The big story with this week’s sales data is the fact that the Hope For Haiti charity album is the first digital-exclusive set to top the Billboard 200. Billboard also points out that “as Hope for Haiti is sold through indie digital distributor INgrooves, it gives the Billboard 200 back-to-back independently distributed No. 1 albums, following Vampire Weekend‘s Contra last week.” So how about that? Hope for Haiti is the 13th “indie” album to top the chart.

And there’s even a legitimate indie debut this: Spoon‘s Transference (Merge). So along with Contra, that makes three independently distributed albums in the top ten. That’s gotta be a first, right?

1. “Hope For Haiti” – 171,000 (debut)

2. Susan Boyle – “I Dreamed a Dream” – 86,000 (up 12%; cume: 3,357,000)

3. Lady Gaga – “The Fame” – 62,000 (down 3%)

4. Spoon – “Transference” – 53,000 (debut)

5. “2010 Grammy Nominees” – 49,000 (debut)

6. Vampire Weekend – “Contra” – 43,000 (down 65%)

7. Alicia Keys – “The Element of Freedom” – 40,000 (down 16%)

8. Ke$ha – “Animal” – 35,000 (down 47%)

9. Black Eyed Peas – “The E.N.D.” – 35,000 (up 7%)

10. Taylor Swift – “Fearless” – 32,000 (down 5%)

Additional sales data via Yahoo.