Teenage Vampire Freaks Take A Bite Out Of AC/DC
This week’s No. 1 album: The soundtrack to the forthcoming vampire movie that I am apparently too unfeeling to understand Twilight, which sold 165,000 copies in its debut week on store shelves. The soundtrack, which features a couple of new songs by Paramore as well as tracks by Muse, Linkin Park, and Iron & Wine, was $3.99 at Amazon’s MP3 store for one day last week, which no doubt contributed to the 48,000 digital sales it racked up. In other fire-sale news, Maroon 5’s Songs About Jane–which was priced under $5 at the iTunes Store last week–moved 14,000 digital copies last week, placing it at No. 3 for the week on the online-only chart, just behind Hinder’s Take It To The Limit. See? Variable pricing can move records! Sort of. This week’s full top 20 (and digital-albums top 10) after the jump.
Top 20 Albums (sales totals in parentheses) 1. Twilight soundtrack (165,000) 2. AC/DC, Black Ice (160,000) 3. High School Musical 3: Senior Year soundtrack (110,000) 4. Hinder, Take It To The Limit (81,000) 5. Pink, Funhouse (73,000) 6. John Legend, Evolver (72,000) 7. T.I., Paper Trail (69,000) 8. Andrea Bocelli, Incanto (62,000) 9. Brad Paisley, Play (54,000) 10. Rascal Flatts, Vol. 1–Greatest Hits (39,000) 11. Q-Tip, The Renaissance (34,000) 12. Metallica, Death Magnetic (33,000) 13. Toby Keith, That Don’t Make Me A Bad Guy (32,000) 14. Kid Rock, Rock N’ Roll Jesus (30,000) 15. Kenny Chesney, Lucky Old Sun (29,000) 16. Jennifer Hudson (26,000) 17. Celine Dion, My Love: Essential Collection (26,000) 18. Ne-Yo, Year Of The Gentleman (25,000) 19. Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III (24,000) 20. Yo-Yo Ma, Songs Of Joy And Peace (22,000)
Top 10 Digital Albums (sales totals in parentheses) 1. Twilight soundtrack (48,000) 2. Hinder, Take It To The Limit (14,000) 3. Maroon 5, Songs About Jane (14,000) 4. High School Musical 3: Senior Year soundtrack (12,000) 5. Q-Tip, The Renaissance (11,000) 6. Pink, Funhouse (11,000) 7. John Legend, Evolver (9,600) 8. Brad Paisley, Play (9,300) 9. T.I., Paper Trail (5,900) 10. Snow Patrol, A Hundred Million Suns (5,700)
