CHESNEY ROCKS THE TOP SPOT
Chesney’s second Blue Chair/Columbia
Reprise’s Michael Buble, last week’s chart-topper, finishes #2, adding another 92k to his total, now at 288k in just two weeks. Look for him to do even better this week, with Mother’s Day on Sunday.
Edge and Corson’s RCA holds down the next two spots with Justin Timberlake (#3, now at 1.7m) and Fantasia (#4), in her second week, adding another 35k to a total of 1224k. Warner Bros. Nashville’s Blake Shelton (#5) rounds out the Top 5, adding 35k to a total now at 456k.
MCA Nashville’s Randy Rogers Band is the other Top 10 newcomer, debuting at #6, followed by indie sensations Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (#11-7, +16%), RCA’s P!nk (#8, giving Nipper three of the Top 8), Island/IDJ’s Fall Out Boy (#9) and Atlantic’s resilient Bruno Mars (#10).
Other Top 50 newcomers include Razor & Tie Finnish rockers H.I.M. (#15), Hollywood’s Iron Man 3: Heroes Fall soundtrack (#16), 19/Interscope’s American Idol runner-up Jessica Sanchez (#20), Savoy’s LL Cool J (#23), Island/IDJ’s The Airborne Toxic Event (#25), Fleetwood Mac’s self-released EP (#31) and Strange Music’s Rittz (#41).
Thanks to a spectacular SNL performance, Republic’s Of Monsters and Men climbs back into the Top 50 at #32.
Other double-digit movers include Aftermath/ Interscope’s Kendrick Lamar (#37-33, +21%), Capitol Nashville’s Alan Jackson (#40-35, +17%), Capitol’s Now 45 (#36, +11%) and Big Machine’s Tim McGraw (#45-42, +10%).
Capitol Nashville’s Lady Antebellum tops this week’s release slate, which also includes Capitol’s Now 46, Interscope’s The Great Gatsby soundtrack, Capitol’s Rod Stewart, Merge’s She & Him, Sony Nashville’s Pistol Annies, Columbia’s Natalie Maines, Atlantic’s Talib Kweli, Big Machine’s The Music of Nashville and Elektra’s Fitz & the Tantrums. Look for Mother's Day to boost female-friendly titles like Buble and Rod Stewart.
