US Charts

Katy Perry scores the fastest No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 by an artist signed to Capitol Records in nearly 43 years, as "California Gurls,", rises 2-1 in its fourth week on the chart. The song makes the quickest sprint to the summit by a Capitol single since Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe" likewise reached the top spot in four weeks on the chart dated Aug. 26, 1967. Five months before Gentry, the Beatles' "Penny Lane" had also zipped to No. 1 in four frames.
Jack Johnson gets his third US No.1 album this week with “To The Sea” after selling a massive 243,000 copies. The album breaks an eight-week long streak of No. 1s selling less than 200,000

Top 5 U.S Albums:
5: Usher – ‘Raymond Vs Raymond’
4: Lady Antebellum – ‘Need you now’
3: Cast of ‘Glee’ – ‘The Music Volume 3: Showstoppers’
2: Justin Bieber – ‘My World 2.0’
1: Jack Johnson – ‘In the sea’

Top 5 U.S Singles:
5: Travie McCoy – ‘Billionaire’
4: Ke$ha – ‘Your love is my drug’
3: B.o.B feat... Eminem ‘Airplanes’
2: Usher feat... Will.i.am – ‘OMG’
1: Katy Perry – ‘California Gurls’

Overall album sales in this past chart week totalled 5.16 million up 4% compared to the sum last week (4.98 million) and down 19% compared to the comparable sales week of 2009 (6.39 million). Year to date album sales stand at 130.6 million, down 11% compared to the same total at this point last year (146.6 million)