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Americans Bought A Lot Of Kenny Chesney Albums Last Week

Robbie Daw
May 8th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
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Kenny Chesney just keeps cranking them out. And apparently, you’re all still buying, as the 45-year-old country-rocker’s 16th album — his third to be released in three years — is just his latest to hit #1 on the Billboard 200. The set sold 153,000 copies in its opening week, enough to bump Michael Buble‘s lastest round of standards, To Be Loved (96,000), down to #2.

Fellow country act Randy Rogers Band sees their sixth album Trouble enter the Top 10 at #9, with a much more modest (than Chesney) 26,000 copies sold. Other than that, it’s a slow week in the Top 10 that sees older faves like Macklemore & Ryan Lewis‘ The Heist, Bruno Mars‘ Unorthodox Jukebox and Imagine Dragons‘ Night Visions return to the upper tier of the chart.

Thankfully, the doldrums should expire next week when the all-star soundtrack to The Great Gatsby arrives (it’s currently the top seller on iTunes) and kicks Kenny Chesney to the curb. More »

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Michael Buble Tops Album Chart, Icona Pop & Charli XCX Crack The Hot 100′s Top 10

Robbie Daw
May 2nd, 2013 // Leave a Comment
They Love It
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It didn’t quite rack up Christmas numbers (yet?), but Michael Buble‘s latest set of perky pop-jazz tunes and standards, To Be Loved, still managed to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 after selling 195,000 copies in its first week. The album contains current single “It’s A Beautiful Day” as well as covers of “Something Stupid” (a duet with sometimes-songstress Reese Witherspoon, no less), “To Love Somebody” and “Have I Told You Lately.”

Over on the Hot 100, Pink and Nate Ruess‘ heartbreaking pair-up “Just Give Me A Reason” remains atop the chart for a third week, while sassy Swedes Icona Pop and their British pal Charli XCX each enter the Top 10 in America for the first time, as their bratty jam “I Love It” climbs up to #9.

Ever more stellar than all of the above achievements, of course, is the fact that R&B’s most flexible diva, Ciara, has landed her first Top 40 hit since 2009′s “Love Sex Magic.” That’s right — “Body Party” has slunk its way to #35 this week, everyone, and we’re arching our backs in celebration! More »

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Fall Out Boy Save Rock And Roll (For A Week, At Least) By Topping Album Chart

Robbie Daw
April 24th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
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Did Fall Out Boy end up saving rock and roll with their latest album? In a sense, they did…for the time being. Save Rock And Roll soars to the peak position of the Billboard 200 after selling 154,000 copies out of the gate. But in the process, the quartet also gives the genre an unwelcome kick in the ass by bumping fellow rockers Paramore down from #1, where their self-titled LP debuted last week, to #12.

Meanwhile, Kid Cudi‘s third solo album Indicud settles for a #2 debut (136,000), as Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience hangs tight at #3, further cementing its status as 2013′s breakout sales champ.

See how the rest of the Top 10 played out this week by hopping below! More »

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Paramore Were The Ones To Finally Knock Justin Timberlake Off The Top Of The Album Chart

Robbie Daw
April 18th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
Bye Bye Bye, JT
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It had to happen at some point: Justin Timberlake‘s The 20/20 Experience finally gets knocked off the #1 position in its fourth week on the Billboard 200 by Paramore, whose self-titled, fourth album arrives with 106,000 copies sold. Going in just below Haley Williams and the gang, at #2, is Brad Paisley‘s ninth album Wheelhouse (100,000). This leaves Timberlake at #3 (61,000) in the same week that “Mirrors,” his “Suit & Tie” follow-up single, finally cracks the Top 10 of the Hot 100 by moving up to #7.

And speaking of the Hot 100, Pink has now caught up to Britney Spears by landing her fourth #1 (with her Nate Ruess duet “Just Give Me A Reason”) on the chart — well, unless we count Britney’s feature on that remix of Rihanna‘s “S&M” from two years ago. But does that really count? More »

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Pink’s “Just Give Me A Reason” Becomes Her Fourth Hot 100 #1 (& The Second For Nate Ruess)

Robbie Daw
April 17th, 2013 // 3 Comments
Heartache Atop The Chart
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For the second week in a row, a heart-tugging ballad tops the Billboard Hot 100. Pink and Nate Ruess‘ belly-achin’ duet “Just Give Me A Reason” topples Bruno Mars‘ “When I Was Your Man,” the latter of which spent a lone week at #1. It’s somewhat of a moment of sweet revenge for Pink, whose Greatest Hits… So Far!!! single “Fuckin’ Perfect” had to settle for the runner-up position in early 2011 while Mars’ “Grenade” was sitting pretty at #1.

In addition to being her third consecutive Top 10 hit from latest LP The Truth About Love, “Just Give Me A Reason” now marks Pink’s fourth trip to the top of the Hot 100, following her 2001 collaborative effort “Lady Marmalade” (which also featured Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim and Mya) from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack, 2008′s “So What” and 2010′s “Raise Your Glass.” More »

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Justin Timberlake #1 On Album Chart For Third Week, Bruno Mars’ “Man” Tops Hot 100

Robbie Daw
April 10th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
Third week's a charm for JT
Justin Timberlake, 'The 20/20 Experience'

Justin Timberlake‘s third solo LP The 20/20 Experience has shaped up to be the sales juggernaut to beat so far in 2013. The album, now in its third consecutive week at #1 on the Billboard 200, once again fends off all new releases — this time from The Band Perry (Pioneer debuts at #2), Tyler, The Creator (Wolf is at #3), New Kids On The Block (10 goes in at #6) and Killswitch Engage (Disarm The Descent enters at #7). 20/20 has now sold 1.43 million copies in just three weeks.

Meanwhile, the reign of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis‘ “Thrift Shop” atop the Hot 100 finally ends, as Bruno Mars‘ second Unorthodox Jukebox single “When I Was Your Man” takes over the peak position. While this marks Mars’ fifth trip to the top of the main singles chart — following his feature on B.o.B‘s “Nothin’ On You,” plus his own singles “Just The Way You Are,” “Grenade” and “Locked Out Of Heaven” — it’s only the third song to climb to the top of the Hot 100 in 2013 (after “Thrift Shop” and Baauer‘s “Harlem Shake”). More »

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Justin Timberlake Sells 1.29 Million Copies Of ‘The 20/20 Experience’ Within Two Weeks

Robbie Daw
April 3rd, 2013 // Leave a Comment
Justin Timberlake, 'The 20/20 Experience'

It only took two weeks, but Justin Timberlake has managed to crush the competition and stake his claim on the only album to sell over a million copies in 2013 so far. Needless to say, The 20/20 Experience, which sold another 318,000 copies this time around and has now racked up sales of 1.29 million, retains the #1 position on the Billboard 200, and is even on track to stay put for a third week. (Billboard chart captain Keith Caulfield projects the record could move another 150,000 to 170,000 by week’s end).

JT easily trumped Lil Wayne‘s I Am Not A Human Being II, which debuts in the runner-up slot with an impressive 217,000. See how the rest of the upper tier of the chart shook out this week below. More »

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Justin Timberlake’s ‘The 20/20 Experience’ Debuts At #1 With 968,000 Copies Sold

Robbie Daw
March 26th, 2013 // 3 Comments
Many People Bought Into JT's 'Experience'
Justin Timberlake, 'The 20/20 Experience'

The numbers are in, and at 968,000 copies sold, Justin Timberlake‘s critically-lauded third LP The 20/20 Experience has posted the best opening week since Taylor Swift‘s Red moved 1.2 million in November. While these isn’t the biggest first week in JT’s career — his former boy band *NSYNC‘s second album No Strings Attached opened with a record-setting 2.42 million back in 2000 — as far as his solo career goes, this trumps the 684,000 FutureSex/LoveSounds sold out of the gate in 2006 (not to mention Justified‘s 439,000 in 2002).

Billboard notes that the bulk of The 20/20 Experience‘s sales came from iTunes and Target. The latter is selling a deluxe version of the album that contains the bonus tracks “Body Count” and “Dress On.” More »

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David Bowie Debuts Behind Bon Jovi, Still Manages To Have His Highest-Charting Album Yet

Robbie Daw
March 20th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
Run For The Shadows In These Golden Years
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Let’s pause for a minute and take in the fact that the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 is a bit of a Rock Legend Renaissance, given that David Bowie, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix take up three of the chart positions. Then let it sink in that Bowie’s The Next Day, already a chart-topping album in 12 other countries, was beat to #1 by Bon Jovi. Sigh. Ain’t that America?

Bon Jovi’s 12th studio LP What About Now sold 96,000 copies in its first week, edging the Thin White Duke’s The Next Day out by about 11,000. Still, this marks Bowie’s highest-charting album in the States, an honor previously owned by the artist’s 1976 rock-and-soul classic Station To Station, which peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200. More »

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Luke Bryan Tops An Album Chart That Will Be Obliterated By Justin Timberlake In Two Weeks

Robbie Daw
March 13th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
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This year has seen little-to-no major action on the Billboard 200 album chart so far, save for a few LPS getting a post-Grammys boost and then Bruno Mars and, now, Luke Byan nabbing their first #1s. (Bryan’s Spring Break…Here To Party opens with 150,000 copies.) Next week things should get a bit livelier as David Bowie‘s The Next Day and Bon Jovi‘s What About Now look set to duke it out for the top position.

And then we’ll just sit back and watch Justin Timberlake smash it all to bits with the arrival of his third album The 20/20 Experience. Until that happens, you can watch how things shook out in the upper reaches of the new chart below. More »

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