Over on the Digital Songs chart, the impact of NBC's "The Voice" is felt strongly at No. 1: A Great Big World's "Say Something," featuring Christina Aguilera, debuts at No. 1 with 189,000 sold (up 1,761%). The song benefits from a performance of the song last week on the show, along with a newly-released version with "Voice" coach Aguilera.
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Previously, the song had been available (without Aguilera), and had sold 52,000 through Nov. 3. The sales of both the old and new versions of the song are combined for tracking and charting purposes.
Lorde's "Royals" rises 3-2 with 186,000 (though it's down by 5%) and OneRepublic's "Counting Stars" rebounds 9-3 with 152,000 (up 16%). Last week's leader, Eminem's "The Monster," featuring Rihanna, falls to No. 4 with 150,000 (down 60%).
Katy Perry's "Roar" descends 4-5 with 136,000 (down 3%), Avicii's "Wake Me Up" drops 5-6 with 126,000 (down 10%) and Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" rises 10-7 with 121,000 (but down 1%).
Pitbull collects his lucky 13th top 10 on the Digital Songs chart as "Timber," featuring Ke$ha, rises 17-8 with 119,000 (up 43%). For Ke$ha, it is her 10th top 10 hit.
To close out the top 10: Passenger's "Let Her Go" falls 7-9 with 118,000 (down 15%) and Imagine Dragons' "Demons" rises 14-10 with 110,000 (up 12%). It's the second top 10 hit on this chart for the act, which previously went as high as No. 2 with "Radioactive."
Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Nov. 10) totaled 5.68 million units, up 21% compared with the sum last week (4.70 million) and up 4% compared with the comparable sales week of 2012 (5.45 million). Year to date album sales stand at 234.33 million, down 7% compared to the same total at this point last year (251.30 million).
Digital track sales this past week totaled 20.62 million downloads, up 1% compared with last week (20.41 million) and down 3% stacked next to the comparable week of 2012 (21.32 million). Year to date track sales are at 1.09 billion, down 4% compared to the same total at this point last year (1.14 billion).
Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2012 when: One Direction's "Take Me Home" debuted at No. 1 with 540,000. Six more albums arrived in the top 10, with the "Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2" starting at No. 3 (93,000). Taylor Swift's "Red" fell from No. 1 to No. 2 in its fourth week on the chart (145,000; down 26%).
