In yet another close call this week, it appears that Zac Brown Band and Maroon 5 will battle it out for #1 on next week's chart. Also, Eminem's Recovery officially becomes the best-selling album of the year with a total of 2.656m vs. Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" with 2.641m. For what it's worth, last year at this time didn't look too much better than this week. For the week ending 9/27/09, Pearl Jam's Backspacer opened with 189k, but it did take over 30k to make in into the Top 15.
Here's how it looks at the midweek:
*Zac Brown Band (Atlantic) 145-155kThrowone of those chicken-fried steaks on the grill.
*Maroon 5 (A&M/Octone) 145-155k
Trey Songz (Atlantic) 70-75k
Linkin Park (Warner Bros.) 70-75k
Eminem (Interscope) 65-70k
*Santana (Arista/RMG) 60-65k
*John Legend & the Roots (Columbia) 55-60k
*Selena Gomez & The Scene (Hollywood) 50-55k
*Billy Currington (Mercury Nashville) 40-45k
Now 35 (Capitol/EMI) 28-32k
Katy Perry (Capitol/EMI) 28-32k
Jamey Johnson (Mercury Nashville) 28-32k
Robert Plant (Rounder) 22-25kYou gotta Hands it to 'em.
Justin Bieber (Island/IDJ) 22-25k
Disturbed (Reprise) 20-22k
