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Chart Listings: Billboard 200 Albums (May 9-16, 2012)
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Billboard 200 Albums (May 9-16, 2012)
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The Top Five: Carrie Underwood's Blown Away debuts at #1 (267K). It's the singer's fourth top five album…
Norah Jones' Little Broken Hearts debuts at #2 (110K). It's the singer's fifth top five album…
Now 42 debuts at #3 (95K). It's the fifth consecutive regular installment in this series to debut at #3…
Adele's 21 drops from #2 to #4 in its 63rd week (77K). The former #1 album has been in the top 10 the entire time…
B.o.B's Strange Clouds debuts at #5 (76K). It's the hip-hopper's second top five album.
The Second Five: Lionel Richie's Tuskegee drops from #3 to #6 in its sixth week (64K). The former #1 album has been in the top 10 the entire time…
Jack White's Blunderbuss drops from #1 to #7 (56K) in its second week…One Direction's Up All Night drops from #4 to #8 in its eighth week (45K). The former #1 album has been in the top 10 the entire time…
The Music Of SMASH debuts at #9 (40K)…Marilyn Manson's Born Villain debuts at #10 (38K). It's Manson's seventh top 10 album.
Six albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Lee Brice's Hard 2 Love drops from #5 to #14, Kip Moore's Up All Night drops from #6 to #16, The Wanted's The Wanted dives from #7 to #32, Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded drops from #8 to #17, Gotye's Making Mirrors drops from #9 to #12, and Jason Mraz's Love Is A Four Letter Word drops from #10 to #15.
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One Direction's Up All Night drops from #4 to #8 in its eighth week (45K).
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Adele's 21 drops from #2 to #4 in its 63rd week (77K). The former #1 album has been in the top 10 the entire time…
And top 5 all but one week!
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Marilyn Manson's Born Villain debuts at #10 (38K). It's Manson's seventh top 10 album.
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Carrie Underwood easily trounces the competition this week as her fourth album, "Blown Away," debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 267,000 sold according to Nielsen SoundScan.
It's the best sales week for a country album since the chart dated Oct. 1, 2011, when Lady Antebellum's "Own the Night" bowed atop the list with 347,000. It's the largest frame for a country set by a solo act since Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" sold 276,000 over the Christmas week of 2010.
"Blown's" debut is also the second-largest arrival of any album in 2012. This year, only Madonna's "MDNA" started bigger, with 358,000. So far in 2012, just three titles have bowed with more than 200,000 in their first week -- and they are all by women. In addition to Underwood and Madonna, Nicki Minaj's "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded" is in the 200,000-plus debut club, as it started with 253,000.
A year ago at this point, five albums had started north of 200,000: Adele's "21" (351,000), Lupe Fiasco's "Lasers" (204,000), Chris Brown's "F.A.M.E." (270,000), Britney Spears' "Femme Fatale" (276,000) and Foo Fighters' "Wasting Light" (235,000).
"Blown Away" marks the third chart-topper for Underwood on the Billboard 200, following 2007's "Carnival Ride" (527,000 first week) and 2009's "Play On" (318,000). She is only the third woman to take three country albums to No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Underwood follows Linda Ronstadt and Faith Hill. Ronstadt did it with "Heart Like a Wheel" (1974), "Simple Dreams" (1977) and "Living in the USA" (1978). Hill topped the tally consecutively with "Breathe" (1999), "Cry" (2002) and "Fireflies" (2005).
Trailing Underwood on the Billboard 200 this week is Norah Jones' ". . . Little Broken Hearts," debuting at No. 2 with 110,000. It's her fifth studio set overall, and fifth to reach the top three. She crowned the tally with three earlier efforts and hit No. 3 with her last one, 2009's "The Fall." The new album's debut sales week is the smallest for any of Jones' studio offerings since her first, "Come Away With Me," launched with 10,000 in 2002.
The new "Now 42" compilation enters at No. 3 with 95,000 -- giving the chart its first debut-filled top three since Nov. 19, 2011. That week, the entire top four were new arrivals, led by Justin Bieber's "Under the Mistletoe" at No. 1, with Wale's "Ambition," Miranda Lambert's "Four the Record" and Susan Boyle's "Someone to Watch Over Me" starting at Nos. 2-4, respectively.
If the top three are all debuts this week, that must mean Adele's long-running "21" has (momentarily?) stepped aside out of the top three. This week it slips 2-4 with 77,000 (down 8%). It had been lodged in the top three rungs since Dec. 17.
B.o.B's second album, "Strange Clouds," floats in at No. 5 with a 76,000 start. It follows 2010's "The Adventures of Bobby Ray," which debuted at No. 1 (84,000). "Strange Clouds" was led by the set's title track, which hit No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the new single "So Good" (No. 11).
Lionel Richie's "Tuskegee" moves 3-6 (64,000; down 18%), Jack White's "Blunderbuss" falls 1-7 (56,000; down 60%) and One Direction's "Up All Night" slips 4-8 (45,000; down 10%).
The final two positions in the top 10 are taken up by new entries, with the "Smash" TV soundtrack starting at No. 9 (39,000) and Marilyn Manson's "Born Villain" entering at No. 10 (38,000). It is the latter's seventh top 10 album and follows 2009's "The High End of Low" (No. 4 with 49,000).
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H-I-M, could you edit the first post with the BB article, please? The Yahoo post is disgusting.
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Carrie sold less than predictions  but still #1 
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Norah so proud of ya! 
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Top 10 Country Albums for This Week with Six Notable Albums (SoundScan Top 200 Current Albums Chart Placement)*
#1 - Carrie Underwood - Blown Away 268k (268,000)
#6 - Lionel Richie – Tuskegee 64k (679,000)
#13 – Luke Bryan – tailgates & tanlines 26k (1,031,000)
#14 - Lee Brice - Hard 2 Love 24k (70,000)
#16 - Kip Moore - Up All Night 21k (58,000)
#18 – Eric Church – Chief 19k (775,000)
#21 – Jason Aldean – My Kinda Party 16k (2,559,000)
#23 - Rascal Flatts - Changed 15k (227,000)
#36 – Lady Antebellum – Own The Night 11k (1,598,000)
#39 – Blake Shelton – Red River Blue 10k (675,000)
#44 – Brantley Gilbert - Halfway To Heaven 9k (558,000)
#73 – Scotty McCreery – Clear As Day 6k (1,041,000)
#15 - Josh Abbott Band - Small Town Family Dream 5k (27,000)
#122 – Hunter Hayes – Hunter Hayes 4K (114,000)
#72 – Rodney Atkins – Take A Back Road 3k (172,000)
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B.o.B did better than i was expecting. I hope it holds cuz it seems like it's a great album. Carrie
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Happy that Norah exceeded predictions and now hope she will be able to show longevity. Her album deserves perform better than this.
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Mother’s Day is turning out to be a mother of a battle between a pair of pop divas.
It may be a little too early to say, but it’s sure looking like a tussle for #1 next week between 19/Arista Nashville country star Carrie Underwood’s Blown Away, this week’s chart-topper, and XL/Columbia perennial Adele, set to go over 9 million sold in the U.S. for her Grammy-sweeping 21.
As always, we’ll have a clearer picture tomorrow, but none of this week’s debuts will have a shot t the to spot.
Dangerbird L.A. Silver Lake indie rockers Silversun Pickups’ third studio album, Neck of the Woods, will be the top newcomer, with an estimated total of 35-40k, which would compare favorably to the 43k they scored in April, ’09 with Swoon, which went on to sell a robust 318k. The band performed on the Jimmy Kimmel Live outdoor stage last night. The band received a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist in 2009.
Grammy-nominated Atlantic R&B singer-songwriter Tank’s This Is How I Feel, featuring collaborations with T.I., Chris Brown and Busta Rhymes, is on target for a 25-30k first week. The album, his fifth, is the follow-up to his 2010 label debut, Now or Never, which debuted with 44k in Dec. 2010. Tank’s collaboration on Chris Brown’s “Take My Time” earned him a nomination at last year’s Grammys in the “Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals” category, which joined his eight career nominations to date. In addition to his own music, Tank has contributed vocals and helped pen hit records for the likes of Jamie Foxx, Keri Hilson and Chris Brown.
Veteran Interscope U.K. popmeisters Keane’s fourth studio album, Strangeland, their first since 2008’s Perfect Symmetry, looks to be in the 17-20k range, about half the total of the previous album’s 43.5k.
Epic viral sensations and SNL hip-pop duo Karmin’s debut, Hello, is also looking at 17-20k in first-week sales on the heels of the Top 5 dance hit, “Brokenhearted.”
Columbia gospel duo Mary Mary’s seventh album, Go Get It, looks to be in the 12-15k range, off from last year’s Something Big, which debuted with 42k in sales. The two introduced the title track on the final episode of their new reality TV series.
Album sales were up 7% vs. last week, down 7% vs. same week last year and down 1% year to date.
Track sales were flat vs. last week, up 6% vs. same week last year and up 7% year to date.
TEA sales were up 4% vs. last week, down 4% vs. same week last year and up 1% year to date.
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Pop divas? lol
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TWO DIVAS: ONE THRONE
Looks Like It Could Be Carrie vs. Adele for #1 on Post-Mother’s Day Chart
May 9, 2012
Mother’s Day is turning out to be a mother of a battle between a pair of pop divas.
It may be a little too early to say, but it’s sure looking like a tussle for #1 next week between 19/Arista Nashville country star Carrie Underwood’s Blown Away, this week’s chart-topper, and XL/Columbia perennial Adele, set to go over 9 million sold in the U.S. for her Grammy-sweeping 21.
As always, we’ll have a clearer picture tomorrow, but none of this week’s debuts will have a shot t the to spot.
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ADELE for the #1 
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Please let it be Carrie
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A battle between Adele and Carrie 
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