The legendary 85-year-old singer’s new RPM/Columbia album, Duets II, debuts at #1 this week with a total of 183k, thanks to a spate of TV and live performances, including a concert at
Capitol Nashville/EMI’s Lady Antebellum, last week’s #1, drops to #2 with 120k, while XL/Columbia’s Adele, now at #3, adds another 118k to her total, now over 3.6 million.
Hollywood teenpop diva Demi Lovato returns with Unbroken, which bows at #4, one of six newcomers to the Top 10, along with Atlantic Christian rockers Needtobreathe’s Reckoning (#6), RCA’s Gavin DeGraw (#7), Interscope Troy Carter-managed R&B boy band Mindless Behavior’s #1 Girl (#8) and Columbia’s Pearl Jam Twenty soundtrack (#10). The remaining holdovers include a pair of hip-hop albums in Cash Money/Universal Republic’s Lil Wayne (#5) and Roc-a-Fella/Roc Nation’s Jay Z & Kanye West collab, Watch the Throne (#9).
Other Top 50 newcomers include Atlantic teen star Cody Simpson (#12), Vagrant’s Thrice (#17), Deutsche Grammophon’s Tori Amos (#20), Universal Republic’s SuperHeavy (#24), the group featuring Mick Jagger, Joss Stone, Dave Stewart, A.R. Rahman and Damian Marley, Rounder’s The Jayhawks (#25) and Reprise’s Never Shout Never (#38). Re-entries include Interscope’s LMFAO (#34), Nickelodeon/
Glassnote’s resilient Mumford & Sons is the week’s biggest double-digit gainer, moving #30-18, +46%, with a total now over 1.8 million, followed by A&M/Octone’s Maroon 5 (#36-27, +15%), fueled by the “Moves Like Jagger” single, Interscope’s Lady Gaga (#22-19, +12%) and Capitol/EMI’s Katy Perry (#38-32, +10%).
Among this week’s releases,
In addition, there is a pair of historic reissues in Capitol/EMI’s Pink Floyd catalog (14 albums’ worth) and Geffen’s deluxe Nirvana Nevermind set.
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