Death Cab for Cutie has first No. 1 album
Frank Francis Albert Sinatra collection comes in second
Newly House of York -- Death Cab for Cutie claims its beginning No. 1 record album as "Narrow down Stairs" starts at the top slot on the Billboard 200. The Atlantic set moved 144,000 copies in the U.S., according to Carl August Nielsen Soundscan. Death Cab's virtually holocene album, 2005's "Plans," debuted at No. 4 with 90,000 and spent 50 weeks on the graph.
Reprise's retrospective Wiener Frank Sinatra collection "Aught simply the Best" bows at No. 2 with 99,000. It's been nearly 15 days since Old Blue Eyes was this high on the chart. In December 1993, his "Duets" album spent ternion weeks at No. 2. This freshly hits aggregation, which chronicles the legend's term of office on Repeat Records, too commemorates the tenth anniversary of Sinatra's passing on May 14, 1998.
Jason Mraz's Atlantic Ocean album "We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things" enters at No. 3 with 73,000, giving the Warner Music Group and WEA Distribution the top three on the graph for the number one time in to a greater extent than 16 years. "We Sing..." is the singer/songwriter's new highwater saint Mark on the chart; "Mr. Azimuth" topped come out at No. 5 in 2005.
Welsh isaac Bashevis Singer Duffy's A&M/Polydor debut "Rockferry" enters at No. 4 with 71,000. That makes her the third female British people newcomer to earn a top 10 debut since the beginning of 2007, connection Amy Winehouse and Leona John L. Lewis. The album's bingle "Mercy" has risen to No. 20 thusly far on the Adult Top 40 tuner chart.
Speaking of John Llewelly Lewis, her Syco/J set "Heart" climbs 6-5 with 62,000, an 18% chemise in sales. Mariah Carey's Island Def Chock up record album "E=MC2" flip-flops with it, falling 5-6 with 59,000 (-33%). Later becoming his number 1 No. 1 last week, Neil Diamond's "Home Before Shadow" (Columbia) slips to No. 7 with a 63% gross sales shoot at 53,000.
Madonna's "Hard Confect" (Warner Bros.) continues its decline 3-8 with 53,000 (-43%) and Toby jug Keith's double-disc assembling "35 Biggest Hits" (Designate Domestic dog Nashville) descends XXIX with 41,000, a 60% gross sales tumble.
Keith Sweat's "Just now Me" rounds out the top tier, debuting at No. 10 with 37,000. The Keia/Atco/Rhino is Sweat's first base studio album since 2002's "Rebirth," which peaked at No. 14 in its opening week.
Rock play 10 Years' "Division" (Universal Democracy) lands at No. 12 with 28,000. Its last jell, "The Autumn Effect," topped out at No. 72 in 2005. Other debuts on The Billboard 200 this hebdomad include the Walt Disney soundtrack to "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Sea" at No. 26 with 16,000, Cherish's "The Truth" (Capitol) at No. 40 with 13,000, Filter's "Anthems for the Damned" (Pulse) at No. 42, besides with 13,000 and Starbucks' Hear Music compiling "The Second Wave" at No. 43 with 13,000.
Record album gross revenue this week are drink down 8.5% from last week's sum total with 7.43 million units and down 13.5% from the lapp hebdomad last class.
Billboard's Keith Caulfield contributed to this report.
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