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Expect to see substantially more VMA impact on next week’s chart.

ANOTHER WEEK AND STILL NO HAT

Luke Bryan Spends Another Week Atop our Album Sales Chart, While Debuting John Mayer Nabs #2
Well, dog my cats: Crash My Party by Capitol Nashville’s hatless star Luke Bryan holds on to #1 this week on the HITS Album Sales Chart with 158k. Which means UMG Nashville chief Mike Dungan has yet another reason to fire his six-guns in the air and shout “Yeee-hawww.” We hope he does, anyway.

The biggest debut, meanwhile, comes from Columbia troubadour John Mayer, who scores 145k for his new Paradise Valley, which earns him #2 and a hearty “Good show, old bean” from label head Rob Stringer. Mayer’s last album, 2012’s Born and Raised, bowed with 219k and is approaching 600k RTD.

The rest of the Top 5 is all debuts: Atlantic’s TGT (#3, 70k), Mailboat’s Jimmy Buffett (#4, 60k) and Columbia’s Odd Future dude Earl Sweatshirt (#5, 48k).

A bit further down we have bows for RCA’s A$AP Ferg (#8, 31k) and Sony MasterworksTedeschi Trucks Band (#11, 25k), among others.

Among chart veterans, Star Trak/Interscope’s Robin Thicke (#6, 46k, -1%), Disney’s Teen Beach ST (#9, 31k, flat) are hanging particularly tough. We also find a noteworthy post-VMA boost for #14 Bruno Mars (22k, +36%), whose Unorthodox Jukebox was also pumped with change thanks to a $7.99 iTunes sale, and smaller ones for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (#21, 16k, +6%) and RCA’s Justin Timberlake (#22, 15k, +3%). Expect to see substantially more VMA impact on next week’s chart.

The week’s biggest gainer was Dualtone’s The Lumineers, the deluxe version of whose album sparked a #49-27 jump and 79% increase.

Bryan’s earlier release Tailgates & Tanlines, meanwhile, remained on the chart but slipped to #31 with 9k.

Next week we’ll crank up the volume with a new release from Warner Bros. rock outfit Avenged Sevenold (currently causing mayhem on the iTunes album chart), as well as Def Jam/IDJ’s Big Sean, among others. And with Q4 within spitting distance, expect things to ramp up seriously in the subsequent weeks.

Now if you’ll excuse us, we have a lunch at UMPG. If we don’t hurry, all the entrees will get smoked before we get there.
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