Adele's 21 rebounds to #2 in its 59th week on The Billboard 200. This album has now shared top 10 space with two Nicki Minaj albums. Pink Friday was still in the top 10 (at #9) when 21 debuted at #1 in February 2011.
Adele's 2008 album 19 jumps from #20 to #17 in its 129th week on the chart. The album returns to the #1 spot on Top Catalog Albums. This is its 35th week on top. If two talented but troubled singers hadn't died tragically, 19 would have spent an additional 11 weeks at #1 on the catalog chart. 19 yielded the top spot to Amy Winehouse's Back In Black for four weeks and to Whitney Houston's Whitney: The Greatest Hits for seven.
Shameless Plug: Most of you already knew that 21 was the best-selling album of the first quarter. But did you know it sold more copies in the first quarter than it did in the fourth quarter of last year (when sales traditionally peak)? Or that it was the oldest album to wind up as the best-selling album of the first quarter since No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom came out on top for the first quarter of 1997? You did if you read my Chart Watch Extra in which I looked at first quarter highlights. If you missed it, here's a link.
2. Adele, 21, 153,000. The former #1 album rebounds from #3 to #2. This is its 59th week in the top 10. Five songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Set Fire To The Rain," which drops from #20 to #26.
Adele's Live At The Royal Albert Hall is #1 on Top Music Videos for the 19th straight week. That's the longest continuous run since Backstreet Boys' Backstreet Boys held the top spot for its first 19 weeks in 1999. Adele's DVD sold 16K copies this week, bringing its total to 793K.
Madonna's MDNA drops to #8 in its 2nd week with 48,000 copies sold (407,000 total).
OneDirection's Up All Night rebounds from #6 to #5 its fourth week (92,000 | 370,000 total).
Mothers day is may 13th, the biggest release that week is r.kelly.
I think 21 will be #1 that week aswell as next week, thus making its 25th week at #1 and beating "purple rain" among others
Adele's Live At The Royal Albert Hall is #1 on Top Music Videos for the 19th straight week. That's the longest continuous run since Backstreet Boys' Backstreet Boys held the top spot for its first 19 weeks in 1999. Adele's DVD sold 16K copies this week, bringing its total to 793K.
800k Next week
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Shameless Plug: Most of you already knew that 21 was the best-selling album of the first quarter. But did you know it sold more copies in the first quarter than it did in the fourth quarter of last year (when sales traditionally peak)? Or that it was the oldest album to wind up as the best-selling album of the first quarter since No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom came out on top for the first quarter of 1997? You did if you read my Chart Watch Extra in which I looked at first quarter highlights. If you missed it, here's a link.
I wonder when's the last time an album sold more than the rest of top 5 combined in period as long as a quarter?
AND while being already a year old, haha.
