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 For the sixth week in a row, Susan Boyle owns the Billboard 200 with I Dreamed A Dream, surpassing 3 million sales to beat out albums from Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige and several others.
While Boyle took the no. 1 spot, Lady Gaga shot up the charts from no. 6 to no. 2 with The Fame, selling 82,000 copies. The album has been out for 62 weeks, and had previously peaked at no. 4 back in March 2009.
Right on her tail was Alicia Key and her The Element of Freedom, which climbed to no. 3 this week with 80,000; while Mary J. Blige's Stronger With Each Tear dropped two spots to no. 4 with 62,000.
In at no. 8 was the Black Eyed Peas' The E.N.D. moving from no. 15 to no. 8 with 47,000, and Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster EP was up three spots to no. 9 with 44,000 to wrap up the top 10.
Young Money's We Are Young Money lands at no. 12 with 43,000, while Eminem's Relapse earned the no. 13 spot with 41,000 copies.
That does it this week. To cop any of these new releases, head over to Amazon.com.
According to Billboard.com, overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Jan. 3) totaled 7.76 million units, down 55% compared to the sum last week (15.14 million) and down 9% compared to the comparable sales week of 2009 (week ending Jan. 4; 8.51 million).
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