Lots of new releases in the Top Ten this week, but Eminem holds them all off. His Recovery actually sold three times as many as the next biggest seller. Billboard 200:
1. Eminem – “Recovery” – 195,000 (down 15%; cume: 1,482,000)
2. Korn – “Korn III – Remember Who You Are” – 63,000 (debut)
3. Drake – “Thank Me Later” – 50,000 (down 32%)
4. Newsboys – “Born Again” – 45,000 (debut)
5. Justin Bieber – “My World 2.0” – 41,000 (down 5%; cume: 1,471,000)
6. Sting – “Symphonicities” – 36,000 (debut)
7. Jerrod Niemann – “Judge Jerrod & the Hung Jury” – 34,000 (debut)
8. Hellyeah – “Stampede” – 28,000 (debut)
9. M.I.A. – “Maya” – 28,000 (debut)
10. “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” soundtrack – 28,000 (down 37%)
Further down:
14. Big Boi – “Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty” – 26,000 (down 59%)
24. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – “Dark Night of the Soul” – 16,000 (debut)
53. “Inception” soundtrack (ft. Johnny Marr) – 8,000 (debut)
59. Christina Aguilera – “Bionic” – 7,000 (down 33%; cume: 200,000)
70. Band of Horses – “Infinite Arms” – 6,000 (up 58 spots)
• Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending July 18) totaled 5.21 million units.
• Digital track sales this past week totaled 20.9 million downloads.
OK, I stopped paying attention a while ago, but did anyone else die a little inside when they saw Sting -“Symphonicities”? I have no idea what it sounds like, but doubt very much that I want to know. Blech. It’s a long way from “Outlandos d’ Amour,” is it not?
I stopped paying attention to Sting after The Soul Cages, but, yeah, it’s been a looooong way from Outlandos indeed.
Dangermouse and Sparklehorse? KORN? WTF? Who even cares anymore?