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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Top Albums For The Week

Evanescence debuted atop the Billboard charts this week with their eponymous third album with sales of 127,000. Despite its number one position, it is quite a steep decline from their previous effort, The Open Door, which garnered first week sales of a whopping 447k.
Adele has been on the charts for 34 weeks but is selling at an unprecedented rate in today's market. Her 21 album sold 111,000 this week and has been no lower than number 5 on the charts for her entire run.
Five Finger Death Punch enters the chart at number 3, which is an improvement over their last album which peaked at #7 in 2009.
American Idol winner Scotty McCreery is holding strong as he drops just three places with 88k sold in his second week on the Billboard chart. However he still holds the #1 spot on the Country Albums chart.
Meanwhile, Lauren Alaina, who finished second behind McCreery in the AI voting, dropped her debut last week and finished behind the winner again with sales of 69,000 of her Wildflower album.
The rest of the top 10 goes like this:

6. Tony Bennett Duets II  55k
7. Ryan Adams Ashes & Fire  49k
8. Lady Antebellum Own The Night  47k
9. Lil Wayne Tha Carter IV  45k
10. Martina McBride Eleven 40k

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