Thursday 25 September 2014

Maroon 5 Tops Billboard 200 With 'V'

Jeezy starts at No. 2 on the list, while Bob Marley earns its highest ever album charts.

The pop band Maroon 5 nabs his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 as its release fifth studio - aptly named V - debuts atop the list. 164,000 copies were sold in the week ending September 7, according to Nielsen SoundScan.


164000 The start is a drop in the arrival of the group's latest album, Overexposed 2012, which launched with 222,000 at No. 2, however, the arc of V is larger than the disk that came before Overexposed - 2010 Hands All Over, which debuted at No. 2 with 142,000.

Maroon 5 topped the chart once before, with his second album, 2007, will not be soon. This release continues to maintain best week personal group sales when the album moved 429,000 in its debut frame. There will be soon followed the group's debut album advance, Songs About Jane, which peaked at No. 6 in 2004 and spent 122 weeks on the chart.

Rapper Jeezy continues Maroon 5 in the new letter as his last effort, Seen It All: The Autobiography, arrives at No. 2 with 121,000. Also enters at No. 1 in both the Top R & B / Hip-Hop Albums and Rap Albums Chart. Jeezy's last album, 2012 TM: 103 Hustlerz Ambition (credited to Young Jeezy), debuted and peaked at number 3 on the Billboard 200, selling 233,000 copies in its first week.

The Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack rises one rung to No. 3 in the latest Billboard 200, selling 53,000 copies (up 10 percent). Its cumulative sales totaled 426,000. No. 1 album last week, My Everything Ariana Grande, slips to No. 4 in its second week, selling 42,000 (down 75 percent).

Next on the table, reggae legend Bob Marley says his biggest charting album ever as legend greatest hits set (with his band The Wailers) jumps from No. 100 to No. 5 (41,000, up by 1,166 percent). Great gain should be set to the store discounting Play Google the title to 99 cents during the tracking. The digital album normally sells for about $ 8.

Legend was released in 1984, and previously as high left as No. 18 in 2012 Marley has visited 10 once before with Rastaman Vibration 1976, which peaked at No. 8 in the July 4, 1976, the letter-dated.

After Marley's rock band Counting Crows debut with somewhere below Wonderland, bowing at No. 6 with 32,000. It is the sixth top 10 album, and first since Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings 2008 debuted and peaked at No. 3.

The closing of the second half of the 10's soundtrack Frozen (holding at No. 7 with 30,000, up 11 percent), Sam Smith on the Lonely Time (5-8 with just under 30,000, 4 per percent), the Now 51 compilation (8-9 with 28,000; 10 percent) and Wiz Khalifa Hollywood Blacc (6-10 with 20,000, 34 percent).

Over on the Digital Songs chart, Meghan Trainor "All About That Bass" regains No. 1 slot, up a step, selling 312,000 downloads (17 percent). Leader last week, Taylor Swift, "Shake It Off" immerses No. 2 with 281,000 (21 percent) in its third chart week. "Shake" has sold 1.2 million downloads.

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