Scanning Soundscan - 7/28

It’s starting to get a little boring with Eminem at the top of the charts for yet another week, but it has to be a sigh of a relief to those folks hanging on to the old school music industry ledges by their fingernails. This marks five weeks at #1 and at 186k, his sales were only down 4%. Within the next two weeks, Recovery will go Double Platinum.

Rick Ross was widely expected to take the top of the charts this week, but he has to settle for a #2 debut. His previous three albums debuted at #1, but Teflon Don actually debuts to higher numbers than his last, with 176k units sold. Sheryl Crow’s new album 100 Miles From Memphis debuts at #3 with 55k. Her last album in 2008 peaked at #2 with 92k in the first week, so this is a fairly steep fall in sales. The other Top 10 debuts come from Kids Bop 18 at #5, the Jonas L.A. soundtrack at #7.

For the entire Top 200, the only really notable debut I see is from The Books. Their new album The Way Out comes in at #163 with about 3300k sold. That’s only enough to put them at #6 on the Heatseekers chart. The album also was the #2 best seller on vinyl for the week with 600+ copies.

The vinyl chart is topped by the picture disc pressing of Sleigh Bells’ Treats. It sold almost 1000 copies in its second week on sale. I picked a copy up and cannot recommend it. As is sometimes the case with pictures discs and colored vinyl, the audio quality (at least on the copy I purchased) sounds off to my ears, especially on Side 2. Overall sales for Treats are almost sitting at 52k.