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Taylor Swift, Eminem Top First Album Sales Chart Of 2011!
Taylor Swift, Eminem Top First Album Sales Chart Of 2011
January 5, 2011
With no major new releases and the traditional post-Christmas sales slump, the Soundscan sales chart remains mostly unchanged for the first week of the new year. Album sales dropped for all releases at the top of the chart, with declines reported for every release in the top 75. Taylor Swift's Speak Now remains at #1 for the fifth week in a row, but sold just over 77,000 copies. Swift also made the news this week due to reports of her breakup with actor Jake Gyllenhaal.
Eminem's Recovery moves up to #2. Rihanna climbs to #3 with Loud, followed by Nicki Minaj at #4 with Pink Friday. Kanye West's critically acclaimed My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy returns to the top ten at #5, after spending the previous week at #19.
The Tron: Legacy soundtrack leaps from #27 to #6, followed by Bruno Mars' Doo-Wops & Hooligans at #7. Mumford & Sons make an impressive climb from #33 to #8 with their debut Sigh No More. The top ten is rounded out by Teenage Dream from Katy Perry and Keyshia Cole's Calling All Hearts.
Holiday-themed records saw the biggest drops, of course, with Susan Boyle's The Gift losing 92 percent of sales and dropping to #31. The Glee Christmas album was down 96 percent and slipped from #3 all the way to #100 on the Soundscan chart.
http://www.billboard.com/news/taylor...04137830.story
Eminem, Rihanna, Nicki Top Hip Hop Album Sales
It's almost becoming unfair. Eminem and his triple-platinum album Recovery show no signs of slowing down. Once again Slim Shady tops the charts for hip-hop and R&B sales as his sixth studio album sold 63,000 more copies.
With no major releases this week, the charts were filled with a lot of familiar names. Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Kanye West and Bruno Mars rounded out the top 5. Hip-Hop-N-More reports that Minaj's Pink Friday has actually been certified platinum.
Top 5 for Hip-Hop & R&B: This week (total)
1. Eminem, Recovery: 63,000 (3,415,000)
2. Rihanna, Loud: 62,000 (752,000)
3. Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday: 61,000 (852,000)
4. Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: 58,000 (882,000)
5. Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans: 45,000 (458,000)
http://www.thesource.com/blog/post/3...qe40jf9mt0ba04
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