'Frozen' Scores Biggest Sales Week Yet, No. 1 For An 11th Week

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For NEEDTOBREATHE, "Rivers" logs the band's best sales week yet, surpassing the No. 6 debut and peak of 2011's "The Reckoning." It entered with a handful of copies less than that logged by "Rivers."
 
"Rivers" also debuts at No. 1 on the Rock Albums and Christian Albums charts.
 
Derulo's "Talk Dirty" scores the pop singer's best sales week as well, exceeding the 42,000 copies of his self-titled debut that he sold in its first week in 2010. The latter album also tallied his previous high-water mark, when it debuted and peaked at No. 11.Derulo's new album — his third full-length effort — is powered by its title track, which hit No. 1 on the Pop Songs airplay chart dated April 26.

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Michaelson's "Lights Out" is the singer-songwriter's second top 10 effort, and follows 2012's "Human Again," which also debuted and peaked at No. 5. It started slightly stronger than "Lights Out," selling 40,000 in its first week.
 
As for the rest of the top 10, Luke Bryan's "Crash My Party" rises 8-6 (33,000; up 77 percent), Pharrell's "G I R L" dips 2-7 (just under 33,000; up 12 percent), and Lorde's "Pure Heroine" rises 12-8 (26,000; up 62 percent). 5 Seconds of Summer's "She Looks So Perfect" falls 3-9 (just under 26,000; up less than 1 percent), and the "Now 49" compilation climbs 13-10 (22,000; up 45 percent).
 
The "Frozen" party continues outside the top 10, as "Disney's Karaoke Series: Frozen" debuts at No. 17 with 15,000 sold. The set tallies the largest sales week for a karaoke album in a little over six years. The last time a karaoke title sold more was in theweek ending Dec. 23, 2007, when two more “Disney Karaoke Series” sets shifted a larger amount. That week, the companion karaoke albums to "Hannah Montana" and "High School Musical 2" sold 22,000 and 16,000, respectively.
 
Over on the Digital Songs chart, Pharrell's "Happy" nets a 10th week at No. 1 (274,000 downloads; up 7 percent) —the longest run at No. 1 since Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" wrapped a 10-week No. 1 reign on the chart dated Aug. 24, 2013. ("Blurred" also featured Pharrell.)
 
John Legend's "All of Me" is stationary at No. 2 (214,000; up 9 percent), as is Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty," featuring 2 Chainz, at No. 3 (198,000; up 22 percent) and Idina Menzel's "Let It Go" at No. 4 (158,000; up 4 percent).
 
DJ Snake & Lil Jon's "Turn Down for What" ascends 8-5 with 120,000 (up 28 percent).
 
Lana Del Rey scores her best debut sales week yet with the arrival of "West Coast." It enters at No. 6 with 118,000 sold. It's the first single from her upcoming album "Ultraviolence," which is due later this year.

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Katy Perry's "Dark Horse," featuring Juicy J, falls 6-7 (113,000; up 2 percent), Ed Sheeran's "Sing" falls 5-8 in its second week (106,000; down 14 percent), and Luke Bryan's "Play It Again" drops 7-9 (105,000; down 3 percent). Aloe Blacc's "The Man" rounds out the top 10, down one spot to No. 10 (91,000; up 2 percent).
 
Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending April 20) totaled 5.3 million units, up 23 percent compared with the sum last week (4.3 million) and down 2 percent compared with the comparablesales week of 2013 (5.4 million). Year-to-date album sales stand at 76.2 million, down 16 percent compared with the same total at this point last year (90.5 million).
     
Digital track sales this past week totaled 24million downloads, up 11 percent compared with last week (21.7 million) and up 1 percent stacked next to the comparable week of 2013 (23.7 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 379 million, down 13 percent compared with the same total at this point last year (434 million).
 
Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2013 when: Michael Buble's "To Be Loved" debuted at No. 1 with 195,000 and Fantasia's "Side Effects of You" started at No. 2 with 91,000.