Over on the Digital Songs chart, Lorde continues to reign with "Royals," selling another 294,000 downloads (down 5%). Katy Perry's "Roar" is steady at No. 2 with 195,000 (down 10%), and Avicii's "Wake Me Up!" rises 4-3 with 160,000 (down 4%).
Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" slips 3-4 with 128,000 and a decline of 40%. Its sales erosion is owed to iTunes' consumers who opted to complete their "Bangerz" album by upgrading their earlier "Wrecking Ball" sale to an album purchase. Effectively, customers who completed their album were returning a song, thus amplifying the sales decline for "Ball" this week.
Justin Bieber's "Heartbreaker" zooms from No. 22 to No. 5 after a full week's worth of sales. It jumps from 55,000 to 127,000. (The song was released Sunday, Oct. 6, about an hour before the end of the previous week's tracking period. That's why it debuted a week early.) The song is the first offering in Bieber's Music Mondays series, which is scheduled for 10 consecutive weeks of new song releases every Monday.
Drake's "Hold On, We're Going Home" falls one rung to No. 6 with 121,000 (down 7%), and Eminem's "Survival" bows at No. 7 with 117,000, marking the second top 10 debut from the hip-hop icon's forthcoming album. It follows "Berzerk," which started at No. 2 with 362,000 in September. Both cuts are from "The Marshall Mathers LP 2" album, due Nov. 5. Next week we will see the presumed lofty arrival of another pre-release cut from the album, "Rap God."
Ylvis' viral video turned hit single, "The Fox," rises 12-8 on Digital Songs with 108,000 (up 25%) while Lady Gaga's "Applause" is stationary at No. 9 with 100,000 (down 9%). Jay Z's "Holy Grail," featuring Timberlake, descends four slots to No. 10 with 98,000 (down 17%).
Digital track sales this past week totaled 19.78 million downloads, down less than 1% compared with last week (19.81 million) and down 10% stacked next to the comparable week of 2012 (22.1 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 1.01 million, down 4% compared with the same total at this point last year (1.05 million).
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