USA
Billboard Report (Excerpt)
Katy Perry doubles up no.1s on Billboard 200 & Digital Song Chart
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
by Keith Caulfield, L.A. & Silvio Pietroluongo, N.Y.

Katy Perry does double duty at No. 1 this week on both the Billboard 200 albums chart and the Digital Songs tally thanks to the arrival of her "Teenage Dream" album. Her second Capitol effort starts atop

the Billboard 200 with 192,000 according to Nielsen SoundScan -- marking her best sales week and a new chart high. She's the first solo woman to reign at No. 1 since January, when Ke$ha's "Animal" spent one week atop the list. Perry's last album, 2008's "One of the Boys," debuted and peaked at No. 9 in July of that year with 47,000 sold in its premiere week. Its best sales frame came over Christmas week of 2008 when it shifted 63,000 -- but at a lower rung on the tally. Former "American Idol" champ Fantasia starts at No. 2 with "Back To Me" (117,000). That marks her highest charting album yet. Her "Free Yourself" debut started and peaked at No. 8 in 2004 and her sophomore effort "Fantasia" topped out at No. 19 in 2006. The latter set entered the chart with 133,000 over a busy Christmas shopping week. The new album also debuts at No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart -- the singer's first topper on that list. "Free Yourself" and "Fantasia" peaked at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively. Eminem's "Recovery" retreats two spots to No. 3 this week with 98,000 (down 15%) while Usher enters at No. 4 with his new "Versus" album (46,000). He also earns a bullet at No. 19 with "Raymond v Raymond" (20,000; up 57%). The latter set was reissued in a deluxe edition with "Versus" as a bonus disc, much in the same way Lady Gaga unleashed "The Fame Monster" both as a stand-alone set last November in addition to bundling it with a reissue of her "The Fame" album. "Versus" gives Usher his sixth top 10 album. Little Big Town's "The Reason Why" debuts at No. 5 with 42,000 and also hits No. 1 on the Country Albums chart. It's both the highest charting Billboard 200 set for the band and its first Country No. 1. "Reason's" 42,000 start also nets the quartet its best sales week ever. Their previous highest sales week came when "The Road to Here" shifted 37,000 over Christmas week of 2005. Kem's "Intimacy" drops four rungs to No. 6 with 30,000 (down 59%) while Justin Bieber's "My World 2.0" climbs one spot to No. 7 with 29,000 (down 3%). Country group Randy Rogers Band also sees a banner week as its new "Burning the Day" enters the big chart at No. 8 and Country Albums at No. 2 with a career-best week of 29,000. Their last set, a 2008 self-titled effort, topped out at No. 29 on the Billboard 200 with a then-best frame of 17,000. Ray LaMontagne's "God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise" descends six positions to No. 9 in its second week, selling 28,000 (down 57%). Closing out the top 10 is a debut from the Devil Wears Prada as the rock band's new "Zombie" EP enters at No. 10 with 25,000. The five-song concept set (it's about zombies, naturally) just inches past the act's previous high-water rank on the Billboard 200. That came when 2009's "With Roots Above and Branches Below" debuted and peaked at No. 11 with 31,000 in its first week. Here's the top 10 on Hot Digital Songs, as calculated by Nielsen/SoundScan. Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" jumps from #2 to #1 (259K). Eminem featuring Rihanna's "Love The Way You Lie" jumps from #3 to #2 (182K). Taio Cruz's "Dynamite" jumps from #4 to #3 (178K). Bruno Mars' "Just The Way You Are" jumps from #6 to #4 (169K). Usher featuring Pitbull's "DJ Got Us Falling In Love" jumps from #7 to #5 (141K); Enrique Iglesias featuring Pitbull's "I Like It" dips from #5 to #6 (140K); Nelly's "Just A Dream" jumps from #8 to #7 (117K); B.o.B featuring Rivers Cuomo's "Magic" jumps from #9 to #8 (115K); Ke$ha's "Take It Off" jumps from #11 to #9 (110K); and Lil Wayne featuring Drake's "Right Above It" drops from #1 to #10 (101K).
Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Aug. 29) totaled 5.12 million units, up 1% compared to the sum last week (5.07 million) and down 12% compared to the comparable sales week of 2009 (5.82 million). Year to date album sales stand at 195.3 million, down 12% compared to the same total at this point last year (222.6 million). Digital track sales this past week totaled 19.88 million downloads, down 2% compared to last week (20.33 million) and down 1% stacked next to the comparable week of 2009 (20.05 million). Year to date track sales are at 762.4 million, down 1% compared to the same total at this point last year (767.4 million).  COMPLETE CHARTS

United Kingdom
Music Week Report (Excerpt)
'Dynamite' exploded at no.1
Monday, August 30, 2010
by Alan Jones, London

Throughout the 10 weeks that Eminem’s latest album Recovery
has been in the albums chart, never falling below number two, the album’s 2nd single Love The Way You Lie has been in the Top 10

of the singles chart, without ever rising above number two. It occupies the slot for the fifth time this week, on sales of 49,681 sales, failing by just 319 sales to top the 50,000 mark for the eighth week in a row. Atomic Kitten’s 2001 chart-topper Whole Again is the only track thus far this century to log upwards of 50,000 sales for eight straight weeks. The Way You Lie is making rapid progress up the year-to-date rankings, leaping 9-4 this week. Like Recovery it topped the 500,000 sales mark last week, advancing to 544,526 sales. Whether it reaches number one on the weekly chart or not, it should make it to the top of the year-to-date rankings by the end of the month: ahead of its current tally lie only OMG by Usher feat. will.i.am (611,062 sales), Helping Haiti’s Everybody Hurts (620,464 sales) and Owl City’s Fireflies (635,689 sales). It also seems likely to eclipse Stan (788,779 sales) as Eminem’s biggest UK hit, and Umbrella (703,806) as Rihanna’s. Ironically, the track keeping Love The Way You Lie off the top of the singles chart here this week is the one that it has kept at number two on the US Hot 100 for the last three weeks – Dynamite by Taio Cruz. Debuting in pole position on sales of 108,397 copies, Dynamite is Cruz’s second number one, following Break Your Heart, which spent three weeks at the summit last autumn, though its first (and highest) weekly sale of 65,401 was considerably less than Dynamite sold last week. Break Your Heart was the first of three singles taken from Cruz’s second album Rokstarr, the others being No Other One and Dirty Picture (feat. Ke$ha), which fared much less well, peaking at number 42 and number six, respectively, Dynamite didn’t appear on Rokstarr domestically but was added for international release and will appear on the expanded The Rokstarr Collection, which is out here in a fortnight. Elsewhere in the top five this week, Club Can’t Handle Me remains at number three for Flo-Rida feat. David Guetta (44,716 sales), Roll Deep’s Green Light descends 1-4 (43,727 sales) and R&B/garage singer Katy B’s debut single Katy On A Mission debuts at number five (34,323 sales). Overall singles sales, at 2,616,066, are up 6.97% week-on-week, and are 6.85% above same week 2009 sales of 2,448,449.
Eminem finds himself in a curious situation this week, with his latest album Recovery returning to the top of the albums chart for a fourth stint, despite turning in the 10th lowest weekly sale for a number one of the 21st century, while his Love The Way You Lie collaboration with Rihanna once again falls short of the singles summit. This is despite the single almost becoming only the second song in the 21st century to register sales of more than 50,000 for eight weeks in a row. On its 10th week on release, Recovery spends its seventh week at number one – a tally bettered by only five albums in the 21st century. Its sales are off by 2.6% week-on-week at 27,081. In 556 weeks thus far in the 21st century, the number one has sold fewer copies on only nine occasions – The Last Broadcast by The Doves sold 22,437 copies (week 19, 2001), Blue’s All Rise sold 23,917 copies (week 17, 2001), Christina Aguilera’s Bionic sold 24,301 copies (week 23, 2010), Lady GaGa’s The Fame sold 25,211 copies (week 14, 2010), The Essential Michael Jackson sold 25,970 copies (week 33, 2009), Working On A Dream by Bruce Springsteen sold 26,158 copies (week 6, 2009), Viva La Vida by Coldplay sold 26,205 copies (week 30, 2008), A New Day by Celine Dion sold 26,380 copies (week 16, 2002) and This Is The Life by Amy MacDonald sold 26,396 copies (week 2, 2008). The copies that Recovery sold last week take it past the 500,000 sales mark. It is the sixth artist album to reach the target thus far this year – four of them 2009 releases. The only 2010 album to sell more is Plan B’s The Defamation Of Strickland Banks, which rebounds 4-2 on its 20th week in the chart, selling 15,157 copies to increase its career tally to 511,447, compared to Recovery’s 509,776. After debuting at number one last week, Iron Maiden’s The Final Frontier dips to number three (14,319 sales).  Echoes, the first single from The Klaxons’ second album, Surfing The Void, improves modestly on its debut, climbing 56-55 (3,976 sales), while the album itself is the week’s highest new entry, debuting at number 10 (8,946 sales). The London-based band’s 2007 debut album, Myths Of The Near Future, was released in the wake of the Top 10 single, Golden Skans, and opened at number two on sales of 57,404. Overall album sales are up 1.6% week-on-week at 1,824,480 – 5.28% below same week 2009 sales of 1,926,098.  COMPLETE CHARTS