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The real surprise this week is Warner Bros. rapper Wale, who makes his label debut on Rick Ross’ Maybach Music Group label after leaving Interscope. with Ambition bowing at #2, logging 163k in units moved.

Syco/Columbia Britain’s Got Talent crooner Susan Boyle’s Someone to Watch Over Me, her third album since earning runner-up status on the U.K. talent competition, bows at #3 with 134k, followed by RCA Nashville Country star Miranda Lambert’s Four the Record at #4, with 133k in sales..

XL/Columbia U.K. diva Adele’s 21 remains strong at #5 in its 37th week on the chart, logging in another106k to bring its total up to 4.3 million, giving Team Stringer/ Barnett’s label two in the Top 5.

Universal Republic phenoms Florence + the Machine’s sophomore effort, Ceremonials, enters at #6, while Voltron’s comebacking R&B singer Tyrese, through Mike Harris’ EMI Label Services, is the other Top 10 newcomer at #9.

Capitol/EMI’s Coldplay, last week’s chart-topper, is now #7, with the rest of the leader board rounded out by Reprise’s Michael Buble (#8) and 19/RCA’s Kelly Clarkson (#10).

Other Top 50 debuts are registered by Roadrunner’s Megadeth (#11); Columbia’s Jackie Evancho, a Wal-Mart exclusive (#16); and To the Stars’ Angels & Airwaves, with Love, Part 2 entering at #24 and Part 1, previously available as a free download, at #50. Other Top 50 newcomers include WB’s Lou Reed and Metallica (#33) and Universal Republic’s Steel Panther, while Capitol/EMI’s Katy Perry (#45) and Hollywood’s Selena Gomez & the Scene (#47) both re-enter.

Sony Masterworks’ Yo-Yo Ma tops the list of double-digit gainers, moving #18-17, +27%, followed by Interscope’s LMFAO (#25-21, +23%), A&M/Octone’s Maroon 5 (#34, +20%), Republic Nashville’s The Band Perry (#46, +20%), Roc-a-Fella/Roc Nation’s Jay Z & Kanye West (#20, +17%), Roc Nation/Columbia’s J Cole (#19, +10%) and Warner Bros Nashville’s Blake Shelton (#49, +10%).

Rostrum/Fontana/INgrooves Pittsburgh rapper and social mediator Mac Miller looks like the top album of this week’s releases, which include Capitol/EMI’s Now 40, Chop Shop/Atlantic’s Twilight: Breaking Dawn soundtrack, Sour Mash/Mercury’s Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Syco/Columbia’s Il Divo.