Michael Jackson has had the best selling album in the country, Number Ones, for six out of the past seven weeks. But despite the fact that it sold 98,000 last week (down 14%), you won't find it on the Billboard 200 where current mediocrity reigns supreme:
1. Sugarland - "Live on the Inside" - 76,000 (debut)
2. "Now 31" - 45,000 (down 16%)
3. Gloriana - "Gloriana" - 44,000 (debut)
4. Black Eyed Peas - "The E.N.D." - 44,000 (down 10%)
5. Kings of Leon - "Only By the Night" - 44,000 (down 6%)
6. Daughtry - "Leave This Town" - 44,000 (down 29%)
7. Maxwell - "BLACKsummers'night" - 43,000 (down 22%)
8. Taylor Swift - "Fearless" - 37,000 (down 1%)
9. Fabolous - "Loso's Way" - 37,000 (down 63%)
10. "Kidz Bop 16" - 34,000 (debut)
15. Modest Mouse - "No One's First, And You're Next" EP - 27,000 (debut)
Hey Billboard, either change the criteria of the Billboard 200 or show the Comprehensive Albums chart on your bloated new website.
• Michael Jackson - "Number Ones" - 98,000 (down 14%)
• Michael Jackson - "The Essential Michael Jackson" - 54,000
• Michael Jackson - "Thriller" - 47,000
Additional sales data via Yahoo Chart Watch.
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Updated with additional sales data via Yahoo Chart Watch, whose author agrees with me re: the anachronistic criteria of the Billboard 200.