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1AlbumSince 1993
It seems t hat ever y week, there is a new
Adele-related accolade to tout.
And th is week is no different, as
her 21 album hit s its 17th week at No.
Ion the Billboard 200 (95,000; down
9%).21 has been No. 1 longer than any
other album since the "Bodyguard"
soundt rack wrapped a 20-week run at
No.1 on the May 29,1993, chart.
With 21 sh ifti ng 95,000, this is the
first time the album has moved fewer
than 100,000 since the Sept. 10, 2011,
char t, when it shifted 82,000 at No. 3.
(Yes, there was a week where it wasn' t
No. 1.)
Thus, we finally see the No.1 sell er
on the Billboard 200 move fewer
than 100,000 copies after 20 straight
weeks. That handsome streak (Sept.
17, 2011-'an. 28, 2012) was the lon-
gest run of100,000-plus weeks at No.
1 since we completed a 29-week streak
on March 27, 2010.
Elsewhere on thi s week's chart, the
Kidz Bop 21 album debuts at No.2 with
59,000 sold. That entry grants the long-
running ser ies its 14th top 10 set and
fourth to reach the runner-up slot. (The
Kidz have yetto claim a No.1 seton the
Billboard 200.) The last Kidz set-Kidz
Bop 20-started at No. 2 as well, with
69,000 sold on the Aug. 6, 2011, chart.
PRICE POINT: Toby Keith's Clancy'S
Tavernzooms 228with 17,000(up27%).
The latter album's physical CD was sale
priced for an unusually low $4.99 atTar
get stores last week. Also priced at only
$4.99 last week: George Strait's Icon
greatest-hits set (118-66 with 6,000; up
63%) and Le'Andria Johnson's The
Awakening ofLe'Andria Johnson (174-
79 with 5,000; up 78%). Sources say the
Target promotion will likely be repro-
duced a few more times thi s year.
LATE, GREAT: Etta James makes
a powerful impact on the char ts this
week, following her death on , an. 20.
On the Billboard 200, she nets her
hi ghest-charting album ever as The
Best of Etta James-20th Century Mas-
ters: The Millennium Collection rises
from No. 162 to No. 46 with 8,000 sold
(up 149% over the previous week), ac-
cording to Niel sen SoundScan. Until
this week, the R&Bjblues legend had
never gone higher than No. 68, when
At Last! rose to that position in 1961.
For the week ending Sunday, j an.
ETTA JAMES
22, j ames' overall catalog of albums
sold 30,000copies. That marks a 378%
increase over the previous week, when
her collected albums moved a little
more than 6,000 u n it s. (Impressive,
since the tracking week reflected two
days of sales after her passing.)
james also debuts on the Billboard
200 at No. 59 with the 1997 hits collec-
tion Her Best (7,000; up 4,226%) and re-
enters at No. 96 with the
aforementioned At Last!
(5,000; up 907%).
Her famed singl e "At
Last" was her best-selling
song of the week as well. It
shifted 63,000 downloads,
enabling its re-entry at No.
29 on the Digital Songs
chart, with a weekly gain
of1,361%. "At Last" is one
ofj ames' 26 charting hits on the Billboard
HotlOO-itrosetoa peakofNo.47 on Feb.
11, 1961. Though she's had higher-chart-
ing Hot 100 singles, "At Last" is arguably
her signature recording-even though
she wasn'tthe first to sing it.
Fortheweek, james' catalog of songs
sold 118,000 downloads (more than
half of that were sales of "At Last"), for
an overall gain of 1,091% compared
with last week.
Meanwhile, on the Billboard Hot 100
this week, James' voice continues to be
heard on two different hits, by way of
a sample.
Herl962Hot100hit"Something'sGot
a Hold on Me" (which peaked at No. 37) is
woven into both Avicii's "Levels" (No. 68)
and Flo Rida's "Good Feeling" (No.3).
PRESIDENTIAL GAINS: AI Green's
classic single "Let's St ay Together" de-
buts on R&BjHip-Hop Digital Songs at
No. 37 this week with 16,000 sold (up a
whopping490%), thanks to a little help
from President Barack Obama.
A videoclip of Obama
singing the first line of
"Let's Stay Together" at a
jan. 19 fund-raising event
went viral on jan. 20, thus
likely stirring the song's
big gain. As the president
took to the stage at New
York's Apollo Theater to
give his remarks, he noted
Green's presence in the
room and sang a bit of "Together." While
there are multiple videos of the moment
on YouTube, the three most popular ver-
sions have been viewed a combined 5.8
million times at press time.
AND NEXT WEEK ... Adele may
very well find herself at No.1 on the
Billboard 200 next week, as early in-
dications s uggest the slate of new re-
leases that arr ived to market on , an.
24won'tpose a threatto 21 'sreign. The
biggest of the bunch might be Tim Mc-
Graw's Emotional Traffic, with maybe
65,000. That should be good enou gh
for a No. 2 bow.
IVla."lcet \f\fat(:h A Weekly National Music Sales Report

Weekly Unit Sales
DIGIlAl DIGIIAI
AlBUMS AlBUMS' IRACKS
IhisWeek 5,056,000 2,079,000 27,889,000
laslWeek 5,098,000 2,130,000 28,557,000
Chang. -0.8% -2.4% -2.3%
IhisW .. klaslYea, 5,248,000 1,904,000 26,378,000
(hang. -3.7% 9.2% 5.7%
'Oigital album are also counted within album sales
Weekly Album Sales (Mi ll ion Uni ts)
30
25
20
- 2012
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Year-To-Date
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OVERALL UNIT SALES
Albums 15,535,000 15,953,000 2.7%
Digitallra{ks 83,603,000 89,211,000 6.7%
SloreSingl .. 117,000 146,000 24.8%
lolal 99,255,000 105,310,000 6.1%
Albums w/lEA' 23,895,300 24,874,100 4 .1 %
'Indudes t rack eqUivalent album sales (TEA) wi t h 10 track downloads equivalent
to one album sale
DIGITAL TRACKS SALES

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SALES BY ALBUM FORMAT
CD
Digital
Vinyl
Dlhe,
9,703,000
5,638,000
191,000
3,000
89.2 million
9,068,000 -6.5%
6,650,000 17.9%
231,000 20.9%
5,000 66.7%
For week end ng Jan. 22, 20 12. Figures are rounded
Compiled from a national sample of ret ail store and rack
sales reports cOllect ed and provided by SoundScan
lOll lOll CHANG!
YEAR-TO-DATE SALES BY ALBUM CATEGORY
(urr.nl 8,038,000 7,314,000 -9.0%
(alalog 7,497,000 8,639,000 15.2%
Deep (alalog 5,772,000 6,887,000 19.3%
CURRENT ALBUM SALES
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'12 7.3 million
CATALOG ALBUM SALES
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Nielsen SoundScan counts as current only sales within the first 18 months of an
album's release (12 months for classical and jazz albums). Titles that stay in the
t op half of t he Billboard 200. however. remain 35 current . Titles older than 18
months are catalog. Deep catalog is a subset of cat alog for t itles out more than
36 mont hs
Go to www.billboard.biz for complete chart data I 37