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Artist News
Cake top US album chart with record-breakingly low sales
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 20 January 2011
Cake’s new album ‘Shows Of Compassion’ is currently sitting at the top of the Billboard 200 chart in the US, which is nice. However, the achievement will be slightly tarnished by the fact that it got there by selling just 44,000 copies, making it the lowest selling album to make it to number one in the history of the chart.
Conversely, over in the American digital songs chart, Britney Spears’ ‘Hold It Against Me’ has shot straight to the top with 411,000 sales, which is, according to Billboard, “the largest debut for a woman as a lead artist”.
Over this week, American album sales were down 11% year on year to 10.3 million units, while digital track sales were up 8% to 57.2 million.
