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Ghostlight/Razor & Tie’s Tony-winning The Book of Mormon Original Broadway Cast recording, at #3, [is] the highest chart position reached by a Broadway album since 1969, when Hair spent 13 weeks at #1.

21 BACK TO #1

The Book of Mormon, Tech N9ne, All Time Low, Ronnie Dunn Debut, but Adele Returns to Top
The battle of the pop divas turned out to be no contest.

XL/Columbia Grammy front-runner Adele returns to the top spot on the HITS Album chart after a two-week absence, besting Lady Gaga, as 21 sells another 114k, sending the album soaring over 2.2 million to spend its tenth week at #1.

Gaga is followed by three debuts, including Ghostlight/Razor & Tie’s Tony-winning The Book of Mormon Original Broadway Cast recording, at #3, the highest chart position reached by a Broadway album since 1969, when Hair spent 13 weeks at #1.

Other Top 10 newcomers include Strange Music/Fontana Kansas City rapper Tech N9ne, who scores his best-ever debut at #4 with All 6’s and 7’s, Interscope Baltimore punk-popsters All Time Low’s Dirty Work (#5) and Arista Nashville country star Ronnie Dunn’s self-titled solo debut (#6).

Broken Bow’s surging Jason Aldean takes advantage of his CMT Awards appearance to surge 24% at #7, as does Arista Nashville’s Brad Paisley (#8), while Capitol/EMI’s Now 38 (#9) and Monkeywrench/Universal Republic’s Eddie Vedder ukulele album (#10) round out the Top 10.

Other Top 50 entries include Sony MasterworksTedeschi Trucks Band (#12), Domino’s Arctic Monkeys (#15), Mailboat’s Def Leppard (#17), Vagrant’s City and Colour (#29) and Warner Bros.Randy Travis compilation (#35).

Roswell/RCA’s Foo Fighters (#24) and J/RMG’s Marsha Ambrosius (#40) both re-enter.

Capitol/EMI’s Beastie Boys (#22-18, +26%) lead the week’s double-digit gainers, followed by LaFace/JLG’s P!nk (#40-32, +20%), Universal Republic Nashville’s Wild Card pick The Band Perry (#38-34, +18%), Capitol/EMI’s Katy Perry (#14, +16%), Shady/Aftermath/Interscope’s Eminem (#46-43, +15%), Jive/JLG’s Britney Spears (#37, +12%) and Chris Brown (#27-25, +10%).

Hitting retail this week are Columbia’s Jackie Evancho, Shady/Interscope’s Bad Meets Evil, the collaboration between Eminem and old Detroit pal Royce Da 5’9”, Universal Republic’s Owl City, S-Curve’s Andy Grammer, Reprise’s Neil Young and the International Harvesters, Lava/Universal Republic’s Black Veil Brides and Verve’s Ledisi.

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