Billboard 200: 10/5/13: Jack Johnson No. 1- 117,000

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www.billboard.com/articles/news/5725173/jack-johnson-scores-fourth-no-1-album-on-billboard-200

Jack Johnson Scores Fourth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200
By Keith Caulfield, L.A. | September 25, 2013

Singer/songwriter Jack Johnson claims his fourth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, as "From Here to Now to You" bows atop the list with 117,000 sold in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The new effort is his third consecutive studio set to debut at No. 1, following "Sleep Through the Static" (2008) and "To the Sea" (2010). (He also opened at No. 1 with his soundtrack to the film "Curious George" in 2006.)

"From Here to Now to You," however, starts with Johnson's lowest debut sales week since his first album, 2001's "Brushfire Fairytales." That set arrived in February of that year, selling fewer than 1,000 copies in its first week. Comparably, Johnson's last two albums started with more than twice the opening sum of "From Here." His last studio set, "To the Sea," sailed in with 243,000, and "Sleep Through the Static" bowed with 375,000.

Johnson leads a debut-filled top 10, where all of the top five titles are new entries for the first time in a little more than a year. That last occurred on the Sept. 29, 2012, chart (reflecting the sales week ending Sept. 16) when Dave Matthews Band, Little Big Town, Bob Dylan, the Avett Brothers and the xx started at Nos. 1-5, respectively.

About 20,000 copies behind Johnson this week is country singer Justin Moore, who logs his best sales week yet with his new album, "Off the Beaten Path." It debuts at No. 2 with 97,000 and secures him a second No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart.

The new set is his third full-length studio album, following "Outlaws Like Me" in 2011 and his self-titled debut in 2009. The former bowed at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 with 65,000 in its first week. The self-titled album entered at No. 10 with 34,000.

"Off the Beaten Path" is currently enjoying a No. 2 single on the Country Airplay chart: The song "Point at You" rises 3-2 this week.

Moore's "Off the Beaten Path" is one of five country albums in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 this week—the most in the region in more than three years. Joining Moore in the country parade are the debuting Chris Young ("A.M." at No. 3) and Billy Currington ("We Are Tonight" at No. 10), along with Luke Bryan ("Crash My Party," moving 4-6 in its sixth week with 47,000; down 11%) and Keith Urban ("Fuse," falling 1-8 in its second week with 31,000; down 69%).

Country last swamped the top 10 with five titles way back on Oct. 30, 2010. That week, Darius Rucker's "Charleston, SC 1966" (No. 2), the Band Perry's self-titled album (No. 4), Kenny Chesney's "Hemingway's Whiskey" (No. 6), Zac Brown Band's "You Get What You Give" (No. 8) and Toby Keith's "Bullets in the Gun" (No. 9) reigned in the top 10.

Young's "A.M." bows with 53,000 and becomes his highest-charting album (though not his best sales week). It’s his second top 10 effort, following 2011's "Neon," which claimed his biggest sales week when it started with 73,000 at No. 4.

Currington, meanwhile, nets his second top 10 album, as "We Are Tonight" enters with 26,000. That's a smaller start than what he saw with his last album (and previous top 10 set), 2010's "Enjoy Yourself." It bowed at No. 9 with 45,000.

In the No. 4 slot this week is the debuting compilation "MMG: Self Made 3," with 50,000. The Maybach Music Group-branded release features contributions from Meek Mill, Wale, Rick Ross and others. It's the third consecutive "Self Made" compilation to bow in the top five. The first started at No. 5 with 59,000 in 2011, while the second launched at No. 4 with 98,000 in 2012.

One more debut populates the action-packed top five this week: Avicii's "True" starts at No. 5 with 50,000. It marks the biggest bow for a solo EDM artist's first studio album. The set's smash hit single, "Wake Me Up!," rises 8-4 on the Pop Songs airplay chart this week (known as Mainstream Top 40 on billboard.biz).


A whopping 91% of first-week sales for “True” were downloads, equating to 45,000 digital albums. Comparably, 68% of the first-week sales for Johnson's No. 1 debut were from digital sales (80,000 downloads).

To finish wrapping up the top 10 this week: 2 Chainz's "B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME" slips 3-7 with 35,000 (down 46%), and the Weeknd's "Kiss Land" falls 2-9 with 26,000 (down 73%).

Over on the Digital Songs chart, history is made. The top three songs each sell in excess of 300,000 downloads for the first time outside of the Christmas holiday season.

Lorde's "Royals" jumps 3-1 with 307,000—up 17% for its first week at No. 1 and best sales week yet. Behind her is Katy Perry's "Roar," which holds steady at No. 2 with 301,000 (down 10%) and Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball," down 1-3 with a little more than 301,000 as well (down 37%). (The sales of both titles have been rounded to the nearest thousand. "Wrecking Ball" is behind "Roar" by a margin of less than 1% in sales.)

The top three songs on the tally have each moved 300,000 downloads in six previous weeks, but all were during the post-Christmas time period. That's when digital song sales are extraordinarily high thanks to consumers redeeming just-received gift cards.

Perry has a second song in the top 10 this week, as her new track "Dark Horse" (featuring Juicy J) bows at No. 4 with 194,000. Right behind it is Avicii's "Wake Me Up!," which slips one rung to No. 5 with 189,000 (down 6%).

Britney Spears' "Work B**ch!" debuts at No. 6 with 174,000 downloads. It's the first single from her forthcoming studio album, due in December. Comparably, her last album's first single, "Hold It Against Me," launched with 411,000 in January 2011.


Lady Gaga's "Applause" is down 13% this week, slipping 5-7 with 160,000. Drake's "Hold On, We're Going Home" (featuring Majid Jordan) is steady at No. 8 with 150,000 (up 5%).

Eminem's "Berzerk" descends 6-9 with 147,000 (down 11%), and Jay Z's "Holy Grail" (featuring Justin Timberlake) moves 7-10 with 134,000 (down 8%).

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Sept. 22) totaled 4.543 million units, up less than 1% compared with the sum last week (4.541 million) and down 16% compared with the comparable sales week of 2012 (5.42 million). Year-to-date album sales stand at 200 million, down 6% compared with the same total at this point last year (212.7 million).

Digital track sales this past week totaled 21.9 million downloads, down 1% compared with last week (22.1 million) and down 7% stacked next to the comparable week of 2012 (23.5 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 954.3 million, down 3% compared with the same total at this point last year (986 million).

Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2012 when: Mumford & Sons' "Babel" debuted at No. 1 with 600,000 sold, while Green Day's "Uno!" bowed at No. 2 with 139,000. The previous week's leader, P!nk's "The Truth About Love," fell to No. 4 with 94,000 (down 66%).

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music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-sept-22-2013-albums-aloha-hawaii-152823767.html

Week Ending Sept. 22, 2013. Albums: Aloha From Hawaii Via Charts
Paul Grein - Chart Watch Sept. 25, 2013

Hawaii is the 40th most populous U.S. state, but it's currently near the top in terms of musical output. Jack Johnson this week becomes the second native of Hawaii to land a #1 album on The Billboard 200 in 2013. The surfer-turned-balladeer scores with From Here To Now To You. Bruno Mars rose to #1 in March with Unorthodox Jukebox.

Johnson, 38, first topped the chart in 2006 with the Curious George soundtrack. He returned to #1 with 2008's Sleep Through The Static and 2010's To The Sea. For all his success with albums, he's had just two top 40 singles: "Upside Down" (from Curious George) and "You And Your Heart."

A third native of Hawaii, Yvonne Elliman, appeared on two iconic, multi-artist albums that hit #1: Jesus Christ Superstar (1971) and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack (1978).

Three other natives of Hawaii have had top 10 albums. Nicole Scherzinger reached the top 10 as part of two female groups: Eden's Crush (#6 in 2001) and the Pussycat Dolls (#5 in 2005 and #4 in 2008). Bette Midler climbed as high as #2 in 1989 with her highest-charting album, the Beaches soundtrack. Arthur Lyman rose as high as #6 in 1959 with Taboo.

All of the above-named Hawaiians were born in Honolulu, except for Johnson, who was born on the North Shore of Oahu. (Martin Denny, whose Exotica topped the chart for five weeks in 1959, lived in Hawaii for more than 50 years, but was born in New York.)

This week's headline is of course a play on Elvis Presley's 1973 album Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite. The double-disk live album knocked Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon out of the #1 spot (!) in May 1973.

Johnson's album sold 80K digital copies (out of 117K total), which also puts it at #1 on Top Digital Albums.

Shifting gears, country music accounts for five albums in this week's top 10. That's remarkable because it's not, say, the week following the Country Music Assn. Awards. But, as we've seen, country sells week-in and week-out.

Leading the country pack is Justin Moore’s third studio album, Off The Beaten Path, which debuts at #2. Moore just missed becoming the third "Justin" to reach #1 in 2013. Justin Bieber hit #1 in February with Believe Acoustic. Justin Timberlake logged three weeks on top in early spring with The 20/20 Experience.

All three of Moore's albums have made the top 10. Justin Moore hit #10 in August 2009. Outlaws Like Me hit #5 in June 2011. Moore's album enters Top Country Albums at #1, displacing Keith Urban's Fuse. It's Moore's second #1 country album. Outlaws Like Me interrupted Jason Aldean's run at #1 with My Kinda Party in the summer of 2011.

Chris Young's fourth studio album, A.M., debuts at #3. It's his second top five album in a row. Neon hit #4 in July 2011. (We nearly had two albums with nearly identical titles in the top 10 at the same time. Arctic Monkeys' AM drops from #6 to #28 in its second week.)

Maybach Music Group Presents: Self Made: Vol. 3 debuts at #4. The album features Rick Ross, Wale and Meek Mill, among others. All three volumes have made the top five. Vol. 1 reached #5 in May 2011. Vol. 2 hit #4 in June 2012. This is only the second time that a record label or music group has had three self-saluting compilation albums that made the top 10. The first came in 1960-1961, when mighty RCA Victor hit the top 10 with 60 Years Of Music America Loves Best and three sequels. (Those albums were pop samplers. The fourth was a classical sampler from its Red Seal label.)

Avicii's debut album, True, debuts at #5. The Swedish DJ has a top five hit on the Hot 100, "Wake Me Up!" Guests on the album include Nile Rodgers and Adam Lambert. (Spandau Ballet's 1983 album True peaked at #19.)

Lorde's "Royals" jumps to #1 on Hot Digital Songs (307K), displacing Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" (301K). Also of note: Three songs top 300K in digital sales (the aforementioned two and Katy Perry's "Roar," also 301K). This is the first time that has ever happened outside of the weeks that include and/or follow Christmas. Will "Royals" also displace "Wrecking Ball" at #1 on the Hot 100? Or will "Wrecking Ball" eke out a second week on top? Or will "Roar" return to the summit? 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: Jack Johnson's From Here To Now To You debuts at #1 (117K). It’s his sixth top 10 album…Justin Moore’s Off The Beaten Path debuts at #2 (97K). It's his third top 10 album…Chris Young's A.M. debuts at #3 (53K). It's his second top 10 album… Maybach Music Group Presents: Self Made: Vol. 3 debuts at #4 (50K). All three volumes have made the top 10… Avicii's True debuts at #5 (50K). It's his first top 10 album.

The Second Five: Luke Bryan's Crash My Party drops from #4 to #6 in its sixth week (47K). It has been in the top 10 the entire time…2 Chainz's B.O.A.T.S. 2# METIME drops from #3 to #7 in its second week (35K)…Keith Urban's Fuse drops from #1 to #8 in its second week (31K)… The Weeknd's Kiss Land drops from #2 to #9 in its second week (26K)…Billy Currington’s We Are Tonight debuts at #10 (26K). It's his second top 10 album.

Arctic Monkeys' AM drops from #6 to #28 in its second week. The album holds at #1 for the second week on the U.K.'s Official Albums Chart.

Five other albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Janelle Monae's The Electric Lady drops from #5 to #23. Sheryl Crow's Feels Like Home drops from #7 to #24. Tamar Braxton’s Love & War drops from #8 to #11. Ariana Grande’s Yours Truly drops from #9 to #15. John Legend’s Love In The Future drops from #10 to #13.

MGMT’s third studio album, MGMT, debuts at #14. It’s their second top 20 album in a row. Congratulations reached #2 in April 2010.

Elvis Costello and the Roots' Wise Up Ghost debuts at #16. It's Costello's fifth top 20 album; the Roots' eighth. (It's not really fair to compare the two artists' tallies. Costello was active in the '80s when it was considerably harder to make the top 20.) Costello has previously charted with album-length collaborations with the Brodsky Quartet, Burt Bacharach and Allen Toussaint; The Roots made the top 10 with an album-length collabo with John Legend. Bacharach received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Costello is about due for one too, come to think of it.

The Grateful Dead's Sunshine Daydream debuts at #19. The three-CD (or four-LP) set was recorded in August 1972 at the band's concert at the Old Renaissance Faire Grounds in Veneta, Ore. There is also a music documentary by this title. The legendary band first cracked the top 20 with Wake Of The Flood in the issue dated Dec. 8, 1973, giving them a nearly 40-year span of top 20 albums.

The Devil Wears Prada's fifth studio album, 8:18, debuts at #20. It's their fourth top 20 album or EP.

Grouplove’s second studio album, Spreading Rumours, debuts at #21. The act's debut, the intriguingly titled Never Trust A Happy Song, reached #75.

Imagine Dragons' Night Visions drops from #23 to #25 in its 55th week. The album this week becomes the third album to reach the 1 million mark in 2013 sales (1,013,000, to be precise). It follows Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience (2,280,000) and Bruno Mars' Unorthodox Jukebox (1,215,000 sold this year). Two more albums are poised to cross the 1 million threshold next week. Mumford & Sons' Babel has sold 994K copies so far this year. Jay Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail has sold 990K.

Assuming those two make it next week, that would be just five million-selling albums in the first nine months of the year. That is, to put it mildly, not so hot. But, amazingly, it would be better than last year, when there were only three million-selling albums in the first nine months of the year. It would put 2013 on par with 2011, when there were also five million-sellers in the first nine months.

Without going back to the boom years, when albums were selling like, well, albums, let's look at the number of million-selling albums in the first nine months of each calendar year since 2004, per Nielsen SoundScan's official counts. 2004: 36; 2005: 27; 2006: 28; 2007: 20; 2008: 11; 2009: 11; 2010: 8; 2011: 5; 2012: 3; 2013: 5 (projected).

America, you're just going to have to buy more albums.

The Teen Beach Movie soundtrack drops from #25 to #34 in its 10th week. It’s #1 on Top Soundtracks for the 10th week. It’s the first TV soundtrack (from a made-for-TV movie or a series) to top this chart for 10 or more weeks since High School Musical 2 was #1 for 17 weeks in 2007.

The Great Gatsby: Music From Baz Luhrmann’s Film drops from #39 to #66 in its 20th week. It’s the week’s highest-ranking soundtrack from a theatrically-released movie for the 10th non-consecutive week.

Bruno Mars’ Doo-Wops & Hooligans drops from #82 to #91 in its 153rd week. It’s #1 on Top Catalog Albums for the 11th week. That's the most weeks that an album by a male artist has logged at #1 on this chart in a calendar year since Michael Jackson's Number Ones spent 19 weeks on top in 2009. All of those weeks came after his death that June.

Madonna's MDNA World Tour holds at #1 on Top Music Videos for the second week. The video sold 3K copies this week amid reports of manufacturing defects. At least those reports let people know that a) Madonna has a music video out and b) they still make music videos. Madonna's MDNA album logged one week atop The Billboard 200 in April 2012.

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

Coming Attractions: Drake’s Nothing Was The Same is expected to debut at #1 next week. Also due: Kings of Leon’s Mechanical Bull, Elton John’s The Diving Board, Cher’s Closer To The Truth, Sting’s The Last Ship, Alan Jackson’s The Bluegrass Album, Icona Pop’s This Is…, Metallica's Metallica: Through The Never, Nirvana's In Utero 20th anniversary edition, Glee Cast's Glee Sings The Beatles, Dream Theater’s Dream Theater, Sammy Hagar's Sammy Hagar & Friends, Krewella's Get Wet, Wow Hits 2014, Gov’t Mule’s Shout! and R5’s Louder.

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www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.25543/title.hip-hop-album-sales-the-week-ending-9-22-2013

Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 9/22/2013

#4. MMG - MMG Presents: Self Made Vol. 3 50,000 (50,000)

#7. 2 Chainz - B.O.A.T.S. II #MeTime - 35,000 (98,000)

#9. The Weeknd - Kiss Land - 26,000 (122,000)

#11. Tamar Braxton - Love & War - 20,000 (169,000)

#16. Elvis Costello & The Roots - Wise Up Ghosts And Other Songs - 18,000 (18,000)

#22. Jay Z - Magna Carta Holy Grail - 15,000 (990,000)

#23. Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady - 15,000 (62,000)

#36. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist - 10,000 (1,080,000)

#44. Juicy J - Stay Trippy - 8,000 (106,000)

#58. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city - 7,000 (1,040,000)

#75. Big Sean - Hall of Fame - 5,000 (104,000)

* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousand 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.

Will Drake reach a #1 placement next week? Stay tuned to HipHopDX.

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Kendrick's sales are extremely impressive. He's sold close to Macklemore, who's had great pop success and outsold Frank Ocean, whose album was a bigger critical darling.

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

Numbers from the 9/28 chart:

Luke Bryan 889k
Robin Thicke 468k
Great Gatsby Sdtk. 478k
Blake Shelton 887k
Daft Punk 782k
Michael Buble 616k
Lady Antebellum 420k
Tim McGraw 421k
Lee Brice 454k
Awolnation 460k

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

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Wow, this really puts things in perspective:

Without going back to the boom years, when albums were selling like, well, albums, let's look at the number of million-selling albums in the first nine months of each calendar year since 2004, per Nielsen SoundScan's official counts. 2004: 36; 2005: 27; 2006: 28; 2007: 20; 2008: 11; 2009: 11; 2010: 8; 2011: 5; 2012: 3; 2013: 5 (projected).

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^This year will end with more million sellers than 2012.

Last year we had 10. This year, we may have 13.

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Country album sales:

www.roughstock.com/blog/country-album-chart-news-the-week-of-september-25-2013-justin-moore-chris-young-lead-5-country-artists-in-all-genre-top-10

Country album sales are now down -0.2%:

www1.billboard.biz/bbbiz/photos/pdf/2013/BCU_mw_0926.pdf

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4,545,000 albums were sold in the USA last week.

1,931,000 were digital albums.

2,617,000 were cds/vinyl albums/cassettes.

www1.billboard.biz/bbbiz/photos/pdf/2013/TFMmw0926.pdf

Album sales are now down -6.0% for 2013 (-5.7% last week)

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The Billboard 200

1 New 1 From Here To Now To You Jack Johnson
2 New 1 Off The Beaten Path Justin Moore
3 New 1 A.M. Chris Young
4 New 1 MMG: Self Made 3 Various Artists
5 New 1 TRUE Avicii
6 4 6 Crash My Party Luke Bryan
7 3 2 B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME 2 Chainz
8 1 2 Fuse Keith Urban
9 2 2 Kiss Land The Weeknd
10 New 1 We Are Tonight Billy Currington
11 8 3 Love And War Tamar Braxton
12 14 8 Blurred Lines Robin Thicke
13 10 3 Love In The Future John Legend
14 New 1 MGMT MGMT
15 9 3 Yours Truly Ariana Grande
16 New 1 Wise Up Ghost And Other Songs 2013 Elvis Costello And The Roots
17 13 4 Hail To The King Avenged Sevenfold
18 15 42 Here's To The Good Times Florida Georgia Line
19 New 1 Sunshine Daydream: Veneta, Oregon August 27, 1972 Grateful Dead
20 New 1 08:18 The Devil Wears Prada
21 New 1 Spreading Rumours Grouplove
22 18 11 Magna Carta... Holy Grail Jay Z
23 5 2 The Electric Lady Janelle Monae
24 7 2 Feels Like Home Sheryl Crow
25 23 55 Night Visions Imagine Dragons

26 24 15 The Love Club (EP) Lorde
27 21 41 Unorthodox Jukebox Bruno Mars
28 6 2 AM Arctic Monkeys
29 22 7 NOW 47 Various Artists
30 12 3 Hesitation Marks Nine Inch Nails
31 32 86 Born To Die Lana Del Rey
32 26 5 Paradise Valley John Mayer
33 31 27 The 20/20 Experience Justin Timberlake
34 25 10 Teen Beach Movie Soundtrack
35 17 3 Appreciation Day Jaheim
36 30 50 The Heist Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
37 27 3 Bad Blood Bastille
38 34 26 Based On A True Story ... Blake Shelton
39 29 5 Three Kings TGT
40 New 1 Anonymous Stray From The Path
41 New 1 Surgical Steel Carcass
42 11 2 Now, Then & Forever Earth, Wind & Fire
43 35 8 The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell: Volume 1 Five Finger Death Punch
44 28 4 Stay Trippy Juicy J
45 46 49 Night Train Jason Aldean
46 New 1 The W.I.N. (Worship In Nassau) Expierence: Live In Nassau Bahamas Earnest Pugh
47 41 52 Babel Mumford & Sons
48 New 1 In Rolling Waves The Naked And Famous
49 48 53 The Truth About Love P!nk
50 New 1 Fight For My Soul Jonny Lang

51 New 1 Zendaya Zendaya
52 37 7 The Civil Wars The Civil Wars
53 47 22 To Be Loved Michael Buble
54 New 1 Bookmarks Five For Fighting
55 50 48 Red Taylor Swift
56 New 1 Saves The Day Saves The Day
57 42 45 Take Me Home One Direction
58 63 48 good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar
59 49 18 Random Access Memories Daft Punk
60 33 3 The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight... Neko Case
61 20 2 The Standards Gloria Estefan
62 56 77 The Lumineers The Lumineers
63 55 4 Confidencias Alejandro Fernandez
64 44 4 Alabama & Friends Alabama & Friends
65 New 1 Circles Super Bon Bon... Mike Doughty
66 39 20 The Great Gatsby: Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film Soundtrack
67 54 10 Kidz Bop 24 Kidz Bop Kids
68 57 111 Tailgates & Tanlines Luke Bryan
69 45 6 Rebellious Soul K. Michelle
70 53 9 Stars Dance Selena Gomez
71 61 135 21 Adele
72 60 4 Overcomer Mandisa
73 64 4 Top 25 Praise Songs 2014 Edition Maranatha! Praise Band
74 67 26 Native OneRepublic
75 36 4 Hall Of Fame Big Sean

76 52 5 Songs From St. Somewhere Jimmy Buffett
77 59 48 Pitch Perfect Soundtrack
78 73 84 Hunter Hayes Hunter Hayes
79 69 14 Born Sinner J. Cole
80 New 1 Con La Frente En Alto Luis Coronel
81 66 18 True Believers Darius Rucker
82 68 10 The Blessed Unrest Sara Bareilles
83 71 65 Overexposed Maroon 5
84 81 183 Sigh No More Mumford & Sons
85 58 9 3 Marc Anthony
86 16 2 Atmosphere Kaskade
87 74 44 The World From The Side Of The Moon Phillip Phillips
88 125 42 Halcyon Ellie Goulding
89 99 22 I Love You. The Neighbourhood
90 80 20 Golden Lady Antebellum
91 82 153 Doo-Wops & Hooligans Bruno Mars
92 85 67 + Ed Sheeran
93 78 80 Up All Night One Direction
94 New 1 Dream River Bill Callahan
95 83 14 Yeezus Kanye West
96 96 77 My Head Is An Animal Of Monsters And Men
97 93 73 Blown Away Carrie Underwood
98 New 1 Loud Like Love Placebo
99 86 23 Save Rock And Roll Fall Out Boy
100 38 2 Restart newsboys

101 94 279 Journey's Greatest Hits Journey
102 ReEntry 18 Sinatra: Best Of The Best Frank Sinatra
103 157 85 Take Care Drake
104 19 2 Long Forgotten Songs: B-Sides & Covers 2000 - 2013 Rise Against
105 New 1 Defend Yourself Sebadoh
106 97 5 Made Up Mind Tedeschi Trucks Band
107 70 19 Modern Vampires Of The City Vampire Weekend
108 88 7 Greater Than Tye Tribbett
109 New 1 Battle Maximus Gwar
110 103 41 An Awesome Wave alt-J
111 91 25 Pioneer The Band Perry
112 89 5 Keep It Redneck The Lacs
113 84 4 Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 Bob Dylan
114 ReEntry 17 Trouble Will Find Me The National
115 117 15 NOW That's What I Call Country Volume 6 Various Artists
116 100 20 NOW 46 Various Artists
117 118 19 Juke Box Heroes Foreigner
118 102 135 The Eminem Show Eminem
119 77 3 1975 The 1975
120 92 13 Rise Skillet
121 98 54 Best Days Tamela Mann
122 New 1 We All Fall Down Prozak
123 120 8 All The Little Lights Passenger
124 ReEntry 25 All That Echoes Josh Groban
125 79 3 Opus Collection Fleetwood Mac

126 113 2 Hope Is Alive New Hope Oahu
127 New 1 Peachtree Battle (EP) Butch Walker
128 87 3 Repave Volcano Choir
129 95 15 In A Tidal Wave Of Mystery Capital Cities
130 107 83 Some Nights fun.
131 62 3 A Place Called Love Land Raheem DeVaughn
132 ReEntry 108 In Between Dreams Jack Johnson
133 131 286 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers Bob Marley And The Wailers
134 New 1 Collapse Dangerkids
135 106 8 Something Else Tech N9ne
136 ReEntry 166 Number Ones Michael Jackson
137 110 13 The Gifted Wale
138 191 16 ...Like Clockwork Queens Of The Stone Age
139 128 24 Paramore Paramore
140 121 113 Loaded: The Best Of Blake Shelton Blake Shelton
141 40 2 Minorville Derek Minor
142 126 33 Two Lanes Of Freedom Tim McGraw
143 111 35 Rebel Soul Kid Rock
144 144 72 Hard 2 Love Lee Brice
145 104 19 Love Is Everything George Strait
146 116 54 Tornado Little Big Town
147 138 151 Teenage Dream Katy Perry
148 130 63 Uncaged Zac Brown Band
149 158 109 The Very Best Of The Eagles Eagles
150 124 113 Chief Eric Church

151 123 19 Demi Demi Lovato
152 105 4 Age Against The Machine Goodie Mob
153 195 8 Nothing To Lose Emblem3
154 132 26 I Am Not A Human Being II Lil Wayne
155 141 115 Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys
156 137 103 The Best Of Eric Clapton: 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection Eric Clapton
157 133 152 Recovery Eminem
158 109 5 Trap Lord A$AP Ferg
159 165 4 Greatest Hits Earth, Wind & Fire
160 114 7 Bring You Back Brett Eldredge
161 New 1 Masks Eyes Set To Kill
162 154 98 Megalithic Symphony AWOLNATION
163 149 150 My Kinda Party Jason Aldean
164 119 44 Greatest Hits: Chapter One Kelly Clarkson
165 134 29 Spring Break... Here To Party Luke Bryan
166 146 26 Grace (EP) Tasha Cobbs
167 143 65 Super Hits Willie Nelson
168 172 45 Lindsey Stirling Lindsey Stirling
169 ReEntry 73 Come To The Well Casting Crowns
170 ReEntry 64 The Definitive Collection Lionel Richie
171 ReEntry 11 Love Lust Faith + Dreams Thirty Seconds To Mars
172 76 40 Trilogy The Weeknd
173 139 44 Unapologetic Rihanna
174 155 35 Paradise (EP) Lana Del Rey
175 122 15 13 Black Sabbath

176 ReEntry 7 Greatest Hits Styx
177 153 97 Four The Record Miranda Lambert
178 186 87 Michael Buble Michael Buble
179 160 250 The Foundation Zac Brown Band
180 184 36 Long.Live.A$AP A$AP Rocky
181 112 5 Doris Earl Sweatshirt
182 ReEntry 49 WOW Hits 2013 Various Artists
183 101 3 R.E.D. (Restoring Everything Damaged) Deitrick Haddon
184 145 169 Rumours Fleetwood Mac
185 72 3 Tides Bethel Music
186 136 136 The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem
187 192 2 Liquid Spirit Gregory Porter
188 167 71 Boys & Girls Alabama Shakes
189 176 199 Curtain Call: The Hits Eminem
190 194 22 Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies Volbeat
191 178 53 Extended Versions Creedence Clearwater Revisited
192 159 97 FutureSex/LoveSounds Justin Timberlake
193 148 21 Life On A Rock Kenny Chesney
194 174 199 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits Creedence Clearwater Revival Featuring John Fogerty
195 166 7 From Death To Destiny Asking Alexandria
196 183 34 Les Miserables Soundtrack
197 173 110 Halfway To Heaven Brantley Gilbert
198 196 69 The Best Of Three Dog Night: 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection Three Dog Night
199 197 166 Mothership Led Zeppelin
200 179 14 The Best Of John Denver Live John Denver

[cartman2002]

here's this weeks awards on the BB200

34,Teen Beach Movie-Soundtrack (Gold)
49.The Truth About Love-Pink (2x Platinum)
67.Kids Bop 24-Kids Bop Kids (Gold)
82.The Blessed Unrest-Sara Baralias (Gold)
191.Extended Versions-Creedence Clearwater Revisited (Platinum)

[chartfreak]

So Madonna fell off the 200?? expected, I guess.

[HolidayGuy]

^Yep- as well as Current Albums. Even a soft decline wouldn't have kept it on the chart (i.e. a 50% dip would have brought it down to 2K, not enough for the BB 200).

[areyoureadytojump]

www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/5740615/chart-moves-grateful-deads-highest-charting-album-since

Chart Moves: Grateful Dead's Highest Charting Album Since 1987, Mumford & Sons' 'Sigh' Hits 3 Million & Josh Groban's TV-Fueled Return
By Keith Caulfield, Los Angeles | September 27, 2013 11:59 PM EDT

This week on the Billboard 200 albums chart, Jack Johnson scored his fourth No. 1, as "From Here to Now to You" arrived atop the list with 117,000 sold in its first week (according to Nielsen SoundScan). Also noteworthy was how there were five country albums in the top 10 for only the fourth time since the chart began using SoundScan data in May of 1991.

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:

-- Robin Thicke, "Blurred Lines" - No. 12 - His sixth album, "Blurred Lines," becomes his second-largest seller this week, as it moves another 19,000 (down 10%, according to Nielsen SoundScan) to bring its cumulative sum to 489,000. Of his releases, only 2006's "The Evolution of Robin Thicke" has sold more, with 1.7 million.

-- Elvis Costello and the Roots, "Wise Up Ghost and Other Songs 2013" - No. 16 - Costello's collaboration with the Roots gives him his fourth-highest charting album ever. Only "Armed Forces" (No. 10, 1979), "Get Happy!!" (No. 11, 1980) and "Secret, Profane & Sugarcane" (No. 13, 2009) have gone higher.

-- Grateful Dead, "Sunshine Daydream: Veneta, Oregon - August 27, 1972" - No. 19 - Grateful Dead notch its highest-charting album since 1987 on the Billboard 200, as its new archival live release, "Sunshine Daydream: Veneta, Oregon - August 27, 1972," debuts at No. 19.

The band last went higher with "In the Dark," which climbed to No. 6 off the strength of the group's only top 40 Billboard Hot 100 single: "Touch of Grey" (No. 9 peak).

The 16,000 start marks the largest sales week for Grateful Dead since October of 2008, when "Rocking the Cradle: Egypt 1978" bowed with a handful of units more than Sunshine (but still rounded to 16,000). The new album's sales were powered largely by orders placed on the band's official Web site, Dead.net. (It offered a number of exclusive, limited-edition versions of the album.)

-- Jonny Lang, "Fight For My Soul" - No. 50 - The singer/guitarist locks up his fourth No. 1 on Blues Albums with his first studio set for Concord Records, which also debuts at No. 50 on the Billboard 200. The new album additionally bows at No. 2 on Top Christian Albums, marking Lang's second title to chart on the Christian tally (following the No. 1 "Turn Around" in 2006).

-- Zendaya, "Zendaya" - No. 51 - The 17-year old singer/actress (Disney Channel's "Shake It Up") bows with her debut album, selling 7,000. The set's single "Replay" rises 15-11 on Dance Club Songs this week and is getting a smattering of play at top 40 radio. 13 of the top 40 panel's 164 stations played the cut this week, according to Nielsen BDS.

-- Mumford & Sons, "Sigh No More" - No. 84 - The folk/rock quartet sees its debut effort sail past the 3 million mark (3.004 million). It continues to reign as the fifth-largest selling folk album of the Nielsen SoundScan era (1991-present).

-- Ellie Goulding, Frank Sinatra and the National - Nos. 88, 102 and 114 - After Sinatra's "Sinatra: Best of the Best" was discounted to $5 in the Amazon MP3 store, it returns to the tally at No. 102 with 4,000 sold and a weekly gain of 185%. Meanwhile, Ellie Goulding's "Halcyon" takes Greatest Gainer honors at No. 88 (up 39%) after iTunes promoted her set for $6.99. Like the Sinatra album, the National's "Trouble Will Find Me" was also sale priced at Amazon for $5. With a little over 3,000 sold, it re-enters at No. 114, logging its highest rank since the July 27 chart (No. 100).

-- Josh Groban, "All That Echoes" - No. 124 - Following performances on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and NBC's "America's Got Talent" (both on Sept. 18), his album zips back onto the list with a 115% sales spike and its best sales frame (3,000) since June.

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Sept 27, 2013 17:15:11 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

^Yep- as well as Current Albums.

Dance chart too

[HolidayGuy]

^Didn't even realize it charted there. The label made the audio such a non-event release (not that it did much better with the video, but at least it charted OK).

[onehitwonder]

51 New 1 Zendaya Zendaya

:(

[areyoureadytojump]

MILIION SELLERS CLUB

Mumford & Son's Sigh No More has crossed the 3 million scanned mark. (blurb above)

Phillip Phillip's The World From the Side of the Moon has crossed the 1 million scanned mark:

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/5740618/phillip-phillips-american-idols-latest-million-seller

Phillip Phillips: 'American Idol's' Latest Million-Seller
By Keith Caulfield | September 28, 2013 11:28 AM EDT

This week, Fox TV's "American Idol" series yields back-to-back million-selling debut albums from its winners for the first time since 2008.

2012 champ Phillip Phillips sold another 4,000 copies of his debut set "The World From the Side of the Moon" this past week, bringing its total sales to 1.004 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's No. 87 on the Billboard 200 this week, after 44 weeks on the chart. (Phillips was named the 11th-season winner of "American Idol" on May 23, 2012.)

Phillips followed 2011 winner Scotty McCreery, whose first album, "Clear As Day," reached 1 million in sales in April of 2012, following its October 2011 release. It has sold 1.2 million to date.

The last two seasons of "American Idol" to generate consecutive million-selling albums from its winners was its 2007 and 2008 editions. Jordin Sparks and David Cook, respectively, took home the "American Idol" crown those years. Sparks' self-titled debut, which was released in November of 2007, reached 1 million in January of 2009. Cook's self-titled debut reached retail in November of 2008, and surpassed 1 million in March of the following year.

The only "American Idol" winners that have not shifted a million with their first post-show album (or any album), are Taylor Hicks, Kris Allen and Lee DeWyze. The three gents won the 2006, 2009 and 2010 editions of "American Idol," respectively. (As an aside, the biggest-selling "American Idol"-related album -- debut or otherwise -- is 2005 winner Carrie Underwood's "Some Hearts" debut: 7.3 million.)

As for 2013's "American Idol" winner, Candice Glover, her debut album "Music Speaks" is due out Oct. 8 on Interscope Records.