
Of its sales last week, 83% were downloads.Ī few more titles in the top 10 benefit from iTunes promotions and sale pricing, including Phillip Phillips‘ The World From the Side of the Moon (11-4 with 63,000 up 8%), Alicia Keys‘ Girl on Fire (18-9 with 44,000 up 6%) and P! nk‘s The Truth About Love (14-10 with 41,000 down 22%). It touted Babel on the front page of its overall store and featured the album in its “new release” section (even though it’s been out for months). 1 album Babel was sale-priced for $6.99 in the iTunes Store last week for a limited time and received major promotion from the retailer. Overall album sales are down by 36% when compared with the previous frame. 1 this week are owed to the lack of major new releases and the usual post-Christmas slowdown in the marketplace. 15 chart, when tobyMac’s Eye on It bowed atop the list with 69,000. The 92,000 that Les Miserables sold is the weakest week at No. 27, 2012, when Babel shifted 96,000 in its third week at No. This week also marks the first frame where no title sold more than 100,000 since the chart dated Oct. That said, the gap between Linkin Park and Maroon 5 was a few hundred units smaller than that of Les Miserables and Mumford & Sons. When rounding sales figures to the nearest thousand - as Billboard does with SoundScan figures - it sometimes renders the difference between very small numbers indistinguishable. That week, Linkin Park’s debuting Living Things beat Maroon 5’s also-debuting Overexposed by just a bit more than 1,000 as well. With a little more than 1,000 copies separating the top two titles on the chart, it’s the smallest gap between Nos. 6, but that didn’t prevent it from beating a surging Babel from Mumford & Sons, which zooms from No. Les Miserables declined 32% in sales in the week ending Jan. The last stage musical-turned-movie musical whose companion album reached No. The last musical film soundtrack to the lead the chart was the Hannah Montana: The Movie album on May 2, 2009. 1 soundtrack on the Billboard 200 since the Hunger Games album opened atop the April 7, 2012, list. 1 on the Billboard 200 this week with 92,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The Les Miserables soundtrack album jumps to No.
