Thursday Billboard Update - 6/9/11

After a marvelous opening week, Lady Gaga Born This Way came crashing back to Earth this week with an 84% sales decrease (a 60% decrease is average, a 70% decrease is danger zone, but an 84% decrease is "Lady Gaga fan" scary). In my opinion, her first week sales should come with an asterisk beside it because evidently the album was sold for just 99 cents on 2 separate days on Amazon. That ain't right. Anyway, the set sold 174,000 in its 2nd week. Meanwhile, Adele's 21 keeps chugging along with another 121,000 sold. With her steady pace and Gaga's rapid decline, it's expected that she will regain the #1 spot on next week's charts.

Nothing interesting is going on on the Hot 100 this week and Adele's Rolling In The Deep is still #1.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Lady Gaga - Born This Way (1-1)
2. Adele - 21 (3-2)
3. Death Cab For Cutie - Codes and Keys (3)
4. Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs (4)
5. My Morning Jacket - Circuital (5)
6. Brad Paisley - This Is Country Music (2-6)
7. Various Artists - Now 38 (6-7)
8. Jason Aldean - My Kinda Party (9-8)
9. Flogging Molly - Speed of Darkness (9)
10. Glee Cast - Glee, The Music: Season 2, Vol. 6 (4-10)

The Billboard Hot 100 1-10
first time top 10's in bold

1. Adele - Rolling In The Deep (1-1)
2. Pitbull - Give Me Everything (2-2)
3. Katy Perry - E.T. (3-3)
4. Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song (6-4)
5. Jennifer Lopez - On The Floor (4-5)
6. LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem (9-6)
7. Lady Gaga - The Edge Of Glory (8-7)
8. Black Eyed Peas - Just Can't Get Enough (5-8)
9. Britney Spears - Till The End (7-9)
10. Lupe Fiasco - The Show Goes On (12-10)

• I can't say I'm shocked, but Lil Wayne's How To Love skyrockets 57 spots 69-12 in its 2nd week on the charts.
• Pitbull's International Love featuring Chris Brown debuts at #59.
• Beyonce's Best Thing I Never Had debuts at #84.
• Rihanna's Man Down flies 26 spots 94-68 amid controversy over the video. I've watched the video several times in the past few days, and the only controversy its caused is in my pants.
• Lupe Fiasco's Out Of My Head with Trey Songz jumps 11 spots 98-87.
• Trey Songz's Unusual featuring Drake debuts at #90.
• Rej3ctz's Cat Daddy debuts at #97. I've seen people saying they've wanted to do "the Cat Daddy," so I'm assuming it's some kind of new dance, but I don't care enough to find out for sure.