BILLBOARD 200 REPORT: Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream knocks out Eminem out of top spot

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Rick From Chicago

Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream debuts at #1 with sales of 192,000

Fantasia’s Back To Me debuts in the #2 slot with 117,000

Eminem’s Recovery continues to sell well with 98,000 sold, good for third spot.

Usher’s Versus LP bows in at #4 with 46,000 scanned

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Aug. 29) totaled 5.12 million units, up 1% compared to the sum last week (5.07 million) and down 12% compared to the comparable sales week of 2009 (5.82 million). Year to date album sales stand at 195.3 million, down 12% compared to the same total at this point last year (222.6 million).

This entry was posted in Billboard 200 Report and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>