Usher's latest album Raymond V. Raymond debuts at the top of the Billboard 200 this week, selling a solid 329,000 copies, displacing last week's top seller and Usher protege Justin Beiber and his second album My World 2.0, which falls to #2.
Beiber's disc actually saw a 3% increase in sales to 291,000. It's extremely rare for an album to post a sales GAIN after its debut week, so congrats to the little guy!
This is Usher's third straight #1 album, starting with Confessions in 2004, and Here I Stand in 2008. Unfortunately he has not been able to reach the monster smash of Confessions, which sold over 10 million copies in the U.S. and turned him into an R&B/Pop powerhouse.
Here's a rundown of this week's top 10 albums:
1. Usher Raymond V Raymond (329,000)
2. Justin Beiber My World 2.0 (291,000)
3. Various Artists Now 33 (123,000)
4. Erykah Badu New Amerykah, Part Two: Return of the Ankh (110,000)
5. Lady Antebellum Need You Now (87,000)
6. Monica Still Standing (81,000)
7. Alan Jackson Freight Train (72,000)
8. Justin Beiber My World (63,000)
9. Lady Gaga The Fame (49,000)
10. Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (43,000)
(Image courtesy of hip-hop-dance.net)
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