The Album Sales Review For 8/18/10: Em's Back At The Top Once More
Eminem's "Recovery" rebounds to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 after two weeks of sitting by in the runner-up slot. It climbs back to the top with 133,000 according to Nielsen SoundScan (down 13%). It's the most weeks at No. 1 for an album since Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream" claimed six straight frames at the top in December and January.
And he's on the double plat status now:
The total sales of "Recovery" also drive past the two million threshold this week (2.1 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan) -- marking just the second album to do so this year. It's currently 2010's second-best seller behind Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" (2.5 million).
Also pushing pass a significant marker is Justin Bieber's mentor:
At this point last year, no albums had surpassed more than two million in sales -- though seven had shifted at least a million. This year, six have hit the million mark, with Usher's "Raymond v Raymond" the latest to cross the line. It sells another 15,000 this week, bring its to-date sum to just over one million.He certainly won't push pass double platinum in the States, but at least it wasn't a total nightmare to make Justin Timberlake laugh somewhere.
Despite that, 15,000 wasn't enough to push him into the Top 10.
After Eminem, the rest of the list includes Disney Channel's "Camp Rock debuting in the #3 spot behind Arcade Fire's "The Suburds" Runner-Up spot.
4th is the Black Label Society's "Order of the Black" withe 5th to that Bieber kid with "Mt World 2.0". The rest of the list from 6 to 10 is Blake's Shelton's "All About Tonight", Rick Ross' "Teflon Don" (Looking in danger to not be gold), Mike Posner's debut "31 Minutes To Takeoff", "Kidz Bop 18" and Avenged Sevenfold "Nightmare."
And the overall industry sells numbers:
Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Aug. 15) totaled 4.95 million units, down 6% compared to the sum last week (5.26 million) and down 16% compared to the comparable sales week of 2009 (5.88 million). Year to date album sales stand at 185.1 million, down 12% compared to the same total at this point last year (211.1 million).At least the nutcase at the RIAA can say there was an increase this week!
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