Thursday Billboard Update - 2/16/12

And for a 20th non-consective week, 6-time Grammy award winning singer Adele's 21 is at #1. Whitney Houston's Whitney: The Greatest Hits sells 64,000 copies and re-enters the Billboard 200 at #6 due to a 10,419% sales gain since she passed Saturday. I guess it was only Michael Jackson that Billboard wanted to shit on with their bum ass "catalog albums" rule. (If you remember back in 2009 when MJ died he dominated sales, but Billboard said his albums were considered "catalog albums" and weren't eligible for the Billboard 200 because they were over 18-months old and below #100. Fortunately, this rule somehow didn't apply to Whitney, whose greatest hits album dropped May 16th, 2000.)

Kelly Clarkson's Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) remains #1 for a 2nd week, and then things start getting crazy. Soaring 41-3 after their Chevrolet Super Bowl ad is fun.'s We Are Young featuring Janelle Monae. Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You (which was #1 for 14 weeks back in 1992) re-enters the Hot 100 at #7 thanks largely to a 6,723% sales increase since Saturday. Madonna extends her lead for the most top 10s in Hot 100 history (she now has 38, the Beatles are the next closest with 34, followed by Michael Jackson with 28) as Give Me All Your Luvin featuring Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. moves up 3 spots 13-10.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Adele - 21 (1-1)
2. Van Halen - A Different Kind Of Truth (2)
3. Various Artists - Now 41 (3)
4. The Fray - Scars & Stories (4)
5. Paul McCartney - Kisses On The Bottom (5)
6. Whitney Houston - Whitney: The Greatest Hits (6)
7. Dierks Bentley - Home (7)
8. Various Artists - 2012 Grammy Nominees (4-8)
9. Adele - 19 (19-9)
10. Drake - Take Care (6-10)

• Whitney Houston's 1986 self-titled debut album re-enters the charts at #72 with 8,000 copies sold. The album saw a 3,901% sales increase.
• The Bodyguard soundtrack re-enters with 8,000 albums sold on the strength of a 5,213% sales increase.
• Whitney's last album I Look To You sold 5,000 copies and is now at #118, up 3,901%.
• 1987's album Whitney sold 5,000 copies and ends up at #122, up 2,274%.
• The Preacher's Wife soundtrack last at #183 with 4,000 albums sound, up 3,913%.

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

1. Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) (1-1)
2. Adele - Set Fire To The Rain (2-2)
3. fun. - We Are Young (41-3)
4. LMFAO - Sexy And I Know It (9-4)
5. Flo Rida - Good Feeling (3-5)
6. Rihanna - We Found Love (4-6)
7. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You (7)
8. David Guetta - Turn Me On (5-8)
9. Tyga - Rack City (7-9)
10. Madonna - Give Me All Your Luvin (13-10)

• Whitney Houston's I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) from 1987 re-enter the Hot 100 at #35.
• Whitney's Greatest Love Of All from 1986 re-enters at #41.
• Meek Mill's I'ma Boss Remix featuring T.I., Birdman, DJ Khaled, Rick Ross & Swizz Beatz debuts at #51.
• Flo Rida's Wild Ones flies 20 spots 77-57.
• Jay-Z & Kanye's No Church In The Wild soars 24 spots 96-72.
• Kirko Bangz's Drank In My Cup debuts at #96.
• YG's Snitches Ain't Shit with Tyga, Snoop Dogg & Nipsey Hu$$le debuts at #100.