Billboard Charts: Lil Wayne Reigns Supreme

Posted by Mitch Michaels on 07.16.2008

Plus, debuts by Beck and that ABBA musical...

(Just click on the links for 411mania's review.)

TOP 10 BILLBOARD ALBUMS (7/12/08)
This Week	Last Week	Artist - Album	Sales	Change
1	1	Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III	125k	-20%
2	2	Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends	113k	-25%
3	3	Camp Rock	88k	-23%
4	new	Beck - Modern Guilt	84k	new
5	7	Kid Rock - Rock N Roll Jesus	61k	+34%
6	6	Now That's What I Call Music! 28	48k	-17%
7	new	Mamma Mia!: The Movie Soundtrack	48k	new
8	9	Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad	47k	+17%
9	4	G-Unit - T.O.S. (Terminate On Sight)	36k	-64%
10	5	John Mayer - Where The Light Is: John Mayer Live In Los Angeles	34k	-64%

Notes:

Beck's Modern Guilt debuts at #4. It's his career second-highest chart placement, behind 2005's Guero. 2006's The Information, however, moved more copies in its first week. The single "Gamma Ray" is currently a Top 30 hit on the Rock charts.

Kid Rock's Rock N Roll Jesus continues to climb thanks to the hit single "All Summer Long", which is a Top 40 hit on the Rock, AC, Country and Pop charts. The track is a mash-up of Warren Zevon's "Werewolves In London" and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama".

The soundtrack to the upcoming movie Mamma Mia! debuted at #7 this week. The film is an adaptation of the Broadway hit based on the music of ABBA. ABBA themselves have never had a Top 10 album in the US.

Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad sees another sales increase this week thanks to the successful Reloaded reissue which features the #1 hit "Take A Bow".

Credit: Billboard.com