After hanging out in the top 10 for a while, Josh Groban has suddenly become a late-year juggernaut, with his holiday-themed Noel disc (one of 26 currently in the Billboard 200) moving 539,000 copies in its 8th week of release. With few notable new releases to speak of, holiday shoppers flocked to reliable sellers like Groban, The Eagles (a 70% increase to 313,000 copies), Alicia Keys (257,000) and Garth Brooks (112,00).
The week's top newcomer is is rapper Pitbull's The Boatlift at No. 50 with 22,000. Yup, that's it.
Despite the big move by Groban, overall sales were still down 16.9% from the same week last year (14.75 million) and 12.1% from last week's total.
Read the full top 10 after the jump.
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