Billboard Charts: Hannah Montana #1 Again
Posted by Mitch Michaels on 07.04.2007
Return Of The Cyrus...
Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 this week, scoring over 320,000 sales units. The double disc set is both the soundtrack to the popular Nickelodean show and the debut album of its star, Miley Cyrus. The season one soundtrack spent two weeks at #1 during the fall of 2006 and has been certified triple platinum. Cyrus' father, Billy Ray Cyrus, who also appears on the TV program, hit #1 fifteen years ago with his country debut, Some Gave All.
Kelly Clarkson debuts at a strong #2 this week with her third album My December. It's good news for the former American Idol, whose had trouble recently with her label, management and ticket sales. The set moved just shy of 300,000 units, marking a better debut week than her previous album, Breakaway, which started at #3.
Last week's Top 3 all slip down two places. Bon Jovi's country-tinged Lost Highway falls from the top spot to #3, The White Stripes' Icky Thump places #4 this week and country star Brad Paisley's 5th Gear drops from #3 to #5 in its second week.
Songstress Amy Winehouse sees her Back To Black rise a spot to #6 this week, matching her previous best position. The album has spent nearly four months on the countdown and is the only non-debut to experience a sales increase this week. Winehouse's fourth single from the record, "Tears Dry On Their Own", was recently released to radio.
Former alt country darling Ryan Adams' ninth album, Easy Tiger, debuts at #7, easily becoming his highest charting record yet. The album is the follow-up to 2005's 29, which peaked at #144, most likely due to the fact that it was the third of three Adams CDs released that year.
Familiar faces round out this week's Top 10. Former #1 Minutes To Midnight, by Linkin Park, falls two spots to #8, while Paul McCartney's Hear Music debut, Memory Almost Fall, takes a sharper slide from #5 to #9. Maroon 5's sophomore effort, It Won't Be Soon Before Long, falls from #8 to #10 in its sixth week.
