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Country star Stapleton tops
Billboard chart again
Country singers Chris Stapleton and Eric Church kept pop singer Ellie Goulding from the top n spot on the weekly US Billboard 200 album chart on Monday.
Stapleton’s Traveller spent its second consecutive week at NO.1 with
124,000 album units sold in the week ending Nov 12, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan.
Church’s Mr. Misunderstood climbed one spot to No.2 with 65,000 units sold. Both Stapleton and Church saw boosts in sales following their appearances and wins at the Country Music Awards earlier this month.
At No.3 was British singer Goulding’s latest album Delirium which sold 61,000 units.
Other new entries in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart included country singer Tim McGraw’s Damn Country Music at No.5, while a re-is-sue of The Beatles’ 2000 compilation album 1, featuring all of the British band’s chart-topping hits, made its debut at No.6. Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles’ What’s Inside: Songs From Wait entered the chart at No.10.
The Billboard 200 chart tallies units from album sales, song sales (10 songs equal one album) and streaming activity (1,500 streams equal one album).
On the Digital Songs chart, which measures online download sales, Adele’s ballad Hello held onto the top spot for a third week with 480,000 downloads. REUTERS