DAFT PUNK'S RANDOM CUMULATIVE SALES OF ROBIN THICKE'S "BLURRED SALES THIS WEEK YTD TOP 200 ALBUMS LINES" SALES THIS WEEK 93,000 36 MILLION 229,000 CHARTS 72.6% 0.4% 20%

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Daft Punk No. 1, Again Lest Week 5,189,000 2,258,000 24,492,000 Meanwhile, Alice in Chains starts at No. 2 Bloodlines' Change -7.5% -10.1% -1.0% Select sets of parents and This Week Last Veer 5,017,000 1,981,000 25,580,000 with highest -charting album since 1995 offspring have each reached the Billboard Hot 100's top Change .4.3% 2.4% -5.2% 10 during the chart's nearly 'Digital album sales are al. counted within album sales. 55 -year history, but until this week, a mother and son had never both earned the honor. DaftPunk'sRandom Access Memories with lead singerWilliam DuVall,who joined in zoo6 Robin Thicke makes history Weekly Album Sales (kullion holds at No. ion the Billboard zoo for a and sang on 2009's No. 5 -peaking Black Gives Way to as "Blurred Lines" (featuring T.I. and Pharrell) rises 11-6 2013 second week, as the set shifts another Blue. That album may have started at a lower position to become his first top 10 2012 93,000 copies, according toNielsen than The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, but its sales were on the tally. In 1986 (when SoundScan. Its 73% drop isn't an alarm- stronger out of the gate:126,000. Thicke was 91, his mother, Gloria Loring, rose to No. 2 ing decline, considering that plenty of the album's first In total, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is the fifth top with "Friends and Lovers" week was bolstered by digital pre -orders. io set for Alice in Chains, stretching back to 1992's No. (with Carl Anderson). Among Comparably, Daft Punk's second -week slide is only 6 -peaking Dirt. fathers and sons, John and Julian Lennon have each n./1 IA 1 A 5 0 N 1 slightly less steep that the average fall for No. 1 debuts The four years between Black Gives Way to Blue and notched top 10s, while father - IF this year. Of the 15 No. 1 bows so far in 2013, the av-The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is nothing compared with daughter pairings include Pat erage second -week decline has been 68%. Random the 13 -year wait Alice in Chains fans had between and Debby Boone, Billy Ray YEAR-TO-DATE and Miley Cyrus, and Frank Access Memories is the seventh No. 1 debut this year to the self -titled set in 1995 and its comeback release in and Nancy Sinatra. Overall Unit Sales slip by more than 7o% in its second week. The largest 2009. The band is one of a number of rock acts that -Gary Trust 2012 2013 CHANGE Justin Bieber's tumble is owned by Believe (79.4%), achieved massive success in the '9os, but then went Albums 127,701,000 121,402,000 -4.9% while the lightest fall belongs toJosh Groban'sAll off the radar for a long time. THE BIG NUMBER Digital Trod. 596,864,000 579,911,000 That Echoes (50.4%). Recently,No Doubtreturned after an almost 12 - -2.8% In two weeks, Random Access Memories has sold year gap, when its Push and Shove opened at No. 3 on Store Singles 1,407,000 1,400,000 -0.5% 431,000 copies, making it the No. 17 best-selling Oct. 13, 2012. It was the act's first studio set since Rock Total 725,972,000 702,713,000 -3.2% album of the year. It should cross the half -million Steady, which arrived in December 2001. The new al- Album wirEA. 187,387,400 179,393,100 -4.3% mark in the next two weeks. So far this year, only io bum has sold 149,000, a far cry from the band's previ- Includes track ppufvalent albumSales frEA,wilt 10 trxkdownlottis eofvalent to oneale.... albums have sold Soo,000. That's actually up com-ous releases. pared with a year ago at this point, where just eight In loll,Blink -182made its long -delayed return 51 sets had moved a half -million. Of course, the devil's with Neighborhoods, which arrived at No. 2 on Oct. 15, Digital Track Sales in the details: A year ago, there were four albums that loll -more than eight years after its previous studio Where the original Broadway 2012 596.9 Million had shifted more than 700,000. This year, there are set, its self -titled 2003 album. Like No Doubt's al- cast recording of "Kinky Boots" three. And, there's that other factor:Adele's21 isn't bum, it didn't make a large impression, having sold bows on the Billboard 200, the 2011 579.9 Million around to shore up sales in 2013. A year ago, the set 333,000. Another big-in-the-'9os act,Stone Temple highest entry for a cast album since June 4,2011, when "The was the year's top seller with 3.4 million. This year's Pilots,earned a No. 2 ranking with its self -titled Book of Mormon" started at Sales by Album Format No. 31. Watch for a possible best seller isJustin Timberlake'sThe 20/20 Experi- studio album in 2010, long after its previous stu- 2013 CHANGE ence, with 1.9 million. dio effort, 2001's Shangri-La Dee Da. The self -titled gain for "Kinky Boots" and other cast albums following the rn 77,460,000 66,716,000 -13.9% At No. 2 this week on the Billboard 200 isAlice in set sold less than half of Shangri-La Dee Da's sum: Tony Awards on June 9. Chains,which claims its highest -charting set since 156,000 vs. 370,000. Metal 48,369,000 52,084,000 7.7% 1995, as The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here starts in the run- Alice in Chains' Black Gives Way to Blue, however, Vinyl 1,838,000 2,441,000 32.8% ner-up slot with 61,000. The rock band last went high-has performed better than all three of those: It has Other 33,000 159,000 381.8% er with its 1995 self -titled album, which debuted at No. shifted 525,000 so far. The set also spawned three ion the tally dated Nov. 25,1995. That was the group's top io hits on Hot Rock Songs, including the No. is final studio release with lead singerLayne Staley,"Check My Brain" and "Your Decision." Sales by Album Category who died in zo oz. The new album is the band's second While Stone Temple Pilots' self -titled set in zoio 2012 2013 CHANGE did contain a No. 1 Rock Songs hit in "Be- Current 62,313,000 61,495,000 -1.3%

tween the Lines," it didn't help move the Catalog 65,388,000 59,907,000 -8.4% sales needle for the album. And, in con- trast, "Between the Lines" ran up and Deep Catalog 52,312,000 48,186,000 -7.9% down the chart quickly, spending a rela- tively fast 18 weeks on the chart. Alice in Current Album Sales Chains' two No. 1 hits spent 25 and 29 weeks on the tally, respectively. 2012 Of course, also helping matters is that Al- 2013 61.5 Million ice in Chains was an arguably re -energized band with a new vocalist, whereas STP was Catalog Album Sales reuniting with lead singerScott Weiland. As for No Doubt, none of the album's sin- 2012 65.9 Million gles took hold at any airplay format. The 2013 59.9 Million

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