But vulnerabilities become strengths on this cagily self-aware debut album: He’s an emotionally fragile guy who relishes fame and fortune while second-guessing every smile from a new chum or overly friendly woman. Various Artists, The Twilight Saga: Eclipseġ0.Due to his unorthodox pedigree-half-Jewish Canadian kid from a comfortable neighborhood who played a wheelchair-bound hoops star on Degrassi: The Next Generation-Drake has enjoyed a level of rap stardom (engineered by Lil Wayne) that often feels like an elaborate hoax. Various Artists, NOW That’s What I Call Music 34 *new*Ħ. Sarah McLachlan, Laws Of Illusion *new*Ĥ.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Mojo *new*ģ. The Top 10 of Billboard’s Top 200 Albums:Ģ. Next week: Eminem and Miley Cyrus will do their best to wrestle the #1 position away from Drizzy. With meager first-week sales of 88,000 copies, NOW 34 marks the first time one of the compilations in the long-running series has sold less than 100,000 out of the gate since the very first one kicked things off with sales of 48,000 in 1998. The LP sold 94,000 copies, a considerable drop from the 361,000 copies Sarah’s previous studio LP Afterglow opened with in 2003.īut who sells albums anymore (besides Drake, Sade and Lady Antebellum, that is)? Case in point: the #4 debut of the latest NOW That’s What I Call Music. Next up is Sarah McLachlan at #3 with her seventh album Laws Of Illusion. With 125,000 copies sold, Billboard reports it’s the 59-year-old rocker’s best opening sales week since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991 and his highest charting album since 198o. This makes room for three other debuts behind Drake, starting with Tom Petty & The Heartbreaker’s Mojo at #2. Meanwhile, Bionic falls from #3 to #9-not nearly as bad as Xtina’s #1 to #29 drop on this week’s UK album chart!-while Eclipse slips from #2 to #6. First off, while Glee‘s Journey To Regionals EP trumped both the Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack and Christina Aguilera’s Bionic last week, it drops from #1 to #10 on the new chart.

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