Billboard 200: 11/13/10: Taylor Swift #1 1.04 Mil

[HolidayGuy]

Will album sales top 300 million for the year? There's 9 weeks left, and 57.1 million to go. Hopefully so, with holiday shopping weeks.

Last year, album sales/shipments totaled around 372 million, per the RIAA (293m which were CD).

[Cerbius]

Nov 3, 2010 10:34:32 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Will album sales top 300 million for the year? There's 9 weeks left, and 57.1 million to go. Hopefully so, with holiday shopping weeks.

Last year, album sales/shipments totaled around 372 million, per the RIAA (293m which were CD).

I'm sure we'll get there, since we still have 9 weeks left (including 6 big weeks).

[Rodze]

Last year, total album sales by SoundScan were 374 million, or almost 100 million over what they were in this comparable week (279 million).

It would be necessary a 40% drop for the rest of the year for 2010 not to reach 300 million.

[musicintervention]

Nicely done Taylor!

[melody56]

TOP 30 ALBUMS

1 SWIFT*TAYLOR SPEAK NOW 1,046,718 0 1,046,740
2 SUGARLAND INCREDIBLE MACHINE 88,575 -56 202,711 291,408
3 KINGS OF LEON COME AROUND SUNDOWN 67,281 -63 184,099 252,164
4 LIL WAYNE I AM NOT A HUMAN BEING 42,910 -33 64,513 366,086
5 EMINEM RECOVERY 37,576 -12 42,581 2,898,620
6 JOHN*ELTON & LEON RUSSEL UNION 36,739 -54 79,626 116,950
7 GLEE CAST ROCKY HORROR GLEE 31,026 -35 47,561 78,610
8 STEWART*ROD FLY ME TO THE MOON: THE GREAT 30,412 -62 79,408 109,944
9 RUCKER*DARIUS CHARLESTON, SC 1966 27,192 -26 36,857 164,803
10 BUBLE*MICHAEL HOLLYWOOD THE DELUXE EP 25,771 999 31 26,185
11 BAND PERRY*THE BAND PERRY 23,370 -7 25,194 101,099
12 CHESNEY*KENNY HEMINGWAY'S WHISKEY 23,309 -11 26,126 338,090
13 BROWN*ZAC BAND YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE 22,097 -15 25,873 348,499
14 BIG TIME RUSH BTR 21,931 -11 24,734 113,648
15 SONGZ*TREY PASSION PAIN & PLEASURE 21,823 -3 22,518 451,416
16 SHAKIRA SALE EL SOL 20,399 -56 46,018 66,442
17 SOUNDTRACK HANNAH MONTANA FOREVER 19,383 -28 26,772 46,201
18 PERRY*KATY TEENAGE DREAM 18,946 1 18,689 527,858
19 MUMFORD & SONS SIGH NO MORE 18,325 -9 20,242 334,858
20 BIEBER*JUSTIN MY WORLD 2.0 17,988 1 17,897 1,923,007
21 SELENA GOMEZ & THE SCENE YEAR WITHOUT RAIN 17,887 -15 21,095 197,497
22 KEITH*TOBY BULLETS IN THE GUN 17,683 -12 20,067 138,510
23 THIRD DAY MOVE 17,432 -53 37,277 21,683
24 LINKIN PARK THOUSAND SUNS 17,295 -17 20,809 455,760
25 LADY ANTEBELLUM NEED YOU NOW 16,983 23 13,813 2,716,217
26 VARIOUS NOW 35 16,885 3 16,440 342,044
27 BUBLE*MICHAEL CRAZY LOVE 16,143 302 4,014 1,844,095
28 WOW HITS WOW HITS 2011 14,662 -8 15,880 22,708
29 MARS*BRUNO DOO - WOPS & HOOLIGAN 14,185 -17 17,041 113,517
30 MAROON 5 HANDS ALL OVER 13,910 4 13,422 254,156

[areyoureadytojump]

^Thank you!

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Glad Trey has stabilized his sales.

[areyoureadytojump]

Is America "Gleed" out?

7 GLEE CAST ROCKY HORROR GLEE 31,026 -35% 47,561 78,610

[#LisaRinna]

Maroon 5 had a small gain. Did they have any appearences or is it just the new single starting to impact?

[👑 Eloquent ™]

Nov 3, 2010 12:46:08 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

^Thank you!

[Carriefan1190]

Wow. This is crazy

Sales of Albums 2-30: 758k

Speak Now: 1.047M

Talk about total domination.

[Cerbius]

Nov 3, 2010 13:35:01 GMT -5 Carriefan1190 said:

Wow. This is crazy

Sales of Albums 2-30: 758k

Speak Now: 1.047M

Talk about total domination.

It sold more than the combined total of albums #2 all the way to #62. :'(

[Carriefan1190]

That just shows you how crappy the sales climate is now.

[Honeymoon]

Nov 3, 2010 13:38:50 GMT -5 Carriefan1190 said:

That just shows you how crappy the sales climate is now.

But also, it has to do with the fact that the only other notable new release this week was that Michael Buble EP, there would've likely been many more new releases had there not been the fear of competition of T-Swift

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Top 16 with unrounded numbers (except The Bodyguard - rounded numbers the only number that is available)


1 4/8/2000 No Strings Attached 'N Sync 2,415,859
2 8/11/2001 Celebrity 'N Sync 1,879,955
3 6/10/2000 The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem 1,760,049
4 12/9/2000 Black & Blue Backstreet Boys 1,591,191
5 6/15/2002 The Eminem Show Eminem 1,321,799
6 6/3/2000 Oops...I Did It Again Britney Spears 1,319,193
7 1/6/2001 1 The Beatles 1,258,667
8 3/19/2005 The Massacre 50 Cent 1,140,638
9 6/5/1999 Millennium Backstreet Boys 1,133,505
10 4/10/2004 Confessions Usher 1,096,213
11 12/5/1998 Double Live Garth Brooks 1,085,373
12 1/9/1993 The Bodyguard Soundtrack 1,061,000
13 11/4/2000 Chocolate Starfish Limp Bizkit 1,054,511
14 11/13/2010 Speak Now Taylor Swift 1,046,718
15 2/28/2004 Feels Like Home Norah Jones 1,022,149
16 6/28/2008 Tha Carter III Lil' Wayne 1,005,545

[Black Jesus]

Congratulations to Taylor!

[when the pawn...]

Nov 3, 2010 12:52:16 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

Is America "Gleed" out?

7 GLEE CAST ROCKY HORROR GLEE 31,026 -35% 47,561 78,610

I don't think so...I just don't think Rocky Horror is that big of a draw.

[areyoureadytojump]

Country sales:

LW TW Artist Album Sales TW Sales Total

NEW 1 Taylor Swift Speak Now 1,046,718 1,046,740
1 2 Sugarland The Incredible Machine 88,575 297,408
10 9 Darius Rucker Charleston, SC 1966 27,192 164,803
15 11 The Band Perry The Band Perry 23,370 101,099
13 12 Kenny Chesney Hemingway's Whiskey 23,309 338,090
14 13 Zac Brown Band You Get What You Give 22,097 348,499
21 22 Toby Keith Bullets in the Gun 17,683 138,510
28 25 Lady Antebellum Need You Now 16,983 2,716,217
47 33 Miranda Lambert Revolution 10,236 907,723
33 36 Jamey Johnson The Guitar Song 9,846 165,595
63 37 Taylor Swift Fearless 9,638 6,049,843
40 38 Billy Currington Enjoy Yourself 9,603 115,384
34 41 Lady Antebellum Merry Little Christmas 9,205 38,395
49 46 Zac Brown Band The Foundation 8,857 2,327,885
66 51 Carrie Underwood Play On 8,216 1,775,731
NEW 66 Various Country Strong 6,234 6,245
92 68 Various Now Country V3 6,080 58,768
85 74 Eric Church Carolina 5,346 297,566
83 76 Trace Adkins The Definitive Hits 5,197 16,862
90 85 Trace Adkins Cowboy's Back In Town 4,798 143,179
87 91 Jerrod Niemann Judge Jerrod/Hung Jury 4,549 152,874
126 109 Easton Corbin Easton Corbin 3,812 262,810
168 145 Dierks Bentley Up On The Ridge 2,936 164,118
191 180 Chris Young Man I Want To Be 2,415 370,555
180 181 George Strait Twang 2,388 621,456

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Chart Watch Extra: Swift Joins An Elite Club
Posted Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:08am PDT by Paul Grein in Chart Watch
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Taylor Swift's Speak Now sold 1,047,000 copies in its first week, which puts it in elite company. It's only the 16th album to sell 1 million copies in one week since Nielsen/SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard in 1991. Swift's strong showing is all the more impressive because the environment for album sales is much worse than it was a decade ago, when many of these other albums were released.

Speak Now registered the second biggest one-week sales tally for a country album. It trails only Garth Brooks' 1998 smash Double Live. It also posted the second biggest one-week sales tally for an album by a female solo artist, after Britney Spears' Oops!...I Did It Again. (Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard soundtrack also sold more copies at its peak, but it included tracks by six other artists.)

To put the first-week tally for Speak Now in context, I prepared a list of the 20 biggest one-week sales tallies in the Nielsen/SoundScan era. Garth Brooks is the only artist with three of the 20 biggest tallies. *NSYNC, Eminem and Backstreet Boys each have two.
Pop is the leading genre, with eight of the 20 biggest one-week tallies. Rap (with five albums on the list) edges country (with four) for second place. Rock accounts for two; R&B for one.
*NSYNC's second studio album, No Strings Attached, is the all-time leader for the greatest one-week sales. It sold 2,416,000 copies in its first week in March 2000. Both *NSYNC and the music industry stood at their peaks at the time. The boy band's debut album, *NSYNC, had sold 7,878,000 copies prior to the release of No Strings Attached.
Brooks' Double Live is the only double-disk album, and the only live album, on the list. Houston's The Bodyguard is the only soundtrack.
Here are the 20 albums that have sold the most copies in any one week in the Nielsen/SoundScan era. All of these albums ranked #1 on The Billboard 200 at the time. All but four of them were in their first week on the chart. I note the four exceptions.

1. *NSYNC, No Strings Attached, 2,416,000. The boy band's second studio album debuted in March 2000. It spawned the top 10 hits "Bye Bye Bye," "It's Gonna Be Me" and "This I Promise You."

2. *NSYNC, Celebrity, 1,880,000. The quintet's third studio album debuted in July 2001. It spawned the top 10 hit "Girlfriend" (featuring Nelly). Remarkably, *NSYNC has yet to release another studio album.

3. Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP, 1,760,000. The rapper's second album debuted in May 2000. It sold more copies in one week than any other rap album or any other album by a male solo artist. It spawned the top 10 hit "The Real Slim Shady" and received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.

4. Backstreet Boys, Black & Blue, 1,591,000. The boy band's third album debuted in November 2000. It managed to interrupt the Beatles' run at #1 with 1. Black & Blue spawned the Boys' final top 10 hit "Shape Of My Heart."

5. Eminem, The Eminem Show, 1,322,000. Eminem's third album sold 285,000 copies in its first week in May 2001 due to "street-date violations," where retailers sell an album before its official release date. The album hit this big number in its second week. It spawned the top 10 hits "Without Me" and "Cleanin' Out My Closet" and received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.

6. Britney Spears, Oops!...I Did It Again, 1,319,000. Spears was just 18 when this album, her second, was released in May 2000. It sold more copies in one week than any other album by a female artist. It spawned the top 10 hit "Oops!...I Did It Again."

7. The Beatles, 1, 1,259,000. The Fab Four's blockbuster sold more copies in one week than any other greatest hits compilation. It reached its peak of sales in December 2000, in its sixth week of release. The 27-track album includes all 20 of the Beatles' #1 hits on the Hot 100.

8. 50 Cent, The Massacre, 1,141,000. The rapper's second major album debuted in March 2005. It spawned the top 10 hits "Disco Inferno," "Candy Shop" (featuring Olivia) and "Just A Lil Bit."

9. Backstreet Boys, Millennium, 1,134,000. In May 1999, this broke Garth Brooks' record for one-week sales. It held the record until *NSYNC broke it 10 months later. The album, the quintet's second, spawned the top 10 hits "I Want It That Way" and "Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely." It received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.

10. Usher, Confessions, 1,096,000. Usher's fourth studio album debuted in March 2004. It sold more copies in one week than any other R&B album. It spawned five top 10 hits: "Yeah!" (featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris), "Burn," "Confessions Part II," "My Boo" (a duet with Alicia Keys) and "Caught Up." It received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.

11. Garth Brooks, Double Live, 1,085,000. In November 1998, this broke Whitney Houston's record for one-week sales. It held the record until Backstreet Boys broke it six months later. The album still holds the record for one-week sales for a country album, a double album and a live album. "It's Your Song" was the first song from a Brooks album to make the Hot 100.

12. Whitney Houston/Soundtrack, The Bodyguard, 1,061,000. This was the first album in Nielsen/SoundScan history to sell 1 million copies in one week. It achieved the feat in January 1993, when it was in its sixth week. It still holds the record for one-week sales for a soundtrack. The album spawned the top 10 hits "I Will Always Love You," "I'm Every Woman" and "I Have Nothing." It won the Grammy for Album of the Year.

13. Limp Bizkit, Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water, 1,055,000. The band's third album was released in October 2000. This is the record for one-week sales for a rock act (unless you count the Beatles, who straddle the line between pop and rock.) The album spawned the chart hits "Rollin' (Urban Assault Vehicle)" (featuring DMX, Redman and Method Man) and "My Way."

14. Taylor Swift, Speak Now, 1,047,000. Swift's third studio album has sold more copies in one week than any other album by a female country artist. It has already spawned three top 10 hits: "Mine," "Speak Now" and "Back To December."

15. Norah Jones, Feels Like Home, 1,022,000. Jones' second solo album debuted in February 2004. It achieved this sales tally without generating a Hot 100 single. ("Sunrise" won a Grammy, but failed to crack the pop chart.)

16. Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III, 1,006,000. Lil Wayne's sixth solo album debuted in June 2008. It spawned the rapper's first three top 10 hits: "Lollipop" (featuring Static Major), "A Milli" and "Got Money (featuring T-Pain). It received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.

17. Kanye West, Graduation, 957,000. The rapper's third album debuted in September 2007. It spawned the top 10 hits "Stronger" and "Good Life" (featuring T-Pain) and received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.

18. Pearl Jam, Vs., 950,000. The second album by the Seattle-based rock band debuted in November 1993. It spawned the airplay hit "Daughter."

19. Garth Brooks, The Hits, 907,000. Brooks' first compilation album sold 520,000 copies in its first week in December 1994, and climbed to this number in its second week. Only one greatest hits album (the Beatles' 1) has sold more copies in any one week. Twelve of the 18 songs on the album were #1 country hits.

20. Garth Brooks, Sevens, 897,000. Brooks' seventh studio album debuted in November 1997. The album spawned the #1 country hit "Longneck Bottle." In 2000, another song from the album, "Do What You Gotta Do," made the Hot 100.

The Fine Print: Several notable albums that were released prior to 1991 may have sold 1 million copies in one week (we'll never know for sure). Candidates that may have done it include Elton John's Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975), Stevie Wonder's Songs In The Key Of Life (1976), the Bee Gees' Saturday Night Fever soundtrack (1978), John Lennon/Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy (1980), Michael Jackson's Thriller (1984) and Bad (1987), Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band's Born In The U.S.A. (1984), Prince and the Revolution's Purple Rain soundtrack (1984) and Whitney Houston's Whitney (1987).

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Week Ending Oct. 31, 2010: A Cool Million For Swift
Posted Wed Nov 3, 2010 9:58am PDT by Paul Grein in Chart Watch
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Taylor Swift's Speak Now sold 1,047,000 copies in its first week. That's the biggest one-week sales tally in more than 5-1/2 years, since 50 Cent's The Massacre sold 1,141,000 copies in its first week in March 2005.

Speak Now registered the second biggest one-week tally in the Nielsen/SoundScan era for an album by a female solo artist. It trails Britney Spears' Oops!...I Did It Again, which sold 1,319,000 copies in its first week in May 2000. Speak Now also posted the second biggest one-week tally for a country album. It trails Garth Brooks' Double Live, which sold 1,085,000 copies in its first week in November 1998.

Speak Now set a new record for the biggest one-week sales tally for an album by a female country artist. The old record was held by Shania Twain's Up!, which sold 874,000 copies in its first week in November 2002.

This is by far Swift's biggest sales week to date. Fearless opened with sales of 592,000 copies in November 2008. Taylor Swift started with sales of 39,000 in October 2006. Fearless took three weeks to top the 1 million mark in sales. Taylor Swift took 38 weeks.

After just one week of sales, Speak Now is already the eighth best-selling album so far this year. It sold more copies in one week than Ke$ha's Animal (993K) and Lil Wayne's Rebirth (683K) have sold all year.

Since Nielsen/SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard in 1991, only 13 albums have sold more copies in any one week. Swift's strong showing is all the more impressive because the environment for album sales is much worse than it was a decade ago, when many of these other albums were released.

What do this week's chart results tell us about the vitality of the music industry? There are two ways to look at it. On the plus side, all the pundits who have pronouncing the album dead for the past few years will be forced to admit that phenomenal sales are still possible. On the down side, Swift's album sold more copies than the next 61 albums on this week's Billboard 200 combined. (That may be the most depressing sentence I have ever written.)
The sales total for Speak Now includes 278,000 digital copies. Only one album has ever sold more digital copies in one week. Coldplay's Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends sold 288,000 digital copies upon its release in June 2008. This of course means that Speak Now sets a new one-week digital sales record for an album by a female artist and for an album by a country artist. Who held these records previously? Swift, with Fearless, which sold 129,000 digital copies in its first week.

It goes without saying that Speak Now enters The Billboard 200 at #1. Country music has accounted for five of the last six #1 albums on that chart. Swift was preceded at #1 by Zac Brown Band, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith and Sugarland. (If Darius Rucker had sold 25,000 more albums two weeks ago, he would have overtaken Lil Wayne and ranked #1. If he had, country would have accounted for the last six consecutive #1 albums.)

Speak Now also enters Top Country Albums at #1. Fearless topped that chart for 35 weeks. Taylor Swift topped it for 24 weeks.

Swift's 2007 holiday EP, Sounds Of The Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection, re-enters The Billboard 200 at #29. It's the week's #1 holiday album and the week's #1 catalog album.
Eminem's Recovery had held the one-week sales record for 2010, with first-week sales of 741,000 in June. Recovery remains the overall sales leader for 2010, with sales of 2,899,000. Will Speak Now be able to overtake Recovery before the end of the year? Place your bets. Swift and Eminem are both vying to become the first artist in Nielsen/SoundScan history to have the year's top-selling album twice. Eminem previously led the field in 2002 with The Eminem Show. Swift was on top last year with Fearless.

This week’s surge brings Swift’s career album sales to 13,036,000. This puts her ahead of such longer-established acts as John Mayer, Michael Buble and Carrie Underwood.
Shameless Plug: Today, I'm also posting a Chart Watch Extra in which I list the 20 albums that have sold the most copies in one week in the Nielsen/SoundScan era. Backstreet Boys, Garth Brooks, Eminem and *NSYNC all have more than one album on the list. Which is the only act with three of the top 20 one-week sales tallies? Guess and then check out the Chart Watch Extra (here's a link).

Ke$ha's "We R Who We R" enters Hot Digital Songs at #1. It sold 280K copies in its first week. Ke$ha's breakthrough smash, "TiK ToK," topped the chart for six weeks in December and January. But it took 13 weeks to reach #1.

Willow enters Hot Digital Songs at #4 with "Whip My Hair." The 10-year old is the daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. Willow will be the second offspring of the Smiths to land a top 40 hit on the Hot 100. Her older brother Jaden Smith was featured on Justin Bieber's "Never Say Never," which peaked at #33 in June. Jaden was 11 at the time. He is now 12. Will Smith first cracked the top 40 in June 1988 with D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince's witty "Parents Just Don't Understand." Smith was 19 at the time. (Compared to his kids, he was kind of a slacker.)


Glee: The Rocky Horror Glee Show dips from #6 to #7 on The Billboard 200, in the wake of the airing of the episode. Unless the EP turns around, it will become the first Glee album or EP to fail to reach the top five. There may be some Glee oversaturation (six albums or EPs in one year is a lot). It's also possible that Rocky Horror simply isn't as mainstream as Madonna and Journey, the focal points of the two previous Glee EPs.


That said, the soundtrack to the 1978 movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show re-enters The Billboard 200 at #55. This nearly equals the highest position (#49) it has reached to date. It's the week's highest-ranking soundtrack to a theatrically-released movie. (The Rocky Horror Glee Show is the week's #1 TV soundtrack. This is the first time that one property has been out front in both film and TV soundtracks in the same week since the summer of 2009, when Hannah Montana: The Movie and Hannah Montana 3 led the way for six weeks.)
Michael Buble's hollywood the deluxe ep debuts at #10. The eight songs on the EP are also included in the Hollywood Edition of his former #1 album Crazy Love, which vaults from #115 to #27 on The Billboard 200. Crazy Love has sold 1,844,000 copies to date. It is likely to become Buble's fourth consecutive fourth studio album to top the 2 million mark.
Crazy Love could bring Buble his second Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. He won the award last year for his live album Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden. But Buble has strong competition in the form of Barbra Streisand's #1 album Love Is The Answer. Streisand has won eight Grammys, but she has yet to win in the Traditional Pop category, a genre she dominated in the '60s with her recordings of such vintage songs as "Happy Days Are Here Again" and "My Man." Who will prevail in this epic, intergenerational Grammy showdown? Stay tuned.

"California Gurls" by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg tops the 4 million mark in paid downloads this week. It took 25 weeks to reach this plateau. Only two songs in digital history have gotten there faster. The Black Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow" took 23 weeks to top 4 million in paid downloads. Ke$ha's "TiK ToK" took 24 weeks. This is Perry's second song to cross this threshold. "Hot N Cold" is up to 4,597,000.

Eminem's "Not Afraid" tops the 3 million mark in paid downloads. It's Eminem's fourth hit to reach this plateau, following "Love The Way You Lie" (with Rihanna, 3,763,000), "Lose Yourself" (3,055,000) and Akon's "Smack That" (3,015,000). All four of these songs have topped the 3 million mark in the past two months. (When it rains, it pours.)
Bruno Mars' "Just The Way You Are" tops the 2 million mark this week. It's Mars' third song to
reach this plateau, following B.o.B's "Nothin' On You" (2,572,000) and Travie
McCoy's "Billionaire" (2,558,000). "Just The Way You Are" reached the 2 million mark in 15 weeks, faster than either of these two other hits. "Nothin' On You" took 18 weeks. "Billionaire" took 19.

Nicki Minaj is featured on two of the top 10 songs on Hot Digital Songs, as calculated by Nielsen/SoundScan. Here they are. Ke$ha's "We R Who We R" debuts at #1 (280K). Far*East Movement featuring Cataracs & Dev's "Like A G6" dips from #1 to #2 (178K). Rihanna's "Only Girl (In The World)" holds at #3 for the second week (142K). Willow's "Whip My Hair" debuts at #4 (137K). Nelly's "Just A Dream" dips from #4 to #5 (133K). Trey Songz featuring Nicki Minaj's "Bottoms Up" holds at #6 for the second week (122K). Bruno Mars' "Just The Way You Are" drops from #5 to #7 (118K). Taylor Swift's "Sparks Fly" debuts at #8 (113K). P!nk's "Raise Your Glass" drops from #7 to #9 (104K). Kanye West featuring Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Bon Iver & Nicki Minaj's "Monster" vaults from #69 to #10 (97K).
Here's the low-down on this week's top 10 albums.

1. Taylor Swift, Speak Now, 1,047,000. This new entry is Swift's second studio album in a row to reach #1. It's her fourth top 10 album. Ten songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Sparks Fly," which debuts at #8.

2. Sugarland, The Incredible Machine, 89,000. The former #1 album dips from #1 to #2 in its second week. "Stuck Like Glue" drops from #28 to #37 on Hot Digital Songs.

3. Kings Of Leon, Come Around Sundown, 67,000. The album dips from #2 to #3 in its second week. It holds at #1 in the U.K. for the second week. "The End" drops from #43 to #147 on Hot Digital Songs.

4. Lil Wayne, I Am Not A Human Being, 43,000. The former #1 album inches up from #5 to #4 in its fifth week. Four songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Right Above It" (featuring Drake), which drops from #26 to #32.

5. Eminem, Recovery, 38,000. The former #1 album jumps from #8 to #5 in its 19th week. Three songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Love The Way You Lie" (featuring Rihanna), which drops from #15 to #23.

6. Elton John/Leon Russell, The Union, 37,000. The album drops from #3 to #6 in its second week. No songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs.

7. Various Artists, Glee: The Rocky Horror Glee Show, 31,000. The EP dips from #6 to #7 in its second week. It's the top soundtrack for the second week. Five of the EP's seven songs are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Time Warp," which vaults from #121 to #56.

8. Rod Stewart, Fly Me To The Moon...The Great American Songbook Volume V, 30,000. The album drops from #4 to #8 in its second week. No songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs.

9. Darius Rucker, Charleston, S.C. 1966, 27,000. The album rebounds from #10 to #9 in its third week. "Come Back Song" drops from #76 to #108 on Hot Digital Songs.

10. Michael Buble, hollywood the deluxe ep, 26,000. This new entry is Buble's fourth top 10 album. Two songs from the EP are listed on Hot Digital Songs. "Hollywood" debuts at #92. "Best Of Me" debuts at #166.
Two albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Shakira's Sale El Sol drops from #7 to #16. Third Day's Move drops from #9 to #23.

Blues legend Buddy Guy lands the highest-charting album of his long career as Living Proof enters The Billboard 200 at #46. Guy's previous highest-charting album was 2008's Skin Deep, which hit #68. Guy, 74, first charted in 1991 with Damn Right, I've Got The Blues.
The Country Strong soundtrack debuts at #73. Gwyneth Paltrow, who stars in the movie as a fallen country star, performs four songs on the soundtrack. Paltrow is already a chart veteran. She and Huey Lewis topped the adult contemporary chart in 2000 with a remake of Smokey Robinson's 1980 hit "Cruisin." The song was from the movie Duets, in which they costarred.
For the first time since in at least seven years, Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was not the Halloween song with the most paid downloads. It fell behind "Monster Mash" by Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers. Both songs sold 45K downloads during the week that ended Oct. 31. But "Monster Mash" was ahead by a (black cat's) whisker. These two hits were followed by the usual Halloween suspects, as well as Donovan's 1966 song "Season Of The Witch," which sold 9K downloads.

Song Scorecard: Coldplay's 2003 hit "Clocks" tops the 2 million mark in paid downloads this week. The hit won a Grammy as Record of the Year. Is this the first time that a group's hit has topped the 2 million mark the very same week that the front-man's movie-star wife has charted with the soundtrack to her latest movie? You know, I think it is.

Saw 3D was #1 at the box-office over the weekend. It's the seventh installment in the horror movie series. Don't you people ever get enough? The soundtrack, which features such rock acts as Saving Abel, Hinder and Krokus, sold fewer than 1,000 copies, too few to make The Billboard 200.

Coming Attractions: Look for Swift to hold on to #1 next week. Jason Aldean's My Kinda Party will probably open at #2, with sales in the range of 175,000. Also headed for top 10 debuts: Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas II You and Neil Diamond's Dreams, and possibly Matt & Kim's Sidewalks and Brad Paisley's Hits Alive. Other albums that will chart: N.E.R.D.'s Nothing, Good Charlotte's Cardiology, Elvis Costello's National Ransom, Paul McCartney's Band On The Run deluxe reissue, and Escape The Fate's Escape The Fate

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Nov 3, 2010 8:04:20 GMT -5 leoapp said:

The fact that her first single, Mine was not that big compared to Love Story or You Belong With Me, and she can sell 1 million, it's very impressive, maybe she could've easily surpassed Britney's record if the first single was huge

Well what you have to remember is that the kind of fanbase Taylor is something irregular to a lot of other singers. At this point, her success isn't really dependent on her singles success. It's like the disney stars who have HUGE album sales even if their singles don't perform well because they have established fanbases (for a brief period anyway *Jobros/Hilary Duff/Miley Cyrus/Justin Bieber*...

Taylor pretty much has the best of both worlds when it comes to fanbases. She has the exact same appeal all of the above do (the child/tweens) as well as the country fans. Both of which are two of the most strongest in buying-power and sales. Even if her youth appeal fades like the Disney kids, she still has country who will continue to be dedicated to her.

[fridayteenage]

"Ten songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Sparks Fly," which debuts at #8."
1. Why can't all of them be listed?
2. That's odd. Only 10 are listed. Hopefully they mean 10 new ones are listed...

ALSO, for those bitching about how Amazon's $4 requires her to have an asterisk, from www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i5094e406e415c280a12d8a06b875f74f

"Target, 350,000 units; iTunes, 220,000 units; Walmart at about 190,000 units; Amazon and Costo, each at about 40,000 units; Best Buy at about 35,000 units; and Starbucks at about 28,000 units." Even if you take away every Amazon sale, she'd STILL be at over a million.

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Nov 3, 2010 16:44:42 GMT -5 @swella said:

Well what you have to remember is that the kind of fanbase Taylor is something irregular to a lot of other singers. At this point, her success isn't really dependent on her singles success. It's like the disney stars who have HUGE album sales even if their singles don't perform well because they have established fanbases (for a brief period anyway *Jobros/Hilary Duff/Miley Cyrus/Justin Bieber*...

Having listened to Taylor's music, she has nothing in common with the Disney stars. Just because she is young and refrains from singing about drugs, sex and alcohol...people group her with them. Those no-talent kids are manufactured puppets. There is a reason why their 15 minutes of fame last no longer than a year or two. Example: Jonas Brothers (are they still alive?) Miley Cyrus (her last album bombed). Taylor has been doing her thing since 2006 and every album has sold more than the previous.

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Nov 3, 2010 16:53:24 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

"Ten songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Sparks Fly," which debuts at #8."
1. Why can't all of them be listed?
2. That's odd. Only 10 are listed. Hopefully they mean 10 new ones are listed...

Digital Songs has only 75 positions.

Maybe some of the album tracks just didn't sell enough...

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Roughly 1 in 6 albums purchaed last week was 'Speak Now'

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As previously reported, Taylor Swift celebrates a milestone achievement this week as her third album, "Speak Now," crashes in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 1 ,047,000 million sold in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's the largest sales week for an album since 50 Cent's "The Massacre" bowed at No. 1 with 1,141,000 in March of 2005, and Swift's second album to top the Billboard 200 following her sophomore "Fearless" release, which flew in with 592,000 in November of 2008.



Taylor Swift Sells Over 1 Million in Record Billboard 200 Debut




Here's more about Swift's stunning bow:



"Speak Now" accounted for 18% of all albums sold last week (5.80 million) -- or, one out of every sixth set purchased. The album sold more than the Nos. 2-62 albums combined on this week's Billboard 200 chart.



Taylor Swift: The Billboard Cover Story



It also has the second-largest sales week for a digital album, with 278,000 downloads sold. Only Coldplay's "Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends" posted a larger haul, with 288,000 when it bowed in the summer of 2008.



After one week of sales, "Speak Now" is the eighth best-selling album of 2010. Eminem's "Recovery" still leads the pack, with 2.9 million. Could "Speak" shift enough by year's end to take over the lead?



Photos: Taylor's Fashion Evolution



Last week's Billboard 200 No. 1, Sugarland's "The Incredible Machine," falls to No. 2 with 89,000 (down 56%). With a wide divide of 958,000 between "Speak Now" and "The Incredible Machine," it's the largest gap between the top two since the chart dated June 15, 2002. That's when Eminem's "The Eminem Show" moved 1,322,000 in its second week at No. 1, while the Diddy-driven compilation "We Invented the Remix" was No. 2 with 117,000 -- a margin of 1.2 million.



It would seem that everyone steered clear of the Swift freight train last week, as not much was released aside from "Speak Now." The second-highest debut on the Billboard 200 comes from Michael Bublé's "Hollywood" EP, which takes a bow at No. 10 with 26,000. The EP was also available as part of his deluxe reissue of "Crazy Love," which spikes up 88 slots to No. 27 with 16,000 (up 302%).



The rest of the Billboard 200 top 10 is populated with holdovers from last week. Kings of Leon's "Come Around Sundown" slips one spot to No. 3 (67,000; down 63%), Lil Wayne's "I Am Not a Human Being" climbs one to No. 4 (43,000; down 33%) and Eminem's "Recovery" is up three to No. 5 (38,000; down 12%). Elton John and Leon Russell's "The Union" drops three positions to No. 6 (37,000; down 54%) while the "Glee: Rocky Horror Glee Show" soundtrack drops one rung with 31,000 (down 35%). Rod Stewart's "Fly Me to the Moon" descends four places to No. 8 (30,000; down 62%) and Darius Rucker's "Charleston, SC 1966" is up one to No. 9 (27,000; down 26%).



On the Digital Songs chart this week, Ke$ha's "We R Who We R" debuts at No. 1 with 280,000 sold -- the biggest week for a download since Taylor Swift's "Mine" bowed atop the list with 297,000 in August. It's Ke$ha's second No. 1 on the Digital Songs tally, following her premiere effort, "Tik Tok," which reigned for six weeks in January.



Last week's Digital Songs No. 1, Far*East Movement's "Like a G6," falls to No. 2 with 178,000 (down 13%) while three cuts arrive in the top 10. Willow's "Whip My Hair" starts at No. 4 with 137,000, becoming the 10-year old's first hit on the list. Swift's "Sparks Fly" flies in at No. 8 with 113,000 in its first week out, while Kanye West's "Monster" jumps from No. 69 to No. 10 in its second week with 97,000 (up 81%).



Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Oct. 31) totaled 5.80 million units, up 12% compared to the sum last week (5.17 million) and down 8% compared to the comparable sales week of 2009 (6.32 million). Year to date album sales stand at 241.94 million, down 13% compared to the same total at this point last year (279.10 million).



Digital track sales this past week totaled 18.77 million downloads, up 1% compared to last week (18.58 million) and down 2% stacked next to the comparable week of 2009 (19.10 million). Year to date track sales are at 937.02 million, down 1% compared to the same total at this point last year (942.55 million).

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Nov 3, 2010 0:04:25 GMT -5 Push The Button said:

Nov 2, 2010 23:58:06 GMT -5 applechic said:

So she has the 2nd highest one week sales for a female artist...of all time? Niiice!

Third. Unless you mean debut week?

Who was second without the debut week?

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They may mean the Bodyguard soundtrack, which is technically a multi-artist album

[ListenToItTwice]

Nov 3, 2010 19:43:18 GMT -5 @2m said:

They may mean the Bodyguard soundtrack, which is technically a multi-artist album

But nonetheless almost always referred to as a Whitney Houston album.

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The source of the confusion of the above post however