Capitol Nashville’s 3.6 million-selling Lady Antebellum album, Need You Now, re-enters at #49, with the new release, Own the Night, hitting retail today.

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Cash Money/Universal Republic hip-hop kingpin Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter IV will spend one more week at #1, adding 207k to his first-week total of a million.

Strike another one for the rapper’s longtime New Orleans benefactors, Slim and Baby Williams of Cash Money, who also scored with Nicki Minaj and are set to release Drake’s next record.

XL/Columbia Grammy front-runner Adele’s 21 moves up a notch to #2, with another 119k tacked on to her 3 million-plus U.S. sales, and another 3 million in the U.K.

MCA Nashville country star George Strait’s Here for a Good Time debuts at #3 with 69k, followed by Capitol/EMI mainstays The Beatles1, available in re-mastered form physically and for the first time digitally, enters at #4.

Warner Bros. rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers go from #2 to #5 with 55k, rounding out the Top 5.

Roc-a-Fella/Roc Nation’s Jay Z & Kanye West album, Watch the Throne, is now at #6, followed by the week’s biggest gainer, A&M/Octone’s Maroon 5, whose Hands All Over bursts back into the Top 10 at #7, thanks to The Voice-fueled single, “Moves Like Jagger,” a collaboration with Christina Aguilera, moving #21-7, +103%.

Capitol/EMI’s Now 39 (#8), Columbia’s Beyonce (#9) and Broken Bow’s long-running Jason Aldean (#10), in its 45th week on the chart, complete the leader board.

Top 50 newcomers include Rhino’s Hugh Laurie blues album from the House star, Let Them Talk (#18), Sony Music Latin’s Gerardo Ortiz (#21), Music World’s Christian/ Gospel artist Le’Andra Johnson (#25), Mind Kit’s Lindsey Buckingham (#41) and Side One Dummy’s Horrible Crowes (#50).

Capitol Nashville’s 3.6 million-selling Lady Antebellum album, Need You Now, re-enters at #49, with the new release, Own the Night, hitting retail today. Walt Disney’s Shake It Up, Break It Down soundtrack was the other re-entry (#47).

With Maroon 5 leading the way, the week’s top double-digit gainers include J Records/RMG’s Pitbull (#45-26, +46%), Capitol/EMI’s Katy Perry (#20-11, +37%), Arista Nashville’s Brad Paisley (#37-30, +17%) and Columbia Nashville’s Pistol Annies (#33-28, +10%).

Lady A tops this week’s release slate, followed by Flip/Atlantic’s Staind, Ferret/ADA’s Devil Wears Prada, Roadrunner’s Dream Theater, eOne’s Bush, Curb’s Steve Holy, AstralwerksThe Kooks, UMe’s Alice Cooper, ATO’s Primus (their first album in 12 years) and Megaforce’s Anthrax (their first in eight years).

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