Billboard 200: 9/25/10: Sara Bareilles #1: 90k

[areyoureadytojump]

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Sara Bareilles scores her first No. 1 album -- and best sales week ever -- as her sophomore effort "Kaleidoscope Heart" bows atop the chart with 90,000 sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Bareilles first set, "Little Voice," peaked at No. 7 in 2008. It has so far sold 997,000 in the U.S.

Though Bareilles is one of four new entries in the top 10, expect the chart to get a lot more exciting in a week's time. That's when the biggest albums of the fall season will start hitting the chart, including anticipated high bows from Linkin Park's "A Thousand Suns" and Trey Songz's "Passion, Pain & Pleasure."

And those albums can't arrive any faster, either. Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Sept. 12) totaled 4.83 million units -- marking the lowest weekly sales figure since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. Last week's sum falls below the record low of 4.95 million sold, which was only set in the week ending Aug. 15.

Last week's No. 1 album, Disturbed's "Asylum," falls to No. 5 in its second week with 57,000 (down 68%). Eminem's "Recovery" moves up one notch to No. 2 (81,000; down 12%) while the "Now 35" compilation declines one to No. 3 (63,000; down 40%). Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" holds at No. 4 (59,000; down 33%) while Stone Sour debuts at No. 6 with "Audio Secrecy" (46,000). The band's last album, 2006's "Come What(ever) May," debuted and peaked at No. 4 with 81,000.

Interpol starts at No. 7 with its self-titled set (38,000). It's the second top 10 album for the latter act, as its 2007 effort "Our Love to Admire" topped out in its first week at No. 4 with 73,000. Just behind them is Justin Bieber's "My World 2.0," as it stays steady at No. 8 but with a gain of 14% (35,000). Rounding out the top 10 are Anberlin's debuting "Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place," at No. 9 with 31,000, and the soundtrack to "Camp Rock 2: the Final Jam," down one to No. 10 with 31,000 (up 11%, but trailing Anberlin by a small margin). It's the first top 10 set for Anberlin, which had previously topped out at No. 13 with its last set, 2008's "Surrender."

Outside the top 10 this week, we notice how Florence + the Machine's "Lungs" vaults from No. 100 to No. 44 with 8,000 (up 70% -- the largest percentage gain on the chart). The act was nominated for a number of MTV Video Music Awards for its video "Dog Dogs Are Over" and played the tune on Sunday night's (12) show. "Dog Days" also debuts at No. 52 on the Digital Songs chart with that single, shifting 27,000 downloads (up 276%). Because the VMAs took place on a Sunday night, and since the SoundScan's sales tracking week ends at the close of business on Sunday each week, the show's impact on the charts this week is a bit muted. Thus, any punch felt from the VMAs will be distributed over two weeks.

At the top of the Digital Songs chart this week is a new No. 1: Bruno Mars' "Just the Way You Are," which moves up one notch with 209,000 (up 19%). It displaces Perry's "Teenage Dream," as it falls to No. 2 with 197,000 (down 11%). It's the first time Mars has been No. 1 on the Digital Songs chart as a lead artist. He previously guested on B.o.B's No. 1 "Nothin' On You."

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Sept. 12) totaled 4.83 million units, down 7% compared to the sum last week (5.22 million) and down 28% compared to the comparable sales week of 2009 (6.71 million). Year to date album sales stand at 205.4 million, down 13% compared to the same total at this point last year (235.7 million).

Digital track sales this past week totaled 20.03 million downloads, up 3% compared to last week (19.44 million) and down less than 1% stacked next to the comparable week of 2009 (20.10 million). Year to date track sales are at 801.84 million, down less than 1% compared to the same total at this point last year (807.75 million).

[areyoureadytojump]

First. LOL

[musicrocks]

Dangit! I was so close haha! But yea....4.83 mil for the week, that kinda sucks :(

[Push The Button]

Now guys, don't celebrate this #1. We all know that only Eminem is worthy of praise on this board.

[kt1990]

[asg4]

This just shows that digital growth has already peaked and will no longer cover the slack. CD sales will continue to plummet. Sales will bottom out in next 3yrs. I wont be surprised total music sales fall another 30% by that time most record companies will be bankrupt and the album chart #1s will be dominated by veteran artist.

[3m3r7c]

Holy shit US sales are low....why do you guys think US sales are slumping so bad yet UK and Japan sales continue to remain fairly constant?

[Diego]

Hopefully that'll be the lowest sales week this year now that summer's over. Yay for Eminem, Katy, and Bieber holding nicely.

[Deleted]

Release schedule is part of the problem

Loading everything worthy of buying into the 4th quarter tends to make the first three quarters look a little bland.


The opposite problem can occur in the 4th quarter, overloading the 4th quarter will be a problem too. Albums that would have sold well during other parts of the year will fail here because of over saturation

[Diego]

(NE) | 01. | Sara Bareilles - Kaleidoscope Heart (90K)
(03) | 02. | Eminem - Recovery (81K)
(02) | 03. | Various - Now 35 (63K)
(04) | 04. | Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (59K)
(01) | 05. | Disturbed - Asylum (57K)
(NE) | 06. | Stone Sour - Audio Secrecy (46K)
(NE) | 07. | Interpol - Interpol (38K)
(08) | 08. | Justin Bieber - My World 2.0 (35K)
(NE) | 09. | Anberlin - Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place (31K)
(09) | 10. | Various - Camp Rock 2: the Final Jam (31K)
(100) | 44. | Florence & the Machine - Lungs (8K)

[#LisaRinna]

Sept 15, 2010 10:28:54 GMT -5 Push The Button said:

Now guys, don't celebrate this #1. We all know that only Eminem is worthy of praise on this board.

Yeah, don't y'all dare!

[3m3r7c]

@2m

Well hopefully the 4th quarter has a lot of big albums to bring it back up.
If that is the usual trend though and follows last year the week to week comparisons for each year should be an accurate comparison seeing as 4th quarter would see a big boost in 09 and 2010, and sales are down 13%...i dont think sales are down anywhere near that in the uk or japan (on comparing year to date totals for 2009 and 2010)

[lugus15]

Sept 15, 2010 11:10:10 GMT -5 asg4 said:

This just shows that digital growth has already peaked and will no longer cover the slack. CD sales will continue to plummet. Sales will bottom out in next 3yrs. I wont be surprised total music sales fall another 30% by that time most record companies will be bankrupt and the album chart #1s will be dominated by veteran artist.

Don't be so dramatic, it's still a billion dollar industry

PS: Maybe it's wishful thinking of my part, but it does seem that digital sales have gone a little bit down since the digital chart wasn't posted here anymore.....

[Deleted]

Sept 15, 2010 11:48:56 GMT -5 lugus15 said:

Sept 15, 2010 11:10:10 GMT -5 asg4 said:

This just shows that digital growth has already peaked and will no longer cover the slack. CD sales will continue to plummet. Sales will bottom out in next 3yrs. I wont be surprised total music sales fall another 30% by that time most record companies will be bankrupt and the album chart #1s will be dominated by veteran artist.

Don't be so dramatic, it's still a billion dollar industry

PS: Maybe it's wishful thinking of my part, but it does seem that digital sales have gone a little bit down since the digital chart wasn't posted here anymore.....

Taking all components into consideration

Music is actually bigger than ever - people are finding a way to get it

It is just CD sales that are taking a hit

[slicknickshady]

www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.12233/title.hip-hop-album-sales-the-week-ending-9-12-2010

Relapse is at #86. It sold another 4,600.

[badrobot]

CD sales are slumping yes but digital sales are also leveling off. Single sales have plateaued digitally, and it does seem digital albums are still growing a bit but I wouldn't be surprised if that growth stifles too.

I really think the problem is the album-focus. Consumers have made it clear that they don't really care about the ten other filler songs on album, they want the singles.

Robyn has exactly the right idea. Focus on EPs, and release them more often.

[3m3r7c]

Hopefully the damn sales leak this week, its been almost 2 months.

[grandelf]

Sept 15, 2010 11:10:10 GMT -5 asg4 said:

This just shows that digital growth has already peaked and will no longer cover the slack. CD sales will continue to plummet. Sales will bottom out in next 3yrs. I wont be surprised total music sales fall another 30% by that time most record companies will be bankrupt and the album chart #1s will be dominated by veteran artist.

I do wonder what keeps labels stay alive in 2010. For example Warner, they have a couple of rock acts who sell albums decently, but is that really enough to compensate sales dropping all around, including catalog?

[c0ldasfire]

Sept 15, 2010 12:19:07 GMT -5 3m3r7c said:

Hopefully the damn sales leak this week, its been almost 2 months.

[Honeymoon]

Sept 15, 2010 11:52:50 GMT -5 slicknickshady said:

www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.12233/title.hip-hop-album-sales-the-week-ending-9-12-2010

Relapse is at #86. It sold another 4,600.

Disappointing sales for #86 but good for Eminem obv

Shame the overall chart sold so poorly, although this is the first time in a long time that the entire top ten sold over 30k.

[areyoureadytojump]

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Sara Bareilles' 'Heart' Beats At No. 1 On Billboard 200
September 15, 2010

Editor: Keith Caulfield; Editorial Director: Silvio Pietroluongo

Singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles nets her first No. 1 album—with her best sales week—as her sophomore effort, "Kaleidoscope Heart," starts atop the Billboard 200 with 90,000 sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan . . . Total album sales in this past chart week (ending Sept. 12) totaled 4.8 million units—the lowest weekly sales figure since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991 . . . Though we'll feel the full impact of Sunday night's (Sept. 12) MTV Video Music Awards on next week's charts, award-winning performers Florence + the Machine make a big jump on both the Billboard 200 and the Digital Songs charts . . . Digital Songs also says hello to a new No. 1: Bruno Mars' "Just the Way You Are," which climbs one spot to the top with 209,000 (up 19%).

FLASH POINTS

• Sara Bareilles scores her first No. 1 album—and best sales week—as her sophomore effort, "Kaleidoscope Heart," bows atop the chart with 90,000 sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

• Bareilles' first set, "Little Voice," peaked at No. 7 in 2008. It has so far sold 997,000 copies in the United States.

• Though Bareilles is one of four new entries in the top 10, expect the chart to get a lot more exciting in a week's time. That's when the biggest albums of the fall season will start arriving, including anticipated high bows from Linkin Park's "A Thousand Suns" and Trey Songz' "Passion, Pain & Pleasure."

• And those albums can't arrive any faster, either. Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Sept. 12) totaled 4.8 million units, the lowest weekly sales figure since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. Last week's sum falls below the record low of 5 million sold, which was only set in the week ending Aug. 15.

• Last week's No. 1 album, Disturbed's "Asylum," falls to No. 5 in its second week with 57,000 (down 68%). Eminem's "Recovery" moves up one notch to No. 2 (81,000; down 12%) while the "Now 35" compilation declines one to No. 3 (63,000; down 40%). Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" holds at No. 4 (59,000; down 33%) while Stone Sour debuts at No. 6 with "Audio Secrecy" (46,000). The band's last album, 2006's "Come What(ever) May," debuted and peaked at No. 4 with 81,000.

• Interpol starts at No. 7 with its self-titled set (38,000). It's the second top 10 album for the latter act, as its 2007 effort "Our Love to Admire" topped out in its first week at No. 4 with 73,000. Just behind them is Justin Bieber's "My World 2.0." It stays steady at No. 8 but still notches a gain of 14% (35,000).

• Rounding out the top 10 are Anberlin's No. 9 debut with "Dark Is the Way. Light Is a Place" with 31,000 and the soundtrack to "Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam," down one to No. 10 with 31,000 (up 11%, but trailing Anberlin by a small margin). It's the first top 10 set for Anberlin, which previously topped out at No. 13 with its last set, 2008's "Surrender."

• Outside the top 10 this week, Florence + the Machine's "Lungs" vaults from No. 100 to No. 44 with 8,000 (up 70%—the largest percentage gain on the chart). The act was nominated for a number of MTV Video Music Awards for its video "Dog Dogs Are Over" and played the tune on the Sept. 12 show. "Dog Days" also debuts at No. 52 on the Digital Songs chart, shifting 27,000 downloads (up 276%).

• Because the VMAs took place on a Sunday night, and since SoundScan's sales tracking week ends at the close of business on Sunday each week, the show's impact on the charts this week is a bit muted. Thus, any punch felt from the VMAs will be distributed over two weeks.

• At the top of the Digital Songs chart this week is a new No. 1: Bruno Mars' "Just the Way You Are," which moves up one notch with 209,000 (up 19%). It displaces Perry's "Teenage Dream," as it falls to No. 2 with 197,000 (down 11%). It's the first time Mars has been No. 1 on the chart as a lead artist. He previously guested on B.o.B's No. 1 "Nothin' on You."

• Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Sept. 12) totaled 4.8 million units, down 7% compared with the sum last week (5.2 million) and down 28% compared with the comparable sales week of 2009 (6.7 million). Year-to-date album sales stand at 205.4 million, down 13% compared with the same total at this point last year (235.7 million).

• Digital track sales this past week totaled 20 million downloads, up 3% compared with last week (19.4 million) and down less than 1% stacked next to the comparable week of 2009 (20.1 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 801.8 million, down less than 1% compared with the same total at this point last year (807.8 million).

MARKET WATCH

• Album units, current chart week: 4.8 million units
• Down 7% from last week's charts: 5.2 million units
• Down 28% from the comparable week in 2009: 6.7 million units
• This week: No albums sold more than 100,000 copies.
• This week last year on the Billboard 200: Jay-Z's "The Blueprint 3" bowed atop the list with 476,000. The previous week's No. 1, Whitney Houston's "I Look to You," fell in its second week with 88,000 (down 71%).

A LOOK AHEAD

• Among the albums released this week, due on next week's charts: Linkin Park's "A Thousand Suns," Trey Songz' "Passion, Pain & Pleasure," Brandon Flowers' "Flamingo," Weezer's "Hurley," Jamey Johnson's "The Guitar Song" and Robert Plant's "Band of Joy."

• Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2009 when: Jay-Z's "The Blueprint 3" held atop the list for a second week with 298,000 (down 37%). Muse's "The Resistance" was the highest new entry, bowing at No. 3 with 128,000.

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Week Ending Sept. 12, 2010: The Dulcet Tones Of Bruno Mars
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Bruno Mars' "Just The Way You Are" jumps to #1 on Hot Digital Songs, dethroning Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream." Mars' song sold 209,000 copies, bringing its eight-week total to 957,000. This is Mars' second #1 digital hit, following B.o.B's "Nothin' On You" (on which he was featured), which had two weeks on top in April. Mars is the first artist to step up from a "featured" credit on a chart-topping hit to a #1 hit of his or her own since Ke$ha, who was featured on Flo Rida's "Right Round" and then landed her own smash with "TiK ToK." (Proving that the current pop scene is completely incestuous, Mars co-wrote "Right Round.")
"Just The Way You Are" may also unseat "Teenage Dream" from the top spot on the Hot 100. It was #4 on last week's chart. I'll update this item when that chart comes in later today. It's amazing that Mars' "Just The Way You Are" will have climbed higher on the chart than Billy Joel's (different song) "Just The Way You Are," which peaked at #3 in February 1978.
Mars (real name: Peter Hernandez) has brought a touch of old-school romance to the pop landscape. Thanks, Bruno, we needed that. Mars' debut album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, is due on Oct. 5. (Mars has also redeemed the name "Bruno," which took a hit when Bruce Willis released The Return Of Bruno in 1987. The album, released at the height of Willis' Moonlighting fame, was a pointless side project.)

Sara Bareilles' sophomore album, Kaleidoscope Heart, enters The Billboard 200 at #1. The album sold 90,000 copies. That's the fifth-lowest sales total in Nielsen/SoundScan history for an album in its first week at #1. The only albums to sell fewer copies in their first week at #1 were Sugarland's Live On The Inside (76K), Chrisette Michele's Epiphany (83K), B.o.B's B.o.B Presents: The Adventures Of Bobby Ray (84K) and Johnny Cash's American V: A Hundred Highways (88K).

While the total for Kaleidoscope Heart was tepid, the album is selling well in the digital sphere. The album sold 59,000 digital copies, which is two-thirds of its total. Only one single-artist album has reached #1 with a higher digital percentage. Ke$ha's Animal hit #1 in
January with a 76% digital share. (The multi-artist Hope For Haiti Now and two Glee soundtracks also hit #1 with higher digital percentages.)

Bareilles' debut album, Little Voice, was also a big digital hit. It has sold 318,000 digital copies out of a total of 997,000. (That's a digital percentage of 32%.)

Little Voice, which entered The Billboard 200 at #45 in July 2007, was the definition of a sleeper hit. It finally reached #7 in February and March 2008. The album included the hit "Love Song," which took off after it was featured in a Rhapsody commercial. It wound up spending 19 weeks in the top 10 on the Hot 100. It later received a Grammy nomination for Song of the Year for 2008.

Eminem's Recovery climbs from #3 to #2. It's the first album to spend its first 12 weeks in the top three on The Billboard 200 since Alicia Keys' As I Am, which spent its first 15 weeks in the top three in 2007-2008. Eminem opened the show on the VMAs on Sunday night. This could help keep the album in the top three next week. Stay tuned.

Recovery this week becomes the second album of 2010 to top the 2.5 million mark in sales. It follows Lady Antebellum's Need You Now. Recovery reached the 2.5 million sales mark in just 12 weeks. Lady A's album took 29 weeks to reach that threshold. The last album to sell more copies in its first 12 weeks was Susan Boyle's I Dreamed A Dream, which blew through 3,512,000 copies in its first 12 weeks in 2009-2010. Of course, that was during the holidays, when sales always swell. Recovery is just 110,000 copies behind Need You Now as the best-selling album so far in 2010.

Like Bareilles' album, Recovery has been a big digital hit. The album has sold 649,000 digital copies (26% of its total). It's #4 on Nielsen/SoundScan's list of the best-selling digital albums in history, behind Lady Gaga's The Fame, Coldplay's Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends and Taylor Swift's Fearless. Recovery is the top-selling digital album by a male artist (beating John Mayer's Continuum) and the top-seller by a hip-hop artist (topping Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3).

Taylor Swift's Fearless tops the 6 million mark in sales this week. It's the first album to reach that level since Carrie Underwood's 2005 smash Some Hearts, which has since advanced to the 7 million mark. (It's up to 7,021,000.) Fearless won a Grammy for Album of the Year for 2009.

Ke$ha this week becomes the second "lead artist," following Lady Gaga, to amass four million-selling downloads in 2010. She achieves the feat as "Take It Off" tops the 1 million mark. It follows "TiK ToK," "Your Love Is My Drug" and "Blah Blah Blah" (featuring 3OH!3). Lady Gaga has topped the 1 million mark in 2010 sales with "Telephone" (featuring Beyonce), "Bad Romance," "Alejandro" and "Poker Face."

Ke$ha was also featured on 3OH!3's "My First Kiss," which has topped the 1 million mark. This gives her a total of five million-sellers (combining lead and featured credits). Only one other artist has equaled that tally in 2010. That would be Ludacris, who has topped the 1 million mark with his own hits "How Low" and "My Chick Bad" (featuring Nicki Minaj) and as a featured artist on Taio Cruz's "Break Your Heart," Justin Bieber's "Baby" and DJ Khaled's "All I Do Is Win."

Two other songs top the 1 million mark in paid downloads this week: "Magic" by B.o.B featuring Rivers Cuomo and "DJ Got Us Falling In Love" by Usher featuring Pitbull. It's the third million-seller of the year for B.o.B; the second for both Usher and Pitbull.
Brandon Flowers' solo debut album, Flamingo, enters the U.K. chart at #1. (It will make a high debut on The Billboard 200 next week.) Flowers' band, The Killers, has topped the U.K. chart with three of its four albums, Hot Fuss, Sam's Town and Day & Age. Flamingo is the first solo debut album to hit #1 in the U.K. since Beyonce's Dangerously In Love reached the top spot in July 2003.

The Killers have yet to have a #1 album in the U.S. Sam's Town, the band's highest-charting album, reached #2. (Incidentally, Flamingo was named after a main street in Las Vegas, which is Flowers' home town.)

Here's the top 10 on Hot Digital Songs, as tabulated by Nielsen/SoundScan. Bruno Mars' "Just The Way You Are" jumps from #2 to #1 (209K). Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" dips from #1 to #2 (197K). Taio Cruz's "Dynamite" holds at #3 for the third week (155K). Nelly's "Just A Dream" jumps from #7 to #4 (155K). Eminem featuring Rihanna's "Love The Way You Lie" dips from #4 to #5 (147K). Enrique Iglesias featuring Pitbull's "I Like It" holds at #6 for the third week (137K). Usher featuring Pitbull's "DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love" drops from #5 to #7 (137K). Flo Rida featuring David Guetta's "Club Can't Handle Me" jumps from #11 to #8 (119K). Ke$ha's "Take It Off dips from #8 to #9 (115K). B.o.B featuring Rivers Cuomo's "Magic" holds at #10 for the second week (108K).

Broken Record: Just 4,832,000 albums were sold in the tracking week that ended Sunday night, the lowest weekly total since Nielsen/SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard in May 1991. The previous low, set just four weeks ago, was 4,950,000.

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

1. Sara Bareilles, Kaleidoscope Heart, 90,000. This new entry is the singer's first #1 album. Her 2007 debut album, Little Voice, peaked at #7. Three songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "King Of Anything," which jumps from #40 to #26.

2. Eminem, Recovery, 81,000. The former #1 album rebounds from #3 to #2 in its 12th week. Five songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Love The Way You Lie" (featuring Rihanna), which dips from #4 to #5.

3. Various Artists, Now 35, 63,000. The album dips from #2 to #3 in its second week. the album has sold 169K copies in its first two weeks.

4. Katy Perry, Teenage Dream, 59,000. The former #1 album holds at #4 in its third week. Four songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Teenage Dream," which dips from #1 to #2.

5. Disturbed, Asylum, 57,000. The former #1 album drops from #1 to #5 in its second week. "Warrior" falls from #56 to #144 on Hot Digital Songs.

6. Stone Sour, Audio Secrecy, 46,000. This new entry is the second top 10 album in a row for the metal band. Come What(ever) May hit #4 in 2006. "Say You'll Haunt Me" re-enters Hot Digital Songs at #195.

7. Interpol, Interpol, 38,000. This new entry is the second top 10 album in a row for the rock band. Our Love To Admire hit #4 in 2007.

8. Justin Bieber, My World 2.0, 35,000. The former #1 album holds at #8 in its 25th week. Four songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Baby" (featuring Ludacris), which jumps from #81 to #79.

9. Anberlin, Dark Is The Way. Light Is A Place, 31,000. This new entry is the first top 10 album for the alternative band. Its two previous albums, Cities and New Surrender, made the top 20.

10. Various Artists, Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, 31,000. The soundtrack dips from #9 to #10 in its fifth week. This is its third week in the top 10. It's the #1 soundtrack for the fifth week. Nick Jonas' "Introducing Me" jumps from #58 to #49 on Hot Digital Songs.
Four albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Fantasia's Back To Me drops from #5 to #11, Lyfe Jennings' I Still Believe drops from #6 to #22, Goo Goo Dolls' Something For The Rest Of Us drops from #7 to #33, and Heart's Red Velvet Car drops from #10 to #36.

Celtic Thunder's Christmas debuts at #27. If you think this is a little early in the year for a holiday album to enter the chart, this is nothing. At this point in 1992, Garth Brooks' Beyond The Season was in its third week on the chart.

Jerry Lee Lewis' Mean Old Man enters The Billboard 200 at #30. It's Lewis' second album in a row to crack the top 30, following Last Man Standing, which hit #26 in 2006. That remains the highest-charting album of his career. With a few exceptions, such as Elvis Presley, rock 'n' roll was primarily a singles medium in the ‘50s. Lewis didn't crack The Billboard 200 until March 1964, nearly seven years after he landed his first smash hits, "Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On" and "Great Balls Of Fire." Lewis was in the first group of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
Casting Crowns' 2007 album The Altar And The Door jumps from #36 to #34. It's #1 on Top

Catalog Albums for the third straight week.
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World is the #1 soundtrack to a theatrically-released movie for the fourth straight week. On the Billboard 200, the album drops from #69 to #91. That's the lowest ranking on for the week's most popular soundtrack to a theatrically-released movie since Happy Feet claimed the title in May 2007, when it ranked a dismal #116.

Resident Evil: Afterlife was #1 at the box-office over the weekend. The soundtrack, composed by Tomandandy, will be released on Sept. 28.

"Feel Good Inc" by Gorillaz/De La Soul tops the 2 million mark in paid downloads this week. The hit was a Grammy finalist for Record of the Year for 2005. Madonna and Gorillaz memorably performed the show on the Grammy telecast in February 2006.
Alexandra Burke's "Start Without You" (featuring Laza Morgan) debuts at #1 in the U.K. It's the third #1 in that country for the 2008 winner of The X Factor.

Heads Up: Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns is expected to debut at #1 next week. The band's
last album, Minutes To Midnight, bowed at #1 in May 2007. Five other albums are vying to debut in the top 10: Trey Songz' Passion, Pain & Pleasure, Brandon Flowers' Flamingo, Weezer's Hurly, Jamey Johnson's The Guitar Song and Robert Plant's Band Of Joy. Also due: Will Downing's Lust, Love & Lie (An Audio Novel).

[chopped89]

Sept 15, 2010 10:28:54 GMT -5 Push The Button said:

Now guys, don't celebrate this #1. We all know that only Eminem is worthy of praise on this board.

I am an Eminem fan, but i didn't say anything about the people who are celebrating for their artists. I mean, yeah maybe Slicknick is a bit impulsive but he only said what he said because he's not happy that the number one album in the U.S only pushed 90k!

[kt1990]

Florence is gonna shoot up even further next week.

[Cerbius]

Down 28% from the comparable week in 2009



Meanwhile, album sales in the UK are down by less than 1 percent this week.

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Sept 15, 2010 14:52:38 GMT -5 @kt1990 said:

Florence is gonna shoot up even further next week.

[grandelf]

Sept 15, 2010 15:26:47 GMT -5 Cerbius said:

Meanwhile, album sales in the UK are down by less than 1 percent this week.

That would be due to a lot of old albums selling during the HMV sales period. Also, it's not like the sales in general are high in the UK either, a month ago it only took 9,000 copies to break the top 10.

[Cerbius]

Sept 15, 2010 15:48:51 GMT -5 grandelf said:

Sept 15, 2010 15:26:47 GMT -5 Cerbius said:

Meanwhile, album sales in the UK are down by less than 1 percent this week.

That would be due to a lot of old albums selling during the HMV sales period. Also, it's not like the sales in general are high in the UK either, a month ago it only took 9,000 copies to break the top 10.

Well a few months ago it only took a bit over 20,000 copies to break into the top 10 in the US. Pretty embarrassing considering the US has over 5 times the population compared to the UK.

[3m3r7c]

From gotham jungle

Weeks on Da Charts This Weeks Charting Artist Album title This Weeks Sales Total Sales
1 1 SARA BAREILLES KALEIDOSCOPE HEART 89540 89661
13 2 EMINEM RECOVERY 81030 2501384
2 3 VARIOUS NOW 35 63270 168684
3 4 KATY PERRY TEENAGE DREAM 58666 339179
2 5 DISTURBED ASYLUM 57181 236693

1 6 STONE SOUR AUDIO SECRECY 46043 46240
1 7 INTERPOL INTERPOL 37597 37942
25 8 JUSTIN BIEBER MY WORLD 2.O 35306 1742091
1 9 ANBERLIN DARK IS THE WAY, LIGHT IS A PLACE 31310 31119
5 10 SOUNDTRACK CAMP ROCK 2: FINAL 31216 141379
3 11 FANTASIA BACK TO ME 29423 186605
33 12 LADY ANTEBELLUM NEED YOU NOW 17726 2610689
13 13 DRAKE THANK ME LATER 17625 1051200
4 14 KEM INTIMACY 17559 145119
3 15 USHER VERSUS 17017 85396
30 16 MUMFORD & SONS SIGH NO MORE 15916 206516
6 17 ARCADE FIRE SUBURBS 15902 298209
4 18 RAY LAMONTAGNE & THE PARIAH DOGS GOD WILLING & THE CREEK DON'T RISE 15481 128214
98 19 LADY GAGA FAME 15248 3755623
95 20 ZAC BROWN BAND FOUNDATION 14480 2253843

[Diego]

Em is now 109,305 copies away from Lady A. Should pass them in 4 weeks tops.