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Lionel Richie’s Mercury Nashville debut, Tuskegee, debuts at #2 with a surprising total of 200k.

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Lionel Richie, Shinedown and The Used Debut Top 10
The Material Girl scores some material gains this week, as Interscope dance-floor diva Madonna’s 12th studio album, MDNA, debuts at #1 with 357k in sales.

That proves enough to top legendary crooner Lionel Richie’s Mercury Nashville debut, Tuskegee, a collection of his greatest hits sung with country stars Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, Darius Rucker, Rascal Flatts, Shania Twain, Tim McGraw, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Buffett and Kenny Chesney, among others, which debuts at #2 with a surprising total of 200k.

Atlantic veteran rockers Shinedown return with Amaryllis, the next highest debut at #4, with 104k. The other Top 10 newcomer is HopelessThe Used album, Vulnerable, distributed through Mike HarrisEMI Label Services, at #7, with 28k.

XL/Columbia’s Adele 21 (#3) and Universal Republic’s The Hunger Games soundtrack (#5) round out the Top 5, while Syco/Columbia’s One Direction (#6), Capitol/EMI pop thrush Katy Perry’s deluxe Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection (#7), Columbia’s Bruce Springsteen (#9) and Capitol Nashville/EMI’s Luke Bryan (#16-10, +38%) complete the Top 10.

Other Top 50 newcomers include Warner Bros.Mars Volta (#15), Interscope’s All-American Rejects (#17), Mercury’s My Darkest Days (#29), Nuclear Blast America’s Meshugga (#40), Nickelodeon/Legacy’s Fresh Beat Band: Music From the TV Show (#42), Universal Republic’s James Newton Howard Hunger Games score (#43) and two E-40 Block Brochure albums on the indie Heavy on Grindels label through EMI Label Services with Vol. 1 at #49 and Vol. 2 at #50. Along with Vol. 3, which just missed the Top 50, the Block Brochure trilogy combined to sell 25k, not counting a digital three-pack, which is also available.

Perry returns to the Top 50, along with Mercury Nashville/Interscope’s Scotty McCreery (#19), Capitol/EMI’s David Guetta (#35) and Warner Bros. Nashville’s Blake Shelton (#37).

Sensibility Music’s The Civil Wars leads the double-digit gainers, moving #44-32, +52%, followed by Universal Republic’s Florence + the Machine (#50-38, +33%), Capitol Nashville/EMI’s Eric Church (#29-25, +27%), RCA Nashville’s Miranda Lambert (#48-41, +27%) and Republic Nashville’s The Band Perry (#46-45, +19%).

Big releases this week include YM/CM/Universal Republic’s Nicki Minaj and Of Monsters and Men, Big Machine’s Rascal Flatts and Verity’s Marvin Sapp.

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