This week’s Billboard 200 saw very little movement thanks to low sales, with Sade’s Soldier of Love staying on top for the second consecutive week, after selling 190,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan. The week after Valentine’s Day was especially slow for debut albums, with the chart’s highest new entrant, The Constant from Story of the Year, clocking at at No. 42.
The rest of the Billboard 200 Top 10 includes:
- At No. 2, Lady Antebellum, Need You Now, 144,000
- At No. 3, The Black Eyed Peas, The E.N.D., 65,000
- At No. 4, Lady Gaga, The Fame, 63,000
- At No. 5, Lil Wayne, Rebirth, 58,000
- At No. 6, Susan Boyle, I Dreamed A Dream, 51,000
- At No. 7, Alicia Keys, The Element of Freedom, 39,000
- At No. 8, Jaheim, Another Round, 36,000
- At No. 9, Josh Turner, Haywire, 33,000
- At No. 10, Taylor Swift, Fearless, 32,000
Lady Antebellum’s sales last week pushed it over the 1 million mark, making it the first album to reach that benchmark in 2010. In only four weeks, Need You Now racked up more than 1,041,000 sales. According to Billboard.com, the last album to reach the 1 million mark as quickly as Lady Antebellum, and as early in the calendar year was the Game’s Documentary, which hit the milestone in the fifth week of 2005.
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