Sade’s ‘Soldier Of Love’ Controls The Chart For A Third Week

After notching up a third week at #1 on Billboard‘s Top 200 Albums chart, Sade’s Soldier Of Love should earn a medal of honor at this point. The record sold another 127,000 copies, bringing it’s grand total to 819,000 since its early February release. Head below to see how the rest of the Top 10 played out this week.

Last week there were no new entries in the Top 10—let alone the Top 40—of the main album chart. This time around, however, Johnny Cash’s posthumous LP American VI: Ain’t No Grave debuts at #3 on sales of 54,000 copies. The legendary singer would have turned 78 last week.

Alkaline Trio’s This Addiction enters the Top 200 at #11 after moving 26,000 copies, while Hits Daily Double shows The Rocket Summer’s Of Men & Angels coming in at #29 after sales of about 14,000 copies. (The full chart will be published by Billboard tomorrow.)

Meanwhile, we haven’t seen Ke$ha’s Animal in the Top 10 since late January, but this week the album hops up to #7. Billboard attributes the climb to a reduced sticker price at Best Buy. Another factor could be that the “Blah Blah Blah” video premiered last week.

Or perhaps we could just chalk it up to hot trash like this and this doing the rounds.

The Top 10 of Billboard‘s Top 200 Albums:

1. Sade, Soldier Of Love 2. Lady Antebellum, Need You Now 3. Johnny Cash, American VI: Ain’t No Grave *new* 4. The Black Eyed Peas, The E.N.D. 5. Lady Gaga, The Fame 6. Lil Wayne, Rebirth 7. Ke$ha, Animal 8. Susan Boyle, I Dreamed A Dream 9. Taylor Swift, Fearless 10. Justin Bieber, My World