Reality TV stars top US albums chart

01 September 2006 - 10:06:16

 

 

It’s the busiest week yet in 2006 on the US album chart with seven debuts in the Top 10.

 

Popular reality TV programme Making The Band has previously generated a number five album for O-Town and a number two album for Da Band but the third series focused on the creation of girl group Danity Kane, whose eponymous introductory album sold 234,000 copies last week to claim a number one debut. The quartet’s debut single, Show Stopper, is number three on the download chart and jumps 17-8 on the Hot 100, where patchy airplay dilutes its sales success. A second Danity Kane track, Sleep On It, enters the Hot 100 at number 64 and a third, Ride For You, at number 78. They are 43 and 50 on the download chart.

 

Also new to the Top 10, OutKast open at number two with Idlewild on sales of 196,000; Mexican rockers Mana at number four with Amar Es Combatiron on sales of 87,000; Paris Hilton’s Paris at number six on sales of 77,000; rockers Lamb Of God at number eight with Sacrament on sales of 63,000; soul legend Luther Vandross at number nine with his posthumous compilation, The Ultimate Luther Vandross, on sales of 59,000; and Kelis at number 10 with Kelis Was Here on sales of 58,000.

 

Despite the massive new intake, album sales dipped marginally from last week, falling 0.43% to 9.54m. They were 1.2% below the same week in 2005 - actually not a bad effort considering year-to-date album sales are off a more significant 7%.

 

The only artist to survive in the top tier from last week is Christina Aguilera, who falls 1-3, while the soundtrack to Cheetah Girls 2 holds at number five, and Now! 22 slips 6-7.

 

Lyfe Jennings, Trace Adkins and Cherish, newcomers at two, three and four last week all dip 11 places, coming to rest at 13, 14 and 15 but the biggest tumble from the Top 10 is owned by Obie Trice, whose Second Round’s On Me is dealt a knockout 8-30 hit.

 

The Brit pack mostly migrate downwards too. Corinne Bailey Rae remains Blighty’s best, falling 32-37 with her self-titled debut set. Snow Patrol’s Eyes Open remains at number 45, ending a four week winning streak, while KT Tunstall’s Eye To The Telescope ebbs 44-50.

 

On the Hot 100 singles chart, Justin Timberlake’s SexyBack rockets 31-1, making the third biggest jump to the summit in chart history, after selling a whopping 249,903 downloads. It’s Timberlake’s first number one single in America, and ends the three week reign of Fergie, with whom Timberlake, of course, worked on Where Is The Love, Black Eyed Peas’ breakthrough single which topped the chart in the UK but, surprisingly, got no higher than number eight in the USA.

 

 

 

 

 

thanks for posting mikey

 

I still cant get my head around the fact that Fergie has done so well in the USA :puke2: its almost has bad as Rudebox <_<