Susan Boyle has for the 4th consecutive week in a row secured the No.1 spot on the Billboard 200 Album charts, with projected figures of over 650,000 copies sold in the past week, bringing her 4 week US total to nearly 2.5 million copies and nearly 5 million copies worldwide in the last month. An astonishing feat by any means. Also making debuts on the chart are Alicia Key's with her 4th studio album "Elements of Freedom" bring in sales of over 400,000 and Robin Thicke at No.9 with his album Sex Therapy.
Michael Buble's crosses the 1 million sales mark in the US this week, with nearly 150,000 copies sold, and the album looks a dead cert to claim the No.1 album in the UK this weekend by also reaching 1 million copies, and dethrowning Susan Boyle and marking his status in the UK as the biggest selling male of 2009.
1 1 SUSAN BOYLE COLUMBIA 659,382 +13% I DREAMED A DREAM
-- 2 ALICIA KEYS J RECORDS 405,762 --ELEMENT OF FREEDOM
2 3 ANDREA BOCELLI DECCA 384,928 -2% MY CHRISTMAS
4 4 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 230,045 +39% FEARLESS
5 5 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 19/ARISTA 159,423 +44% PLAY ON
-- 6 MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE 149,437 -- CRAZY LOVE
7 7 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 135,045 +32% FAME
8 8 JUSTIN BIEBER ISLAND 130,012 +28% MY WORLD
-- 9 ROBIN THICKE STAR TRAK 120,018 --SEX THERAPY
12 10 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 115,086 +41% THIS IS IT
The race is now well and truly on to see if the Boyle can become the biggest selling album of the year, which is currently being held by Taylor Swift and with her sales increasing this week it looks like it will be a fight all the way to the end. Current figures are:
Susan Boyle 2,465,000
Taylor Swift 2,933,000
Who will win? Taylor swifts margin seems to big to catch but if Susan posts another 2 weeks above 500,000 and Taylor around 250,000 then Susan may just sneak it but a whisker....
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