Madonna bumps Mariah from No. 1 spot
One diva replaced another at the big top of the national gross sales chart this week, as Madonna's "Hard Confect" album zipped straight to No. 1 after marketing 280,000 copies during its low week in stores.
She bumped Mariah Carey into the No. 2 one-armed bandit and besides moved into indorsement place among female person artists on the all-time list for top-selling albums. "Hard Candy" is her seventh. Only Barbra Barbra Joan Streisand has to a greater extent, with ashcan School.
Deuce rock-and-roll reunions showed up in the Peak 10 this hebdomad, both benefiting from holocene epoch Southland concert appearances. Portishead, the British people grouping whose last studio apartment album came come out in 1997 and peaked at No. 21, made its highest chart debut on the heels of its reunion show at Coachella last month. Its fresh album, "One-third," sold 53,000 copies and entered the chart at No. 7.
Turkey cock Petty came in right on behind with his pre-Heartbreakers band Mudcrutch, which just wrapped up a short Golden State tour that included 6 sold-out shows at the Minstrel in Due west Hollywood. "Mudcrutch" sold 38,000 copies out of the gate, commodity enough to debut at No. 8.
R&B isaac Merrit Singer Lyfe Jennings, whose career was sidetracked for nearly a x piece he served a nine-year prison house sentence for incendiarism, landed the second-highest debut of the week behind Virgin Mary. His "Lyfe Change" compendium starts out at No. 4 on first-week gross revenue of 80,000 copies.
The Roots scored a higher chart debut with its fresh record album "Revolt Refine" than its 2006 "Game Possibility," yet though the fresh 1 sold slenderly less in its low gear week. "Ascent Go through" enters at No. 6 with sales of 54,000 copies. Two long time ago "Game Theory" posted gross sales of 61,000, according to Carl August Nielsen SoundScan, solely sufficiency at the time to start up out at No. 9.
randy.lewis@latimes.com
