studio album, we have to scroll back to 2009's "Crazy Love." That set debuted at No. 1 with 132,000 after only three days on sale, as it was released on a Friday instead of Tuesday. (The SoundScan tracking week ends at the close of business on Sunday.)


The following week, after the album had a full week's worth of sales, it remained atop the list, selling another 203,000.

In the runner-up slot this week is Fantasia with her fourth studio effort, "Side Effects Of You" (91,000). It matches the 2004 "American Idol" winner's highest rank, logged when her 2010 set "Back to Me" also debuted and peaked at No. 2 (117,000). However, "Side Effects" represents the smallest opening week for Fantasia, though it's not all that far from the sales start of "Back to Me" almost three years ago.

Justin Timberlake's former No. 1 "The 20/20 Experience" holds at No. 3 for another week, selling 74,000 (down 3%).

Alternative band Phoenix nets a career-high sales week and chart peak as "Bankrupt!" starts at No. 4 with 50,000. The act's fifth studio release easily surpasses the No. 37 peak of 2009's "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix."

Last week's No. 1, Fall Out Boy's "Save Rock and Roll," falls to No. 5 with 36,000 (down 76%). Blake Shelton's "Based On a True Story" slips 4-6 with just under 36,000 (down 16%).

Rob Zombie's new "Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor" takes a bow at No. 7 with 34,000, marking the rocker's fifth solo to 10 album. His last studio effort, 2010's "Hellbilly Deluxe 2," debuted and peaked at No. 8 with 49,000.

Kid Cudi's "Indicud" tumbles 2-8 with 32,000 (down 77%) in its second week, while will.i.am's new "#willpower" debuts at No. 9 with 29,000. The producer and Black Eyed Peas' front man saw his last solo set, 2007's "Songs About Girls," debut and peak at No. 38 off a 21,000 launch.

Closing out the top 10 is P!nk's "The Truth About Love," staying steady at No. 10 with just under 29,000 (up 3%).

Over on the Digital Songs chart, P!nk is bumped from the top slot as Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Can't Hold Us" (featuring Ray Dalton) rises 2-1 with 259,000 (up 6%). P!nk's "Just Give Me a Reason" (featuring Nate Ruess), falls to No. 2 with 253,000 (down 4%).

Justin Timberlake's "Mirrors" climbs 5-3 (175,000; up 24%), Rihanna's "Stay" (featuring Mikky Ekko), falls 3-4 (162,000; up less than 1%) and Florida George Line's "Cruise" rises 6-5 (137,000; up 6%).

Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" ascends 9-6 (135,000; up 7%), Icona Pop's "I Love It" (featuring Charli XCX) skips 8-7 (133,000; up 5%) and Macklemore & Lewis' "Thrift Shop" (featuring Wanz) descends 4-8 (131,000; down 11%).

Bruno Mars' "When I Was Your Man" moves 7-9 (116,000; down 9%) and Fall Out Boy's "My Songs Know What You Did In the Dark (Light Em Up)" zips 18-10 (114,000; up 42%).

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending April 28) totaled 5.15 million units, down 5% compared with the sum last week (5.40 million) and down 5% compared with the comparable sales week of 2012 (5.40 million). Year to date album sales stand at 95.64 million, down 5% compared to the same total at this point last year (100.96 million).

Digital track sales this past week totaled 24.34 million downloads, up 3% compared with last week (23.71 million) and down 5% stacked next to the comparable week of 2012 (25.52 million). Year to date track sales are at 458.33 million, down 2% compared to the same total at this point last year (470 million).

Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2012 when: Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away" blew in at No. 1 with 267,000 while Norah Jones' "Little Broken Hearts" started in the No. 2 position with 110,000.

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Week Ending April 28, 2013. Albums: Snoop Lamb Is More Like It
By Paul Grein | Chart Watch

Snoop Dogg’s reincarnation as Snoop Lion is off to a less than “roaring” start. Snoop’s 12th studio album, the reggae-influenced Reincarnated, enters The Billboard 200 at #16. It’s only his third studio album to fall short of the top 10. Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Boss peaked at #12 in 2002. Malice N Wonderland peaked at #23 in 2009.

It’s hard for veteran artists to remain on top, especially in the fast-changing world of hip-hop. Nearly 20 years have elapsed since Snoop debuted with Doggy Style in November 1993. Two other rappers of roughly the same vintage are still on top. Nas, who debuted in 1994, hit #1 in July with his most recent album, Life Is Good. Jay-Z, who debuted in 1996, has hit #1 with 12 albums.

Snoop’s sub-par debut is a bit surprising because he has had two of his biggest hits in the past few years. He was featured on Katy Perry’s “California Gurls,” which was the best-selling song of 2010, and shared the lead with Wiz Khalifa on last year’s “Young, Wild & Free” (which featured Bruno Mars).

Snoop has used three variations on his name in amassing these 12 studio albums. He was Snoop Doggy Dogg on the first two; Snoop Dogg on the next nine; and now Snoop Lion on this one. Sean Combs has also reached released studio albums using three variations of his stage name. He was Puff Daddy on the first two, P. Diddy on the third and Diddy on the last two.

Michael Buble’s To Be Loved debuts at #1. It’s Buble’s fourth full-length album in a row to reach #1, following Call Me Irresponsible, Crazy Love and Christmas. Among Canadian artists, only Justin Bieber has amassed more #1 albums (five, though tally that includes one EP). Celine Dion and Neil Young have also had four #1 albums. (Young’s tally includes three albums with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young).

Buble’s album was released in time for Mother’s Day gift-giving. (The big day is May 12.) That’s expected to keep it at or near the top of the chart for at least two more weeks. Buble’s album sold 59K digital copies (out of 195K total), which puts it at #1 on Top Digital Albums.

To Be Loved holds at #1 on The Official U.K. Chart for the second week. It’s Buble’s third album to reach #1 in both the U.S. and the U.K. It follows Crazy Love and Christmas. Only one other Canadian artist has amassed three or more “transatlantic #1” albums. Celine Dion had four.

Buble won the Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for both Call Me Irresponsible and Crazy Love. He didn’t win for Christmas (but then no Christmas album has ever won in that category, though quite a few have been nominated). Will he win again in February for To Be Loved? Stay tuned.

Of the hundreds of women who have competed on American Idol over the past 12 years, just two have landed #1 albums. Kelly Clarkson has had two #1 albums. Carrie Underwood has had three. This week, for the second time, Fantasia just misses joining that list. Her fourth studio album, Side Effects Of You, debuts at #2. Her third album, Back To Me, debuted and peaked in the runner-up slot in August 2010. Fantasia is the second Idol alum (male or female) to reach #2 with two albums without (yet) going all the way. Jennifer Hudson stalled at #2 with her first two studio albums: 2008’s Jennifer Hudson and 2011’s I Remember Me.

Clarkson, Fantasia and Underwood were the winners of Seasons 1, 3 and 4, respectively. Hudson came in seventh in Season 3.

Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience holds at #3 for the third straight week. That’s not so unusual, except for the fact that different albums have ranked ahead of it each week. It was Paramore and Brad Paisley in Week 1, Fall Out Boy and Kid Cudi in Week 2 and now Michael Buble and Fantasia in Week 3.

Phoenix’s fifth studio album, Bankrupt!, debuts at #4. It’s the band’s first top 10 album. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix peaked at #37. (That album, which won a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album, re-enters the chart this week at #184. It has sold 721K copies.) Incidentally, Bankrupt! isn’t the first album with a picture of a peach on the cover to crack the top five. The Allman Brothers Band’s Eat A Peach reached #4 in April 1972.

Blake Shelton’s Based On A True Story… drops from #4 to #6. It’s #1 on Top Country Albums for the third week. That’s a personal best for Shelton. Moreover, it’s the longest run at #1 by any male solo artist since Kenny Chesney’s Welcome To The Fishbowl had three weeks on top last June and July.

Rob Zombie’s fifth studio album, Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor, debuts at #7. Rob Zombie has now released more studio albums on his own than he did with his band White Zombie (four). And he’s had more success as a solo artist than he did with the group. All five of his solo studio albums have made the top 10. Only one of White Zombie’s studio albums made the mark.

will.i.am’s fourth solo studio album, #willpower, debuts at #9. It’s his first solo album to crack the top 10. His previous best mark was set by Songs About Girls, which peaked at #38 in 2007. The hashtag-referencing title is of-the-moment, in the same way that R. Kelly’s TP-2.com was in November 2000, when it debuted at #1.

“Can’t Hold Us” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton jumps to #1 on Hot Digital Songs (259K), dethroning “Just Give Me A Reason” by P!nk featuring Nate Ruess. It’s the second #1 for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: “Thrift Shop” topped the digital chart for 10 straight weeks. Will “Can’t Hold Us” also dethrone “Just Give Me A Reason” on the Hot 100? You’ll find out later today when we post Chart Watch: Songs.

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

The Top Five: Michael Buble’s To Be Loved debuts at #1 (195K). It’s his sixth top 10 album; his fourth #1…Fantasia’s Side Effects Of You debuts at #2 (91K). It’s her third top 10 album… Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience holds at #3 for the third week in its sixth week (74K). It has been in the top five the entire time…Phoenix’s Bankrupt! debuts at #4 (50K). It’s the band’s first top 10 album…Fall Out Boy’s Save Rock And Roll drops from #1 to #5 in its second week (36K).

The Second Five: Blake Shelton’s Based On A True Story… drops from #4 to #6 in its fifth week (36K). It has ranked in the top 10 the entire time…Rob Zombie’s Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor debuts at #7 (34K). It’s his fifth solo album to crack the top 10…Kid Cudi’s Indicud drops from #2 to #8 in its second week (32K)… will.i.am’s #willpower debuts at #9 (29K). It’s his first solo album to crack the top 10…P!nk’s The Truth About Love holds at #10 for the second week in its 32nd week (29K). This is its 13th week in the top 10.

Five albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Mosquito drops from #5 to #38. The Band Perry’s Pioneer drops from #6 to #14. Brad Paisley’s Wheelhouse drops from #7 to #19. Lil Wayne’s I Am Not A Human Being II drops from #8 to #12. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ The Heist drops from #9 to #11.

Tate Stevens’ debut album Tate Stevens debuts at #18. Stevens won the second season of the U.S. version of The X Factor.

Love Has Come For You by Steve Martin & Edie Brickell debuts at #21. This is Martin’s highest-charting album since A Wild And Crazy Guy spent six consecutive weeks at #2 in 1978-1979. It’s Brickell’s highest-charting album since Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians’ Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars reached #4 in February 1989. This is Martin’s highest-charting musical album. The Crow: New Songs For The 5-String Banjo reached #93 in 2009. Rare Bird Alert hit #43 in 2011. Brickell is married to Martin’s pal (and fellow SNL frequent guest) Paul Simon. (I can’t resist pointing out that Steve & Edie have climbed higher on the Billboard 200 than Steve & Eydie ever did. The husband-and-wife team of Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme climbed as high as #136 with Together On Broadway in 1967.)

Pitch Perfect drops from #29 to #34 in its 27th week. It’s the highest-ranking soundtrack to a theatrically-released movie for the 17th week.

Four George Jones compilations enter or re-enter the chart in the wake of his death last week at age 81. The 1998 compilation 16 Biggest Hits finally enters the chart at #42. Even without cracking The Billboard 200 (until this week) the album has sold a healthy 1,181,000 copies. The album is #1 on this week’s Top Catalog Albums chart. It’s the second album in the 16 Biggest Hits franchise to top the catalog chart. Johnny Cash’s album by that title spent 26 weeks atop the chart from 2003 to 2006. Jones sold 40K albums in the past week, bringing his SoundScan era total to 11,434,000. Jones had two albums on the very first Hot Country Albums chart when it was introduced on Jan. 11, 1964.

Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events leaps from #146 to #83 in its 24th week. The album has climbed as high as #28. The album makes history in Sande’s native U.K. this week. It logs its 63rd consecutive week in the top 10, which surpasses the Beatles’ Please Please Me for the longest continuous run in the top 10 by a debut album in British chart history.

2Pac’s Greatest Hits tops the 5 million mark in sales this week. It’s the rapper’s first album to reach this milestone. (All Eyez On Me, the last album released in the rapper’s lifetime, has sold 4,472,000 copies.) Greatest Hits debuted at #5 in November 1998 and peaked at #3 in January 1999. 2Pac was shot to death in September 1996.

Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1976 compilation Chronicle (The 20 Greatest Hits) tops the 500K mark in digital sales this week. It’s the second oldest album to sell that many digital copies. Pink Floyd’s 1973 classic The Dark Side Of The Moon has sold 578K digital copies. Digital is just a small percentage of both albums’ total sales. Dark Side has sold 9,502,000 total copies since 1991, when Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard. Chronicle has sold 6,340,000 total copies in that time frame. CCR had 11 top 10 hits on the Hot 100 between 1969 and 1971.

Adele’s Live At The Royal Albert Hall returns to #1 on Top Music Videos. This is its 28th week on top. The video has sold 1,078,000 copies.

Coming Attractions: Kenny Chesney’s Life On A Rock is expected to be next week’s top new entry. Also due: LL Cool J’s Authentic, Randy Rogers Band’s Trouble, Iron Man 3 soundtrack, Jessica Sanchez’s Me, You & The Music, The Airborne Toxic Event’s Such Hot Blood and Eagles’ History Of The Eagles, a three-disk

[KeepDeanWeird]

"Jennifer Hudson STALLED at #2 with her first two studio albums: 2008’s Jennifer Hudson and 2011’s I Remember Me." I hardly call a #2 peak "stalled."

[HolidayGuy]

^Well, when he's talking about not having No. 1 albums, it would be "stalled." :)

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Country album sales:

www.roughstock.com/blog/country-album-chart-news-for-may-1-2013-george-jones-tate-stevens-blake-shelton

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keelyskorner.com/category/soundscan/

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 4/28/13)

1) Michael Buble – To Be Loved – 195,415
2) Fantasia – Side Effects of You – 90,682
3) Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience – 73,600 (After 6 weeks – 1,673,150)
4) Phoenix – Bankrupt! – 50,164
7) Rob Zombie – Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor – 34,453
9) Will.I.Am – #Willpower – 29,323
16) Snoop Lion – Reincarnated – 21,301
18) Tate Stevens – Tate Stevens – 16,830
21) Steve Martin & Edie Brickell – Love Has Come For You – 15,609

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5,147,000 albums were sold in the USA last week.

2,147,000 were digital albums.

3,000,000 were physical cds/vinyl albums/cassettes.

More figures here:

www1.billboard.biz/bbbiz/photos/pdf/2013/TFMmw0502.pdf

Album sales down 5.3% (same as last week)

[cartman2002]

here's this weeks awards

81.Kaleiedscope Dream-Miguel (platnium)
88.The 2nd Law-Muse (platnium)
182.Greatest Hits-Bon Jobi (2x Platnium)

[Push The Button]

Real longevity for that Bon Jobi record.

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Apr 25, 2013 13:46:38 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

I forgot: *happy*

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www.usatoday.com/story/idolchatter/2013/05/01/fantasia-album-debuts-high-on-billboard-charts/2127841/

Idol albums

Fantasia, Side Effects of You (91,000, debut, 91,000) (#2 Billboard 200)
Kelly Clarkson, Greatest Hits-Chapter 1 (8,000, -20%, 398,000) (#43 BB200)
Phillip Phillips, The World From the Side of the Moon (8,000, -6%, 853,000) (#44 BB200)
Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (8,000, -23%, 1.42 million) (#48 BB200)
Colton Dixon, A Messenger (3,000, -7%, 95,000) (#138 BB200)
Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts (1,000, -12%, 7.316 million)

Idol-related albums

Various, Now That's What I Call Music! 45 (10,000, -3%, 384,000) (#36 Billboard 200)
One Direction, Up All Night (4,000, -8%, 1.762 million) (#106 BB200)
Various, 2013 Grammy Nominees (4,000, -16%, 305,000) (#114 BB200)
Various, WOW Hits 2013 (4,000, +2%, 278,000) (#118 BB200)
Jason Aldean, My Kinda Party (3,000, -11%, 676,000) (#140 BB200)
Soundtrack, Rock of Ages (3,000, -8%, 317,000) (#143 BB200)

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www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/1560539/chart-moves-the-neighbourhood-debuts-van-halens-1984-returns-after-20-plus


Chart Moves: The Neighbourhood Debuts, Van Halen's '1984' Returns After 20-Plus Years


By Keith Caulfield, Los Angeles | May 02, 2013


This week on the Billboard 200 albums chart, Michael Buble achieved his fourth No. 1 album with "To Be Loved," as the pop singer's latest started with 195,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Meanwhile, Fantasia scored her second No. 2 album, with the arrival of "Side Effects of You."

Elsewhere on the Billboard 200 this week there were a number of movers and shakers. Let's take a look at some of them.

Snoop Lion, "Reincarnated" (No. 16): Snoop Dogg arrives with the first release under his new stage reggae name, Snoop Lion, selling 21,000. It's the largest sales week for a current reggae set in nearly three years: Nas & Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley's "Distant Relatives" last posted a larger sum (25,000 in its second chart week, June 12, 2010).

The Neighbourhood, "I Love You" (No. 39): Tipped as an artist to watch in our weekly Bubbling Under feature back in December, the rock band debuts its first full-length album with 9,000. Its breakout single, "Sweater Weather," jumps 4-2 on Alternative Songs as well.

George Jones, "16 Biggest Hits" (No. 42): The late country icon achieves his highest charting album on the Billboard 200, as this 1998 package finally debuts on the chart with a 1,918% sales increase. The set moved 9,000 copies last week -- 80% of which were downloads. Its physical sales could rise in the coming weeks once brick-and-mortar retailers have their stock replenished.

The Postal Service, "Give Up" (No. 75): Recently reissued in a tenth anniversary deluxe edition, the set returned to the chart two weeks ago, but then took a natural tumble the following week. It rises this week (100-75) thanks to its recent new availability in Starbucks, and it gains by 24%.

Queensryche, "Frequency Unknown" (No. 82): There are now two different bands using the Queensryche name: this one fronted by its famous "Silent Lucidity" voice Geoff Tate, and then another album, by his former bandmates, due on June 25. In total, “Frequency Unknown,” which debuts this week, is the group's 17th chart entry.

Van Halen, "1984" (No. 147): The band's classic album returns to the chart for the first time since July 13, 1985, thanks to sale pricing in the iTunes Store. With 3,000 sold, it's the set's best sales frame since December 2009.

Junip, "Junip" (No. 177): The Swedish trio returns with its second full-length album, which is its first to reach the Billboard 200 chart (3,000). On Heatseekers Albums, it bounds in at No. 1 -- surpassing the No. 14 peak of its 2010 set Fields.