With 55.94% of reports now in, Idol singers help to fill the top 3 slots. Adam Lambert’s Sophomore album “Trespassing” is leading the charge and is predicted to stay there. Right behind him is the ever popular Now series with “Now 42”. Kelly Clarkson has the lead-off track on that compilation album and XF’s 1D has a track as well. Rounding out the top 3 is Carrie Underwood who has dominated the HDD chart for the last 2 weeks. Is this the first time Idols have topped the BB200 chart for 3 weeks in a row? Carrie should continue to top the Country Album chart this week.
Adele finds herself in the unusual position of 4th. While she has been out of the top 3 before, it doesn’t happen very often. Lionel Richie just keeps selling and selling with his duets album at 5. The second highest debut is currently from Glee. Their Graduation Album is racking up some good numbers, but not like in the days of yore. One Direction is in 7th, Luke Bryan is 8th, Tenacious D debuts at 9th and Nicki Minaj completes the top 10.
The only other solo Idol on the HDD top 50 is Kelly Clarkson at 40. As previously mentioned, she is on Now 42 and has a duet on Jason Aldean’s album at 13th. Katharine McPhee is featured on the Smash soundtrack at 15 while Jennifer Hudson sings the title track on “Think Like a Man” at 44. Voice judge Blake Shelton is at 27th.
CHART DATE: 05/21/2012
LAST UPDATE: 05/21/2012 14:59:44
NOW IN: 55.94%
LW TW artist / album label power index
— 1 ADAM LAMBERT TRESPASSING 34,803
4 2 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 42 VARIOUS ARTISTS 32,607
1 3 CARRIE UNDERWOOD BLOWN AWAY 31,896
2 4 ADELE 21 29,715
3 5 LIONEL RICHIE TUSKEGEE 22,415
— 6 GLEE CAST THE GRADUATION ALBUM 17,979
6 7 ONE DIRECTION UP ALL NIGHT 16,764
11 8 LUKE BRYAN TAILGATES & TANLINES 13,404
— 9 TENACIOUS D RIZE OF THE FENIX 10,577
13 10 NICKI MINAJ PINK FRIDAY… ROMAN RELOADED 9,449
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23 13 JASON ALDEAN MY KINDA PARTY 8,170
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18 15 SMASH CAST CMUSIC OF SMASH 7,263
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36 27 BLAKE SHELTON RED RIVER BLUE 4,453
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37 40 KELLY CLARKSON STRONGER 3,270
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31 44 THINK LIKE A MAN SOUNDTRACK 2,808
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49 50 MARVIN SAPP I WIN 2,192
