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Of this week’s releases look for XL’s Vampire Weekend, Hollywood’s Demi Lovato and MCA Nashville’s George Strait to jockey for the top three positions.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

LADY A GOLDEN, GATSBY GREAT

Now 46, Pistol Annies, Rod Stewart Also Debut in Top 10
This week’s HITS Album sales chart travels from Country to 1922 New York with its top two debuts, Capitol Nashville’s Lady Antebellum and Interscope’s Jay-Z-curated Great Gatsby soundtrack

Lady A’s Golden, the trio’s fifth album overall, bows at #1, boasting nearly 170k in sales, enough to turn back the Gatsby soundtrack, which over-performs nicely with 135k, neatly paralleling the movie’s #2 finish on this week’s box office tally, as Lana Del Rey’s “Young and Beautiful” proves its most popular track, cracking the Top 10 at iTunes.

Capitol’s new Now 46 collection (#3) and RCA Nashville supergroup Pistol Annies (#5) are the other newcomers to the Top 5, sandwiching Reprise’s Michael Buble, down just 5% this week to finish at #4.

Capitol’s new Rod Stewart collection, Time, his first studio album of original material in some 12 years, since 2001’s Human on Atlantic, enters at #7. RCA’s Justin Timberlake (#6), last week’s chart-topper, Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville’s Kenny Chesney (#8), Warner Bros. Nashville’s Blake Shelton (#9) and Atlantic’s Bruno Mars (#10, +54%) round out the Top 10.

Other Top 50 newcomers include Big Machine’s Music of Nashville soundtrack (#14), Merge’s She & Him (#16), Columbia’s Natalie Maines (#17), New Elektra’s Fitz & the Tantrums (#25), Atlantic’s Straight No Chaser (#27), Capitol’s Now Country Party (#30), New West’s Patty Griffin (#34), Earstorm/Big Beat’s Knife Party (#40) and Javotti’s Talib Kweli (#47)

Mother’s Day sales helped push several titles into double-digit gains, led by Capitol Nashville’s Alan Jackson (#35-20, +91%). Other big movers include Bruno Mars (#10, +54%), Big Machine’s Tim McGraw (#42-32, +40%), KidinaKorner/Interscope’s Imagine Dragons (#13, +27%), Capitol Nashville’s Little Big Town (#43-37, +25%) and 19/Interscope’s Phillip Phillips (#49-45, +20%).

Of this week’s releases, look for XL’s Vampire Weekend, Hollywood’s Demi Lovato and MCA Nashville’s George Strait to jockey for the top three positions, with Show Dog’s Trace Adkins and indie rap sensation Mike Stud’s iTunes-only release also out. Look for much anticipated releases from Columbia’s Daft Punk and Virgin’s Thirty Seconds to Mars to drop a week from today (5/21).

 
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