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),
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,
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.
THE COUNT: COACHELLA, FROM THE COUCH
The coziest way to experience the fest (4/18a)
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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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