Susan Boyle's album tops Billboard 200 for 2nd week
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Scottish singer Susan Boyle sings "I Dreamed a Dream" on the Danish relief show "The Denmark Collection" to raise money for women in Africa and for the victims of the Haiti earthquake at the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen Jan. 30, 2010. [Xinhua/Reuters, File Photo] |
Susan Boyle's second album "The Gift" topped the Billboard 200 album charts for a second week despite challenges from nine new competitors including R. Rihanna, according to media reports Thursday.
The former "Britain's Got Talent" runner-up also scored a rare second-week sales increase, up 5 percent with 335,000 sales of her Christmas-themed album.
The top nine albums all sold more than 100,000 each. Overall album sales in the chart week ending Nov. 21 totaled 8.12 million units, up 2 percent compared to the comparable sales week of 2009.
No. 1: Susan Boyle's "The Gift," 335,000
No. 2: Jackie Evancho's "O Holy Night," 239,000
No. 3: Rihanna's "Loud," 207,000
No. 4: Josh Groban's "Illuminations," 191,000
No. 5: Kid Rock's "Born Free," 189,000
No. 6: Rascal Flatts' "Nothing Like This," 165,000
No. 7: Keith Urban's "Get Closer," 162,000
No. 8: "Glee" Christmas album, 161,000
No. 9: Taylor Swift's "Speak Now," 146,000
No. 10: Nelly's "5.0," 63,000
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