Chris Tomlin Scores First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart
Hollywood Undead, Black Veil Brides, Dropkick Murphys also score Top 10 debuts.
Singer/songwriter Chris Tomlin claims his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as his "Burning Lights" opens atop the list with
73,000 sold according to Nielsen SoundScan. The Christian music veteran's new set also arrives at No. 1 on the Christian Albums chart, giving Tomlin his fourth leader on that tally.
Tomlin's debut earns the largest sales week for any Christian or gospel set since Casting Crowns' "Come to the Well" debuted at No. 2 on the Nov. 5, 2011 chart with 99,000.
It's also Tomlin's best sales frame yet, passing up the 63,000 he moved over the Thanksgiving frame of 2010 with "Glory in the Highest: Christmas Songs of Worship." While it's the best week for Tomlin, it's the smallest the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 has seen since the Sept. 15, 2012 tally, when fellow Christian act tobyMac bowed atop the list with "Eye On It" (69,000).
That said, "Burning Lights" is only the fourth Christian album to ever hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. "Eye On It" became the third just last year -- and the first in 15 years.
Before that, you have to scroll back to the fall of 1997, when LeAnn Rimes' "You Light Up My Life -- Inspirational Songs" led the list for three nonconsecutive weeks. A few months earlier, our first Christian No. 1 came from Bob Carlisle's fluke hit album "Butterfly Kisses (Shades of Grace)." It spent two straight frames at No. 1 in late June and early July.
Aiding Tomlin's first-week are non-traditional sales generated at churches, this month's huge Passion Conference in Atlanta and via pre-orders. The annual Passion Christian gathering drew 60,000 college-aged attendees this year and, according to label sources, was watched by more than 100,000 viewers online.
Collectively, all sales from Passion-related purchases, church sales and the like amounted to 40% of "Burning Lights'" bow. Another 30% came from digital downloads.
One step behind Tomlin is rock band Hollywood Undead. The act charges in at No. 2 with its highest charting album ever, "Notes From the Underground." The set moved
53,000 in its first week -- marking the group's second-largest sales frame. Its best week came when its last album, 2011's "American Tragedy," launched at No. 4 with 66,000. "Notes From the Underground" also gives the band its first No. 1 on the Rock Albums chart, after hitting No. 2 with "American Tragedy."
Last week's No. 1 album, the "Les Miserables" soundtrack, slips to No. 3 with
52,000 (down 44%) while Taylor Swift's "Red" falls one rung to No. 4 with
49,000 (down 29%). Rounding out the top five is the "Pitch Perfect" soundtrack at a new high of No. 5 (up two slots) with
45,000 (down 13%).
In turn, this week marks the first time since 1999 that there have been two non-concert theatrical film soundtracks (that weren't born from a TV series) in the top five. The last time the feat occurred was on the July 17, 1999 chart, when "Wild Wild West" was at No. 4 and "Tarzan" was No. 5.
Just outside the top five this week is Bruno Mars' "Unorthodox Jukebox," which holds at No. 6 with just over
42,000 (down 23%).
At No. 7, rock band Black Veil Brides arrives with its best week ever, scoring a
42,000-launch with "Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones." It's the band's highest rank on the tally and best sales stanza, easily surpassing the No. 17 bow of "Set the World On Fire" (23,000) in 2011.
The Lumineers' self-titled album maintains its position at No. 8 with
37,000 (down 28%) while another rock band, Dropkick Murphys, start at No. 9 with its new album, "Signed and Sealed in Blood" (
33,000). It's the second top 10 effort for the latter act, which previously notched a career-high peak of No. 6 with its last album, 2011's "Going Out In Style" (off a 43,000 debut).
Closing out the top 10 is One Direction's "Take Me Home," which slips five rungs with
29,000 (down 52%).
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Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Jan. 13) totaled 5.09 million units, down 19% compared with the sum last week (6.26 million) and down less than 1% compared with the comparable sales week of 2012 (5.10 million). Year to date album sales stand at 11.35 million, up 4% compared to the same total at this point last year (10.90 million).
Digital track sales this past week totaled 28.83 million downloads, down 17% compared with last week (34.53 million) and up 1% stacked next to the comparable week of 2012 (28.56 million). Year to date track sales are at 63.36 million, up 3% compared to the same total at this point last year (61.32 million).
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BB Top 200 Albums
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1 SXSP 1 TOMLIN*CHRIS BURNING LIGHTS 72,567 999 188 72,937
1 OCAM 2 HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND 52,685 999 226 52,911
4 R-RR 2 1 3 SOUNDTRACK LES MISERABLES 51,528 -44 92,481 322,366
12 BGMA 1 3 4 SWIFT*TAYLOR RED 48,948 -29 68,733 3,224,930
4 UME 10 7 5 PITCH PERFECT SOUNDTRACK 45,218 -13 52,163 309,479
5 ATLG 4 6 6 MARS*BRUNO UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX 42,440 -23 54,819 577,546
1 R-LV 7 BLACK VEIL BRIDES WRETCHED AND DIVINE 42,406 999 32 42,441
41 DUA 9 8 8 LUMINEERS LUMINEERS 37,022 -28 51,171 781,536
1 DPKM 9 DROPKICK MURPHYS SIGNED & SEALED IN BLOOD 33,223 999 78 33,301
9 COL 3 5 10 ONE DIRECTION TAKE ME HOME 29,174 -52 61,311 1,430,137
16 GLSN 8 2 11 MUMFORD & SONS BABEL 28,924 -68 91,042 1,583,318
17 RCA 14 10 12 P!NK TRUTH ABOUT LOVE 27,780 -33 41,171 1,013,632
4 ATLG 5 15 13 T.I. TROUBLE MAN: HEAVY IS THE HEAD 23,212 -35 35,698 311,610
8 19IN 11 4 14 PHILLIPS*PHILLIP WORLD FROM THE SIDE OF THE MOO 22,968 -63 62,583 618,745
19 INT 6 12 15 IMAGINE DRAGONS NIGHT VISIONS 22,814 -40 38,167 477,856
99 COL 16 18 16 ADELE 21 21,395 -22 27,466 10,286,536
8 DEF 7 19 17 RIHANNA UNAPOLOGETIC 20,638 -24 27,088 601,129
10 CAP 13 16 18 VARIOUS NOW 44 20,209 -43 35,533 579,872
29 OCAM 19 17 19 MAROON 5 OVEREXPOSED 19,918 -43 34,846 1,042,917
12 INT 17 14 20 LAMAR*KENDRICK GOOD KID M.A.A.D CITY 19,050 -47 36,172 639,227
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