| McGraw sails to top
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Tim McGraw's Live Like You Were Dying rockets to No. 1 in Billboard after selling 766,000 copies, his biggest sales week ever and the fifth-highest country opener in the 13-year SoundScan era. With next week's hottest debuts (LL Cool J's DEFinition and Jill Scott's Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2) not expected to crack 200K, McGraw is likely to keep his post even if his sales drop by 70%.
McGraw is predicted to keep the top spot on the Billboard chart next week as well.
He leads four debuts crowning the top 10. R. Kelly's Happy People/U Saved Me is No. 2 with 403,000 copies, Young Buck's Straight Outta Ca$hville is third with 261,000, and Mase's Welcome Back is fourth with 188,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Rounding out the rest of the list are Now 16, Ashlee Simpson, Prince, Maroon 5, Usher and Big & Rich.
Also new to the chart are Pitbull's M.I.A.M.I., No. 14 with 55,000; Jim Jones' On My Way to Church, No. 18 with 44,000; 12 Stones' Potter's Field, No. 29 with 29,000; The Best of the Rolling Stones: Jump Back '71-'93, No. 30 with 29,000; and Jason Mraz Live at the Eagles Ballroom: Tonight, Not Again, No. 49 with 22,000. | |
