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Surprising probably no one, High School Musical 2 held on at No. 1 for the third straight week, selling 210,000 copies and vaulting past the million-sold mark.
Biggest Debuts: Casting Crowns, a Christian-rock band from Georgia, entered the chart at No. 2, selling 129,000 copies of their album The Altar And The Door. At No. 3 was the newly svelte Young Joc (69,000 sales); Atreyu (43,000) entered the chart at No. 8, while dorm-room perennials Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals (42,000) came in at No. 9.
Notable Jumps: Akon's Konvicted leapt from No. 64 to No. 23, selling 22,000 copies. Total sales so far? 2,620,000, which is fewer than Daughtry but more than Fergie.
Dropping Off: Talib Kweli's Eardrum saw a 61% drop, and he fell from No. 2 to No. 20. Cartel's self-titled, made-in-a-bubble album, meanwhile, dropped 66% and plummeted from No. 20 to No. 70 (10,000).
Nickelback Award For Inexplicable Durability: Let us all rejoice, for this is the 100th week that All The Right Reasons, the latest album by this category's namesake, has been on the chart; it even hung in the top 10, selling 39,000 copies. That's the sort of numbers that equal enough pull to get a Wayne Gretzky cameo in your video. (Oh, Canada!)
The top 20, with estimated sales totals in parentheses:
1. High School Musical 2 soundtrack (210,000)
2. Casting Crowns, The Altar And The Door (129,000)
3. Yung Joc, Hustlenomics (69,000)
4. Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus (58,000)
5. Fergie, The Dutchess (51,000)
6. Hairspray soundtrack (44,000)
7. Now 25 (44,000)
8. Atreyu, Lead Sails Paper Anchor (43,000)
9. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, Lifeline (42,000)
10. Nickelback, All The Right Reasons (39,000)
11. Linkin Park, Minutes To Midnight (30,000)
12. T.I., T.I. Vs. T.I.P. (28,000)
13. Amy Winehouse, Back To Black (28,000)
14. Jonas Brothers (27,000)
15. Taylor Swift (27,000)
16. UGK, Underground Kingz (27,000)
17. High School Musical soundtrack (26,000)
18. Lyle Lovett, It's Not Big, It's Large (25,000)
19. Maroon 5, It Won't Be Soon Before Long (25,000)
20. Talib Kweli, Eardrum (24,000)
Comments
In the explicable-but-still-mindboggling-durability category: At this rate, Konvicted stands a chance at being the #2 album of Billboard's chart year, which begins with the first chart of December, not January. Akon's CD dropped in mid-November and didn't start charting until the last week of November, which means almost all of those 2.6m copies sold during the chart year. If not for Daughtry, he'd have an outside shot at #1 for the year. Unbelievable.
Oh, how I'm going to laugh when High School Musical remains number one next week and out-sells both Fiddy and Kanye.
I cried a little seeing Wayne in that video.
I cried a little seeing Wayne in that video.
Lyle Lovett sold more records than Maroon 5 last week? I love you too, Jesus.
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