Josh Groban almost single-handedly pulled off a Christmas miracle, driving album sales someplace we rarely see these days: Up.
His Holiday-themed disc Noel, after logging a fourth week at #1 (a record for Christmas discs) with a 15% sales surge to 669,000 copies, becomes the top selling album overall in 2007. At 2.7 million that's a pretty paltry number in any other year, but hey, we'll take what we can get at this point.
Sales were up a whopping 24.4% from last week, but still down 23.1% from the same week last year. Wow.
Read the top 10 after the jump.
1. Josh Groban - Noel (669,00)
2. Alicia Keys - As I Am (292,000)
3. The Eagles - Long Road Out of Eden (241,000)
4. NOW 26 - (191,000)
5. Mannheim Steamroller - Christmas Song (180,000)
6. High School Musical 2 (178,000)
7. Hannah Montana 2 (177,000)
8. Taylor Swift - self-titled (139,000)
9. Carrie Underwood - Carnival Ride (137,000)
10. Garth Brooks - The Ultimate Hits (119,000)
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Posted by: Acetrycycle | Sunday, 02 March 2008 at 09:09 PM
very interesting.
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Posted by: music | Monday, 07 January 2008 at 08:43 PM