Last week was no fluke: Lionel Richie tops the Billboard 200 again this week with his album “Tuskegee,” which sold 114,000 copies its fourth week in stores, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The pop veteran can now feel vindicated, as many believed he deserved to earn a No. 1 album over Madonna’s “MDNA,” which is falling … Continue Reading →
Madonna — she’s pretty popular, you may have heard of her — lands her eighth No. 1 album with “MDNA,” which sold a very healthy 359,000 copies its first week in stores, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That’s up from 28 percent from her last album, 2008′s “Hard Candy,” which sold 280,000 copies its first week. … Continue Reading →
Just call Katniss Everdeen the Queen of All Media. Not only has “The Hunger Games” dominated the book and movie world, but the film’s soundtrack debuts at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard 200 albums chart, selling 175,000 copies its first week in stores, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Hmm, how long ’til Julie Taymor goes … Continue Reading →
Boy bands back. Don’t tell *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys or 98 Degrees, but U.K. pop sensation One Direction arrives at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard Top 200 albums chart with its debut album “Up All Night,” which sold 176,000 copies its first week in stores, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That makes the “X Factor” graduates … Continue Reading →
Bruce Springsteen’s “Wrecking Ball” didn’t so much smash Adele’s “21″ as it did graze it just enough to knock it off the top of the Billboard 200, scoring 196,000 first-week sales to Adele’s 195,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan. But it’s a No. 1 nonetheless, and “Wrecking Ball” ends “21′s” 10-week run at the top of … Continue Reading →
That Adele reign just won’t let up. Adele’s “21″ tops Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart for a 23rd week this week, adding another 247,000 sales to its tally, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That brings its total to 7.9 million, and it should cross the 8 million mark sometime this week. But there’s a dark cloud … Continue Reading →
At this point I kind of wish Adele would drop a new mixtape bragging about her Billboard chart status. When Lil Wayne sold 1 million copies of “Tha Carter III” back in 2008, within a week he released a new version of “A Milli” addressing his chart status and thanking his fans. Certainly Adele realizes … Continue Reading →
Adele’s record breaking chart week was even more gigantic than expected: “21″ sold a mammoth 730,000 copies its birthday week, according to Nielsen SoundScan, thanks to a healthy post-Grammy bump. How big is that? It’s the biggest sales week since Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter IV” debuted with 964,000 sales last summer, and the largest tally … Continue Reading →
Adele’s Grammy-sweeping blockbuster “21″ turns 1 this week, and is set to do so with its biggest sales frame to-date: The album is pacing to sell an amazing 650,000-680,000 copies this week, Billboard reports. In an odd bit of cosmic coincidence, the album will celebrate its birthday with its title-tying 21st week at No. 1, … Continue Reading →
Grammy queen Adele holds on to the No. 1 spot on this week’s Billboard Top 200, fending off the new album from Van Halen which debuts at No. 2. Her “21″ surges with 237,000 copies sold — up from 122,000 the week prior — while Van Halen’s “A Different Kind of Truth,” the band’s first … Continue Reading →