It’s her first album to hit the top spot since 2007’s As I Am, which sold more than 3 million in the
That proves enough to keep Big Machine’s Taylor Swift at #2 with Red, which sells another 136k for a six-week total of 2.2m and counting.
Verve’s Rod Stewart holiday album, Merry Christmas Baby, is proving the top end-of-year release, moving another 120k copies for a five-week total approaching 500k at #3.
Syco/Columbia U.K. boy band One Direction’s Take Me Home remains steady at #4, with another 88k for a three-week total of 715k.
19/Interscope Idol winner Phillip Phillips’ World from the Side of the Moon rounds out the Top 5, with another 79k for a two-week total of 250k.
Def Jam/IDJ’s Rihanna (#6) and Capitol’s Now 44 (#10) sandwich Christmas albums from Reprise’s Michael Buble (#19-7, +24%), Capitol Nashville’s Lady Antebellum (#18-8) and Warner Bros. Nashville’s Blake Shelton (#16-9) to complete the sales leaders.
The independently released Matt Galle signing Timeflies EP (#24),
Top 50 re-entries include UMe’s Rolling Stones Greatest Hits (#39),
Aside from Buble, the week’s other largest double-digit gainer is labelmate Josh Groban’s 2007 Noel album, which moves #47-29, +15%.
Hitting retail this week are
Republic’s soundtrack to the Oscar hopeful Les Miserables hits retail stores Christmas Day, with digital to follow, and could be a sleeper for end of the year sales.
THE COUNT: COACHELLA, FROM THE COUCH
The coziest way to experience the fest (4/18a)
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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