This week’s Billboard Top 200 Albums and Hot 100 Singles charts will feature quite a few surprises and new additions amongst the usual suspects. For starters, repeated vocal offender Rihanna rebounds to the Top 10 with ‘Talk That Talk’ jumping from 14-9 (25,000; up 9%).
Adele, the golden-voiced ambassador from the land of tea and crumpets maintains her firm position at No. 1 for the 23rd non-consecutive week on the Billboard 200 Albums chart, selling 247,000 copies of ’21’ (down 17%). Lastly the late ‘Queen of Pop’, Whitney Houston, holds the distinction of having three entries simultaneously on the same chart: ‘Whitney: The Greatest Hits’ (#2), ‘The Bodyguard’ (#5), and ‘Whitney Houston’ (#10); a career first for the diva.
See the top 10 Billboard 200 Albums and Hot 100 Singles before their official publication tomorrow after the jump and sound-off below.
The Billboard Top 10 albums this week are :
1. ’21’ – Adele
2. ‘Whitney : The Greatest Hits’ – Whitney Houston
3. ‘WZRD’ – Kid Cudi
4. ‘Now 41’ – Various
5. ‘The Bodyguard (OST)’ – Whitney Houston
6. ‘Careless World’ – Tyga
7. ’19’ – Adele
8. ‘Take Care’ – Drake
9. ‘Talk That Talk’ – Rihanna
10. ‘Whitney Houston’ – Whitney Houston
The Billboard Hot 100 Chart’s Top 10:
1. ‘We Are Young’ – Fun.
2. ‘Stronger’ – Kelly Clarkson
3. ‘Set Fire To The Rain’ – Adele
4. ‘Glad You Came’ – Wanted
5. ‘Part Of Me’ – Katy Perry
6. ‘Starships’ – Nicki Minaj
7. ‘Young, Wild, and Free’ – Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa
8. ‘Turn Me On’ – David Guetta & Nicki Minaj
9. ‘Something That I Used To Know’ – Gotye
10. ‘We Found Love’ – Rihanna