Sade Clocks Third Week At No. 1 On Billboard 200:
1. Sade – “Soldier of Love” – 127,000 (down 34%; 820,000 cume)
2. Lady Antebellum – “Need You Now” – 118,000 (down 18%)
3. Johnny Cash – “American VI: Ain’t No Grave” – 54,000 (debut)
4. Black Eyed Peas’ “The E.N.D.” – 50,000 (down 23%)
5. Lady Gaga – “The Fame” – 48,000 (down 23%)
6. Lil Wayne – “Rebirth” – 37,000 (down 36%)
7. Ke$ha – “Animal” – 32,000 (up 7%)
8. Susan Boyle – “I Dreamed a Dream” – 30,000 (down 41%)
9. Taylor Swift – “Fearless” – 28,000 (down 13%)
10. Justin Bieber – “My World” – 26,000 (down 20%)
Further down:
11. Alkaline Trio – “This Addiction” – 26,000 (debut)
53. Michael Jackson – “Number Ones”
74. Joanna Newsom – “Have One On Me” – 7,000 (debut)
81. Kris Allen – “Kris Allen” – 7,000 (up 61%)
116. Butch Walker – “I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart” – 5,000 (debut)
161. Allison Iraheta – “Just Like You” – 3,000 (90,000 cume)
Proof there’s no accounting for taste:
1994’s American Recordings peaked at #110, 1996’s Unchained stalled at #170 and 2000’s American III: Solitary Man made it to #88. But the last three were solid hits. 2002’s American IV: The Man Comes Around reached #22 and, as noted above, the fifth and sixth installments both made the top 10.
Those first three American albums are so much better in every possible way than the last three. Oh well.