Year-to-date album sales stand at 166.9 million, down 15 percent compared with the same total at this point in 2013 (195.5 million).ĭigital track sales totaled 18.5 million downloads, down 3 percent compared with last week (19.1 million) and down 16 percent stacked next to the comparable week of 2013 (22.1 million). 14 totaled 4.2 million units, up 1 percent compared with last week’s sum (4.1 million) and down 9 percent compared with the comparable sales week of 2013 (4.5 million). Overall album sales in the chart week ending Sept. Jason Aldean’s “Burnin’ It Down” steps 11-8 (78,000 down less than 1 percent), Maroon 5’s “Maps” vaults 43-9 with 78,000 (up 161 percent), and Ariana Grande’s “Break Free” (featuring Zedd) drops 6-10 (74,000 down 21 percent).
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Robert Christgau on Iggy Azalea’s ‘The New Classic’: Read It Now Iggy Azalea’s “Black Widow” (featuring Rita Ora) descends 4-5 (127,000 down 11 percent), Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” falls 5-6 (126,000 down 3 percent), and Clean Bandit’s “Rather Be” (featuring Jess Glynne) climbs 8-7 (80,000 down 2 percent). It’s the first single from the band’s upcoming sixth studio album. 3 slot is “Bang Bang” by Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj, selling 147,000 (down 14 percent).įall Out Boy’s “Centuries” logs the week’s highest debut, starting at No. Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” is steady at No. 1, selling 312,000 downloads (down less than 1 percent). On the Digital Songs chart, Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” holds at No. It’s his third straight top 10 as well, following 2010’s Band of Joy and 2007’s Raising Sand (with Alison Krauss). Lastly, Robert Plant scores his eighth top 10 album as a solo artist, with the arrival of Lullaby And … The Ceaseless Roar at No. The Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack slides 3-9 with 30,000 (down 43 percent). It’s his second album, and follows his self-titled debut, which hit No. Interpol’s ‘El Pintor’: Track-By-Track ReviewĬountry singer Dustin Lynch is the sixth new album in the top 10. It’s the group’s third consecutive top 10, following a self-titled album in 2010 (which debuted and peaked at No. Jeezy’s Seen It All: The Autobiography dips 2-6 on the Billboard 200 in its second week, selling 33,000 (down 73 percent).įollowing Jeezy is rock band Interpol with El Pintor, which launches at No. 2 on Country Albums, selling 46,000 in its first week. His last album, Hard 2 Love, debuted and peaked at No. It also crowns the Country Albums chart - his first leader on that tally. 7 with two different albums, 2007’s Easy Tiger and 2011’s Ashes & Fire.Ĭountry singer Lee Brice starts at No.
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Rocker Ryan Adams snags his highest-charting album on the Billboard 200 as his new self-titled release starts at No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and R&B Albums. The chart’s second-highest debut is Jhene Aiko’s full-length debut album, Souled Out, which enters at No. 1 tumble by more than 70 percent in their second week. Traditionally, those titles that debut at No. It had a smaller-than-normal sales decline because its sales were buoyed by redemptions of the album sold with tickets to the band’s upcoming tour. 26, 2013, when seven titles also stepped in (led by Miley Cyrus’ Bangerz). The seven debuts are the most the top 10 has seen since Oct. Lecrae leads a parade of new entries in the top 10 of the Billboard 200, where six more titles arrive. He reached the all-genre Billboard 200 for the first time in 2008 with Rebel, which peaked at No. He has released seven studio albums, and made his chart debut in 2005 with Real Talk (No. While Lecrae, 34, might not quite be a household name - he’s yet to chart a single on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 - he has sold 1.4 million albums and 2.9 million track downloads.
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In terms of the latter achievement, it follows Chris Tomlin’s Burning Lights (in 2013), TobyMac’s Eye on It (2012), LeAnn Rimes’ You Light Up My Life - Inspirational Songs (1997) and Bob Carlisle’s Butterfly Kisses (Shades of Grace) (1997). Thus, Anomaly is the first title to crown both Gospel Albums and the Billboard 200, and just the fifth set to lead both Christian Albums and the Billboard 200. (Most Christian hip-hop releases are eligible to appear on both sales charts.)Ĭhristian Rapper Lecrae on Hip-Hop’s ‘Inconsistency’ and Ferguson 1 on the Gospel Albums chart and his fifth leader on Christian Albums. ( Gravity was also Lecrae’s highest-charting album - and only top 10 - until Anomaly‘s arrival.)Īnomaly is the Grammy winner’s sixth No. It’s also the first chart-topper for Lecrae’s label, Reach Records.Īnomaly‘s launch is Lecrae’s best sales week, trumping the 72,000-unit start of 2012’s Gravity, which debuted and peaked at No. It sold 88,000 copies in the week ending Sept. 1 album on the Billboard 200 as his new Anomaly opens atop the list.