Veteran singer/songwriter Lionel Richie’s Tuskegee, his Mercury Nashville album of country duets, continues to surprise, with a second consecutive week at #1, selling another 111k for an impressive four-week total of 530k.
Atlantic tunesmith Jason Mraz’s Love is a Four Letter Word is the week’s top debut, selling 103k for #2.
XL/Columbia Grammy-sweeping diva Adele’s 21 is down just 3% on sales of 88k, bringing her remarkable cume to 8.8 million, on target for 10 million by mid-summer.
Columbia labelmates Train’s
Syco/Columbia’s One Direction gives Team Stringer/ Barnett three in the Top 5 as Up All Night lands at #5.
YM/CM/Universal Republic’s Nicki Minaj (#6), Fairfax/Universal Republic’s Gotye (#7) and Redwing’s Bonnie Raitt (#9) also remain on the leader board, with Epic’s hip-hop newcomer Future (#8) and Brushfire/ Universal Republic’s Jack Johnson & Friends (#10) the other newcomers to the Top 10. The latter gives the label’s Monte Lipman three in the Top 10 as well.
TFK’s Thousand Foot Krutch (#14), Mercury/IDJ’s Neon Trees (#16), eOne’s SWV (#24),
The week’s biggest double-digit gainers are Nonesuch’s The Black Keys (#35-18, +61%) and Epic’s soundtrack to the #1 box office hit Think Like a Man (#30-20, +14%).
Hitting retail stores this week are Third Man/Columbia’s Jack White solo bow, Mercury/IDJ’s The Wanted and MCA Nashville’s Kip Moore, while Carrie Underwood’s eagerly anticipated new Arista Nashville album, the aptly titled Blown Away, hits the following Tuesday, May 1.
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
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