The indie rapper, with 2.7 million followers on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, explodes with a #1 debut for
It’s the first independently released debut album to bow in the top spot since Tha Dog Pound’s Dogg Food in 1995 on Priority Records, whose Ron Spaulding is now head of Fontana.
Reprise’s Michael Buble Christmas album looks to be among the holiday’s top sellers, with a 37% increase to 123k, good for #2.
Capitol/EMI’s Now 40 (#3) and Chop Shop/Atlantic’s Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn soundtrack (#4) both enter the Top 5, followed by XL/Columbia’s Adele album 21, now up to 4.4 million, with Grammy nominations surely to come.
Sony Music Latin star Romeo Santos goes solo for the first time with Formula, Vol. 1, which debuts at #8, while Simon Cowell’s Syco/Columbia pop opera stars Il Divo enter at #10 with Wicked Game.
Island/IDJ previous week chart-topper Justin Bieber is now #6, followed by Capitol/EMI’s Coldplay (#7) and Syco/Columbia’s Susan Boyle (#9), giving X Factor creator Cowell two in the Top 10.
Other new Top 50 entries include Reprise’s Disturbed (#13), Strange Music’s Tech N9ne Collabos (#21), Sour Mash/Mercury’s Noel Gallagher’s Flying Birds (#33), eOne’s Keith Sweat (#39) and Capitol/EMI’s Pink Floyd Best of (#44).
Boyle’s The Gift (#32), Big Machine’s Taylor Swift (#48) and
Last week’s nationally televised Country Music Awards on ABC helped spike sales on several titles, topped off by Republic Nashville’s The Band Perry (#46-25, +109%), Capitol Nashville’s Eric Church (#48-34, +61%), Broken Bow’s Jason Aldean (#25-20, +56%), Capitol Nashville’s Luke Bryan (#29-24, +34%) and Lady Antebellum (#17, +7%). Other double-digit gainers include a pair of holiday discs in
THE COUNT: COLDPLAY IS HOT, COUNTRY'S COOKIN' IN THE U.K.
The latest tidbits from the bustling live sector (3/28a)
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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