Thursday Billboard Update - 7/5/12

Linkin Park's Living Things (223,000) is the new #1 album in the country after squeaking by Maroon 5's Overexposed (222,000) by a little over a 1,000 copies sold. Maybach Music Group's Self Made 2 debuts at #4 with 98,000 copies sold. R. Kelly's Write Me Back checks in at #5 with 68,000 copies sold. This is the first R. Kelly album to debut to less than 100,000 since his solo debut 12 Play in 1993, which sold 44,000.

A lot of nothing happened on the Hot 100 this week as tracks 1-8 and 10 don't move from last week.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Linkin Park - Living Things (1)
2. Maroon 5 - Overexposed (2)
3. Justin Bieber - Believe (1-3)
4. Maybach Music Group - Self Made 2 (4)
5. R. Kelly - Write Me Back (5)
6. Kenny Chesney - Welcome To The Fishbowl (2-6)
7. Adele - 21 (7-7)
8. One Direction - Up All Night (8-8)
9. Usher - Looking 4 Myself (6-9)
10. Various Artists - Rock Of Ages (5-10)

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

1. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe (1-1)
2. Maroon 5 - Payphone (2-2)
3. Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know (3-3)
4. Katy Perry - Wide Awake (4-4)
5. Rihanna - Where Have You Been (5-5)
6. Ellie Goulding - Lights (6-6)
7. fun. - We Are Young (7-7)
8. Nicki Minaj - Starships (8-8)
9. David Guetta - Titanium (12-9)
10. Usher - Scream (10-10)

• Flo Rida's Whistle soars 38 spots 58-20.
• Maroon 5's Wipe Your Eyes debuts at #80.
• MMG's Bag Of Money with Wale, Rick Ross, Meek Mill and T-Pain debuts at #93.
• Linkin Park's Lost In The Echo debuts at #95.