Swift keeps US albums seat warm for U2

09:58 | Friday March 6, 2009

Source: MW

By Alan Jones

 

Keeping the top of the US albums chart warm until U2, inevitably, despatch her next week, Taylor Swift racks up her 11th week at number one with Fearless, which sells a further 73,000 copies to lift its career sales tally to 2,745,000.

 

Swift’s eponymous debut album, on the charts for 123 weeks, holds at number 41 this week, and sold a further 14,000 copies to raise its career tally to 3,982,000.

 

For Swift to be at number one this week is a bonus – she was expected to be brushed aside by former boyfriend Joe Jonas and his brothers, with their film soundtrack, 3D Concert Experience.

 

The movie got some terrible reviews, and failed to ignite the box office, while the soundtrack album - featuring 13 concert recordings and one new studio track by The Jonas Brothers - sold just short of 50,000 to debut at number three, less than a tenth as many copies as their last studio album, A Little Bit Longer, sold when debuting at number one last August.

 

Pipping The Jonas Brothers as the week’s highest new entry, hard rock act Lamb Of God’s sixth album Wrath sold 67,500 copies to enter at number two and provides them with their highest chart placing to date.

 

The only other album making its maiden appearance in the Top 10 this week is the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, which rockets 22-4 following its Oscar success, with sales up 109% week-on-week to 44,000.

 

A track from the album - Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) – explodes 100-15 on the Hot 100, where it is listed as being by AR Rahman & The Pussycat Dolls feat. Nicole Scherzinger, despite the fact that the mix of the song on which the PCDs make an appearance accounts for only 27,000 of the 1390,000 downloads that fuel that leap.

 

Two of the 19 debuts on the chart are by British acts: Astral Weeks – Live At The Hollywood Bowl by Van Morrison debuts at number 33, while The Prodigy’s Invaders Must Die arrives at number 117.

 

Morrison’s album sold 15,000 copies and provides the Ulsterman with his 30th chart album in America. His most recent studio release, Keep It Simple, brought Morrison his first ever Top 10 album last April. The studio version of Astral Weeks failed to chart when released in 1968.

 

The Prodigy’s US chart career has been something of a rollercoaster ride: Their debut studio set, Experience, didn’t chart, and follow-up Music For The Jilted Generation fared little better, reaching number 198. But the band’s third set, The Fat Of The Land, went all the way to number one. Their most recent album, Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned reached number 62.

 

With albums by Robert Plant, Adele, Lily Allen and Annie Lennox all falling fast, Coldplay’s Viva La Vida Or Death & All His Friends returns to the top of the Brit pack, holding at number 14 on the overall list while selling a further 23,000 copies.

 

On the Hot 100 singles chart, Flo-Rida’s Right Round remains way ahead of the field, with increasing airplay and sales of a further 334,000 downloads earning it an easy third week at number one.

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... while The Prodigy’s Invaders Must Die arrives at number 117

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I would have expected a higher debut given that all things british are 'en vogue' right now :o

 

 

at her young age...she get on top!! great start for taylor swift career.. :)