Carrie Underwood Claims Her First Number One Album
Posted by aeschtunes on October 31, 2007
Carrie Underwood debuts on top of the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart with her new album, Carnival Ride. The album sold 527,000 copies. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand debuts at number two, selling 112,000 copies.
Gary Allan’s Living Hard debuts at number three, selling 69,000 copies. Serj Tankian (lead singer for System of a Down) debuted at number four with his first solo album, Elect the Dead; the album sold 69,000 copies.
Josh Groban’s Noel falls one spot to number five, selling 65,000 copies (which is a 2% sales increase). Coheed & Cambria’s No World for Tomorrow debuts at number six, selling 62,000 copies.
Kid Rock’s Rock N Roll Jesus slips five spots to number seven, selling 61,000 copies (which is a 21% sales decrease). Rascal Flatt’s Still Feels Good falls five spots to number eight, selling 57,000 copies (which is a 19% sales decrease).
Seether’s Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces debuts at number nine, selling 57,000 copies. And the soundtrack to High School Musical 2 falls three spots to number ten, selling 57,000 copies (which is a 1% sales decrease).
Album sales are up 5.2% from last week at 8.34 million units sold. However, sales are down 16.8% from the same week in 2006 (when 10.03 million units were sold).
