Reba outmuscles Kanye on album charts
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Published on 09/28/2007
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kanye West got beaten up by a woman on the latest U.S. pop album charts published Wednesday. A week after the rapper's third album debuted to the highest numbers in more than two years, West was bounced from the top spot by country star Reba McEntire's "Reba Duets."
The star-studded disc sold 301,000 copies in the week ended September 23, according to Nielsen SoundScan data released by Billboard magazine. It's McEntire's first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and her best sales week since the tracking firm began collecting data in 1991.
West's "Graduation" fell to No. 2 with 226,000 copies, a hefty sales slide of 76%. Rapper 50 Cent, who lost a widely hyped duel with West for sales supremacy last week, saw his release "Curtis" fall one to No. 3 with 143,000 copies, a slide of 79%.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kanye West got beaten up by a woman on the latest U.S. pop album charts published Wednesday. A week after the rapper's third album debuted to the highest numbers in more than two years, West was bounced from the top spot by country star Reba McEntire's "Reba Duets." The star-studded disc sold 301,000 copies in the week ended September 23, according to Nielsen SoundScan data released by Billboard magazine. It's McEntire's first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and her best sales week since the tracking firm began collecting data in 1991.
West's "Graduation" fell to No. 2 with 226,000 copies, a hefty sales slide of 76%. Rapper 50 Cent, who lost a widely hyped duel with West for sales supremacy last week, saw his release "Curtis" fall one to No. 3 with 143,000 copies, a slide of 79%.
Reba outmuscles Kanye on album charts
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kanye West got beaten up by a woman on the latest U.S. pop album charts published Wednesday. A week after the rapper's third album debuted to the highest numbers in more than two years, West was bounced from the top spot by country star Reba McEntire's "Reba Duets."
The star-studded disc sold 301,000 copies in the week ended September 23, according to Nielsen SoundScan data released by Billboard magazine. It's McEntire's first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and her best sales week since the tracking firm began collecting data in 1991.
West's "Graduation" fell to No. 2 with 226,000 copies, a hefty sales slide of 76%. Rapper 50 Cent, who lost a widely hyped duel with West for sales supremacy last week, saw his release "Curtis" fall one to No. 3 with 143,000 copies, a slide of 79%.
Pop crooner Barry Manilow suffered a big sales drop with the latest installment of his "Greatest Songs" series. "The Greatest Songs of the Seventies" debuted at No. 4 with 113,149 copies, according to his Arista Records label. His previous release, "Greatest Songs of the Sixties," opened at No. 2 in November 2006 with 202,000 copies. And "The Greatest Songs of the Fifties" bowed at No. 1 in January last year with 156,000.
Country singer Kenny Chesney's "Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates" fell two to No. 5 with 112,000 in its second week, while Disney's "High School Musical 2" dropped two to No. 6 with 99,000.
British singer James Blunt's second album, "All the Lost Souls," opened at No. 7, moving 92,000. The follow-up to his 2005 U.S. debut "Back to Bedlam" debuted at No. 1 in Britain.
Fellow Brit KT Tunstall's sophomore, "Drastic Fantastic," entered at No. 9 with 50,000. Her debut, 2006's "Eye to the Telescope," topped out at No. 33.
Houston rapper Chamillionaire's "Ultimate Victory" started at No. 8 with 79,000 units, His debut, 2005's "The Sound of Revenge," entered at No. 10 with 130,000.
Rapper Twista's fifth album, "Adrenaline Rush 2007" entered at No. 10 with 41,000 -- a significant decline from 2005's "The Day After," which bowed at No. 2 with 129,000.
Other big debuts included Pearl Jam frontman's Eddie Vedder's soundtrack to "Into the Wild" at No. 11; Finnish metal group H.I.M.'s "Venus Doom" at No. 12; rock troupe Motion City Soundtrack's "Even If It Kills Me" at No. 16; Diana Krall's "The Very Best of Diana Krall" at No. 19; Dropkick Murphys' "The Meanest of Times" at No. 20; Gloria Estefan's "90 Millas" at No. 25; and Mark Knopfler's "Kill to Get Crimson" at No. 26.
At 8.29 million, sales were down 9.5% compared to last week's total and down 13.8% from the same sum this time last year.
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The star-studded disc sold 301,000 copies in the week ended September 23, according to Nielsen SoundScan data released by Billboard magazine. It's McEntire's first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and her best sales week since the tracking firm began collecting data in 1991.
West's "Graduation" fell to No. 2 with 226,000 copies, a hefty sales slide of 76%. Rapper 50 Cent, who lost a widely hyped duel with West for sales supremacy last week, saw his release "Curtis" fall one to No. 3 with 143,000 copies, a slide of 79%.
Pop crooner Barry Manilow suffered a big sales drop with the latest installment of his "Greatest Songs" series. "The Greatest Songs of the Seventies" debuted at No. 4 with 113,149 copies, according to his Arista Records label. His previous release, "Greatest Songs of the Sixties," opened at No. 2 in November 2006 with 202,000 copies. And "The Greatest Songs of the Fifties" bowed at No. 1 in January last year with 156,000.
Country singer Kenny Chesney's "Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates" fell two to No. 5 with 112,000 in its second week, while Disney's "High School Musical 2" dropped two to No. 6 with 99,000.
British singer James Blunt's second album, "All the Lost Souls," opened at No. 7, moving 92,000. The follow-up to his 2005 U.S. debut "Back to Bedlam" debuted at No. 1 in Britain.
Fellow Brit KT Tunstall's sophomore, "Drastic Fantastic," entered at No. 9 with 50,000. Her debut, 2006's "Eye to the Telescope," topped out at No. 33.
Houston rapper Chamillionaire's "Ultimate Victory" started at No. 8 with 79,000 units, His debut, 2005's "The Sound of Revenge," entered at No. 10 with 130,000.
Rapper Twista's fifth album, "Adrenaline Rush 2007" entered at No. 10 with 41,000 -- a significant decline from 2005's "The Day After," which bowed at No. 2 with 129,000.
Other big debuts included Pearl Jam frontman's Eddie Vedder's soundtrack to "Into the Wild" at No. 11; Finnish metal group H.I.M.'s "Venus Doom" at No. 12; rock troupe Motion City Soundtrack's "Even If It Kills Me" at No. 16; Diana Krall's "The Very Best of Diana Krall" at No. 19; Dropkick Murphys' "The Meanest of Times" at No. 20; Gloria Estefan's "90 Millas" at No. 25; and Mark Knopfler's "Kill to Get Crimson" at No. 26.
At 8.29 million, sales were down 9.5% compared to last week's total and down 13.8% from the same sum this time last year.
Bounce back