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Jul 17, 2009
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‘Michael Jackson is still King, but Maxwell and Hannah Montana make for a nice royal court. The music legend, who also had the week’s third best-seller in Thriller (264,000 copies), dominated the catalog charts so thoroughly that he set yet another record. This time, Jackson-related titles took up the top 12 spots, a feat never before accomplished. (In previous weeks, he set records by taking 9 of the Top 10 and then the entire Top 10.)
Because they are catalog titles, Jackson’s albums are not eligible for the Billboard 200 charts, which gave Maxwell the opportunity to score his second career chart-topper with BLACKsummers’night. The R&B crooner, who previously hit No. 1 eight years ago with Now, sold 316,000 copies of his new disc.
The Hannah Montana 3 soundtrack followed at No. 2, selling 137,00 copies. While prior Hannah Montana discs seemed to top the charts like Groundhog Day, both of her 2009 soundtracks placed in the runner-up spot. Hannah Montana: The Movie did so earlier this year with a similar tally of 139,000 discs.
To recap, the Top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 were as follows:
1. BLACKsummers’night, Maxwell
2. Hannah Montana 3 soundtrack, Hannah Montana
3. Now That’s What I Call Music! 31, various
4. Nothing Personal, All Time Low
5. The E.N.D., Black Eyed Peas
6. American Saturday Night, Brad Paisley
7. Cradlesong, Rob Thomas
8. Fearless, Taylor Swift
9. Relapse, Eminem
10. Lines, Vines and Trying Times, Jonas Brothers
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