GOING TO MONTANA

With Easter weekend and its retail spikes now in the past, the HITS Album Sales chart returns to normal this week, though it still boasts three titles that moved over 100k units apiece.

Unfortunately, a Susan Boyle album is not available…yet.

Thanks to continued box office success, Disney’s Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack finally cracks the #1 spot with nearly 130k in sales, easily besting Bad Boy/Atlantic’s debuting Day26, as Forever in a Day debuts at #2.

Last week’s chart-topping Rascal Flatts drops down to #3 with Unstoppable hustling up another 103k in sales, giving Bob Cavallo’s Team Disney two in the Top Three.

Chop Shop/Atlantic’s Twilight soundtrack is #4, followed by Dangerbird’s L.A. indie-rock touts Silversun Pickups, as Swoon bows at #5.

UMe’s Now 30 leads the rest of the holdovers at #6, followed by Def Jam/IDJ’s Jadakiss (#7), Interscope’s Lady GaGa (#8), Broken Bow’s Jason Aldean (#9) and Big Machine’s Taylor Swift (#10).

With physical albums now in stores, Interscope’s Yeah Yeah Yeahs returns to the chart at #32, where they’re joined by newcomers including Atlantic’s Death Cab for Cutie EP (#34) and Photo Finish/Atlantic group 3OH!3’s Want (#37).

Other re-entries include Capitol Nashville’s Lady Antebellum (#39), A&M/Octone’s resilient Hollywood Undead (#41), Atlantic’s Shinedown (#42), XL/Columbia’s Adele (#44), SRC/Universal Motown’s Akon (#44), Roc-a-Fella/IDJ’s Kanye West (#49) and Cash Money/Universal Motown’s Lil Wayne (#50).

Def Jam/IDJ’s The-Dream, one of the few titles showing some upward mobility, sees its album Love vs. Money moving #24-16, along with RCA/RMG’s Rolling Stone cover guys Kings of Leon (#29-19) and Capitol Nashville’s Darius Rucker (#33-21, +3%)

Next week, look for charting releases from IDJ Miami rapper Rick Ross, Capitol alternative mainstays Depeche Mode and SRC/Universal Motown white boy hip-hopper Asher Roth, whose debut album Asleep in the Bread Aisle hit stores on the momentous date of 4/20.