Buble's 'Love' tops U.S. album chart
Oprah appearance boosts crooner's album
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Buble's Warner Bros. set bowed at the top in a flat week, with 132,000 sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures for the week ending this past Sunday. Album's release date was moved up to Friday, to coincide with Buble's appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
Last week's No. 1 champ Barbra Streisand as well as Jay-Z and Whitney Houston all notched recent No. 1 debuts after their TV sessions with Winfrey.
Buble's first No. 1 showing fends off a challenge by costumed hard rockers Kiss, which moves in at No. 2 with "Sonic Boom." Detroit band's album, issued on its eponymous label and sold exclusively at Wal-Mart, shifted 108,000.
Low six-figure sales were good enough to propel Kiss to its highest chart position ever: Veteran act's previous best was 1998's "Psycho-Circus," which peaked at No. 3.
Country singer Toby Keith's "American Ride" (Show Dog/ Universal) coasted onto the top 200 at No. 3 with a 90,000-unit week.
Streisand's ballad-dominated "Love Is the Answer" (Columbia) dropped three slots to No. 4, moving 75,000 units with a 58% week-to-week decline. Rapper Jay-Z's "The Blueprint 3" (Roc Nation) moved up one notch to No. 5 despite a 27% drop, with 65,000 sold.
Ascending country vocalist Luke Bryan's "Doin' My Thing" (Capitol Nashville) arrived at No. 6, corralling sales of 58,000 in its debut stanza.
Pop diva Mariah Carey's "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" (Island) sagged 68% in its sophomore week, selling 54,000 to take the No. 7 spot, off four positions from last week's debut.
With a dip of just 14%, tween queen Miley Cyrus' "Time of Our Lives" (Hollywood), another Wal-Mart exclusive, rebounded into the top 10 at No. 8 with 42,000 sold.
Regrouped '90s boy band Backstreet Boys' "This Is Us" (Jive) debuted at No. 9 with a 42,000-unit opening round.
Meager numbers offer an instructive example of the way the music game has changed: At their peak in 1999, the Boys' "Millennium" exploded onto the chart at No. 1 with a 1.1 million-unit opening week, with 500,000 sold the first day in stores.
Pennsylvania rockers Breaking Benjamin's "Dear Agony" (Hollywood) toppled six slots, representing a 69% drop, to No. 10. The album sold 41,000.
This Friday's Chop Shop/Atlantic indie-rock soundtrack for the forthcoming pic "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is the leading candidate for a major chart debut next week. Release date was moved up from Oct. 20 after music leaked onto the Web.
