This probably comes as no surprise to many, but Christina Aguilera's new disc Bionic debuted at a disappointing #3 on this week's Billboard 200 Albums chart, selling only 110,000 copies. That is a HUGE decline from 2006's Back to Basics, which debuted at #1 with 346,000 copies sold.
It appears that Xtina is in the middle of an identity crisis; she says that she evolves and likes to change her sound all the time, but right now it just seems as if she is jumping on the auto-tune-sleeze-dance-pop ban wagon. And what makes it worse is that her new songs pale in comparison to that of dance pop divas like Lady Gaga, Rihanna, and Britney.
Beating Aguilera this week were two soundtracks. The latest Glee soundtrack took the #1 spot this week, selling 152,000 copies, a very solid number for the franchise (but not such a solid number for a #1 album.)
The soundtrack to the new Eclipse came in at #2 with a reported 144,000 albums sold last week. The first two soundtracks for the Twilight movies (the original Twilight and New Moon) have sold millions, so it will be interesting to see how this one holds up.
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