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'2INowBiggestNo.1AlbumSince 1993It seems that every week, there is anewAdele-related accolade to tout.

An d th is week is no different, asher 21 albu m hi ts its 17th week at No.Io n the Billboa rd 200 (95,000; down9%).21 has been No. 1 longer than anyother al bu m since th e "Bodyguard"soundtrack wrapped a 20-week ru n atNo.1 on the May 29,1993, chart.

With 21 sh ifti ng 95,000, th is is thefirst time the albu m has moved fewerthan 100,000 since the Sept. 10, 2011,cha r t, when it shifted 82,000 at No . 3.(Yes, there was a week where it wasn'tNo. 1.)Thus , we fin ally see the No.1 se lleron th e Billboard 20 0 move fewerthan 100,000 copies after 20 stra ightweeks. That handsome streak (Sept.17, 2011-'an. 28, 2012) was th e lon gest ru n of100,000-plus weeks at No.1 sin ce we completed a 29-week streakon March 27, 2010.

Elsewhere on thi s week 's chart , theKidz Bop 21 album debuts at No.2 with59,000 sold .That entrygrants the longrunning ser ies its 14th top 10 set andfourth to reach the runner-up slot. (TheKidz have yetto claim a No.1 seton theBillboard 200.) The last Kidz se t -K idzBop 20-star ted at No. 2 as well, with69,000 sold on the Aug. 6, 2011, chart.PRICE POINT: Toby Keith's Clancy'STavernzooms 228with 17,000(up27%).The latter album's physical CD was salepriced for an unusually low $4.99 atTar

get stores last week. Also priced at on ly$4.99 last week: George Strait 's Icongreatest-hits set (118-66 with 6,000; up63%) an d Le'Andria Johnson 's Th eAwakening ofLe'Andria Johnson (174-79 with 5,000; up 78%). Source s say theTarget promotion will likely be reproduced a few more times thi s year.LATE, GREAT: Etta James makesa powerful impact on the cha r ts thisweek, following her death on ,an . 20.

On the Billboard 200 , she nets herhi ghest-char ti ng a lbum eve r as Th eBest of Etta James-20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection risesfrom No. 162 to No. 46 with 8,000 sold(up 149% over the prev ious week), accordin g to Niel sen SoundScan. Untilthis week , the R&B jblu es legend hadnever gone higher than No. 68, whenAt Last! rose to th at position in 1961.

For th e week ending Su nd ay, jan.

ETTA JAMES

22, james' overall catalo g of album ssold 30,000copies. That marks a 378%increase over the previous week, whenhe r collec ted a lbu ms moved a littlemore than 6,000 u n its. (Impressive,since the tracking week reflected twodays of sales after he r passing.)

james also debuts on the Billboard200 at No. 59 with the 1997 hits collection Her Best (7,000; up 4,226%) and reenters at No. 96 with theaforementioned At Last!(5,000; up 907%).

He r famed s ingle "AtLast" was her best-sellingsong of the week as well. Itshifted 63,000 downloads,enabling its re-entryat No.29 on the Digital Songschart, with a weekly gainof1,361% . "At Last" is oneofjames' 26 charting hits on the BillboardHotlOO-itrosetoapeakofNo.47 on Feb.11 , 1961. Though she's had higher-charting Hot 100 singles, "At Last" is arguablyher signature recording-even thoughshe wasn'tthe first to sing it.

Fortheweek, james' catalog ofsongssold 118,000 downloads (more thanhalf of hat were sales of "At Last"), foran overall ga in of 1,091% comparedwith last week.

Meanwh ile, on the Billboard Hot 100this week, James' voice continues to beheard on two different hits, by way ofa sample.

Herl962Hot100hit"Something'sGot

a Hold on Me" (which peakedwoven into both Avicii's "Levand Flo Rida's "Good FeelinPRESIDENTIAL GAINS:class ic sin gle "Let's Stay Tobuts on R&BjHip-Hop DigNo. 37 this week with 16,00whopp ing490% ), th ank s tofrom President Barack Ob

A videoclising ing the"Let's Stay Tojan. 19 fund-rwent viral onlikely stirrinbig gain . As ttook to the sYork's Apollogive his remarGreen's pres

room and sang a bit of "Togethere are multiple videos ofon YouTube, the three mostsions have been viewed a comillion times at press time.AND NEXT WEEK .. . Avery well find he r sel f at NBillboard 20 0 next week,dications s uggest th e slateleases that ar r ived to mar24won'tposea threatto 21biggest of he bu nch mightGraw's Emotional Traffic,65,000. That should be gofor a No. 2 bow.

IVla."lcet \f\fat(:h A Weekly National Music Sales Report ! Weekly Unit SalesDIGIlAl DIGIIAIAlBUMS AlBUMS' IRACKS

IhisWeek 5,056 ,00 0 2,079 ,00 0 27,889,000laslWeek 5,098,000 2,130,00 0 28,557,000Chang. -0.8% -2.4% -2.3%IhisW . laslYea, 5,248,000 1,904,000 26,378,000(hang. -3.7% 9.2% 5.7%'Oigital album ~ a l e s are also counted within album sales

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Year-To-DatelOll lOll CHANG!

OVERALL UNIT SALESAlbums 15,535,00 0 15,953,00 0 2.7%Digitallra{ks 83,603,00 0 89 ,211 ,000 6.7%SloreSingl . 117,000 146,000 24.8%lolal 99,255,000 10 5,310,000 6.1%Albums w/lEA' 23,895,300 24,874 ,100 4 .1%'Indudes t rack eqUivalent album sales (TEA) wi th 10 track downloads equ iva len tto one album sale

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SALES BY ALBUM FORMATCDDigitalVinylDlhe,

9,703,0005,638 ,00 0

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9,068,000 -6.5%6,650 ,00 0 17.9%

231,000 20 .9%5,000 66.7%

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YEAR-TO-DATE SALES BY ALBUM C(urr.nl 8,038,000 7,314,00(alalog 7,497,00 0 8,639 ,00Deep (alalog 5,772,000 6,887,00

CURRENT ALBUM SALES'11'-_________ >8.. '"'m'12 7. 3 milli

CATALOG ALBUM SALES'1.....= = = = = = = = " " ~ " ' = " "'12 - - - - - - -- - - B.6Nielsen SoundScan counts as current only sales within the first 18album's release (12 months for classical and jazz albums). Titles tt op hal f o f t he Billboard 200 . however. remain 35 cu rrent . Titles omonths are catalog. Deep catalog is a subset of ca talog fo r t itles36 mon ths

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