Billboard 200: 1/21/12: Adele No. 1- 124,000

[when the pawn...]

Really love the post-holiday totals. Gaga, Aldean, Mumford cruising past 2 million, Drake & Coldplay past 1 million. Adele about to cross the 6 million mark.

Also good to see Black Keys remaining steady. I think they'll be a contender for an AOTY nod next year as 'the rock slot' depending if Mumford puts out a new album this year.

[areyoureadytojump]

No new RIAA certifications this week.

[areyoureadytojump]

29 albums enter the Billboard 200 this week. 21 are re-entries.

50 albums entered the Billboard 200 last week. 40 were re-entries.

28 albums entered the Billboard 200 2 weeks ago. 26 were re-entries.

[David]

163 160 176 P!NK GREATEST HITS SO FAR 3,310 -31 4,812 940,959

Should pass 1 million with her next album release.

Year to date album sales stand at 5.80 million, up 7% compared to the same total at this point last year (5.44 million).

Nice! What big releases are there this month and in February and what was there last year?

[Deleted]

There really wasn't any major releases last year in Jan/Feb except Bieber's remix album, a Now compliation and.. Adele xD

[areyoureadytojump]

^^Here's the link to the release schedule thread that Nick compiles for us:

pulsemusic.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=gmn&action=display&thread=103067&page=1

And last year's sales are in this thread:

pulsemusic.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=gmn&action=display&thread=61044&page=8

[areyoureadytojump]

5.779 million albums were sold in the US last week.

2.441 million were digital albums.

3.338 million were physical cds.

[areyoureadytojump]

www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/record-labels/chart-moves-david-guetta-s-turned-on-kelly-1005865752.story

The Billboard 200:

Ringing the bell at No. 1 for an amazing 15th week is Adele's "21," which shifted 124,000 last week (down 14%). It's the only set to sell more than 100,000 copies, as Drake's "Take Care" at No. 2 moves 42,000 (down 41%). With the market still adjusting back to normal after the holiday shopping season, the bulk of the chart's titles all see sales declines. So, the criteria for earning bullets had been adjusted so that any album with less than 25% drop in sales garnered a bullet.

Now that we have that housekeeping business out of the way, let's take a gander at some of the tally's movers and shakers this week outside of the top 10:

-- Skrillex: At No. 15 this week is Skrillex's "Bangarang," (19,000; down a moderate 18%) rising four slots from its debut last week (24,000). While there was a chance that the set was going to shift into the top 10 this week -- as we reported last Friday -- the top 10 leap didn't quite happen. However, its physical CD release on Jan. 24 should help keep sales steady as we head towards the Feb. 12 Grammy Awards, where the act is nominated for five trophies.

-- Toby Keith: The "Red Solo Cup" singer's album was offered as AmazonMP3's daily deal on Jan. 5 for $3.99, which prompts its 9% overall gain -- the only increase in the top 50 this week. It rises from No. 32 to No. 14 with 20,000 sold. (In terms of downloads, it's up by a whopping 27%.)

-- Mindless Behavior: The vocal quartet's "#1 Girl" album passes the 200,000 cumulative sales mark this week with another 7,000 sold (down 16%). The album rises 95-70. The album's relatively small erosion could be owed to the buzz generated by the act's performance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on Jan. 4. Meanwhile, the group's latest single, "Girls Talkin Bout," climbs 63-61 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. It's the follow-up to the No. 8 hit "Mrs. Right." (Fun chart geek fact: when "Right" hit the top 10, it made Mindless the first non-rap group to enter the top 10 since the Pussycat Dolls' "Don't Cha" hit the region on Aug. 13, 2005. Mindless also returns male R&B groups to the top 10 for the first time since 112's "U Already Know" (April 23, 2005).

-- AWOLNATION: The act's "Megalithic Symphony" album rises to a new peak, jumping from No. 136 to No. 105 (5,000 sold; down 15%). Its most recent single, "Not Your Fault," has perhaps peaked at No. 15 on the Alternative airplay tally -- as it slips two spots to No. 15 this week. Over on the Heatseekers Albums chart, "Megalithic" inches ever closer to graduating from the list as it climbs back to No. 1 (up two slots) for a sixth non-consecutive week at No. 1. (Once a Heatseekers-charting album rises into the top 100 on the Billboard 200 chart, it graduates from the Heatseekers list and is removed from the tally.)

-- Fleetwood Mac: A Jan. 3 repeat of the "Rumours"-focused episode of Fox TV's "Glee" bumps the band's classic set back onto the list at No. 158 with an 83% sales gain. In 2011, the album sold at total of 144,000 copies (thanks in large part to "Glee") -- way more than the 48,000 it tallied in 2010 or 66,000 in 2009.

[pnobelysk]

2 INT 164 118 ONEREPUBLIC WAKING UP 4,349 -9 4,770 493,651

That was one impressive rise to 500k

Also nice to see Susan and The chilli peppers will be at 500k soon. With Susan's album to album decline though, her next album could be her last in the US.

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Wow I had no idea Mindless Behavior had sold so much. They're doing really well.

[marcjm]

Is there a way to get the sales for the top 20 Gospel Albums?