In an extremely slow week for album releases, Cake’s Showroom of Compassion lands atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, selling just 44,000 copies in its first week. It’s the lowest selling No. 1 album in SoundScan’s 20-year tracking history. Cage the Elephant’s Thank You Happy Birthday comes in second with 39,000 copies sold, while Taylor Swift lands in the third spot selling another 35,000 copies of Speak Now. Check out the full top 10 after the jump.
Jan. 18, 2011′s Billboard 200 albums top 10
No. 1 – Cake, Showroom of Compassion: 44,000
No. 2 – Cage the Elephant, Thank You Happy Birthday: 39,000
No. 3 – Taylor Swift, Speak Now: 35,000
No. 4 – Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans: 32,000
No. 5 – Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday: 32,000
No. 6 – Country Strong soundtrack: 29,000
No. 7 – Steel Magnolia: 28,000
No. 8 – Rihanna, Loud: 28,000
No. 9 – Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More: 26,000
No. 10 – Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: 25,000
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I remember when a decade ago new releases were over 1 million units…..like Sean parker said in the Social network film, they made napster go away, but who wants to buy a album store now???
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Glad to awesome bands have the top spots. Still need to get to Target to get them myself.
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Well at least that’s a breather that new January 2011 released albums would hit No. 1 and 2 on the album charts. It can’t be Taylor Swift week after week and the other new albums being left out. Most of the albums on the chart are albums that people have already bought so that might be why the sales are lower than usual.
Great news for Cake and Cage The Elephant. Awful news for the music industry. It would be nice to blame last week’s winter weather on bad sales… but since there are few CD retailers left, that means online sales are crapping out too. Not good.
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