Also congratulations also goes to a previous American Idol winner Carrie Underwood who sold a massive 318,000 copies of her second album “Play on” “Play On” is the largest sales week for an album by a woman in 2009 and the second-best sales week for a country release behind Rascal Flatt’s “Unstoppable” which sold 351,000 in the first week of release.
Top 5 U.S. Singles:
5: Jay Sean feat... Lil Wayne – “Down”
4: Iyaz – “Replay”
3: Jason DeRulo – “Whatcha say”
2: Jay-Z & Alicia Key’s – “Empire State of mind”
1: Owl City – “Fireflies”
Top 5 U.S. Albums:
5: Various Artists – “Now 31”
4: Various Artists – “Glee: The music Vol…1”
3: Andrea Bocelli – “My Christmas”
2: Michael Jackson – “This is it”
1: Carrie Underwood – “Play on”
Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending 8th Nov) are down 2% compared to the same sales week of 2008 (7.02 million).
Year to date album sales stand at 294.4 million, down 13% compared to the same total at this point last year (339.3 million).
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