If you think Hollywood had a bad summer at the box office, you haven’t been paying attention to the music charts. Even a new album from Maroon 5 can’t get people excited about legally buying music.
The group, fronted by Voice coach Adam Levine, released their fifth album, V, this past week. While it did debut at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart for last week, it old over 50,000 copies less than their last record, which started at No. 2.
According to Billboard, V started its run with 164,000 copies, much less than Overexposed’s 220,000 start at No. 2 in 2012. It did sell 20,000 more copies than 2010’s Hands All Over in its first week at least.
This is only the second time that Maroon 5 has been at the top. In 2007, It Won’t Be Soon Before Long hit No. 1 with a now-unbelievable 429,000 copies sold. Their first album, Songs About Jane, reached No. 6 in 2004 during its chart run.
The No. 2 slot is held by rapper Jeezy, whose Seen It All: The Autobiography sold 121,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan numbers. It is a higher slot than T M: 103 Hustlerz Ambition, but that album started with 233,000 copies in its first week in 2012.
Guardians of the Galaxy took No. 3 with 53,000 copies. Last week’s No. 1, Ariana Grande’s My Everything, dropped to No. 4 with just 42,000 copies sold.
Coming in at No. 5 is, you guessed it... Bob Marley. Yes, thanks to a Google Play store 99-cent sale, the reggae legend’s 1984 set Legend sold 41,000 copies. The week before, it was at No. 100, which just goes to show that the greatest hits set is still selling.
The rest of the Top 10 features: Counting Crows’ Under Wonderland (32,000 copies); Frozen (30,000); Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour (30,000); Now 51 (28,000); and Wiz Khalifa’s Blacc Hollywood (20,000).
Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” came in at No. 1 on the Digital Songs Chart with 312,000 downloads.
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