The Album Sales Review For 7/21/10: The Charts Are Under Eminem's Rule

Make it four!

Eminem's "Recovery" album hangs in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a fourth consecutive week, selling 195,000 (down 15%) according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's the first set to notch four straight frames at No. 1 since Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream" spent six consecutive weeks atop the tally, and the first by a solo male since Josh Groban's "Noel" did so for five weeks in December 2007.

But probably the biggest story of the week is just how awful Lynn Hirschberg's favorite person did:

The final arrival in the top 10 this comes from M.I.A.'s "Maya," starting at No. 9 with 28,000. It easily surpasses the No. 18 debut and peak of her last set, 2007's "Kala," though it started with a shade more: 29,000.

For the top debut was from Korn, coming in at No. 2 at 63,000 sold, and somewhere, M.I.A is certainly cursing a storm somewhere.