Billboard 200: 5/25/13: Lady Antebellum No. 1- 167,000

[HolidayGuy]

Info from Hip Hop DX (whether it's still Current Albums rankings, not sure):

2. The Great Gatsby Soundtrack: 137,000

12. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, The Heist: 30,000 (703,000)

22. Lil Wayne, I Am Not A Human Being II: 18,000 (423,000)

48. Talib Kweli, Prisoner Of Conscious: 9,900 (10,000)

52. Kendrick Lamar, good kid, m.A.A.d city: 9,000 (887,000)

83. LL Cool J, Authentic: 5,500 (20,000)

93. The Uncluded (Aesop Rock & Kimya Dawson), Hokey Fright: 5,000 (5,000)

98. Snoop Lion, Reincarnated: 4,700 (35,000)

109. Mike Stud, Relief: 4,200 (4,200)

157. Rittz, The Life & Times Of Jonny Valiant: 3,200 (17,000)

[ListenToItTwice]

HUGE opening for Gatsby. I hope it outsells Pitch Perfect

[wavey.]

Damn, Wayne almost Gold already.

[HolidayGuy]

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Week Ending May 12, 2013. Albums: Great Gatsby Off To Great Start
By Paul Grein | Chart Watch

Music From Baz Luhrmann’s Film The Great Gatsby enters The Billboard 200 at #2, just behind Lady Antebellum’s Golden. Gatsby sold 137K copies, about 50% more than initially forecast. This is the biggest one-week sales tally for a soundtrack since The Hunger Games: Songs From District 12 And Beyond sold 175K in its first week in March 2012.

This is the third soundtrack to a film directed by Luhrmann to reach the top three. Romeo + Juliet hit #2 in January 1997. Music From Baz Luhrmann’s Film Moulin Rouge hit #3 in June 2001. All three of these albums have spawned hit songs. Romeo + Juliet featured the Cardigans’ “Lovefool” and Garbage’s “#1 Crush.” Moulin Rouge yielded a chart-topping remake of LaBelle’s 1975 smash “Lady Marmalade” by Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya and P!nk. The Great Gatsby has spawned Lana Del Rey’s “Young & Beautiful” and “Little Party Never Killed Nobody” by Fergie, Q-Tip & GoonRock.

Jay-Z served as executive producer of the Gatsby soundtrack, which also features such artists as Andre 3000, Jack White and Florence + the Machine. The album is an instant front-runner to win the Grammy for Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media, an award won in February by Midnight In Paris.

The album sold 119K digital copies (87% of its total), which puts it at #1 on Top Digital Albums. That’s the biggest one-week digital sales tally ever for a soundtrack, surpassing Glee: The Music: Journey To Regionals, which sold 106 copies in its first week in June 2010. Among movies from theatrically-released movies, the old record was held by the aforementioned The Hunger Games, which sold 100K digital copies in its first week.

Leonardo DiCaprio, who stars in The Great Gatsby, also starred in Romeo + Juliet. (He also starred in a non-Luhrmann movie that spawned a rather successful soundtrack, Titanic.)

DiCaprio is 38, one year older than Robert Redford was when he starred in the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby. (Wanna feel old? DiCaprio wasn’t even born yet when Redford’s movie came out in March 1974. DiCaprio was born that November.)

The Great Gatsby has far eclipsed the soundtrack to that 1974 film, which peaked at #85. Legendary arranger and conductor Nelson Riddle conducted the album, which included such vintage 1920s songs as “It Had To be You,” “What’ll I Do” and “Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby.” Riddle won an Oscar for his work on the film in the now-defunct category of Best Original Song Score And/Or Adaptation.

While Luhrmann appreciates the jazz that Fitzgerald describes in the novel (and which dominated the 1974 soundtrack), he chose to go another way. “No matter how much I like that music, it’s classical music now,” he told the Los Angeles Times’ Mikael Wood. “Gatsby was intoxicating everyone in New York with champagne and music…Now there’s another form of African American street music—hip-hop—that speaks in exactly the same way to our lives.”

The Great Gatsby album enters Top Soundtracks at #1, displacing Iron Man 3: Heroes Fall, which drops to #6 on that chart. The two movies were in reverse order at the box-office over the weekend. Iron Man 3 was #1 for the second weekend in a row. Gatsby debuted at #2.

Romeo + Juliet was the highest-ranking soundtrack on The Billboard 200 for three weeks. Moulin Rouge was the top soundtrack for eight weeks.

Lady Antebellum’s Golden debuts at #1. It’s the trio’s third studio album to reach #1. (It follows Need You Now and Own The Night.) This puts Lady A just one album behind Rascal Flatts, which reached #1 with four studio albums between 2004 and 2009. Dixie Chicks also reached #1 with three studio albums. One country duo, Sugarland, has had three #1 albums, but that tally includes a live album.

Golden displaces Kenny Chesney’s Life On A Rock from #1. This marks the first time that country albums have appeared at #1 back-to-back since Jason Aldean’s Night Train and Taylor Swift’s Red did it in October. (If you don’t consider Red to be country album, you have to go back to October 2010 for Sugarland’s The Incredible Machine and Swift’s previous, more country-oriented Speak Now.)

Golden enters Top Country Albums at #1. All four of the trio’s studio albums have topped the country chart.

Now 46 debuts at #3. It’s the 43rd consecutive regular Now installment to debut in the top five. An offshoot, Now Country Party, debuts at #31.

Pistol Annies’ Annie Up debuts at #4. It’s the trio’s second top five album in a row. Hell On Heels reached #5 in September 2011. The trio features Miranda Lambert, who has also had three top 10 albums on her own.

In a unique circumstance, Lambert’s husband, Blake Shelton, is also listed in the top 10. Based On A True Story… logs its seventh week in the top 10, which is Shelton’s best showing to date. It surpasses Red River Blue, which spent four weeks in the top 10 in 2011. That album is close to becoming Shelton’s first million-selling album. It is up to 973K.

Rod Stewart’s Time debuts at #7. It’s his first studio album of new material to crack the top 10 since Vagabond Heart in May 1991. Time is Stewart’s ninth consecutive studio album to make the top 10, but the previous eight consisted of vintage material—five volumes of traditional pop standards and one volume each of rock, soul and Christmas classics.

The Great American Songbook albums, though derided as cheesy by critics, brought Stewart back to prominence. None of his three studio albums immediately prior to the release of the first standards album in 2002 even cracked the top 30. The last of the three, Human, stalled at a dismal #50 in 2001.

Time is Stewart’s 17th top 10 album (not counting a 1972 album with Faces). That puts Stewart in a tie with his pal Elton John for the second most top 10 albums by a British male solo artist. (Elton’s tally counts a collabo with Leon Russell.) They both trail Paul McCartney, who has had 18 top 10 albums apart from the Beatles. (McCartney’s total counts eight albums with Wings and one with his late wife, Linda McCartney).

This week’s debut gives Stewart a nearly 42-year span of top 10 albums. He first cracked the top 10 in July 1971 with Every Picture Tells A Story.

Stewart is one of six male solo artists in this week’s top 10. By comparison, the highest-ranking female solo artist is P!nk at #11.

“Can’t Hold Us” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton holds at #1 for the third week on Hot Digital Songs (241K). Will it also hold at #1 for the second week on the Hot 100? And how high will “#Beautiful” by Mariah Carey featuring Miguel debut? (It enters Hot Digital Songs at #10 with sales of 114K). 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: Lady Antebellum’s Golden debuts at #1 (167K). It’s the trio’s fifth top 10 album...Music From Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby debuts at #2 (137K)… Now 46 debuts at #3 (91K). It’s the 51st album in the Now franchise to reach the top 10… Pistol Annies’ Annie Up debuts at #4 (83K). It’s their second top five album…Michael Buble’s To Be Loved drops from #2 to #5 in its third week (74K).

The Second Five: Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience drops from #3 to #6 in its eighth week (65K). It has been in the top 10 the entire time… Rod Stewart’s Time debuts at #7 (52K). It’s his 17th top 10 album…Kenny Chesney’s Life On A Rock drops from #1 to #8 in its second week (48K)…Blake Shelton’s Based On A True Story… drops from #6 to #9 in its seventh week (38K). It has been in the top 10 the entire time…Bruno Mars’ Unorthodox Jukebox drops from #8 to #10 in its 22nd week (32K). This is its 19th week in the top 10.

Five albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Fantasia’s Side Effects Of You drops from #4 to #18. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ The Heist drops from #5 to #12. P!nk’s The Truth About Love drops from #7 to #11. Randy Rogers Band’s Trouble plummets from #9 to #87. Imagine Dragons’ Night Visions drops from #10 to #14.

The Music Of Nashville, Season 1, Volume 2 debuts at #13. The first volume reached #14 in December.

She & Him’s Volume 3 debuts at #15. It’s the pair’s third top 20 album. Volume Two reached #6 in April 2010. A Very She & He Christmas hit #12 in October 2011. The duo includes Zooey Deschanel, the star of TV’s New Girl, which debuted in September 2011. Deschanel received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the first season.

Natalie Maines’ first solo album, Mother, enters The Billboard 200 at #17. That’s far below the level of success that Maines enjoyed as a member of Dixie Chicks. All four of that trio’s studio albums reached the top five; the last three debuted at #1. Mother is a rock album, not a country album, so it doesn’t appear on Top Country Albums. The title track first appeared on Pink Floyd’s 1979 album The Wall.

Fitz & the Tantrums’ second studio album More Than Just A Dream debuts at #25. It has far surpassed the #140 peak of the band’s 2010 debut, Pickin’ Up The Pieces…Straight No Chaser’s fourth studio album, Under The Influence, debuts at #28. This edges out the group’s previous album, With A Twist (which peaked at #29) to become its highest-charting album to date.

George Jones’ 1987 compilation Super Hits jumps from #90 to #68 in its third week on the chart. The album jumps to #1 on Top Catalog Albums, displacing Jones’ 1998 compilation 16 Biggest Hits. Jones is the first artist to top the catalog chart in each of the first three weeks after his or her death since Whitney Houston did it in each of the first five weeks after her death in February 2011. Though Super Hits didn’t crack The Billboard 200 until after Jones’ death (when it finally debuted at #56), it has been a big seller. It has sold 2,278,000 copies.

Eagles’ History Of The Eagles, a three-disk documentary/concert video, is #1 on Top Music Videos for the second week. It sold 10K copies this week, down from 23K in its first week.

Coming Attractions: Vampire Weekend’s Modern Vampires Of The City, Demi Lovato’s Demi and George Strait’s Love Is Everything will battle for #1 next week. Also due: Trace Adkins’ Love Will and Amy Grant’s How Mercy Looks From Here.

[areyoureadytojump]

WHY is the Billboard 200 artcile late? It's never this late.

EDIT

Billboard just tweeted me:

billboard Slight delay in posting the story this week. We'll tweet it out when it's live.

[popstop]

What was the last time that a husband and wife both appeared in the top 10 with competing albums? I feel like it has happened before.

[WotUNeed]

Glee: The Music: Journey To Regionals, which sold 106 copies in its first week in June 2010.

I know it's just a minor typo of one missed character, but this threw me the first time I read it.

Time is Stewart’s 17th top 10 album (not counting a 1972 album with Faces). That puts Stewart in a tie with his pal Elton John for the second most top 10 albums by a British male solo artist. (Elton’s tally counts a collabo with Leon Russell.) They both trail Paul McCartney, who has had 18 top 10 albums apart from the Beatles. (McCartney’s total counts eight albums with Wings and one with his late wife, Linda McCartney).

Interesting. Elton John is supposed to drop a new album later this year; we'll see if he can tie himself with McCartney.

[areyoureadytojump]

www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/chart-alert/1562288/lady-antebellum-scores-third-no-1-album-gatsby-debuts-strong

Lady Antebellum Scores Third No. 1 Album, 'Gatsby' Debuts Strong at No. 2
By Keith Caulfield | May 15, 2013

Country trio Lady Antebellum earns its third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as its new Golden debuts with 167,000 sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The album sold slightly better than initially forecast: A week ago, industry sources suggested that Golden was to move around 150,000 copies. But the album performed well over the weekend, thus granting it a more robust debut. Blame Mother's Day gift shopping for some of that sales bump, as the holiday fell on the final day of the tracking week, Sunday, May 12.

Golden follows Lady Antebellum's previous No. 1s Own the Night (2011) and Need You Now (2010). Their first set, a self-titled effort released in 2008, debuted and peaked at No. 4. Own the Night started bigger than Golden -- 347,000 when it was released in September of 2011. Before that, Need You Now, bolstered by its title track, launched with 480,000.

Starting strong at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 this week is the soundtrack to the new movie "The Great Gatsby." The set charges in with 137,000 -- the best sales week for a soundtrack in over a year. The last to sell more in a week was "The Hunger Games: Songs From District 12 and Beyond," when it entered at No. 1 with 175,000.

"The Great Gatsby's" sales were overwhelmingly driven by downloads: Its 119,000 digital haul is the largest digital sales week for a soundtrack ever. In turn, the set bows at No. 1 on the Digital Albums chart. The previous digital record for a soundtrack was set in June of 2010 by the "Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals" EP with 106,000 downloads.

"The Great Gatsby," directed by Baz Luhrmann, opened in U.S. theaters on Friday, May 10. Its soundtrack is an all-star affair, as it includes songs by Beyonce, Jay-Z, Jack White, Fergie, Lana Del Rey and Sia, among others.

"The Great Gatsby's" sales debut is much higher than the 95,000 that it was projected to sell a week ago. It would seem the film's strong integration of music, and the movie's box office success over its opening weekend, were clear drivers in the album's sales.

Two earlier soundtracks from Luhrmann-directed films also had great chart success: 1996's "Romeo + Juliet" climbed No. 2, while 2001's "Moulin Rouge!" reached No. 3, after debuting at No. 5 three weeks earlier.

At No. 3 on the Billboard 200 this week is the new Now 46 compilation, starting with 91,000. All of the regular numbered Now albums have reached the top 10, and all but the first debuted in the top 10. Now 45 entered at No. 3 earlier this year with 87,000, while Now 44 bowed at No. 2 last November with 99,000.

Rounding out the top four is Michael Buble's To Be Loved, falling 2-4 with 84,000 (down 12%).

At No. 5 is country trio Pistol Annies, whose second album, Annie Up, debuts with 83,000. The act comprises Ashley Monroe, Angaleena Presley and superstar Miranda Lambert. The start for Annie Up almost doubles the launch of the group's first album, 2011's Hell on Heels (44,000 at No. 5).

There's one more debut in the top 10 this week: Rod Stewart's Time clocks in at No. 7 with 52,000. It's the legend's highest-charting studio album of original material since -- believe it or not -- 1979, when Blondes Have More Fun spent three weeks at No. 1.

Of course, Stewart has charted many albums since Blondes, but everything that reached the top six between then and now were either a Christmas set of mostly oldies (Merry Christmas, Baby, No. 3 in 2012), one of his many successful covers collections released between 2002 and 2010, or a live album (Unplugged. . . And Seated, No. 2 in 1993).

As for the other chart holdovers in the top 10 this week: Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience slips 3-6 with 66,000 (down 3%). Last week's No. 1, Kenny Chesney's Life on a Rock, falls to No. 8 with 48,000 (down 68%), Blake Shelton's Based on a True Story slides 6-9 with 38,000 (though it's up by 9%), and Bruno Mars' Unorthodox Jukebox is pushed back 8-10 with 32,000 (despite a 24% increase).

The latter title's gain can be owed in part to Mother's Day shopping, as it's likely a set sure to appeal to moms. Same goes for Shelton's set at No. 9, and just outside the top 10, P!nk's The Truth About Love. It gains by 14%, but falls 7-11.

Over on the Digital Songs chart, the entire top five are non-movers, led once again by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Can't Hold Us" (featuring Ray Dalton), with 241,000 (down 8%). At Nos. 2-5: P!nk's "Just Give Me a Reason" (featuring Nate Ruess) with 230,000 (down 10%), Justin Timberlake's "Mirrors" with 168,000 (down 5%), Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" with 151,000 (up 4%) and Rihanna's "Stay" (featuring Mikky Ekko) with 145,000 (up 4%).

Selena Gomez's "Come & Get It" jumps 9-6 with 143,000 (up 24%), while Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" is steady at No. 7 with 141,000 (up 5%). Icona Pop's "I Love It" (featuring Charli XCX) falls 6-8 with 128,000 (down 5%) and Bruno Mars' "When I Was Your Man" rises 10-9 with 115,000 (up 6%).

Closing out the top 10 is a new entry from Mariah Carey: "#Beautiful," featuring Miguel. It starts with 114,000 at No. 10 and marks her best sales week for a song since 2009, when "Obsessed" arrived at No. 9 on Digital Songs with 119,000. "#Beautiful" is the lead track from Carey's upcoming album, due out this summer.

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending May 12) totaled 5.53 million units, up 8% compared with the sum last week (5.11 million) and down 1% compared with the comparable sales week of 2012 (5.58 million). Year to date album sales stand at 106.29 million, down 5% compared to the same total at this point last year (112.31 million).

Digital track sales this past week totaled 24.26 million downloads, up less than 1% compared with last week (24.17 million) and down 3% stacked next to the comparable week of 2012 (24.96 million). Year to date track sales are at 506.75 million, down 3% compared to the same total at this point last year (520.35 million).

Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2012 when: Adam Lambert scored his first No. 1, as his second album, Trespassing, arrived atop the list with 77,000. Tenacious D's Rize of the Fenix was the second-biggest debut, bowing at No. 4 with 49,000

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

Numbers are not exact. They are estimated and rounded.

Numbers are from the 5/18 chart:

Blake Shelton 455k
Lil Wayne 405k
Kelly Clarkson 405k
T.I. 460k
David Guetta 495k
Pistol Annies 475k

Albums only on the BB200 for 4+ weeks are listed and have sold over 400k.

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Country album sales:

www.roughstock.com/blog/country-album-chart-news-for-may-15-2013-lady-antebellum-debuts-at-1-pistol-annies-top-5-with-new-albums-country-music-dominates

[Push The Button]

Looks like that nasty *cough* has been cleared up...

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MOST TOP 10 ALBUMS ON THE BILLBOARD 200

Rolling Stones 36

Frank Sinatra 33

Barbra Streisand 32 "Release Me"

The Beatles 30

Elvis Presley 27

Madonna 20 "MDNA"
Bob Dylan 20 "Tempest"

Paul McCartney 18 "Kisses on the Bottom"

Elton John 17 "The Union"
George Strait 17 "Here For A Good Time"
Bruce Springsteen 17 "Wrecking Ball"
Neil Diamond 17 "Hot August Night"
Rod Stewart 17 "Time"

Johnny Mathis 16
Mariah Carey 16 "MCIIY"

Dave Matthews 15 "Away From The World"
Tim McGraw 15 "Two Lanes Of Freedom"

Garth Brooks 14 "Ultimate Hits"
Prince 14 "Lotus Flow3r"
Van Halen 14 "Different Kind of Truth"
The Beach Boys 14 "That's Why God Made the Radio"
R Kelly 14 "Write Me Back"
Eric Clapton 12 "Old Sock"

Santana 13 "Guitar Heaven"
Barry Manilow 13 "15 Minutes"
Jay Z 13 "Watch The Throne"
Toby Keith 13 "Hope On The Rocks"
Led Zeppelin 13 "Celebration"

Chicago 12
Rush 12
Alan Jackson 12 "Thirty"

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keelyskorner.com/category/soundscan/

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 5/12/13)

1) Lady Antebellum – Golden – 167,314
2) The Great Gatsby Soundtrack – 136,810
3) Various Artists – Now 46 – 90,775

Other Debuts

4) Pistol Annies – Annie Up – 83,460
7) Rod Stewart – Time – 52,084
13) Nashville Soundtrack (Season 1, Vol. 2) – 27,199
15) She & Him – Vol. 3 – 26,394
17) Natalie Maines – Mother – 22,824
25) Fitz & The Tantrums – More Than Just A Dream – 14,508

[areyoureadytojump]

5,511,000 albums were sold in the USA last week.

2,141,000 were digital albums.

3,370,000 were physical cds/vinyl albums/cassettes.

More figures here:

www1.billboard.biz/bbbiz/photos/pdf/2013/TFMmw0516.pdf

Album sales down 5.3% (-5.6% last week)

[ListenToItTwice]

May 16, 2013 8:48:25 GMT -5 Push The Button said:

Looks like that nasty *cough* has been cleared up...

Rude.

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The Billboard 200

1 New 1 Golden Lady Antebellum
2 New 1 The Great Gatsby: Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film Soundtrack
3 New 1 NOW 46 Various Artists
4 2 3 To Be Loved Michael Buble
5 New 1 Annie Up Pistol Annies
6 3 8 The 20/20 Experience Justin Timberlake
7 New 1 Time Rod Stewart
8 1 2 Life On A Rock Kenny Chesney
9 6 7 Based On A True Story ... Blake Shelton
10 8 22 Unorthodox Jukebox Bruno Mars
11 7 34 The Truth About Love P!nk
12 5 31 The Heist Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
13 New 1 Nashville: The Music Of Nashville: Season 1: Volume 2 Soundtrack
14 10 36 Night Visions Imagine Dragons
15 New 1 Volume 3 She & Him
16 14 23 Here's To The Good Times Florida Georgia Line
17 New 1 Mother Natalie Maines
18 4 3 Side Effects Of You Fantasia
19 13 6 Pioneer The Band Perry
20 36 7 Precious Memories: Volume II Alan Jackson
21 11 4 Save Rock And Roll Fall Out Boy
22 12 7 I Am Not A Human Being II Lil Wayne
23 18 58 The Lumineers The Lumineers
24 24 33 Babel Mumford & Sons
25 20 25 Unapologetic Rihanna

26 New 1 More Than Just A Dream Fitz And The Tantrums
27 31 116 21 Adele
28 New 1 Under The Influence Straight No Chaser
29 22 64 Some Nights fun.
30 28 10 Spring Break... Here To Party Luke Bryan
31 New 1 NOW That's What I Call A Country Party Various Artists
32 33 58 My Head Is An Animal Of Monsters And Men
33 44 14 Two Lanes Of Freedom Tim McGraw
34 30 29 Red Taylor Swift
35 29 5 Wheelhouse Brad Paisley
36 New 1 American Kid Patty Griffin
37 New 1 Haunted House (EP) Knife Party
38 New 1 The Piano Guys 2 The Piano Guys
39 76 14 All That Echoes Josh Groban
40 43 35 Tornado Little Big Town
41 New 1 Monomania Deerhunter
42 New 1 Unstoppable Momentum Joe Satriani
43 17 4 Indicud Kid Cudi
44 39 30 Night Train Jason Aldean
45 32 5 Caught In The Act: Live Eric Church
46 38 94 Chief Eric Church
47 45 92 Tailgates & Tanlines Luke Bryan
48 New 1 { Prisoner Of Conscious } EDT. 01 Talib Kweli
49 41 46 Overexposed Maroon 5
50 50 25 The World From The Side Of The Moon Phillip Phillips

51 46 29 Pitch Perfect Soundtrack
52 37 29 good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar
53 49 54 Blown Away Carrie Underwood
54 52 25 Greatest Hits: Chapter One Kelly Clarkson
55 19 3 Bankrupt! Phoenix
56 35 14 NOW 45 Various Artists
57 57 21 Les Miserables Soundtrack
58 54 78 Four The Record Miranda Lambert
59 34 5 Paramore Paramore
60 21 3 Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor Rob Zombie
61 60 23 10,000 Reasons Matt Redman
62 56 48 + Ed Sheeran
63 69 35 Best Days Tamela Mann
64 58 65 Hunter Hayes Hunter Hayes
65 New 1 2 98 Degrees
66 42 5 Hotel California Tyga
67 51 3 Love Has Come For You Steve Martin & Edie Brickell
68 90 3 Super Hits George Jones
69 71 67 Born To Die Lana Del Rey
70 New 1 Silence Yourself Savages
71 55 26 Our Version Of Events Emeli Sande
72 70 134 Doo-Wops & Hooligans Bruno Mars
73 New 1 Wax Wings Joshua Radin
74 91 15 Passione Andrea Bocelli
75 61 54 Boys & Girls Alabama Shakes

76 64 164 Sigh No More Mumford & Sons
77 100 24 Girl On Fire Alicia Keys
78 66 8 Same Trailer Different Park Kacey Musgraves
79 68 5 Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies Volbeat
80 62 117 The Legend Of Johnny Cash Johnny Cash
81 135 260 Journey's Greatest Hits Journey
82 67 26 Take Me Home One Direction
83 23 2 Authentic LL Cool J
84 87 32 Kaleidoscope Dream Miguel
85 160 22 Nashville: Season 1: Volume 1 Soundtrack
86 85 44 Uncaged Zac Brown Band
87 9 2 Trouble Randy Rogers Band
88 80 77 Michael Buble Michael Buble
89 81 5 Device Device
90 74 7 Just Feels Good Thompson Square
91 63 18 Burning Lights Chris Tomlin
92 New 1 Heart Like Your Own Steve Hare
93 New 1 Hokey Fright The Uncluded
94 65 2 Intense Armin van Buuren
95 102 33 WOW Hits 2013 Various Artists
96 New 1 Never Forget Craig Campbell
97 16 2 Iron Man 3: Heroes Fall: Music Inspired By The Motion Picture Soundtrack
98 47 3 Reincarnated Snoop Lion
99 82 17 Long.Live.A$AP A$AP Rocky
100 Re-Entry 158 Number Ones Michael Jackson

101 123 231 The Foundation Zac Brown Band
102 40 3 #willpower will.i.am
103 73 75 El Camino The Black Keys
104 84 79 Megalithic Symphony AWOLNATION
105 191 67 Hell On Heels Pistol Annies
106 137 40 The Strange Case Of... Halestorm
107 59 3 16 Biggest Hits George Jones
108 124 53 Hard 2 Love Lee Brice
109 New 1 Relief Mike Stud
110 133 9 What About Now Bon Jovi
111 New 1 To Mom With Love Various Artists
112 116 32 The 2nd Law Muse
113 79 26 Lindsey Stirling Lindsey Stirling
114 92 10 Shake It Up: I <3 Dance Various Artists
115 108 16 Set You Free Gary Allan
116 New 1 The Good Fight BIzzle
117 101 9 Old Sock Eric Clapton
118 103 61 Up All Night One Direction
119 Re-Entry 6 The Acoustic Sessions {Volume One} Casting Crowns
120 122 4 Right Place Right Time Olly Murs
121 88 36 Give Up The Postal Service
122 83 4 Mosquito Yeah Yeah Yeahs
123 104 7 Native OneRepublic
124 110 90 The Very Best Of The Eagles Eagles
125 119 16 2013 Grammy Nominees Various Artists

126 89 6 Wolf Tyler, The Creator
127 114 267 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers Bob Marley And The Wailers
128 107 7 Delta Machine Depeche Mode
129 126 94 Loaded: The Best Of Blake Shelton Blake Shelton
130 144 83 Greatest Hits... So Far!!! P!nk
131 Re-Entry 11 The Struggle Tenth Avenue North
132 125 25 Global Warming Pitbull
133 111 17 Kidz Bop 23 Kidz Bop Kids
134 New 1 Libre Por Naturaleza Duelo
135 112 5 Mas Que Amor Il Volo
136 118 91 Halfway To Heaven Brantley Gilbert
137 77 3 Tate Stevens Tate Stevens
138 26 2 Me You & The Music Jessica Sanchez
139 27 2 Such Hot Blood The Airborne Toxic Event
140 109 6 Disarm The Descent Killswitch Engage
141 139 7 Grace (EP) Tasha Cobbs
142 158 15 WOW Gospel 2013 Various Artists
143 Re-Entry 19 The Piano Guys The Piano Guys
144 145 95 Red River Blue Blake Shelton
145 Re-Entry 3 Love Come To Life Big Daddy Weave
146 106 119 Cocky Kid Rock
147 171 10 Hits I Missed...And One I Didn't George Jones
148 98 3 I Love You. The Neighbourhood
149 120 84 The Best Of Eric Clapton: 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection Eric Clapton
150 189 186 19 Adele

151 New 1 Hoy Vicente Fernandez
152 121 21 Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head T.I.
153 129 116 The Best Of Lynyrd Skynyrd: 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection Lynyrd Skynyrd
154 105 5 House Of Gold & Bones: Part 2 Stone Sour
155 127 46 Super Hits Willie Nelson
156 Re-Entry 128 Need You Now Lady Antebellum
157 Re-Entry 21 Miracle Third Day
158 Re-Entry 25 What If We Were Real Mandisa
159 15 2 Tears On Tape HIM
160 25 2 The Life And Times Of Jonny Valiant Rittz
161 New 1 Angels And Saints At Ephesus Benedictines Of Mary, Queen Of Apostles
162 113 27 NOW 44 Various Artists
163 128 22 An Awesome Wave alt-J
164 148 131 My Kinda Party Jason Aldean
165 Re-Entry 17 Paradise (EP) Lana Del Rey
166 138 50 Up All Night Kip Moore
167 166 6 10 New Kids On The Block
168 117 180 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits Creedence Clearwater Revival Featuring John Fogerty
169 141 9 The Next Day David Bowie
170 Re-Entry 99 Precious Memories Alan Jackson
171 75 3 Corazon Profundo Carlos Vives
172 176 111 CrazySexyCool TLC
173 186 13 How Country Feels Randy Houser
174 New 1 MCII Mikal Cronin
175 Re-Entry 14 A Messenger Colton Dixon

176 Re-Entry 14 Love, Charlie Charlie Wilson
177 Re-Entry 34 The Very Best Of Prince Prince
178 143 39 Based On A T.R.U. Story 2 Chainz
179 161 835 The Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd
180 Re-Entry 20 Joyas Prestadas: Pop Jenni Rivera
181 Re-Entry 69 Own The Night Lady Antebellum
182 152 10 People, Hell And Angels Jimi Hendrix
183 Re-Entry 126 You Get What You Give Zac Brown Band
184 Re-Entry 24 Blood In This Moment
185 Re-Entry 15 GRRR! The Rolling Stones
186 151 6 Sempiternal Bring Me The Horizon
187 180 19 Beyond Hell/Above Heaven Volbeat
188 142 4 Juke Box Heroes Foreigner
189 94 3 Finish Strong Jonathan Nelson
190 164 38 Amaryllis Shinedown
191 155 47 Believe Justin Bieber
192 132 56 Ultimate Hits: Rock And Roll Never Forgets Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
193 Re-Entry 74 Ceremonials Florence + The Machine
194 153 26 Trilogy The Weeknd
195 Re-Entry 150 Mothership Led Zeppelin
196 Re-Entry 78 Justified Justin Timberlake
197 159 91 Silver Side Up Nickelback
198 New 1 Mud Dynasty Lenny Cooper
199 173 19 Warrior Ke$ha
200 167 7 United Tenors: Hammond, Hollister, Roberson, Wilson Fred Hammond

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Here's this weeks awards

30.Spring Break...Here To Party-Luke Bryan (gold)
44.Night Train-Jason Aldean (Platnium)
108.Hard 2 love-Lee Brice (2x Platnuim)
182.People Hell And Angels-Jimi Hendriz (gold)
185.GRRRR-Rolling Stones (gold)

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www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/1562724/chart-moves-dixie-chicks-natalie-maines-makes-solo-debut-she-him-bows-on

Chart Moves: Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines Makes Solo Debut, She & Him Bows on Cassette
By Keith Caulfield, Los Angeles

This week on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the top three were all debuts, as Lady Antebellum, "The Great Gatsby" soundtrack and the "Now 46" compilation moved in. Lady A's latest, "Golden," gave the country trio its third No. 1 album, selling 167,000.

Elsewhere on the Billboard 200 this week there were a number of movers and shakers. Let's take a look at some of them…

-- Natalie Maines, "Mother" (No. 17): Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines debuts at No. 17 on the Billboard 200 with her first solo album, "Mother," selling 23,000 copies in its first week.

It also bows at No. 4 on Rock Albums -- the highest-charting set from a solo woman since Lana Del Rey's "Paradise" EP also debuted at No. 4 on Dec. 1, 2012.

Dixie Chicks, who have sold more albums than any other female group in the SoundScan era (27.2 million; 1991-present), last released a studio album in 2006 with "Taking the Long Way." The country trio's set debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and has sold 2.5 million to date.

While it's been a spell since the group last dropped a new album, its members have been busy with side projects. The other two-thirds the group -- Emily Robison and Martie Maguire -- formed Court Yard Hounds and released its self-titled debut on Columbia Records in 2010 (No. 7 debut and peak; 61,000). The duo's second album is due later this year.

Dixie Chicks also have a smattering of concerts lined up this year -- their first since 2010. They'll play the KLRU All-Star Celebration Benefit Concert on May 16 in Austin, Texas, and then head to Canada for four festival dates starting on July 6 in Ottawa.

-- Soundtrack, "Nashville: The Music of Nashville, Season 1, Volume 2" (No. 13): The second volume of music from the ABC TV series starts a bit softer than the first album, as the new set bows with 27,000. The first album started at No. 14 on the Dec. 29, 2012 list with 56,000 sold. So far, it has shifted 266,000.

-- She & Him, "Volume 3" (No. 15): The album -- which debuts at No. 15 with 26,000 -- is likely the highest-charting set also available on cassette tape in a very long time. Sold for $9.99, the cassette also came with a download of the album. Label sources suggest that cassettes comprised about 1% of the set's overall first-week sales.

-- Josh Groban, "All That Echoes" (No. 39): Mother's Day gift-giving likely spurs the 100% gain for Josh Groban's "All That Echoes," which rises 76-39 this week. It also racks up its best sales week (11,000; up 100%), since early April.

-- Joe Satriani, "Unstoppable Momentum" (No. 42): The rock guitarist debuts his latest release at No. 42, immediately earning his highest-charting album since 1992's "Extremist" debuted and peaked at No. 22. As the new set also bows with 11,000, it's Satriani's best sales week since 2006's "Super Colossal" entered with 12,000.

-- Alan Jackson, "Precious Memories" (No. 170): It's not surprising to see this collection of recordings -- originally intended as gift to his Jackson's mother -- see a jump in sales in the week ending Mother's Day. The album, first released in 2006, is up by 48% and re-enters at No. 170. Meanwhile its 2013 sequel, "Precious Memories: Volume II," gains by 106% in sales, rising 36-20.

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www.usatoday.com/story/idolchatter/2013/05/15/american-idol-sales-finale-week/2164287/

Fantasia, Side Effects of You (22,000, -39%, 149,000) (#18 Billboard 200)
Phillip Phillips, The World From the Side of the Moon (10,000, +19%, 871,000) (#50 BB200)
Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (9,000, +8%, 1.438 million) (#53 BB200)
Kelly Clarkson, Greatest Hits-Chapter 1 (9,000, +12%, 415,000) (#54 BB200)
Jessica Sanchez, Me, You & the Music (4,000, -74%, 17,000) (#135 BB200)
Mandisa, What If We Were Real (3,000, +311%, 269,000) (#155 BB200)
Colton Dixon, A Messenger (3,000, +24%, 100,000) (#172 BB200)
Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts (2,000, -3%, 7.319 million)
Carrie Underwood, Play On (1,000, +1%, 2.201 million)

Idol-related albums

Emeli Sande, Our Version of Events (7,000, +3%, 155,000) (#71 Billboard 200)
Kacey Musgraves, Same Trailer, Different Park (6,000, -4%, 120,000) (#77 BB200)
Various, WOW Hits 2013 (5,000, +17%, 287,000) (#95 BB200)
One Direction, Up All Night (4,000, -7%, 1.77 million) (#117 BB200)
Various, 2013 Grammy Nominees (4,000, 0 change, 312,000) (#123 BB200)
P!nk, Greatest Hits So Far (4,000, +17%, 1.156 million) (#127 BB200)
Jason Aldean, My Kinda Party (3,000, -1%, 2.926 million) (#161 BB200)