Lady
Antebellum are proving that country is still a dominating force in music, especially
with their new album headed for the top of the Billboard 200 albums
chart after selling 124,429 copies last week.

Need
You Now sales
topped the debut week sales of Sade’s “Soldier of Love“,
but fell short of the blockbuster standard set by Lil Wayne, whom had first
week sales of well over a million units in 2008.

 

Sade’s
“Soldier
of Love“, which led record sales nationwide last week, drops to
#2, with 76,462 copies sold.

 

Singer/songwriter
Blake Shelton has the week’s
second-highest debut, landing at #3 with his sixth solo album “Hillybilly
Bone“. The album includes guest appearances by Trace Adkins, Craig
Wiseman and Luke Laird.

 

The
rest of the top 10 includes:  – Danny
Gokey’s “My Best Day’s” at #4, Lady Gaga’s “Fame“
at #7, Black Eyed Peas’s “The E.N.D.“ at #8, Jason
Derulo  debuts at #9 and Easton Corbin’s self-titled LP also debuts at #10.

 

Lil
Wayne’s Rebirth edged in at #12 in its 6th week on the chart, with a
total of more than 30,929 copies sold.

Other
notable debuts this week include Raheem Devaughn at #11 with “Love
& War”, DJ Khaled #13 with “Victory“ and Gucci Mane at
#49 with “The State vs. Radric Davis“.
After 38 weeks on the chart, Jay-Z’s “Blueprint 3” rests at
the #43 spot moving 12,351 units.

 

I
guess even with an all-star cast, multi-media promo, and a McDonalds commercial
you may win the battle, but that doesn’t mean you will have “Victory”
amongst the consumers. There’s always next time right?