It's self-aggrandizing Mamma's house on the charts.
With no monster debuts this week, it became a conflict of the holdovers, and the Mamma Mia! soundtrack rose to the top by really losing the least. Miley Cyrus and Sugarland sales skidded 37 and 47 percent respectively between weeks, but the ABBA-charged Mamma Mia! swayback just 5 percent on its way to its first chart crown.
Mamma Mia! ruled the week terminated Sunday by selling another 131,000 copies, per Nielsen SoundScan. The five-week-old soundtrack has sold 576,000 total copies to date, and as of Monday, the film topped $104 million at the box office after originally scoring the biggest curtain raising weekend always for a musical.
Mamma Mia! is the second soundtrack to top the charts this twelvemonth, following Juno's rise to No. 1 last January. In contrast, Dreamgirls was the only film soundtrack to top the charts in '07, and it earned the dubious distinction of stretch No. 1 on the fewest number of copies (just 60,000) in the SoundScan-era.
Among the other recent chart toppers, Cyrus' Breakout held tight at No. 2 on 102,000 copies, while Sugarland's Love on the Inside fell to No. 3 on 91,000 discs.
Leading the week's new debuts, R&B crooner Lloyd sold 51,000 copies of Lessons in Love for a No. 7 bow. Comparatively public speaking, it's the Big Easy singer world Health Organization got schooled considering last year's Street Love scored a more robust No. 2 debut on gross,000 copies.
While Lloyd might need a new lesson plan, the week's other top 10 bow must endure the one-trick crib tag. Heidi Newfield, erstwhile singer for Trick Pony, opened at No. 10, selling 34,000 copies of her solo debut What Am I Waiting For.
New debuts aside, Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad is doing wickedly good as the only top of the inning 10 record album on the rise. Thanks to her hit singles "Take a Bow" and "Disturbia," the disc jumped three musca volitans to No. 9, up 28 percentage on 44,000 copies.
Just outside the top 10, Keith Anderson sold 32,000 copies of C'Mon! for a career-high No. 12 curtain call. Conor Oberst's eponymous solo debut sold 29,000 copies, giving the Bright Eyes vocalizer a No. 15 bow, and Trapt's Only Through the Pain followed at No. 18 selling 25,000 copies.
Other notable debuts included Hawthorne Heights' Fragile Future at No. 23, Jamey Johnson's That Lonesome Song at No. 28, Norma Jean's Norma Jean vs. the Anti Mother at No. 29, Randy Newman's Harps and Angels at No. 30 and Grammy-winning comedian Lewis Black at No. 64 with Anticipation.
John Mayer also deserves a honorable mention this week as his 2006 record album Continuum celebrates its 100th week on the Billboard 200. The album sits at No. 82 for its birthday week with over 2.2 1000000 copies sold to date.
Meanwhile, on the digital tracks chart, the Jonas Brothers scored another huge debut with "A Little Big Longer" merchandising 131,000 copies at No. 2. The tween sensations too scored a No. 2 bow the week previous with "Tonight" selling virtually the exact same amount of downloads ("Tonight" sold 299 more copies, to be exact).
Overall, album gross sales are depressed nearly 3 percent from last week and down 11 percent compared to the same week in �07, when UGK's Underground Kingz topped the chart.
To recap, the top 10 albums ar as follows:
Mamma Mia! soundtrack, various
Breakout, Miley Cyrus
Love on the Inside, Sugarland
Rock N Roll Jesus, Kid Rock
Tha Carter III, Lil Wayne
Viva La Vida, Coldplay
Lessons in Love, Lloyd
Camp Rock soundtrack, various
Good Girl Gone Bad, Rihanna
What Am I Waiting For, Heidi Newfield
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