Top Albums for the Week

Here are the top selling albums for the week ending 04/10/2011

THIS WEEK RANK	ARTIST	TITLE	THIS WEEK SALES
1	Adele	21	88,233
2	Britney Spears	Femme Fatale	75,166
3	Radiohead	King Of Limbs	66,877
4	Hollywood Undead	American Tragedy	66,032
5	Wiz Khalifa	Rolling Papers	59,291
6	Chris Brown	F.A.M.E.	51,098
7	Various	Songs For Japan	50,940
8	Mumford & Sons	Sigh No More	34,472
9	Asking Alexandria	Reckless & Relentless	31,239
10	Kirk Franklin	Hello Fear	31,129

Top Albums for the Week

Here are the top selling albums for the week ending 04/03/2011

THIS WEEK RANK	ARTIST	TITLE	THIS WEEK SALES
1	Britney Spears	Femme Fatale	276,446
2	Wiz Khalifa	Rolling Papers	197,307
3	Adele	21	94,265
4	Chris Brown	F.A.M.E.	91,205
5	Various	Songs For Japan	71,420
6	Radiohead	King Of Limbs	68,727
7	Jennifer Hudson	I Remember Me	56,279
8	Snoop Dogg	Doggumentary	50,479
9	Kirk Franklin	Hello Fear	46,194
10	Mary Mary	Something Big	42,390

New Music For Monday: White Snake - "Forevermore"

Whitesnake is back with their 11th studio album, and while they’re sans Tawney Kitaen and the big hair they pretty much sound the same.   

The big question of the week, can a bunch of old men out sell another Britney Spears comeback attempt.

The track listing for “Forevermore” is below:

1	Steal Your Heart Away	5:18
2	All Out of Luck	5:28
3	Love Will Set You Free	3:52
4	Easier Said Than Done	5:13
5	Tell Me How	4:41
6	I Need You (Shine a Light)	3:49
7	One of These Days	4:53
8	Love and Treat Me Right	4:14
9	Dogs in the Street	3:48
10	Fare Thee Well	5:18
11	Whipping Boy Blues	5:02
12	My Evil Ways	4:33
13	Forevermore	7:22

The new album “Forevermore” releases March 29^th but you can listen to it now on AOL by clicking here or by pasting the link: http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/#/21 into your web browser. 

Or if Britney is more your style you can check it out here as well or by pasting the link: http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/#/1 into your web browser.

Taylor Swift Rules the Charts

It’s Taylor Swift’s world and we all just live in it.

Her new CD, "Speak Now" is number one on the charts selling 1,046,718 units in its first week. This is a dominating number as by comparison the number two artist this week was Sugarland whose album, “Incredible Machine,” sold 88,575 units – 958,143 units below Taylor. Rounding out the top ten was Michael Buble’s “Hollywood,” with 25,771 units sold. You do the math on that one.

Speak Now is officially the fastest-selling album in half a decade, beating out rapper Lil Wayne’s 2008 release "Tha Carter III," the last album to reach the one million mark in its debut week. Swift also posted the best initial-week figure since 2005 when rapper 50 Cent sold 1,141,000 copies of his album "The Massacre" in March 2005.

But wait, there’s more… "Speak Now" ranked as the biggest opening week for a female artist in more than a decade, since Britney Spears' "Oops! I Did It Again" sold 1,319,000 in 2000. The new album is also number one on the Digital Album chart with 277,977 units downloaded (the second best digital debut of all-time) and, of course, the #1 Top Current Country Album.

The first-week sales record still belongs to *NSYNC's release "No Strings Attached," in 2000, which sold 2.4 million copies in its first week.