Susan Boyle's Album Continues Topping Hot 200, Chris Brown's Flops

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While Susan Boyle adds another impressive number of more than 500,000 copies, Chris Brown suffers from first week sale slumps with only 100,000 units.

December 17, 2009

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For the third week in a row, Susan Boyle sits at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 200 with her debut album "I Dreamed a Dream". After pulling in more than 1 million copies only after two weeks on sale, the record adds another 582,000 units this week.

The number makes "I Dreamed a Dream" become one of the albums to sell at least 500,000 copies in each of its first three weeks of release. And, it's the only effort by a female solo artist to do so. The last set to sell around 500,000 in each of its first three weeks was 50 Cent's "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" in March 2003.

New releases blocked by Susan from the top spot of the chart are "Glee" soundtrack compilation, Chris Brown's "Graffiti" and Gucci Mane's "The State vs. Radric Davis". Despite new entries from Alicia Keys and Robin Thicke next week, she is also predicted to continue ruling the chart.

"Glee" lands its soundtrack set at No. 3 with 173,000. Chris Brown who recently tweeted about major stores blackballing his CD secures No. 7 with 102,000. As for Gucci Mane, the rapper who is currently living behind the bars rounds up the Top 10 with 90,000 copies.

Editors' Pick

Other spots on the chart belong to Andrea Bocelli's "My Christmas" which remains strong at No. 2 with 400,000 units and Taylor Swift's "Fearless" which sits at No. 4 with additional 168,000 copies. There are also Carrie Underwood's "Play On", Lady GaGa's "The Fame", Justin Bieber's "My World" and Michael Buble's "Crazy Love".