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SALES OF UNORTHODOX SALES OF SHIRLEY SALES OF THE TOP 200 JUKEBOX THIS WEEK BASSEY'S *GOLDFINGER" DIGITAL ALBUMS 95,000 3,000 930,000 CHARTS 96% 212% 40% KEITH CAULFIELD MARKET WATCH A WEEKLY NATIONAL MUSIC SALES REPORT Weekly Unit Sales Bruno MarsClaims ALBUMS DIGITAL DIGITAL ALBUMS. TRACKS This Week 5.787.000 2,555,000 26,118,000 FirstNo. 1Album Last Week 5,461,000 2,247,000 26,858,000 Amazon MP3's sale pricing pushesset tothetop Grohl's Legend Grows Change 6.0% 13.7% -2.8% Dave Grohl'suncommon This Week Last Year 6,326,000 2,288,000 27,121,000 versatility grants him his latest chart honor,asFrom Change -8.5% 11.7% -3.7% Can to Can't. with Corey Mg,tal album aPSO counted within album Wes. Taylor, Rick Nielsen and Scott Reeder, rises 12-10 on the Heritage Rock airplay Asforecast last week, Bruno Mars claims take solace inaNo.1 bowonRock Albums, Indepen- chart (see Billboard.biz). With Weekly Album Sales,,,,, his first No.1 albumonthe Billboardzoo, dent Albums and Dance/Electronic Albums. the advance. Grohl grabs his first top 10 rankingas alead 2013 asUnorthodox Jukebox jumpsoneslotto soloist. 2012 Grohl previously reached thetopof the tally. The set, largely fu- Slow Ride: With Unorthodox Jukebox's ascent to No.1 15 eled by Amazon MP3 sale pricing, sold in its12th week, Mars claims the unusual distinction the top 10onmultiple talliesas amember of Foo 10 95,000copies in the week ending March3,foragain of the slowest climb to No.1sincezoos.Thatyear, Fighters, Nirvana. Queens of 96% compared with the previous week (according onMarch5,Ray Charles' Genius Loves Company of the Stone Age and Them Crooked Vultures. Prior to toNielsen SoundScan). climbed to No.1 after25weeksonthe tally. Can. released alongside the 1.1 On Feb. 26, the digital retailer offeredabevy of It'srarethatanalbummoves toNo.1, asopposed rock documentary 'Sound A111115 OND albums for $1.99, including Mars' latest and Mackl- to debuting there.(Mars'set is only the sixth title to City, which he directed, emore& Ryan Lewis' The Heist. climb to the top since the start of2o1o.Earlier this Grohl had postedonesolo YEAR-TO-DATE top 10, as a featured act on Discounted sales of Unorthodox Jukebox and The year,the "Les Miserables" soundtrack hit the top in lommi's 'Goodbye Lament," Overall Unit Sales Heist -and all of last week's other Amazon MP3 $1.99 its third week.) which reached No. 10on 2012 2013 Mainstream Rock in 2000. titles-counttoward their weekly total because the Dating backtowhen the chart started using Sound- -Gary Trust Albums 54,337,000 50,363.000 -7.3% albums have been out formorethan four weeks. Bill- Scan dataonMay25, 1991,there have been 568 al- Digital Tracks 258,039.000 253,381.000 -1.8% board doesn'tcountsales of albums priced for less bums that first reached No.1.Of thatsum,only75 than $3.49 in their first four weeks of release. of them didn't debut atop the chart. And, of those THE BIG NUMBER Store Singles 471.000 600.000 27.4% After thetwoalbums'one-day $1.99 offering, the 75albums, therewerejust19that tookmorethanso Total 312,847,000 304,344,000 -2.7% price of Unorthodox Jukebox and The Heistrose to weeks to get to No.1. Album w/YEA. 80,140,900 75.701,100 -5.5% $3.99 for therestof the week. The SoundScan-era record for the longest march to incLdes track eetevalent album salts I c with 10 track downloads ecturca rent to one albums.. Unorthodox Jukebox might not have been No.1 No.1 belongs to the soundtrack to "0 Brother, Where this week had it not been for Amazon MP3. Of its Are Thou?," which topped the list in its 63rd weekon total sales, 64,000weredownloads. That's about the chart. Album Sales 46,000morethan what the album has been selling 2012 in weekly downloads,on average,during thepast Oscar Applause: Jumping four slots to No.lo onthe 12 -791191=1 two months (18,000). Billboardzoois Adele's21,selling27,000withagain 2013 50.4 million So, subtract Unorthodox Jukebox's estimated Ama- of17%. While the album doesn't feature her Academy Number of weeks Bruno Mars zonMP3 gain of 46,000 for the week and we're left Award -winningsong"Skyfall," theset clearly benefits Unorthodox Jukebox took to Sales by Album Format with 48,000. That would be slightly less than what from Adele's performance of the tuneonthe Oscars reach No.1onthe Billboard 200. It's the longest climb 2012 2013 CHANGE the No.zalbum sells this week: the debuting Amok (Feb. 24). This is the2 -year-old album's first time back to the top since 2005, when CD 33.319,000 26.822,000 -19.5% fromsupergroupAtoms for Peace (50,000). in the topsosince Nov.3, am,when it ranked at No. Ray Charles Genius Loves Atoms for Peace consistsofRadiohead's Thom 9.(Adele's Oscar performancewasher firstonTV Company took 25 weeks to Digital 20.313.000 22.546,000 11.0% -or reach No.1. Yorke, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, producer Ni- anywhere -inmorethana year.She lastsang onstage Vinyl 693,000 917,000 32.3% gel Godrich, drummer Joey Waronker andpercus- during the BRIT AwardsonFeb.21,2012.) Other 12,000 77,000 541.7% sionist Mauro Refosco. While Mars blocks Atoms for As for thesong"Skyfall," afterafull week of impact Peace fromaNo.1 debut, the electronic/rock actcan post -Oscars, it charges 3z-10 on the Digital Songs chart, Sales by Album Category sellinglos,000downloads in the week ending March3 (up 88%). The title track of the James Bond film logs its 2012 2013 CHANGE best sales week since Dec.1,2012(120,000), reflecting Current 25.822.000 25.011.000 -3.1% the first full week "Skyfall"wasin U.S. theaters. Catalog 28.515.000 25.352.000 -11.1% Meanwhile, the "Les Miz" soundtrack, whichwas Deep Catalog 22.955.000 20.259.000 -11.7% feted inanensemble performance at the Oscars, gains by 59% andmoves35-16onthe Billboardzoo. The album's best-selling track last weekwasthe icon- Current Album Sales ic "I DreamedaDream," which sold15,000down- 25.8 Million loads (up 93%). 2012 Oscar performances by Shirley Bosseyand Bar- 2013 25.0 Million bra Streisand also triggered increases for thesongs they performedonthe show. Bassey's "Goldfinger" Catalog Album Sales moved3,000(up 212%) while Streisand's "The Way We Were" climbed 29% to3,000. 2012 -111MIZEME1211 2013 25.4 Million Next Week: Luke Bryan is headed for his first No. albumonthe Billboardzoo.Sourcessayhisnew com- Readmore 'Llgt111`.7=1=1,11=V:IggV,,="1=Tdtt=,... Chart Beat at loan 36ma,IM. pilation Spring Break...Here to Partymaysell slightly billboard.com/ morethanloo,000copies. 0 chartbeat. fadnithen MARCH 16, 2013 I WWW.BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ 0.