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Def Jam/IDJ R&B diva Rihanna’s Rated R album shows the most upward mobility, going #46-34, +7%, thanks to “Rude Boy” continuing as a best-selling download.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

BIEBER’S BACK

It’s Justin’s World Again, as The National Bows at #2, with Charice, The Dead Weather and As I Lay Dying Debuting Top 10
Justin Bieber’s My World 2.0 marks a couple of milestones, as the Island/IDJ release returns to #1 on the HITS Album Sales chart exactly a month after finishing in the top slot for two consecutive weeks. The disc also goes over 1 million in sales with 61k added to its total. Bieber first debuted at #1 the last week in March.

4AD Alternative darlings The National score their highest-ever debut at #2, logging in nearly 56k in sales for High Violet, the veteran Brooklyn-by-way-of-Cincinnati band’s fifth album in a career that began back in 2001.

Capitol Nashville/EMI’s Lady Antebellum (#3), Columbia’s AC/DC Iron Man 2 soundtrack (#4) and LaFace/JLG’s Usher (#5) round out the Top 5.

143/Reprise Filipina YouTube sensation Charice’s self-titled debut bows at #6, with Third Man/WB’s The Dead Weather (#7) and Metal Blade’s As I Lay Dying (#10) the other Top 10 newcomers.

Rounding out the leaderboard are last week’s chart-topper, Universal Republic’s Godsmack (#8) and Hear Music/Concord’s Carole King & James Taylor Live at the Troubadour album (#9).

Provident/Reunion’s Tenth Avenue North (#17), Interscope’s Keane (#23), Loud & Proud/Roadrunner’s Meat Loaf (#27), Universal Republic ex-Evanescence members' band We Are the Fallen (#31), Inside Recordings vets Jackson Browne and David Lindley’s Love is Strange (#38), Mom & Pop's Brooklyn noise-rock duo Sleigh Bells (#39) and Sony Masterworks’ military crooners 4Troops (#40) all enter the Top 50.

Cash Money/Universal Motown’s Lil Wayne Rebirth album re-enters the chart at #44.

Def Jam/IDJ R&B diva Rihanna’s Rated R album shows the most upward mobility, going #46-34, +7%, thanks to “Rude Boy” continuing as a best-selling download.

On tap next week are Columbia’s fourth Glee volume, Show Stoppers, UMe/Universal Republic’s deluxe reissue of the Rolling Stones’ 1972 classic, Exile on Main St., and Fat Possum/Columbia’s Band of Horses with the atmospheric indie roots band’s major label debut.

 
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