Billboard 200: 7/13/13: Wale No. 1- 158,000

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www.billboard.com/articles/news/1568843/wale-scores-first-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart

Wale Scores First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart
By Keith Caulfield, Los Angeles | July 03, 2013

Rapper Wale claims his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart this week, as his new release "The Gifted" debuts in the top position. The set sold 158,000 copies in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

It's Wale's second top 10 album, following his last release, 2011's "Ambition." It debuted and peaked at No. 2 with 164,000 sold, but was blocked by another debuting album that week: Justin Bieber's "Under the Mistletoe" (with a 210,000 bow).

Kanye West's "Yeezus," which bowed at No. 1 last week with 327,000 copies sold, falls by 80% to No. 3, selling 65,000 in its sophomore frame.

Last week's other big debut, J. Cole's "Born Sinner," holds its position at No. 2, selling 84,000 with a more moderate 72% decline.

Rock band Skillet arrives at No. 4 with its eighth studio album, "Rise," selling 60,000. It also launches at No. 1 on the Rock Albums and Christian Albums charts. It's the group's first No. 1 on the Rock tally, and second leader on the Christian chart.

"Rise" follows the lengthy chart success of the act's last studio effort, 2009's "Awake." It debuted and peaked at a career-high No. 2 on the Billboard 200 (68,000 debut) and ruled for 12 weeks at No. 1 on the Christian Albums chart. Further, it spent 136 weeks on the Billboard 200 and has sold 1.1 million copies in the U.S.

Two more new albums arrive in the top 10 this week: R&B singer/songwriter India.Arie enters at No. 7 with "SongVersation" (31,000) and another rock act, August Burns Red, bows at No. 9 with "Rescue & Restore" (26,000).

This marks India.Arie's fifth top 10 album on the Billboard 200 in as many tries. Her last release, 2009's "Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics," bowed at No. 3 with 75,000. She's topped the tally once previously, with 2006's "Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship."

On Top R&B Albums this week, "SongVersation" bows at No. 1.

For August Burns Red, the band achieves its first top 10 album on the Billboard 200 with its latest release. Their previous high came when its last studio set, 2011's "Leveler," debuted and peaked at No. 11 off a 29,000 start.

Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories" rises 6-5 with 31,000 (down 23%) and Florida Georgia Line's "Here's to the Good Times" climbs 8-6 with almost 31,000 (down 7%). (The sales figures for Nos. 5-7 are rounded to the nearest 1,000, which is 31,000 for each. The titles are separated by only a few hundred copies, and all sold between 30,500 and 31,000.)

Imagine Dragons' "Night Visions" ascends 10-8 with 29,000 (up 13%) and Black Sabbath's "13" dips 5-10 with 25,000 (down 44%).

Over on the Digital Songs chart, Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines," featuring T.I. and Pharrell, is steady at No. 1, moving 423,000 downloads (down less than 1%).

Meanwhile, Miley Cyrus' "We Can't Stop" doesn't seem to be stopping, as the song grows by 30% in sales, jumping from No. 6 to No. 2 with 209,000.

Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" falls 2-3 with 204,000 (down 16%), Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" drops 3-4 with 194,000 (down 16%) and Daft Punk's "Get Lucky," featuring Pharrell Williams, moves 4-5 with 189,000 (down 8%).

Bruno Mars' "Treasure" steps backwards 5-6 with 158,000 (down 15%) while Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Can't Hold Us" is steady at No. 7 with 142,000 (up 6%). The duo's "Same Love" (featuring Mary Lambert) rallies 23-8 with 111,000 (up 33%), and its seventh consecutive weekly sales gain. The song also climbs 24-22 on the Pop Songs airplay chart (known as Mainstream Top 40 on Billboard.biz).

Selena Gomez's "Come & Get It" rises one notch to No. 9 with 109,000 (though it's down by 4%).

Closing out the top 10 is a new arrival -- at least to the top 10: Anna Kendrick's "Cups," which motors 21-10 with 105,000 (up 19%) -- its best sales week yet. The song, from the movie "Pitch Perfect" (in which Kendrick stars), is also gaining at radio, as it rises 19-18 on Pop Songs airplay this week.

The sales rise is also owed to the movie's premium cable premiere on June 22 on HBO. Six days later, the film's official Facebook page encouraged its fans to purchase "Cups" in the hopes of sending it into the top 10 in the iTunes Store.

This week, the soundtrack to the movie also vaults 38-20 on the Billboard 200 with the chart's largest percentage gain, rising by 67% to sell 16,000 copies. Its cumulative sales now stand at 753,000.

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending June 30) totaled 4.97 million units, down 10% compared with the sum last week (5.51 million) and down 13% compared with the comparable sales week of 2012 (5.74 million). Year to date album sales stand at 142 million, down 6% compared to the same total at this point last year (150.46 million).

Digital track sales this past week totaled 25.21 million downloads, down 5% compared with last week (26.51 million) and down less than 1% stacked next to the comparable week of 2012 (25.29 million). Year to date track sales are at 26.51 million, down 2% compared to the same total at this point last year (698.02 million).

Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2012 when: Chris Brown's "Fortune" flew in at No. 1, debuting with 135,000 sold. Behind him at No. 2 was a surging Katy Perry, whose album "Teenage Dream" jumped 21-2 with 80,000 sold (up 417%) after it was discounted to 99-cents (for one day only) by Amazon MP3.

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www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.24539/title.hip-hop-album-sales-the-week-ending-6-30-2013

Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 6/30/2013

#1. Wale - The Gifted - 158,000 (158,000)

#2. J. Cole - Born Sinner - 84,000 (381,000)

#3. Kanye West - Yeezus - 65,000 (391,000)

#12. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist - 23,000 (867,000)

#14. Mac Miller - Watching Movies With The Sound Off - 23,000 (125,000)

#33. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city - 10,000 (949,000)

#49. Lil Wayne - I Am Not A Human Being II - 7,500 (503,000)

#74. Dessa - Parts Of Speech - 5,800 (5,800)

#196. Dr. Dre - 2001 - 2,400 (7,664,000)

#199. T.I. - Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head - 2,400 (483,000)

* 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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music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-june-30-2013-albums-hip-hop-152636706.html

Week Ending June 30, 2013. Albums: A Hip-Hop Fourth!
By Paul Grein | Chart Watch

Hip-hop makes a clean sweep of the top three spots on The Billboard 200 this week. Wale’s third album, The Gifted, debuts at #1. J. Cole’s second album, Born Sinner, holds at #2 in its second week. Kanye West’s Yeezus drops from #1 to #3 in its second week. (That’s the biggest second-week percentage drop for an album that debuted at #1 since sales of Madonna’s MDNA plummeted by 87% in its second week in April 2012.)

This marks the first time that rap albums have ranked #1 back-to-back since Drake’s Take Care displaced Mac Miller’s Blue Slide Park in November 2011.

The Gifted is Wale’s first #1 album. His sophomore album, Ambition, debuted and peaked at #2 in November 2011. Wale has also appeared on two Self Made albums with Maybach Music Group. Rick Ross founded the collective, which also features such artists as Meek Mill and French Montana. Wale (real name: Ralph Victor Folarin) was born in Washington D.C. in 1984.

The Gifted sold 95K digital copies (out of 158K total), which puts it at #1 on Top Digital Albums.

The Gifted tops The Billboard 200 less than three years after Susan Boyle’s similarly-titled The Gift spent four weeks in the lead spot. So if you were to make an alphabetical list of #1 albums, these very different albums would be back-to-back.

Wale isn’t the first artist to use the word “gifted” in an album title. Aretha Franklin titled a 1972 album Young, Gifted & Black. The album, which reached #11 on The Billboard 200, contained the top 10 hits “Rock Steady” and “Daydreamin’” Color Me Badd parodied Franklin’s title (the nerve!) with their 1993 compilation Young, Gifted And Badd—The Remixes. It peaked at #189.

After two weeks, J. Cole’s album has sold 381K copies, just 11K fewer than Kanye West’s album. The gap between these two artists’ last albums was much wider at this point. After two weeks, West’s 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy had sold 605K copies—more than twice as many as J Cole’s 2011 album Cole World: The Sideline Story, which sold 272K copies in its first two weeks.

Skillet’s eighth studio album, Rise, debuts at #4. This is the Contemporary Christian group’s second top 10 album. Awake hit #2 in 2009. (FYI, Herb Alpert had a top 10 album titled Rise in 1979.)

Florida Georgia Line’s Here’s To The Good Times rebounds from #8 to #5. It returns to #1 on Top Country Albums, after being displaced last week by another red-hot debut album, Hunter Hayes’ Hunter Hayes. Here’s To The Good Times is the first debut album to log two or more weeks at #1 on Top Country Albums since Scotty McCreery’s Clear As Day, which spent six weeks on top in 2011.

India.Arie’s fifth studio album, Songversation, debuts at #7. All five albums of these albums have made the top 10. The third, Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship, reached #1.

August Burns Red’s sixth studio album, Rescue & Restore, debuts at #9. It’s the band’s first top 10 album. Leveler hit #11 in 2011. August Burns Red is a metalcore band whose members are Christian, but they’re not a Christian rock band per se.

“Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. & Pharrell Williams holds at #1 on Hot Digital Songs for the fifth week. It sold 423K copies, down just a tick from last week’s 424K. Will “Blurred Lines” also hold at #1 for the third week on the Hot 100? Count on it. But you’ll find out for sure out later today when we post Chart Watch: Songs.

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

The Top Five: Wale’s The Gifted debuts at #1 (158K). It’s his second top 10 album…J. Cole’s Born Sinner holds at #2 in its second week (84K)…Kanye West’s Yeezus drops from #1 to #3 in its second week (65K)… Skillet’s Rise debuts at #4 (60K). It’s the group’s second top 10 album…Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories rebounds from #6 to #5 its sixth week (31K). It has been in the top 10 the entire time.

The Second Five: Florida Georgia Line’s Here’s To The Good Times rebounds from #8 to #6 in its 30th week (31K). This is its fifth week in the top 10…India.Arie’s Songversation debuts at #7 (31K). It’s her fifth top 10 album…Imagine Dragons’ Night Visions rebounds from #10 to #8 in its 43rd week (29K). This is its 12th week in the top 10… August Burns Red’s Rescue & Restore debuts at #9 (26K). It’s the band’s first top 10 album…Black Sabbath’s 13 drops from #5 to #10 in its third week (26K).

Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience drops from #9 to #17, ending, for now at least, a 14-week run in the top 10. Three other albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Mac Miller’s Watching Movies With The Sound Off drops from #3 to #14. Kelly Rowland’s Talk A Good Game drops from #4 to #11. Hunter Hayes’ Hunter Hayes drops from #7 to #16.

Shameless Plug: We’re about to post a Chart Watch Extra in which I look at the top 10 songs and albums of the first six months. The 20/20 Experience is the top album, with sales of 2,037,000.

Amon Amarth lands its first top 20 album as the band’s ninth studio album, Deceiver Of The Gods, debuts at #19. Amon Amarth is a death metal band from Sweden. Its previous highest-charting album was its previous album, Surtur Rising, which peaked at #34.

Pitch Perfect rebounds from #38 to #20 in its 36th week (as the movie hits HBO and as a sequel to the soundtrack, More Music From Pitch Perfect, debuts at #139). Pitch Perfect returns to #1 on Top Soundtracks, displacing The Great Gatsby: Music From Baz Luhrmann’s Film. The album first topped the soundtrack chart the week ending Sept. 30. Pitch Perfect is the highest-ranking soundtrack from a theatrically-released movie for the 18th week. Anna Kendrick’s sleeper hit “Cups (Pitch Perfect’s When I’m Gone)” is #17 on the Hot 100.

Attila’s fifth album, About That Life, debuts at #22. This is the highest-charting album to date for the American “death-core” band…Queensryche’s 14th studio album, Queensryche, debuts at #22. It’s the heavy metal band’s second eponymous album. Its 1983 debut EP (which reached #81) was also titled Queensryche.

Bob Marley & the Wailers’ 1984 compilation Legend vaults from #86 to #26 in its 274th week on the chart. The album peaked at #54 at the time but has climbed as high as #18 since the chart was opened to catalog albums in 2009. A new collection, Legend Remixed, debuts at #89 this week. Legend returns to #1 on Top Catalog Albums. This is its 115th week on top of that chart (in the Nielsen SoundScan era).

The Beatles’ 2000 compilation 1 re-enters the chart at #37. Fun With Numbers: 1 is one of three albums in this week’s top 40 with a title that consists of a number and nothing else. The others are Black Sabbath’s 13 and Adele’s 21.

The Beatles’ Help! re-enters the chart at #83, boosted by the release of the Blu-ray edition of the movie. The soundtrack logged nine weeks at #1 in 1965 and became the first Beatles album to receive a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. It has sold 1,575,000 copies in the Nielsen SoundScan era.

Help! re-enters Top Music Videos at #1, displacing Paul McCartney & Wings’ Rockshow. (The Beatles once displaced McCartney from #1 on The Billboard 200. It happened in June 1970 when Let It Be knocked out McCartney. It has happened the other way around, too. In June 1973, Red Rose Speedway replaced The Beatles/ 1967-1970.)

Natalie Cole’s En Espanol debuts at #91. Recording in Spanish is a family tradition. Cole’s father, the great Nat “King” Cole, reached #12 in 1958 with Cole Espanol. (Natalie was eight at the time.)

Alan Jackson this week becomes just the ninth artist to top 40 million in sales since 1991, when Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard. (This misses Jackson’s first year of success. Jackson’s debut album, Here In The Real World, hit the country and pop and charts in March 1990.) Jackson’s best-selling album is 1995’s The Greatest Hits Collection, which has sold 5,807,000 copies. How big is country music? Four of the nine artists who have hit 40M in Nielsen SoundScan-era sales are country: Garth Brooks (68,634,00), George Strait (44,440,000) and Tim McGraw (41,599,000).

The top four albums on Entertainment Weekly’s list of the 100 best albums (the Beatles’ Revolver, Prince & the Revolution’s Purple Rain, the Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main St and Michael Jackson’s Thriller) all reached #1 on The Billboard 200. But #5 on the list is an album that didn’t even make the top 20: The Clash’s London Calling, which, despite critical plaudits, stalled at #27 on the chart.

Monsters University was #1 at the box-office for the second straight weekend.

Coming Attractions: Jay-Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail is expected to debut at #1 next week. Also due: Joe’s Doubleback Evolution Of R&B, Relient K’s Collapsible Lung and Hillsong Live’s Glorious Ruins (Live).

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I've been doing this list for 6 years now!

Albums on the Billboard 200 that have not been certified with the RIAA yet:

Numbers from the 7/6 chart:

Daft Punk 582k
Blake Shelton 680k
Michael Buble 517k
Lil Wayne 495k
Now 45 437k
Miguel 433k
Jake Owen 438k
Skrillex Bangarang 534k
Awolnation 426k
Lee Brice 418k
Muse 418k
Josh Groban 422k

Albums only on the chart for 4 weeks and have sold more than 400k are listed.

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I thought MDNA drop was 78%, not 87%?

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Here are the five largest second-week percentage drops for No. 1-debuting albums in the SoundScan era:




Chart Date - Artist - Title - % Decline - Debut Units - 2nd Week Units

April 21, 2012 - Madonna, "MDNA" - 86.70% (from 359,000 to 48,000 at No. 8)
June 18, 2011 - Lady Gaga, "Born This Way" - 84.28% (from 1.11 million to 174,000 at No. 1)
Dec. 3, 2011 - Mac Miller, "Blue Slide Park" - 82.54% (from 144,000 to 25,000 at No. 24)
July 13, 2013 - Kanye West, "Yeezus" - 80.27% (from 327,000 to 65,000 at No. 3)
Dec. 16, 2006 - Jay-Z, "Kingdom Come" - 79.42% (from 680,000 to 140,000 at No. 6)

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Country album sales:

www.roughstock.com/blog/country-album-chart-news-the-week-of-july-3-2013-florida-georgia-line-hunter-hayes-danielle-bradbery-jason-aldean

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Here's this week awards on the Billboard 200

6.Here's To The Good Times-Florida Georgia Line (Platnium)
28.To Be Loved-Michael Buble (Gold)
46.Overexposed-Maroon 5 (2x Platnium)
59.Side Effects of You-Fantasia (Gold)
170.Super Hits-Willie Nelson (Platnium)
187.Bankrupt!-Phoenix (gold)

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The Billboard 200

1 New 1 The Gifted Wale
2 2 2 Born Sinner J. Cole
3 1 2 Yeezus Kanye West
4 New 1 Rise Skillet
5 6 6 Random Access Memories Daft Punk
6 8 30 Here's To The Good Times Florida Georgia Line
7 New 1 SongVersation India.Arie
8 10 43 Night Visions Imagine Dragons
9 New 1 Rescue & Restore August Burns Red
10 5 3 13 Black Sabbath
11 4 2 Talk A Good Game Kelly Rowland
12 15 38 The Heist Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
13 11 29 Unorthodox Jukebox Bruno Mars
14 3 2 Watching Movies With The Sound Off Mac Miller
15 12 14 Based On A True Story ... Blake Shelton
16 7 72 Hunter Hayes Hunter Hayes
17 9 15 The 20/20 Experience Justin Timberlake
18 13 6 True Believers Darius Rucker
19 New 1 Deceiver Of The Gods Amon Amarth
20 38 36 Pitch Perfect Soundtrack
21 21 8 NOW 46 Various Artists
22 New 1 About That Life Attila
23 New 1 Queensryche Queensryche
24 18 3 NOW That's What I Call Country Volume 6 Various Artists
25 24 41 The Truth About Love P!nk

26 86 274 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers Bob Marley And The Wailers
27 23 8 Golden Lady Antebellum
28 31 10 To Be Loved Michael Buble
29 33 11 Save Rock And Roll Fall Out Boy
30 36 40 Babel Mumford & Sons
31 25 65 The Lumineers The Lumineers
32 28 8 The Great Gatsby: Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film Soundtrack
33 40 36 good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar
34 32 7 Modern Vampires Of The City Vampire Weekend
35 34 5 Wrote A Song For Everyone John Fogerty
36 47 123 21 Adele
37 Re-Entry 142 1 The Beatles
38 27 3 Better Chrisette Michele
39 76 32 The World From The Side Of The Moon Phillip Phillips
40 35 7 Love Is Everything George Strait
41 New 1 Reset Isaac Carree
42 16 14 Native OneRepublic
43 45 7 Demi Demi Lovato
44 26 4 ...Like Clockwork Queens Of The Stone Age
45 44 36 Red Taylor Swift
46 43 53 Overexposed Maroon 5
47 39 9 Life On A Rock Kenny Chesney
48 58 74 Born To Die Lana Del Rey
49 42 14 I Am Not A Human Being II Lil Wayne
50 49 13 Pioneer The Band Perry

51 37 3 24/Seven (Soundtrack) Big Time Rush
52 48 8 Annie Up Pistol Annies
53 51 71 Some Nights fun.
54 41 2 Club Life Vol 3: Stockholm Tiesto
55 New 1 Palms Palms
56 63 15 Same Trailer Different Park Kacey Musgraves
57 50 141 Doo-Wops & Hooligans Bruno Mars
58 New 1 In A Warzone Transplants
59 54 10 Side Effects Of You Fantasia
60 69 55 + Ed Sheeran
61 59 32 Unapologetic Rihanna
62 60 101 Chief Eric Church
63 52 6 Excuse My French French Montana
64 64 99 Tailgates & Tanlines Luke Bryan
65 61 42 Tornado Little Big Town
66 New 1 We As Human We As Human
67 New 1 One True Vine Mavis Staples
68 55 12 Wheelhouse Brad Paisley
69 80 37 Night Train Jason Aldean
70 17 2 Fashionably Late Falling In Reverse
71 88 4 Vans Warped Tour '13: 2013 Tour Compilation Various Artists
72 66 65 My Head Is An Animal Of Monsters And Men
73 79 33 Take Me Home One Direction
74 New 1 Parts Of Speech Dessa
75 53 4 Feel Sleeping With Sirens

76 71 17 Spring Break... Here To Party Luke Bryan
77 56 5 The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here Alice In Chains
78 14 2 Kveikur Sigur Ros
79 77 171 Sigh No More Mumford & Sons
80 New 1 Jammin' With Friends Bret Michaels
81 73 21 Two Lanes Of Freedom Tim McGraw
82 New 1 GarciaLive: Volume 2: August 5th 1990 Greek Theatre Jerry Garcia Band
83 Re-Entry 46 Help! (Soundtrack) The Beatles
84 75 61 Blown Away Carrie Underwood
85 29 3 Man Of Steel Soundtrack
86 104 3 The Love Club (EP) Lorde
87 62 6 Trouble Will Find Me The National
88 New 1 The War Within Wrekonize
89 New 1 Legend: Remixed Bob Marley And The Wailers
90 20 2 Ice On The Dune Empire Of The Sun
91 New 1 En Espanol Natalie Cole
92 93 32 Greatest Hits: Chapter One Kelly Clarkson
93 70 3 Azusa: The Next Generation Hezekiah Walker
94 New 1 J.A.C.K. Forever The Sickest Kids
95 90 12 Caught In The Act: Live Eric Church
96 87 124 The Legend Of Johnny Cash Johnny Cash
97 98 85 Four The Record Miranda Lambert
98 82 5 DNA Little Mix
99 106 39 Kaleidoscope Dream Miguel
100 100 24 Long.Live.A$AP A$AP Rocky

101 92 51 Uncaged Zac Brown Band
102 19 2 The Voice: The Complete Season 4 Collection Danielle Bradbery
103 74 3 Tomorrow's Harvest Boards Of Canada
104 195 72 The Essential Michael Jackson Michael Jackson
105 67 3 Magnetic Goo Goo Dolls
106 110 68 Up All Night One Direction
107 99 21 NOW 45 Various Artists
108 New 1 VH1 Storytellers Alicia Keys
109 Re-Entry 7 Juke Box Heroes Foreigner
110 130 7 Reincarnated Snoop Lion
111 119 42 Best Days Tamela Mann
112 124 123 The Eminem Show Eminem
113 101 61 Boys & Girls Alabama Shakes
114 78 8 Volume 3 She & Him
115 103 29 An Awesome Wave alt-J
116 New 1 Big Waves: Five Decades Of Surf Rock Various Artists
117 111 20 How Country Feels Randy Houser
118 New 1 Zero Hawthorne Heights
119 112 13 Sempiternal Bring Me The Horizon
120 154 33 Our Version Of Events Emeli Sande
121 84 4 Super Collider Megadeth
122 46 3 The Wack Album The Lonely Island
123 136 24 Kidz Bop 23 Kidz Bop Kids
124 113 40 God's Not Dead newsboys
125 30 62 Ultimate Hits: Rock And Roll Never Forgets Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

126 New 1 Sergio George Presents: Salsa Giants Various Artists
127 68 3 Southeastern Jason Isbell
128 161 10 I Love You. The Neighbourhood
129 105 14 Precious Memories: Volume II Alan Jackson
130 120 187 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits Creedence Clearwater Revival Featuring John Fogerty
131 128 91 The Best Of Eric Clapton: 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection Eric Clapton
132 200 144 Recovery Eminem
133 95 5 IV Play The-Dream
134 139 98 Halfway To Heaven Brantley Gilbert
135 116 101 Loaded: The Best Of Blake Shelton Blake Shelton
136 115 12 Paramore Paramore
137 176 10 Love Has Come For You Steve Martin & Edie Brickell
138 114 97 The Very Best Of The Eagles Eagles
139 New 1 Pitch Perfect: More From Pitch Perfect (EP) Soundtrack
140 144 47 The Strange Case Of... Halestorm
141 96 82 El Camino The Black Keys
142 107 12 Hotel California Tyga
143 145 238 The Foundation Zac Brown Band
144 126 267 Journey's Greatest Hits Journey
145 155 86 Megalithic Symphony AWOLNATION
146 142 4 Clarity Zedd
147 72 3 Every Man Should Know Harry Connick, Jr.
148 147 126 Cocky Kid Rock
149 108 32 Global Warming Pitbull
150 Re-Entry 3 In A Tidal Wave Of Mystery Capital Cities

151 137 10 Super Hits George Jones
152 132 57 Up All Night Kip Moore
153 Re-Entry 103 Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys
154 Re-Entry 47 California 37 Train
155 152 33 Lindsey Stirling Lindsey Stirling
156 New 1 American Ride Willie Nile
157 150 8 NOW That's What I Call A Country Party Various Artists
158 181 21 Hello My Name Is... Bridgit Mendler
159 149 26 Warrior Ke$ha
160 168 138 My Kinda Party Jason Aldean
161 170 60 Hard 2 Love Lee Brice
162 173 41 Extended Versions Creedence Clearwater Revisited
163 143 28 Les Miserables Soundtrack
164 Re-Entry 139 Teenage Dream Katy Perry
165 141 123 The Best Of Lynyrd Skynyrd: 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection Lynyrd Skynyrd
166 125 11 Indicud Kid Cudi
167 151 12 Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies Volbeat
168 Re-Entry 26 Greatest Hits The Notorious B.I.G.
169 148 6 LOVE LUST FAITH + DREAMS Thirty Seconds To Mars
170 167 53 Super Hits Willie Nelson
171 New 1 Bosnian Rainbows Bosnian Rainbows
172 Re-Entry 51 Believe Justin Bieber
173 133 7 How Mercy Looks From Here Amy Grant
174 Re-Entry 137 Awake Skillet
175 185 14 Grace (EP) Tasha Cobbs

176 174 130 You Get What You Give Zac Brown Band
177 180 31 Girl On Fire Alicia Keys
178 169 32 Trilogy The Weeknd
179 160 12 10 New Kids On The Block
180 Re-Entry 184 Thriller Michael Jackson
181 Re-Entry 10 No End In Sight: The Very Best Of Foreigner Foreigner
182 New 1 Hits Of The 90's Various Artists
183 182 23 Set You Free Gary Allan
184 127 8 Time Rod Stewart
185 164 40 WOW Hits 2013 Various Artists
186 New 1 Unnatural Selection Havok
187 171 10 Bankrupt! Phoenix
188 New 1 Songs Of The Siren Various Artists
189 New 1 Pineapple Grenade!! Ballyhoo!
190 156 13 Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones Black Veil Brides
191 197 187 Curtain Call: The Hits Eminem
192 177 58 The Best Of Three Dog Night: 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection Three Dog Night
193 Re-Entry 24 O.N.I.F.C. Wiz Khalifa
194 New 1 Soft Will Smith Westerns
195 91 842 The Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd
196 Re-Entry 106 Dr. Dre -- 2001 Dr. Dre
197 Re-Entry 160 Number Ones Michael Jackson
198 Re-Entry 89 Thank Me Later Drake
199 Re-Entry 27 Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head T.I.
200 135 142 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 Eagles

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Current Albums:

162 154 30 18 Months Calvin Harris
163 167 4 Settle Disclosure
164 161 21 All That Echoes Josh Groban
165 155 33 Paradise (EP) Lana Del Rey
166 185 4 Angels And Saints At Ephesus Benedictines Of Mary, Queen Of Apostles
167 116 4 Spitfire LeAnn Rimes
168 22 2 Anthem Hanson
169 New 1 Me Llamare Tuyo Victor Manuelle
170 83 3 Damage Jimmy Eat World
171 139 3 Dave Koz And Friends: Summer Horns Dave Koz / Gerald Albright / Mindi Abair / Richard Elliot
172 158 39 The 2nd Law Muse
173 157 2 Hardwell Presents: Revealed: Volume 4 Hardwell
174 New 1 Brothers And Sisters (Super Deluxe Edition) The Allman Brothers Band
175 New 1 Battle Scars Paradise Fears

176 174 37 Halcyon Ellie Goulding
177 122 3 Everblack The Black Dahlia Murder
178 Re-Entry 19 Love, Charlie Charlie Wilson
179 128 8 Nashville: The Music Of Nashville: Season 1: Volume 2 Soundtrack
180 190 44 Eye On It tobyMac
181 New 1 Sound The Alarm Booker T
182 133 4 Grinning Streak Barenaked Ladies
183 177 42 10,000 Reasons Matt Redman
184 106 82 Barefoot Blue Jean Night Jake Owen
185 195 2 Doc McStuffins: The Doc Is In Soundtrack
186 132 6 Fast & Furious 6 Soundtrack
187 182 10 Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor Rob Zombie
188 178 4 We Won't Be Shaken Building 429
189 156 4 Evil Friends Portugal. The Man
190 164 54 Amaryllis Shinedown
191 Re-Entry 7 Vessel Twenty One Pilots
192 New 1 The Third Family Force 5
193 Re-Entry 60 Pluto Future
194 183 13 Disarm The Descent Killswitch Engage
195 173 8 More Than Just A Dream Fitz And The Tantrums
196 180 46 Based On A T.R.U. Story 2 Chainz
197 138 8 The Piano Guys 2 The Piano Guys
198 101 2 Waiting For The Dawn The Mowgli's
199 189 27 Finally Rich Chief Keef
200 New 1 Pick Up Your Head Middle Class Rut

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Country album sales are only up +0.8% compared to 2012:

www1.billboard.biz/bbbiz/photos/pdf/2013/BCUmw0704.pdf

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4,974,000 albums were sold in the USA last week.

2,129,000 were digital albums.

2,845,000 were cds/vinyl albums/cassettes.

More figures here:

www1.billboard.biz/bbbiz/photos/pdf/2013/TFMmw0704.pdf

Album sales now -5.6% for 2013 (-5.3% last week)

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I'm so happy this mornnig.

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This week, the soundtrack to the movie also vaults 38-20 on the Billboard 200 with the chart's largest percentage gain, rising by 67% to sell 16,000 copies. Its cumulative sales now stand at 753,000.

Album sales must be incredibly low!

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^Yes. 4,974,000 were sold last week. The SS low was 4.7 or 4.8 million.

This upcoming chart week will be bad. Joe is the only major release with a 25k estimate.

Jay-Z will help next week.

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www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/chart-alert/1569251/chart-moves-pitch-perfect-soundtrack-climbs-bob-marleys-legend

Chart Moves: 'Pitch Perfect' Soundtrack Climbs, Bob Marley's 'Legend: Remixed' Debuts, Lorde's 'Love' Leaps
By Keith Caulfield, Los Angeles | July 05, 2013

This week on the Billboard 200 albums chart, Wale celebrated his first No. 1, as "The Gifted" opened atop the list. The set sold 158,000 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It was one of four debuts in the top 10 this week, with Skillet's "Rise" earning the second-highest bow at No. 4.

Outside the top 10 on the Billboard 200 there were a number of movers and shakers, as usual. Let's take a look at some of them:

-- Soundtrack, "Pitch Perfect" - No. 20 - The soundtrack vaults 38-20 on the Billboard 200 with the chart's largest percentage gain, rising by 67% to sell 16,000 copies. Its cumulative sales now stand at 753,000. The sales rise is owed to the movie's premium cable premiere on June 22 on HBO. Additionally, its fluke hit single "Cups" (by lead actress Anna Kendrick), continues to make airplay gains. This week, it rises 29-24 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart with 45.4 million audience impressions (up 12%, according to Nielsen BDS). The song also jumps 17-13 on the overall Billboard Hot 100 chart.

-- Bob Marley and the Wailers, Legend: Remixed - No. 89 - Bob Marley and the Wailers' iconic greatest hits album, Legend, has received the remix treatment. The reworking of the set, dubbed Legend: Remixed, debuts at No. 89 with 5,000 sold. On the Reggae Albums chart, it becomes Marley's 16th No. 1 -- extending the record for the most No. 1s in the chart's 18-year history.

Meanwhile, the original Legend album gets a boost up the Billboard 200 as well. It climbs 86-26 with the greatest unit gain on the chart (12,000 sold for the week -- up by 7,000). It increases in sales thanks to the publicity generated by Legend: Remixed and promotion of the original Legend itself.

-- The Beatles/Soundtrack, Help! - No. 83 - The Beatles' 1965 film "Help!" debuted worldwide on Blu-ray and on iTunes on June 25, thus, its soundtrack climbs back onto the list. It re-enters at No. 83 with 5,000 sold for the week, with a gain of 1,418% in sales compared to the previous week. iTunes heavily promoted the film's digital bow in its store, and also prominently featured the band's catalog. In turn, the fab four's greatest hits album 1 zooms back onto the chart at No. 37 with 9,000 (up 300%). It's the highest chart rank for the former No. 1 album since the Oct. 15, 2011 chart, when it was at No. 30.

-- Kacey Musgraves, Same Trailer Different Park - No. 56 - The country singer's album earns its fourth weekly sales gain out of the past six weeks as the set rises 63-56 with 7,000 sold (up 1%). Its current single, "Blowin' Smoke," is bulleted at No. 28 on the Country Airplay chart with 8 million in audience (up 1%). It also reaches a new peak on the overall Hot Country Songs chart, stepping 34-31.

-- Lorde, The Love Club (EP) - No. 86 - The EP grabs its fifth straight sales gain in as many weeks, jumping 104-86 with 5,000 sold (up 20%). Its red-hot single "Royals" is making headway at radio, too. It rises 20-16 on the Alternative airplay chart. On Rock Digital Songs, in just its third week on the list, the cut climbs 15-11 with 24,000 downloads sold -- up 31%. It's the youngest title -- in terms of number of chart weeks -- within the top 20 on the Rock Digital Songs chart.