Adele beats Lana Del Rey's debut at No. 1 on The Billboard 200

Fred Hammond earns his first top 10

By Katie Hasty Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 12:53 PM

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As Adele’s “21” continues its No. 1 reign of The Billboard 200 for a 19th week, Lana Del Rey’s “Born to Die” bows at No. 2. The Interscope artist’s debut moved 77,000 copies, compared to Adele’s 122,000 (up 5% over the previous week’s sales).

Del Rey’s entry is the highest for a female artist’s full-length major label debut since “America’s Got Talent” star Jackie Evancho’s “Dream With Me” started at the runner-up slot in July of last year.

Leonard Cohen’s “Old Ideas” starts at No. 3 with 41,000, making it the legend’s highest charting and sales week ever. Cohen’s last effort, 2004’s “Dear Heather,” bowed and peaked at No. 131 with 9,000.

The “2012 Grammy Nominees” compilation sits tight at No. 4 (34,000, -35%), “Kidz Bop 21” climbs No. 6 to No. 5 (30,000, -9%), Drake’s “Take Care” ascends No. 9 to No. 6 (30,000, +13%) and Tim McGraw’s “Emotional Traffic” falls No. 2 to No. 7 (29,000, -58%).

Gospel artist Fred Hammond’s new “God, Love & Romance” notches 26,000 at No. 8. It’s his first top 10 on The Billboard 200.

LMFAO’s “Sorry for Party Rocking” rockets up No. 18 to No. 9 with the help of a sales price at Walmart and iTunes, plus their brief halftime show appearance on Sunday night at the Super Bowl. Rihanna’s “Talk That Talk” climbs No. 16 to No. 10 (22,000, +17%) with the aide of a discount at Target.

Album sales for the week are up 8% over last week and up 6% compared to the same sales week last year. Sales for the year are up 3% so far.

Katie Hasty
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After five years as a columnist and editor at Billboard, Katie Hasty joined HitFix in 2009 for music and film reporting out of New York. The Midwest native has worked as a writer, music promoter and in A&R since 1999 and performs with her band Numbers And Letters.

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Dorthy

Awesome next week Lana will be number one, people are still finding out about her. Im glad because it has been a long time since America has had a genuine pop artist who doesn't rely on a hand full of writers and autotune. Snobs like Katie bashed her and her album yet her growing fans and Many celebrity musicians are praising the album including Coldplay Katy Perry, Tracy Thorne, Lea Michelle .... Congrats Lana im sure Katies shocked and is playing you now.
February 8, 2012 at 2:11PM EST Reply to Comment
- jkarczek Yes, because only snobs don't pay heed to the cultural wisdom proffered by Coldplay and Katy Perry.
  
  BTW, she COWROTE all of the songs, which means essentially, that she absolutely relies on other writers. She's a confection who is nothing without the contrived mythology that her label and management have built around her, meaning her music is being interpreted through an artificial lens. Evaluated apart from the hype, her music is mediocre. Then again, when Katy Perry is a point of reference...
  
  Lana Del Rey is to music as The Killing is to TV.
  February 8, 2012 at 2:51PM EST

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Adele beats Lana Del Rey's debut at No. 1 on The Billboard 200

Fred Hammond earns his first top 10