SALES OF THE CIVIL WARS SALES OF LUKE BRYAN'S VINYL ALBUM SALES THIS WEEK TAILGATES THIS WEEK YEAR TO DATE 39,000 9,000 3.5 MILLION CHARTS ®66% 73% 32%

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Weekly Unit Sales A Half -Million Reasons ALBUMS DIGITAL DIGITAL ALBUMS' TRACKS

This Week 5,087,000 2,111,000 23,053,000

To Celebrate Last Week 4,718,000 1,942,000 22,101,000 Both Luke Bryan and Katy Perry sell 500,000 -plus Thrice Is Nice Change 7.8% 8.7% 4.3% As Yoko Ono's "Walking on This Week Last Year 5,247,000 2,064,000 24,774,000 copies to top the Billboard 200 and Digital Songs Thin Ice 2013" rises 22-18 on Dance Club Songs, the track Change -3.0% 2.3% -6.9% makes its third trip up the charts, respectively 'Digital album sales are also counted within album sales. tally. The original reached No. 13 in 1981, while it returned to the chart for a week at No. 1 in 2003. The composition Weekly Album Sales For only the second time in history, an album The latter has had half -million (or more) bows with joins the list of songs to appear three times on a 2013 and a digital song simultaneously sell more each of her last three studio albums. Red started survey, which, on Dance Club 2012 Songs, also includes Alison than a half -million copies in a single week. with 1.2 million last year, while 2010's Speak 15 On the Billboard zoo,Luke Bryan'sCrash Now bowed with 1.1 million and 2008's Fearless Limerick's "Where Love Lives" (1991, 1996 and 2003). On 10 My Party debuts at No. i with 528,000 copies, launched with 592,000. the Billboard Hot 100, the according to Nielsen SoundScan. While on the Digi- As for Perry's "Roar," the song finished the week Righteous Brothers charted lk04benmentamenennmento"le.wwwwwww.5.1M three times with "Unchained tal Songs chart,Katy Perry's"Roar" bows at No. 1 with a larger -than -expected sales sum. On Sunday, 0 Melody," while Dolly Parton with 557,000 downloads. Aug. 18, forecasters had suggested the track was on F M A kill A 0 N has scaled Hot Country The only other time that a download song and an course to sell between 525,000 and 550,000 down- Songs three times with "I Will album have each sold 500,000 in the same frame loads by the close of business that day. That pro- Always Love You." YEAR-TO-DATE -Gary Trust was Christmas 2009. In the sales week that ended jection was an increase from an earlier forecast of Overall Unit Sales

Dec. 27, 2009,Ke$ha's"TiK ToK" sold 610,00o 400,000, which was made on the single's release 2012 2013 CHANGE downloads in its izth chart week, whileSusan date, Aug. 12. Albums 187,483,000 176,097,000 -6.1% Boyle'sI Dreamed a Dream sold 510,000 copies in The debut of "Roar" marks the sixth -largest sales its fifth frame. week for a digital song, Perry's own best week and Digital Tracks 870,203,000 843,289,000 -3.1% Thus, this week also marks the first time that an the biggest for her label, Capitol Records. THE BIG NUMBER Store Singles 2,228,000 2,033,000 -8.8% album and a song both debut with more than a half - The only other larger weeks were logged byFlo Total 1,059,914,000 1,021,419,000 -3.6% million in sales. Rida's"Right Round" (which debuted with 636,000 Album w/TEA' 274,503,300 260,425,900 -5.1% For Bryan, this marks his second No. i album- in 2009), Ke$ha's "TiK ToK" (610,000; 2009),Bruno 'Includes track equivalent album sales (TEA) with 10 track downloads equivalent to one album sale. and second leader this year. Crash My Party follows Mars'"Grenade" (559,000; 2010) and Swift's "We previous chart -topper Spring Break ... Here to Party, Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" (623,000; which opened at No. i on March 23. 2012) and "I Knew You Were Trouble" (582,000; 2012). Digital Track Sales Crash My Party logs the third -largest sales week But wait, there's more: "Roar" also logs the third - of 2013, surpassed only by the debuts ofJustin biggest debut for a digital song. Only "Right Round" 2012 Timbe r I a ke's The 2o/2o Experience (968,000) and and "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" 2013 843.3 Million Luke Bryan will likely hold Jay Z'sMagna Carta ... Holy Grail (slightly more started with larger sums. at No. 1 next week on the than 528,000). "Roar" is the lead single from Perry's Prism, which Billboard 200, industry Sales by Album Format forecasters say. Meanwhile, Crash My Party also claims the largest week for an is due Oct.22. John Mayer's Paradise Valley 2012 2013 CHANGE album by a male country artist since 2004.Tim Mc- is heading for a No. 2 bow with CD 112,255,000 97,160,000 -13.4% Grawwas the last male country artist to sell more Party On: Luke Bryanhas five albums on the Bill- 150,000-155,000 sold. copies in a week, when Live Like You Were Dying board zoo this week-the most concurrently chart- Digital 72,492,000 75,192,000 3.7% bowed with 766,000 in November 2004. ing titles for an artist since the March 16 tally, when Vinyl 2,674,000 3,532,000 32.1%

Further, since 2008, only two country artists the lateJenni Rivera(who died Dec. 9, 2012) placed Other 61,000 213,000 249.2% have sold more than a half -million copies of an five on the list. album in a single week: Bryan andTaylor Swift. Bryan also has three sets within the top 4o, as Sales by Album Category Tailgates & Tanlines (33-16) and Spring Break ... Here to Party (62-38) join his new debut at No. 1. He's the 2012 2013 CHANGE only act to score three simultaneous top 4o albums Current 91,867,000 88,964,000 -3.2%

this year. The last act to manage the feat wasZac Catalog 95,615,000 87,134,000 -8.9% Brown Bandon July 28, 2012, when Uncaged bowed at No. 1, You Get What You Give zoomed 51-16 and Deep Catalog 76,352,000 70,250,000 -8.0% The Foundation leapt 73-19. Bryan is the first male country artist to place three Current Album Sales albums in the top 4o at the same time in more than zo years. The last solo country male to do so was 2012 Garth Brooks on Jan. 30, 1993. The country legend 2013 89.0 Million was Nos. 5, 36 and 38 that week with The Chase, No Fences and Ropin' the Wind, respectively. Catalog Album Sales Finally, Bryan is just the fourth country act to have notched a pair of No. i albums in less than a year's 2012 time since the chart started using Nielsen Sound - 2013

Scan data in May 1991. He follows Brooks,Kenny Nielsen SoundScan counts as current only tialny 0,1111n the hr st 18 months of an album's release 112 Read more months for classical and jazz albums). Titles that stay in the top hall of the Billboard 200. however, remain ChesneyandGeorge Strait.Chesney did it twice, as current. Titles older than 18 months are catalog. Deep catalog is a subset of catalog for titles out more while Brooks managed to log three No. is within a Chart Beat at than 36 months. billboard.com/ For week ending Aug. 18. 2013. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national sample of nicltien retail store and rack sales reports collected by Nielsen SoundScan. year, between Dec. 13, 1997, and Dec. 5, 1998. 0 chartbeat. SoundScan

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