Adele's '21' Marks 11th Week At No. 1 On Billboard 200
July 27, 2011
By Keith Caulfield (@keith_caulfield), Los Angeles
As Adele's "21" heads back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for an 11th nonconsecutive week (up two slots with 77,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan; a gain of 1%), the late Amy Winehouse returns to the top 10 with "Back to Black" at No. 9 (37,000; up 3,140%).
Winehouse's first album, 2004's "Frank," also comes back to the tally, re-entering at No. 57 with 8,000 (up 4,100%). Additionally, her digital-only "Back to Black: B-Sides" EP, released in 2008, debuts at No. 152 with 3,000 after having sold next to nothing the previous week.
On the Digital Songs chart, "Rehab" -- the biggest hit from Winehouse's 2007 "Back" album -- re-enters at No. 46 with 38,000 downloads sold. It's the only Winehouse song on the tally this week.
Back to the top 10 albums for this week: The 11-week run of Adele's "21" at the top makes it the biggest No. 1 since Taylor Swift's "Fearless" also spent 11 frames in the penthouse in late 2007 and early 2008. Since the chart began using SoundScan data in May 1991, only eight albums have been No. 1 for 11 weeks or longer. If "21" hits a 12th week at No. 1, it will tie the runs racked up by Santana's "Supernatural" (1999) and Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" (1995-1996).
At No. 2 this week, "Kidz Bop 20" debuts with 69,000, marking the third No. 2 album for the long-running children's music franchise. The Razor & Tie set also hit No. 2 with "Kidz Bop 9" in 2006 and "Kidz Bop 19" back in January. The latter arrived with a little more than 70,000 sold.
Fittingly, 3 Doors Down's latest album, "Time of My Life," debuts at No. 3 with 60,000. It's the fifth studio effort for the band, but the first to miss the No. 1 slot since its second release, "Away From the Sun," debuted and peaked at No. 8 in 2002. Its third and fourth sets, 2005's "Seventeen Days" and a 2008 self-titled album, both arrived at No. 1. The latter set entered with 154,000.
Last week's No. 1, Blake Shelton's "Red River Blue," drifts to No. 6 in its second week with 47,000 (down 60%). One step above him is DJ Khaled's "We the Best Forever," bowing with 53,000 -- his best sales week yet. "Forever" also marks his third top 10 and his highest-charting album, surpassing the No. 7 rank of "We Global" in 2008.
The final debut in the top 10 comes from veteran rock act 311, as its "Universal Pulse" races in at No. 7 with 46,000. It's the eighth top 10 album for the band. All of its studio efforts have reached the top 10 -- save for 1996's self-titled album, which climbed to No. 12.
As for the rest of the holdovers in the top 10, Jason Aldean's "My Kinda Party" falls 7-8 (43,000; up 2%) and Selena Gomez & the Scene's "When the Sun Goes Down" holds at No. 10 (28,000; down 12%).
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Ms. Kelly did 86k with a minor hit...
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