On the Charts: Chrisette Michele Is Number One In Slow Sales Week

From Rollingstone Magazine:

"In a history-making week on the charts, Chrisette Michele scored the first Number One of her career as her second album Epiphany sold 83,000 copies to edge out Hannah Montana and Ciara. However, the 83,000 copies represent the lowest total for an album debuting at Number One in the history of Soundscan. Still, it’s been a quick rise to the top for Michele; her 2007 debut album I Am entered the charts at 29. The Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack clung to Number Two for a third consecutive week, selling a mere 2,000 copies less than Epiphany. Ciara’s Fantasy Ride grabbed Number Three with 80,000 units shifted, a huge decline from the singer’s previous album Ciara: The Evolution, which sold 338,000 copies and debuted at Number One in December 2006. Rascal Flatts’ Unstoppable came in at Four while last week’s champ, Bob Dylan’s Together Through Life filled out the Top Five."

From Billboard Top 200 Soundscan, here is the top 20:

1 MICHELE*CHRISETTE EPIPHANY 83,468
2 HANNAH MONTANA HANNAH MOVIE SNDTRK 81,533
3 CIARA FANTASY RIDE 80,890 999
4 RASCAL FLATTS UNSTOPPABLE 57,987
5 DYLAN*BOB TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE 50,734
6 LADY GAGA FAME 41,328
7 SWIFT*TAYLOR FEARLESS 40,534
8 ROSS*RICK DEEPER THAN RAP 34,828
9 HARPER*BEN/RELENTLESS7 WHITE LIES FOR DARK TIMES 34,363
10 TWILIGHT SOUNDTRACK 31,908
11 DEVIL WEARS PRADA WITH ROOTS ABOVE & BRANCHES BE 30,883
12 VARIOUS NOW 30 29,383
13 NICKELBACK DARK HORSE 28,164
14 ALDEAN*JASON WIDE OPEN 24,720
15 PLAYING FOR CHANGE SONGS AROUND THE WORLD 24,441
16 KINGS OF LEON ONLY BY THE NIGHT 23,919
17 CLARKSON*KELLY ALL I EVER WANTED 23,290
18 BEYONCE I AM...SASHA FIERCE 22,684
19 URBAN*KEITH DEFYING GRAVITY 22,348
20 HILSON*KERI IN A PERFECT WORLD... 22,113

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