Pop singer Michael Buble earns his fourth No 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart this week with the arrival of ‘To Be Loved’.
Buble’s last album, 2011’s ‘Christmas’, bowed at No 3 with 141,000. It eventually rose to No 1 four weeks later, remaining there for five consecutive frames.
To compare ‘To Be Loved’ to his last regular studio album, we have to scroll back to 2009’s ‘Crazy Love’. That set debuted at No 1 with 132,000 after only three days on sale, as it was released on a Friday instead of Tuesday.
In the runner-up slot this week is Fantasia with her fourth studio effort, ‘Side Effects Of You’ (91,000). It matches the 2004 ‘American Idol’ winner’s highest rank, logged when her 2010 set ‘Back to Me’ also debuted and peaked at No 2 (117,0
00). However, ‘Side Effects’ represents the smallest opening week for Fantasia, though it’s not all that far from the sales start of ‘Back to Me’ almost three years ago.
Justin Timberlake’s former No 1 ‘The 20/20 Experience’ holds at No 3 for another week, selling 74,000 (down 3%).
Alternative band Phoenix nets a career-high sales week and chart peak as ‘Bankrupt!’ starts at No 4 with 50,000. The act’s fifth studio release easily surpasses the No 37 peak of 2009’s ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix’.
Last week’s No 1, Fall Out Boy’s ‘Save Rock and Roll’, falls to No 5 with 36,000 (down 76%). Blake Shelton’s ‘Based On a True Story’ slips 4-6 with just under 36,000 (down 16%).
