For a third week in a row, a country singer has the best-selling album in the country. Following on the heels of Zac Brown and Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith topped this week's Billboard 200 chart with Bullets in the Gun.
Making the feat somewhat less impressive: the 71,000 copies of Bullets in the Gun that were purchased in its first week of sales is the lowest total by a chart-topping debut album since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991. That doesn't mean it's the lowest-selling number 1 in history; as Billboard points out, Justin Bieber's My World 2.0 was number one with just 60,000 albums sold back in May 2010, but it had been out for two months by then. Toby Keith's 2009 album, American Ride, debuted at number 3, selling 90,000 copies in its first week.
To be fair, the rest of the albums in the top ten didn't offer Toby Keith much support. The only other debuts on the chart were Bruno Mars' Doo-Wops & Hooligans, which lands at number 3 -with 55,000 copies sold and Flockaveli by Waka Flocka Flame, which spends its first week at number 6 with 37,000 copies sold.
Returning albums included Chesney's Hemingway's Whiskey, which dropped to number 2 with 65,000 copies sold and Eminem's Recovery, which rose one spot to number 4 with 52,000 copies sold. Zac Brown Band's You Get What You Give drops to number 5 with 43,000 copies sold. Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns sold 37,000, Katy Perry's Teenage Dream sold 32,000, Trey Songz's Passion, Pain & Pleasure sold 32,000 and Selena Gomez & the Scene's A Year Without Rain sold 27,000 fill the last four spots in the top ten.
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