Adele Is Rolling In Another Week On Top Of The Album Chart

Adele’s 21 sold another 168,000 copies last week, enough to keep the LP lodged at the top of the Billboard Top 200 chart. The record has sold 520,000 in its two weeks of availability in the U.S., and Billboard notes that 21 is now the best selling album of the year so far. (Meanwhile, over in the UK, Adele just racked up her sixth week at #1.) After that, Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday, Eminem’s Recovery and Rihanna’s Loud — a trio of mainstays — finally drop out of the Top 10 this week to make room for several newcomers. In first, at #2, is one-half of now defunct UK duo Floetry, Marsha Brosius. Her debut solo LP Late Nights & Early Mornings enters the chart on the strength of 98,000 sold.

Other debuts include Going Out Of Style by Dropkick Murphys at #6 (an ironic title given that the album gives the band its highest chart placement to date), and Town Line, a country EP from Staind frontman Aaron Lewis, at #7.

The Top 10 should get shaken up once again next week, given that new releases from Avril Lavigne, the Glee cast, Lupe Fiasco, R.E.M. and Sara Evans have been duking it out since Tuesday.

The Top 10 of Billboard’s Top 200 chart:

1. Adele, 21 *2 weeks* 2. Marsha Ambrosius, Late Nights & Early Mornings *new* 3. Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More 4. Justin Bieber, Never Say Never — The Remixes 5. Various, NOW 37 6. Dropkick Murphys, Going Out Of Style *new* 7. Aaron Lewis, Town Line *new* 8. Justin Bieber, My World 2.0 9. Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans 10. Pink, Greatest Hits…So Far!!!