Sales: Colbie, Skillet, Miley, and…Imogen

BillboardThe top ten of this week’s Billboard 200:

1. Colbie Caillat – “Breakthrough” – 106,000 (debut)

2. Skillet – “Awake” – 68,000 (debut)

3. Miley Cyrus – “The Time of Our Lives” Wal-Mart EP – 62,000 (debut)

4. Kings of Leon – “Only By The Night” – 52,000 (up 15%)

5. Imogen Heap – “Ellipse” – 48,000 (debut)

6. Reba McEntire – “Keep On Loving You” – 42,000 (down 56%)

7. George Strait – “Twang” – 41,000 (down 33%)

8. Black Eyed Peas – “The E.N.D.” – 36,000 (down 13%)

9. Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” – 34,000 (up less than 1%)

10. “Now That’s What I Call Country Vol. 2” – 33,000 (debut)

Debuts further down:

15. Arctic Monkeys – “Humbug” – 28,000

18. Ingrid Michaelson – “Everybody” – 23,000

19. Matisyahu – “Light” – 22,000

25. Queen Latifah – “Persona” – 18,000

27. Jet – “Shaka Rock” – 17,000

No word (yet) on Michael Jackson’s positions on the Comprehensive and/or Catalog charts… Update: after the jump.

Additional sales data via MTV.


Update via Yahoo’s Chart Watch blog:

Michael Jackson’s Number Ones sold 68,000 copies this week and would have held at #2 if catalog albums were eligible to compete on The Billboard 200. Thriller sold 39,000 copies and would have rebounded from #16 to #9. The Essential Michael Jackson sold 29,000 and would have dropped from #9 to #16. This is the 10th straight week in which Jackson has had two or more of the 10 best-selling albums in the U.S. […] As of this week, Thriller has sold 1 million copies in 2009. Number Ones has sold 1,687,000 copies since Jan. 1.

Big thanks to Paul Grein for being one of the only writers with Soundscan access to keep track of the whole “Billboard 200 vs. Comprehensive Chart” fiasco. We appreciate it.

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