Country singer Luke Bryan has scored a huge hit with Crash My Party. The album earned the third-best sales week of 2013 and is another No. 1 album for Bryan on the Billboard 200 album chart.
Billboard reports that Crash My Party sold 528,000 copies during its first week. It continued Bryan’s success on the charts, since his Spring Break . . . Here to Party also topped the chart in March.
Crash My Party’s debut comes in behind Jay Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail (over 528,000 copies) and Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience (968,000) for the best debuts of the year so far.
Bryan left the competition in the dust. The No. 2 album is Rebellious Soul by K. Michelle, which only sold 72,000 copies. Still, that is the best debut for a solo female R&B singer since Marsha Ambrosius’ first album came out in March 2011.
Now 47 came in at No. 3 2ith 52,000 copies, while Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines had 48,0000. The Civil Wars fell from No. 1 to No. 5 with only 39,000 copies in its second week.
The rest of the Top 10 includes: Magna Carta Holy Grail (37,000); Teen Beach Movie (33,000); Florida Georgia Line’s Here’s To The Good times (31,000); Imagine Dragons’ Night Visions (27,000); and Five Finger Death Punch's The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell (22,000).
Katy Perry topped the Digital Songs Chart with “Roar,” which was downloaded 557,000 times in the past week.
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