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Chart Listings: Billboard 200 Albums (October 24-31, 2012)
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Billboard 200 Albums (October 24-31, 2012)
Jason Aldean's 'Night Train' Rolls to No. 1 On Billboard 200
As forecasted a week ago, Jason Aldean's "Night Train" chugs to a No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 albums chart, opening atop the ranking with 409,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The Broken Bow-released album not only secures the country superstar his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 but also the second-largest debut of the year. Only Mumford & Sons' "Babel," which moved 600,000 in its first week (Oct. 13), started with a bigger number. (The staff at RED Distribution can celebrate both achievements, as both "Babel" and "Night Train" are distributed by the indie company.)
As "Night Train" pulls into the No. 1 spot, Aldean bests his previous biggest sales week, tallied when his last album, "My Kinda Party," debuted with 193,000 in November 2010. The set bowed and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, blocked from No. 1 by Taylor Swift's "Speak Now," which was in its second week at No. 1.
Aldean doesn't have Swift to deal with this time around, as his album arrives one week before Swift's new "Red," which hit retail Monday night (Oct. 22). Aldean is, however, set to step aside next week when "Red" makes its expected massive debut, possibly breaking the 1-million sales barrier in its first week.
"Night Train" also stations itself atop Billboard's Country Albums chart, marking Aldean's third leader on the list, following "My Kinda Party" (12 weeks at No. 1, 2011) and "Relentless" (one week, 2007). The new album is led by first single "Take a Little Ride," which spent two weeks at No. 1 on Country Songs earlier this month. New track "The Only Way I Know How," with Luke Bryan and Eric Church, enters Country Airplay this week at No. 47.
As Aldean arrives, Mumford & Sons' "Babel" slips to No. 2 (74,000, down 23%) after three weeks atop the Billboard 200. The set has sold 938,000 in its first four frames.
Brandy scores her first top 10 on the Billboard 200 in more than eight years, as "Two Eleven" debuts at No. 3 (65,000). The R&B crooner, who first appeared on the list 18 years ago this month, had last ranked in the top 10 with "Afrodisiac," which also began at No. 3 the week of July 17, 2004. "Two Eleven" is Brandy's fourth Billboard 200 top 10. It opens as her second No. 1 on R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, following 2002's "Full Moon." Current single "Put It Down," featuring Chris Brown, has reached No. 3 on R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.
"American Idol" winner Scotty McCreery enters the Billboard 200 at No. 4 with "Christmas With Scotty McCreery" (41,000). The teen country singer debuted at No. 1 with his first studio album, "Clear as Day," a year ago. And, a have-you-started-your-holiday-shopping-yet alert: the new set marks the first top 10 holiday album this season.
A third country singer starts in the Billboard 200 top five this week, as Jamey Johnson starts at No. 5 with "Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran" (32,000). Johnson's second top five, following 2010's "The Guitar Song" (No. 4), includes such high-profile guests as Elvis Costello, Alison Krauss and Willie Nelson and serves as an ode to the late Cochran, who penned such country classics as Patsy Cline's "I Fall to Pieces."
P!nk's former No. 1 "The Truth About Love" rises 8-6 (31,000, down 15%) on the Billboard 200, followed by Miguel's "Kaleidoscope Dream" (11-7; 22,000, down 28%) and Little Big Town's "Tornado" (14-8; 22,000, down 6%).
Adele's former 24-week leader (the longest reign for a set by a woman in the chart's 56-year history) "21" rebounds 15-9 (21,000, down 5%), marking the album's return to the top 10 after six weeks between Nos. 12 and 15, while Dethklok's "Metalocalypse: Dethalbum III" soundtrack debuts at No. 10 (20,000). The first two soundtrack editions of the Adult Swim series peaked at Nos. 21 and 15 in 2007 and 2009, respectively.
http://www.billboard.com/news/jason-...07988562.story
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Jason 
65k for Brandy 
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Adele back in the Top 10 for her 80th week.
Bruce at 84 wks is looking worried...
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Adele picking up another week in the Top 10. Boss.
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Adele's former 24-week leader (the longest reign for a set by a woman in the chart's 56-year history) "21" rebounds 15-9 (21,000, down 5%), marking the album's return to the top 10 after six weeks between Nos. 12 and 15
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Adele's 21 returns to the top 10 (at #9) after a six-week absence. This is its 80th week in the top 10. Only two albums can match that since 1963, when Billboard merged separate mono and stereo charts into one comprehensive listing: The Sound Of Music soundtrack (109 weeks) and Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A. (84 weeks).
Carrie Underwood's Blown Away rebounds from #33 to 25 in its 25th week. The album has sold 864K copies, which makes it #6 for the year-to-date. It swaps places with Whitney Houston's Whitney: The Greatest Hits, which has sold 862K copies so far this year (almost all since her death on Feb. 11). Blown Away is the year's second best-seller by a female artist, topped only by Adele's 21, which has sold 4,095,000 copies so far this year.
http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-w...3Rpb25z;_ylv=3
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21 is a legendary album. Deal with it.
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21 sells 21k copies this week. First time ever
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I wonder what total US sales for 21 are now.
It must be a mere 4 weeks, 5 weeks max away from Diamond.
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I wonder what total US sales for 21 are now.
It must be a mere 4 weeks, 5 weeks max away from Diamond.
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9,897,291 as of last week. add the 21K to this week's total, it's around 9.918 million. about a month or so to go 
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She'll surpass Springsteen 
DAMN Brandy with all that 1 week hard promotion  
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21
M&S and P!nk holding quite well.
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Brandy with all that promo only did 65k. 
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Why Billboard HOT 200 albums tho
Jason Adele 
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Why Billboard HOT 200 albums tho
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I didn't even see that.
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I didn't even see that.
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it's okay 
when are predictions out? i want to see Lady A's numbers 
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Carrie may be in the top five top female selling albums of the year.
I think she'll be fifth or fourth, only behind Adele, Taylor & maybe P!nk.. 
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Carrie may be in the top five top female selling albums of the year.
I think she'll be fifth or fourth, only behind Adele, Taylor & maybe P!nk.. |
Who is ahead of Queen Carrie right now? Besides those three?
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it's okay
when are predictions out? i want to see Lady A's numbers |
ONE-DAY SALES: SWIFT VICTORY
Red on Track for 1.1-1.2m: Kendrick Lamar Splashes Down in 225-240 Range; Tony Bennett, Gary Clark, Jr. and More Touch Down
October 24, 2012
Taylor Swift’s Red is on track for a massive 1.1-1.2 million debut, making the Big Machine singer-songwriter-megastar joins three other acts in the modern chart era to pass the million mark on two consecutive first weeks. (The others? Eminem, NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys). Ms. Swift may well also surpass the boffo 1.1m bow of Lady Gaga's Born This Way.
She's also the first to achieve greater sales with the second of the two million-plus bows since the Backstreet Boys, who accomplished this hat trick by following their Millennium debut (1.134m) in 1999 with 1.591m for 2000's Black and Blue.
And get your head around this: The Red juggernaut could sell more than the entire Top10 from the corresponding week last year; for the week ending 10/30/11, that bunch—including Coldplay’s #1 Xyloto—totaled 1.124m.
Eyes are also on Aftermath/Interscope’s hip-hop breakout Kendrick Lamar, meanwhile, who will move an impressive 225-240k. In a Taylor-free debut week, he'd likely be stomping the chart like Godzilla, so much respect is due.
Tony Bennett’s latest Columbia set, the Latin-accented Viva Duets (featuring Christina Aguilera, Marc Anthony and Gloria Estefan, among other co-stars), will croon up 27-30k.
Other noteworthy bows include Roadrunner’s Stone Sour at 24-27k; Warner Bros.’ blues-rock-soul guitar hero Gary Clark, Jr. (18-21k); Astralwerks’ Swedish House Mafia (17-20k); and Capitol Nashville/EMI’s Lady Antebellum (17-20k).
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