Adele Back Atop Billboard 200, ‘Glee’s’ the Warblers Debuts

Adele’s “21” flies back to the top passing Foo Fighters and the new Glee album. This will be Adele’s 5th non-consecutive week at the summit selling 153,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The Warblers – Glee’s next album to place on the charts – debuts at No. 2. This is rather uncommon for the hugely popular show because the Warblers marks the second smallest debut of all ten albums. It is second only to the “Rocky Horror Glee Show.”

Last week’s number one, the Foo Fighter’s “Wasting Light” slides to No. 3. 

The rest of the top 10 on the Billboard 200:

• No. 4 – Disney Channel’s “Lemonade Mouth” soundtrack
• No. 5 – Britney Spears’ “Femme Fatale”
• No. 6 – Alison Krauss + Union Station’s “Paper Airplane”
• No. 7 – Mumford & Sons’ “Sigh No More”
• No. 8 – Paul Simon’s “So Beautiful Or So What”
• No. 9 – Chris Brown’s “F.A.M.E.”
• No. 10 – Justin Bieber’s “Never Say Never: the Remixes”

What do y’all think of the new Billboard 200?!

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Bieber predicted to retain No. 1 position on Billboard 200, only challenge could be MGMT

It looks like Justin Bieber may lock in a third week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 next week, according to industry prognosticators, who predict no new releases this week will challenge the teen heartthrob for the top spot. Billboard reports that My World 2.0 is expected to sell around 80,000 copies this week.

The only potential threat to Bieber’s throne is MGMT’s sophomore album, Congratulations, which is forecast to sell between 65,000 and 75,000 copies by the end of the chart week, Sunday April 18.

And while it is definitely possible MGMT could sell more than expected while Bieber sells less, it’s widely predicted that MGMT will not challenge Bieber for the No. 1 slot.

And Bieber is definitely pushing his fan base to help keep him at No. 1, encouraging all fans to get out and purchase the new album, in search of a golden ticket that will earn the lucky recipient a vacation to the Bahamas with Bieber himself!

Do you think Bieber will hold on to No. 1? If so, how long do you think he will be able to?

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You better ‘beliebe’ it – Justin Bieber is back on top of Billboard 200

You’ve got to ‘beliebe’ in the power of Justin Bieber who is again on top of the Billboard 200 with My World 2.0 after selling 102,000 copies of his sophomore effort in its third week on the chart.

As you may recall, it was first atop the list the week it debuted, after selling 283,000 copies, but was pushed into the No. 2 slot after mentor Usher’s Raymond v. Raymond took No. 1 last week. This week the duo switched places, with Raymond v. Raymond coming in at No. 2 after moving 92,000 units this past week.

Billboard reports that the biggest debut this week comes from Slash, whose self-titled album is the legendary guitar god’s first solo effort. However, the former Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver member had plenty of support from famous friends on vocals including Ozzy Osbourne, Dave Grohl, Kid Rock, Adam Levine, Fergie, and M Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold.

The rest of the Billboard 200 top 10 includes:

• At No. 4, Need You Now, Lady Antebellum, 57,000
• At No. 5, Now That’s What I Call Music vol. 33, Compilation, 53,000
• At No. 6, Still Standing, Monica, 38,000
• At No. 7, The Fame, Lady Gaga, 32,000
• At No. 8, My World, Justin Bieber, just under 30,000
• At No. 9, New Amerykah, Part Two, Erykah Badu, just under 30,000
• At No. 10, Sticky and Sweet Tour, Madonna, 28,000

Do you think Justin Bieber can keep the momentum going for another week at the top?

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Ludacris tops Billboard 200 with fourth No. 1 album

This week Ludacris hit the top of the Billboard 200 with Battle of the Sexes selling 137,000 copies, making it the rapper’s fourth No. 1 overall. According to Billboard.com, this week’s reign at the top puts Ludacris in a tie for the third-most No. 1s among rap acts putting him behind 2Pac, DMX, Eminem, and Nas who have each scored five No. 1s, and still far out of the reach of Jay-Z, the all-time leader among rap acts with 11!

Battle of the Sexes is the follow-up to Ludacris’ 2008’s Theater of the Mind which topped out at No. 5 on the Billboard 200.

The much-hyped Plastic Beach by the animated band Gorillaz debuted at No. 2 in its third studio effort. According to Billboard.com, Plastic Beach is the act’s highest-charting album and with sales at 112,000 last week, also marks its best sales week yet.

The rest of the Billboard 200 top 10 include:

• At No. 3, Need You Now, Lady Antebellum, 105,000
• At No. 4, Valleys of Neptune, Jimi Hendrix, 95,000
• At No. 5, Get Off on the Pain, Gary Allen, 65,000
• At No. 6, Soldier of Love, Sade, 52,000
• At No. 7, Broken Bells, Broken Bells, 49,000
• At No. 8, The Fame, Lady Gaga, 48,000
• At No. 9, The E.N.D., The Black Eyed Peas, 43,000
• At No. 10, Hillbilly Bone, Blake Shelton, 29,000

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Sade stays on top of Billboard 200

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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Lady Antebellum debuts on top

Lady Antebellum nabbed the top spot on the Billboard 200 last week with the debut of its new album Need You Now which sold 481,000 copies according to Nielsen Sound Scan. The numbers make it the biggest debut sales week for any album since Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed a Dream topped the list at 701,000 last November. According to Billboard.com, it is also the biggest opening week for an album released in January since the Game’s The Documentary opened at No. 1 after selling 587,000 copies in 2005.

Lady Antebellum is already leagues ahead in terms of sales when compared to the group’s first-titled album, which debuted and peaked at No. 4 selling 43,000 copies in its opening week in May 2008. And, did you know that we have some of the songs from the brand new Lady Antebellum album available to rate now at HitPredictor?!

The rest of the Billboard 200 top 10 this week is:

• At No. 2, Hope For Haiti now, Charity Compilation, 143,000
• At No. 3, The Fame, Lady Gaga, 68,000
• At No. 4, I Dreamed A Dream, Susan Boyle, 59,000
• At No. 5, The Greatest Love Songs of All Time, Barry Manilow, 57,000
• At No. 6, This Is It, Michael Jackson, 55,000
• At No. 7, The Sea, Corinne Bailey Rae, 53,000
• At No. 8, Grammy Nominees 2010, Compilation, 45,000
• At No. 9, Songs From The Heart, Celtic Woman, 42,000
• At No. 10, The E.N.D., The Black Eyed Peas, 40,000

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“Hope For Haiti Now” album tops Billboard 200

The “Hope For Haiti Now” charity album set a record this week, as it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 171,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan, making it the first digital-exclusive set to top the chart in the 50+ years of the chart’s history.

Perhaps even more impressive is the fact that the MTV Networks compilation, which features performances from the Jan. 22 “Hope For Haiti Now” telethon, only reached digital distributors over the weekend, and since the Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking week ends at the close of business on Sunday, the sales numbers encompass no more than two full days of purchases, which makes its sales numbers even more extraordinary!

In other fun facts, as reported by Billboard.com, this week’s “Hope For Haiti Now” debut is the third 100,000+ start at No. 1 for the first three tracking weeks of the year since 2005, following Ke$ha’s “Animal” at 152,000 for the first week of 2010, and Vampire Weekend’s “Contra” at 124,000 last week. Also, “Hope For Haiti Now” is sold through an independent distributor, INgrooves, which makes back-to-back independently distributed No. 1 albums to top the Billboard 200, following last week’s “Contra” from Vampire Weekend.

The rest of the Billboard 200 top 10 shakes out as follows:

• At No. 2, I Dreamed a Dream, Susan Boyle,  86,000
• At No. 3, The Fame, Lady Gaga, 62,000
• At No. 4, Transference, Spoon, 53,000 (debut week)
• At No. 5, 2010 Grammy Nominees Album, 49,000 (debut week)
• At No. 6, Contra, Vampire Weekend 43,000
• At No. 7, The Element of Freedom, Alicia Keys, 40,000
• At No. 8, Animal, Ke$ha, 35,000
• At No. 9, The E.N.D., The Black Eyed Peas, just under 35,000
• At No. 10, Fearless, Taylor Swift, 32,000

You can get a sneak peek into the “Hope For Haiti Now” album on HitPredictor, by listening to and rating “Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)” by Jay-Z, Bono, The Edge, and Rihanna.

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