1. Taylor Swift, Speak Now, 52,000. The album holds at #1 for the sixth week. This is its 11th week in the top 10. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs. "Back To December" dips from #26 to #28. "Mine" drops from #35 to #56.
2. Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday, 39,000. The album jumps from #4 to #2 in its seventh week. It has been in the top 10 the whole time. Four songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Moment 4 Life," which jumps from #90 to #54.
3. Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, 38,000. The album jumps from #7 to #3 in its 14th week. This matches its highest position to date. This is its third week in the top 10. Three songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Grenade," which holds at #1 for the fourth week.
4. Daft Punk, Tron: Legacy soundtrack, 34,000. The album jumps from #6 to #4 in its fifth week. This is its highest ranking to date. This is its third week in the top 10. "Derezzed" drops from #139 to #164 on Hot Digital Songs.
5. Eminem, Recovery, 33,000. The former #1 album drops from #2 to #5 in its 29th week. This is its 23rd week in the top 10. Four songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "No Love," which dips from #40 to #41.
6. Rihanna, Loud, 33,000. The album drops from #3 to #6 in its eighth week. This is its seventh week in the top 10. (It's #1 in the U.K. for the second straight week.) Three songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "What's My Name?" (featuring Drake), which dips from #6 to #9.
7. Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, 33,000. The former #1 album drops from #5 to #7 in its seventh week. This is its fourth week in the top 10. Three songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Runaway" (featuring Pusha T), which drops rom #89 to #105.
8. Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More, 31,000. The album holds at #8 in its 42nd week. This is its second week in the top 10. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs. "Little Lion Man" jumps from #72 to #70. "Cave" jumps from #192 to #136.
9. Jason Aldean, My Kinda Party, 29,000. The album rebounds from #13 to #9 in its 10th week. This is its third week in the top 10. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs. "Don't You Wanna Stay" (featuring Kelly Clarkson) jumps from #57 to #40. "My Kinda Party" drops from #50 to #57.
10. Various Artists, Country Strong soundtrack, 28,000. The soundtrack vaults from #149 to #10 in its fifth week. This is its first week in the top 10. Three songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by Gwyneth Paltrow's "Country Strong," which re-enters at #72.
Two of the albums in this week's top 10, Tron: Legacy and Mumford & Sons'Sigh NoMore, have sold more digital than physical copies over the course of their runs. Here are the albums in this week's top 10, ranked by which have sold the most digital copies as a percentage of their total sales to date: Tron: Legacy (62%), Sigh No More (55%), Kanye West'sMyBeautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (42%), Country Strong (37%), Bruno Mars'Doo-Wops& Hooligans (34%), Eminem'sRecovery (25%), Rihanna'sLoud (24%), Taylor Swift'sSpeak Now (17%), Jason Aldean'sMy Kinda Party (17%) and Nicki Minaj'sPink Friday (15%).
I have good and bad news for Katy Perry. Good news first: Her album Teenage Dream tops the 1 million mark in its 20th week of release. (That's a big improvement over Perry's previous album, One OfThe Boys, which took 48 weeks to top the 1 million mark.) Now the bad news: The album drops out of the top 10, dipping from #9 to #11. Keyshia Cole'sCalling All Hearts also exits the top 10, dropping from #10 to #23.
Lady Antebellum'sMerry Little Christmas vaults from #70 to #12 as retailers cut prices to dump their Christmas inventory. This is the EP's highest ranking to date. The EP peaked at #17 when it was released last fall. The country trio's Need You Now rebounds from #30 to #18 in its 50th week.
The Black Keys'Brothers jumps from #26 to #14 in its 34th week. This is the album's highest ranking since May. The duo performed on Saturday Night Live last weekend. The album is a Grammy nominee for Best Alternative Music Album.
An eponymous album by Kari Jobe, a female Contemporary Christian singer, sold 7,000 copies last week, putting it at #1 on Top Catalog Albums. Kari Jobe is the first non-Christmas album to top the chart since The Beatles/1967-1970, which scored in October. The album jumps from #81 to #63 on The Billboard 200, which is higher than it peaked (#67) when it was first released in 2009.
The Coen Brothers' remake of True Grit was #1 at the box-office over the weekend. Carter Burwell's score soundtrack sold about 1,000 copies, too few to make The Billboard 200. The soundtrack to the 1969 movie, which featured a Top 40 hit performed by the movie's co-star, Glen Campbell, reached #77.
Coming Attractions: Cake'sShowroom Of Compassion and Cage The Elephant'sThank You Happy Birthday are both expected to debut in the top 10 next week, with sales in the 30K to 40K range. The country duo Steel Magnolia is looking good for a top 15 bow with its eponymous debut album.
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