The man who actually does get to sit atop the Billboard 200 is John Mayer as his Battle Studies pushes 286,000 out the store.
Jay-Z's Empire State Of Mind with Alicia Keys hangs onto the #1 spot for another week after seeing gains in airplay, sales, and online streaming.
The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold
1. John Mayer - Battle Studies (1)
2. Andrea Bocelli - My Christmas (2-2)
3. Norah Jones - The Fall (3)
4. Casting Crowns - Until The Whole World Hears (4)
5. 50 Cent - Before I Self Destruct (5)
6. Justin Bieber - My World EP (6)
7. Michael Jackson - This Is It sdtk (4-7)
8. Various Artists - Twilight Saga: New Moon sdtk (10-8)
9. Carrie Underwood - Play On (3-9)
10. Taylor Swift - Fearless (5-10)
- Last season's American Idol winner Kris Allen's self-title debut album comes in at #11 with 80,000 sold. I smell "Ruben Studdard/Clay Aiken 2.0" brewing with Kris and Adam Lambert. You know, the clearly gay guy, that didn't wanna admit he was gay during Idol, that came in 2nd place and ends up having a more successful career than the actual winner. I can smell it, I can see it.
- Leona Lewis' 2nd album Echo comes in at #13 with 67,300 sold, a far cry from her 2008 debut Spirit.
- Rakim's long awaited come back album The Seventh Seal comes in at #61 with 11,700 sold.
- Pretty Ricky's self-titled album debuts at #97, but I can find their sales figures anywhere. If Rakim did nearly 12,000 at #61, I'm guessing PR sold around 5,000.
first time top 10's in bold
1. Jay-Z - Empire State Of Mind (1-1)
2. Lady GaGa - Bad Romance (11-2)
3. Owl City - Fireflies (2-3)
4. Jason Rulo - Whatcha Say (3-4)
5. Ke$ha - TiK ToK (10-5)
6. Iyaz - Replay (4-6)
7. David Guetta - Sexy Chick (12-7)
8. Lady GaGa - Paparazzi (9-8)
9. Britney Spears - 3 (6-9)
10. Jay Sean - Down (7-10)
- Leona Lewis' Happy see's a surge with her album coming out last week and goes 59-31 this week.
- Kris Allen's single Live Like We're Dying jumps 29 spots 71-40.
- Alicia Keys' Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart (I'm sure she could just call up Mashonda if she really wanted to know what that was like) debuts at #58.
- Gucci Mane's bullshit (aka first single) Spotlight jumps 19 spot 86-67. I told y'all this was gonna finally move once he went to jail. Lets see how long this lasts.
- Trey Songz's Say Aah moves 13 spots up 81-68.
- Rihanna's Hard with Young Jeezy starts off at #80 this week.
- Melanie Fiona's It Kills Me comes in at #88.
- In a true shocker, the intro to 50 Cent's new album, debuts on the Hot 100 this week. The Invitation starts off at #97, lets see if it can hang around.
