Thursday Billboard Update - 11/4/10

Well, obviously the big news on the Billboard charts is that we have a 1 million albums in 1 week seller. That big seller: Taylor Swift's Speak Now. Taylor's sophomore set sold an astounding 1,047,000 copies over the past week. That's over 950,000 more than #2, Sugarland's The Incredible Machine. That's the largest sales gap between numbers 1 and 2 since Eminem The Eminem Show sold 1.2 million more than Diddy's compilation We Invented The Remix in 2002. Kanye West, the spotlight is on.

Ke$ha's We R Who We R makes a big slash this week becoming just the 17th song to ever debuts at #1 in the history of the Hot 100.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Taylor Swift - Speak Now (1)
2. Sugarland - The Incredible Machine (1-2)
3. Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown (2-3)
4. Lil Wayne - I Am Not a Human Being (5-4)
5. Eminem - Recovery (8-5)
6. Elton John & Leon Russell - The Union (3-6)
7. Gleecast - The Rocky Horror Glee Show (6-7)
8. Rod Stewart - Fly Me To The Moon (4-8)
9. Darius Rucker - Charleston, SC 1966 (10-9)
10. Michael Bublé - Hollywood EP (10)

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

1. Ke$ha - We R Who We R (1)
2. Far*East Movement - Like A G6 (1-2)
3. Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are (2-3)
4. Rihanna - Only Girl (In the World) (3-4)
5. Nelly - Just A Dream (4-5)
6. Usher - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love (5-6)
7. Trey Songz - Bottoms Up (6-7)
8. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (7-8)
9. Taio Cruz - Dynamite (8-9)
10. Pink - Raise Your Glass (10-10)

• Willow Smith's Whip My Hair skyrockets 67 spots 78-11.
• Kanye West's Monster sees similar gains as it flies 61 spots 79-18.
• Chris Brown's Yeah 3X debuts at #33.
• Nicki Minaj's Right Thru Me continues to move north, this time jumping 13 spots 59-4.
• Rihanna's What's My Name featuring Drake is up 20 spots to #60 in its 2nd week.
• Bruno Mars' Grenade jumps 11 spots 75-64.
• Ne-Yo's One In A Million debuts at #97.