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sold sales of BillBoard 200 selena Gomez’s StarS year to date titles this week Dance sales this week 1.7 Million 1.7 Million 31,000 of alBums 1% 21% 68%

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ovER THE CounTER KEiTH CAulfiElD mArket WAtch A WEEkly NATIoNAl MusIc sAlEs REpoRT ’s Weekly Unit sales ALBUMS DIGITAL DISTAL ALBUM" TRACKS ‘Blurred’ World This Weak 5,078,000 2,117,000 22,754,000 Last Week 4.678,000 1,991,000 23,203,000

change R&B singer’s ‘’ tops Billboard 200 Not Enough Heaven 8.6% 6.3% -1.9% ’s ThisWeek Last Year 5,216,000 2,121,000 24,094,000 with career-high sales week the Wrong Side of Heaven and the righteous Side of Hell: Change -2.6% -0.2% -5.6% Volume 1 debuts at no. 2 on *Digital album oa:as we also counted Within album sales. the Billboard 200 (see story, page 41). that gives the top two rungs of the chart the rare lightly more than 10 years after his debut works) No. 1 triumph recalls that of outKast’s break- glimpse of the word “heaven” Weekly Album Sales units) album was released, Robin Thicke has through, , released in November 2000. in a title. since the tally became an all-encompassing 2013 scored his frst No. 1 album. Blurred Lines, While the rap duo had tallied three earlier charting survey of both mono and 2012 stereo titles on aug. 17, his sixth studio efort, starts atop the Bill- albums, including two that debuted at No. 2, it wasn’t 15 board 200 with 177,000 copies sold, ac- until Stankonia that the act seemed to have truly ar- 1963, no title using the word “heaven” (or a variation of) has 10 Scording to Nielsen SoundScan. rived in the mainstream. reached the top two. Before Led by its inescapable No. 1 title The album was led by the single “B.O.B.” and its that, from 1959 to 1963, track, Thicke’s album also nets the singer his best accompanying eye-popping (which re- Billboard had separate mono and stereo album charts. in F A u 1 A S 0 N 0 sales week. It easily surpasses his previous largest ceived heavy rotation on MTV). Then, second single the pre-combined-chart era, frame, when 2008’s Something Else launched at No. 3 “Ms. Jackson” broke through at radio about a month the last “heavenly” set in the with 137,000. before the album debuted on Nov. 18, 2000. The top two was Johnny mathis’ YEAR -TO- DAT E Heavenly, which was no. 1 on Blurred Lines actually performed stronger than song became a runaway smash: It was the pair’s frst the mono album chart in late Overall Unit Sales 1959 and spent its last week initially forecast. Some industry prognosticators had Mainstream Top 40 entry (No. 13) and frst top 20 2011 2013 CHANGE pegged the set to launch with around 140,000. hit on the Hot 100 Airplay chart (No. 3). It eventu- in the top two on feb. 1, 1960. —Keith caulfield Albums 177,278,000 166,294,000 -6.2% Still, with such a huge single, were some expect- ally climbed to No. 1 on the Hot 100 (its frst chart- Digital Tracks 821,399,000 798,135,000 -2.8% ing his album to have started with a stronger fgure? topper) on Feb. 17, 2001. Maybe, maybe not. One has to consider that Thicke Longtime devotees of OutKast must have been the big number Store Slnijee 2,076,000 1,929,000 -7.1% is a new artist to many consumers, who likely hadn’t amused by late-to-the-party fans drawn in by “Ms. Total 1,000,753,000 966,358,000 -3.4% realized the singer has released fve previous albums. Jackson,” who likely didn’t realize the act had been albs. virtur 259,417,900 246,107,500 -5.1% Why? “Blurred Lines” was only his second song to around for seven years on the charts. That same sce- Indedestrack equivalent album sales (TEA1eith 10traskeowleoadseesealent t000ealbumsale. reach the Mainstream Top 40 chart, and the frst nario is likely playing out with those who have been to hit the top 25. He had one previous entry, 2007’s following Thicke for the past decade. “Lost Without U,” which spent six weeks on the tally 5 . 1 M Digital Track Sales and peaked at No. 27. He’s no. 1, Everywhere: As Robin Thicke also tops Thicke’s frst album, , arrived in the Billboard Hot 100, he’s the frst artist to concur- 2012 April 2003 and spent one week on the chart at No. 152. rently reign at No. 1 on both lists since Dec. 8, 2012. 2013 798.1 million after a record-low week for The set was billed to just his last name; subsequent That week, ruled with Unapologetic on the album sales, things are slightly albums have since carried his full name. Billboard 200 and “Diamonds” on the Hot 100. She back to normal this week. Sales by Album Format Thicke is the sixth act this year to hit No. 1 more was only the second act in 2012 to double up, follow- album volume rises 9% to 5.1 million, following the historic 2012 2013 CHARGE than a decade after the release of a debut album. He ing for two weeks (Feb. 4-11, with 21 and “Set low of 4.7 million last issue. 106,324,000 91,616,000 -13.8% follows Black Sabbath, Queens of the Stone Age, Fire to the Rain”). Adele was also the only act to man- , Gary Allan and Chris Tomlin. (So far age the feat in 2011—twice, with 21 and singles “Some- Digital 68,381,000 71,139,000 4.0% this year, only one artist—A$AP Rocky—has hit No. 1 one Like You” and “Rolling in the Deep.” Before the VIVO 2,519,000 3,339,000 32.6% with his or her frst album.) enormous success of Adele, was the last act other 54,000 201,000 272.2% Thicke’s seemingly overnight (but long in the to score double No. 1s, for four nonconsecutive weeks between July and September 2010 with Recovery and “Love the Way You Lie.” Sales by Album Category 2012 2013 OLUIGe Small Celebration: Album sales volume in the week Current 87,080,000 83,961,000 -3.6% ending Aug. 4 rose to 5.1 million (up 9%), after fve 90,198,000 82,333,000 -8.7% straight frames of less than 5 million in sales. As noted Dew) Catalog 72,006,000 -7.9% last issue, the slim 4.7 million albums that were sold 66,328,000 in the week ending July 28 marked the lowest weekly sales sum in the Nielsen SoundScan era. Sales are up Current Album Sales across the board this week, as both current albums (2.5 million, up 9%) and catalog albums (2.6 million, 2012 up 8%) grow. It’s the frst time that both categories 2013 84.0 Million have increased in the same week since the Sound- Scan week ending June 16. Catalog Album Sales

next Week: Folk-rock duo the Civil Wars is head- .com 2012 90.2 Million ing for its frst No. 1 on the Billboard 200 next week. 2013 82.3 Million

Industry sources suggest the act’s self-titled second Nielsen soundscan counts as current only sales within the first 18 months of an album’s release (12 read more months for classical and albums). Titles that stay in the top half of the Billboard 200, however, remain album may sell around 100,000 copies and come in as current. Titles older than 18 months are catalog. Deep catalog is a subset of catalog for titles out more Chart Beat at than 36 months. ahead of the Now 47 compilation, which might arrive billboard.com/ For week ending Aug. 4, 2013. Figures are rounded. compiled from a national sample of nielsen retail store and rack sales reports collected by Nielsen soundscan. ThICKE: STEvEn ThICKE: TayloR STEvEn at No. 2 with 95,000. 0 chartbeat.

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