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On the Digital Songs chart, there isn't a single debut within the top 40, though one single makes a big move into the top 10, as OneRepublic's "Good Life" vaults 12-6 with 137,000 (up 23%). It's the song's fourth straight weekly sales gain. The tune is also rising up the Pop Songs list, climbing 13-11 this week.
Elsewhere on Digital Songs, Nos. 2-5 are stationary, as Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night" (191,000; down 7%), Pitbull's "Give Me Everything" (159,000; down 17%), Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" (158,000; down 7%) and Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" (137,000; down 10%) fill those spots, respectively. Hot Chelle Rae's "Tonight Tonight" climbs 9-7 (129,000; up 1%), Lil Wayne's "How to Love" holds at No. 8 (just under 129,000; up less than 1%) and Jason Aldean's "Dirt Road Anthem" rises one to No. 9 (126,000; down 1%).
Lady Gaga's "The Edge of Glory" returns to the top 10, climbing one rung to No. 10 with 103,000 (down 15%). She also stages a return to the top 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as "Born This Way" ascends 12-8 with 30,000 (down 21%).
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As for the rest of the top 10 albums, Adele's "21" stays put at No. 2 (79,000; down 13%) and Selena Gomez & the Scene's "When the Sun Goes Down" rises 4-3 with 44,000 (down 43%). In a weird chart quirk, Gomez's decline in sales (but rise up the chart), gives the actress/singer her highest charting album yet.
Aldean's "My Kinda Party" jumps 6-4 (42,000; down 12%), Bad Meets Evil's "Hell: the Sequel" goes 9-5 (35,000; down 16%) and Jackie Evancho's "Dream With Me" moves up two to No. 6 (34,000; down 23%). Jill Scott's "The Light of the Sun" slips 5-7 (32,000; down 41%) and Big Sean's "Finally Famous" falls 3-9 (27,000; down 69%).
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Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending July 10) totaled 5.34 million units, down 16% compared to the sum last week (6.34 million) and up 2% compared to the comparable sales week of 2010 (5.24 million). Year to date album sales stand at 160.81 million, up 1% compared to the same total at this point last year (159.20 million). It is the seventh week in a row where year-to-date album volume is greater than the same time in the prior year.
Digital track sales this past week totaled 23.25 million downloads, down 9% compared to last week (25.45 million) and up 10% stacked next to the comparable week of 2010 (21.09 million). Year to date track sales are at 684.05 million, up 11% compared to the same total at this point last year (618.53 million).
Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2010 when Eminem's "Recovery" held at No. 1 for a fourth week, selling 195,000 (down 15%). Korn's "Korn III" was the top debut, arriving at No. 2 with 63,000.
