Jeez, last week was Barbra Streisand and this week it's Michael Buble at #1 on the Billboard 200. American album buyers are a bunch of Oprah-watching pussies. But I'm glad somebody—anybody— beat Kiss, if for no other reason than to deny royal dickhead Gene Simmons the satisfaction.
1. Michael Bublé - "Crazy Love" - 132,000 (debut, in 3 days of sales)
2. Kiss - "Sonic Boom" - 108,000 (debut, Wal-Mart exclusive)
3. Toby Keith - "American Ride" - 90,000 (debut)
4. Barbra Streisand - "Love Is the Answer" - 75,000 (down 58%)
5. Jay-Z - "The Blueprint 3" - 65,000 (down 27%)
6. Luke Bryan - "Doin' My Thing" - 58,000 (debut)
7. Mariah Carey - "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" - 54,000 (down 68%)
8. Miley Cyrus - "The Time of Our Lives" EP - 47,000 (down 14%)
9. Backstreet Boys - "This Is Us" - 42,000 (debut)
10. Breaking Benjamin - "Dear Agony" - 41,000 (down 69%)
• Michael Jackson - "Number Ones" - 43,000 (sold more than the Backstreet Boys but ineligible for the Billboard 200 because of its anachronistic chart rules excluding "catalog" albums)
More sales data after the jump...
Further down:
16. Pearl Jam - "Backspacer" - 32,000 (down 46%)
20. Madonna - "Celebration" - 26,000 (down 63%)
22. Roseanne Cash - "The List" - 26,000 (debut)
50. Built to Spill - "There Is No Enemy" - 12,000 (debut)
62. Karen O and the Kids - "Where the Wild Things Are" - 10,000 (second week)
135. Blake Lewis - "Heartbreak on Vinyl" - 4,000 (debut)
FYI: Jay-Z is a business, man! According to Yahoo, "The Blueprint 3 is Jay-Z's 12th album to top the 1 million mark in sales. Jay-Z has sold 26,945,000 albums, a total topped by only one rapper in history. Eminem has sold 34,956,000 albums."
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