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Track sales were down 2% vs. last week, up 13% vs. same week last year and up 6% year to date, crossing the one billion mark this week.

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Mumford & SonsGlassnote album Babel will continue its historic run with a second week at #1 after selling 600k in its first week, a whopping 70% (420k) of them digitally.

That places it second to only Lady Gaga’s Born This Way, which sold 662k digital downloads back in May 2011, though 400k+ of those were Amazon MP3 downloads at 99 cents apiece.

The week’s top debut will be Warner Bros. U.K. rockers Muse’s The 2nd Law, which should do between 110-120k, based on first-day sales reports from those retailers not busy stocking up on iPhone 5s.

Grammy-nominated RCA R&B/hip hop hybrid Miguel’s sophomore album, Kaleidoscope Dream, the follow-up to his acclaimed debut, 2010’s All I Want Is You, should do between 55-60k.

Veteran RCA Canadian rock band Three Days Grace’s Transit of Venus, their fourth studio album overall, looks to be in the 50-55k target range, on the heels of their #1 Active Rock smash, “Chalk Outline.”

Another from the North Country, multi-Grammy winning Verve jazz pianist Diana Krall returns with Glad Rag Doll, her eleventh studio album, a T Bone Burnett-produced selection of standards “as imagined for the 21st century,” which should do in the 45-50k range.

Syco/Columbia America’s Got Talent finalist Jackie Evancho has her third studio album coming, Songs from the Silver Screen, a selection of movie-related songs, which debuts with 35-40k.

Syco/Epic X Factor UK Top 4 finisher Cher Lloyd’s Sticks & Stones, fueled by the platinum single, “Want U Back,” will do between 30-35k, a tribute to her loyal gang of followers, dubbed “Brats.”

Veteran platinum Eleven Seven punk-rockers Papa Roach’s The Connection, the eighth studio recording in their 15-year career, should get off to a start of 18-21k

Atlantic teen pop star Cody Simpson’s debut album, Paradise, will debut with 15-18k.

Legacy’s new Heart album, Fanatic, will have first-week sales of between 14-17k.

eOne hi-hop artist DJ Drama, T.I.’s DJ, should do in the same 14-17k area for his latest, Quality Street Music.

Album sales were up 5% vs. last week, up 2% vs. same week last year and down 4% year to date.

Track sales were down 2% vs. last week, up 13% vs. same week last year and up 6% year to date, crossing the one billion mark this week.

TEA sales were up 3% vs. last week, up 5% vs. same week last year and down 1% year to date.

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