Chart preview

YOUR ROCKIN’ WEAKEND CHART PREVIEW

The boys and girls at Steve Barnett’s Columbia are rockin’ out and singing cover versions of cover versions, as the red-hot label appears poised to drop two debuts into next week’s Top 10, one from the Glee franchise, the other from heralded indie outfit Band of Horses (the subject of a big thumbs-up review from our own Bud Scoppa in the current ish of Uncut). Another indie mainstay group, the two-man Black Keys, is trending even stronger on its major label debut. Enough people are buying into the Exile legend—prodded along by the wall-to-wall TV appearances by the Glimmer Twins—to land the remastered/expanded reissue at #2. Universal Republic also has a pair of debuts in the thick of it. Here’s the story as of late Thursday:

* Glee: The Music, Vol. 3 Showstoppers (Columbia) 120-130k
* Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street (UMe) 70-75k
* Black Keys (Nonesuch) 55-60k
Justin Bieber, My World 2.0 (Island/IDJ) 50-55k
* Nas & Damian Marley (Universal Republic) 45-50k
Lady Antebellum (Capitol Nashville/EMI) 45-50k
Usher (LaFace/JLG) 40-45k
* Band of Horses (Fat Possum/Columbia) 40-45k
AC/DC (Columbia) 30-35k
* LCD Soundsystem (Virgin/EMI) 30-35k
Lady Gaga (Interscope) 27-30k
Godsmack (Universal Republic) 27-30k
B.O.B (Atlantic) 22-25k
* Talib Kweli (Warner Bros.) 22-25k
Carole King & James Taylor (Hear Music) 22-25k
* Denotes debut

You may now return to messing around with your iTunes Genius function. (5/21a)