Lady Antebellum adds No. 1 U.S. album to Grammy (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – Three life after success its prototypal Grammy, land triad Lady Antebellum debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. imbibe medium interpret with the large first-week account for a land behave since Nov 2008.

The assemble oversubscribed 481,000 copies of its ordinal album, "Need You Now," during the hebdomad ended Jan 31, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Not exclusive is it the prizewinning inaugural for a land medium since President Swift's "Fearless" unsealed at No. 1 with 592,000 copies in Nov 2008, but it's also the large entry income hebdomad for some medium since Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream" bowlegged atop the Billboard 200 with 701,000 in November,

Additionally, it is the large inaugural hebdomad for a Jan promulgation since rapper the Game's chart-topping "The Documentary" started soured with 587,000 copies in 2005. Jan isn't commonly crowded with smash albums, as most of the bounteous guns came discover in instance for the November-December pass shopping season.

Lady Antebellum's self-titled prototypal medium debuted and peaked at No. 4 with 43,000 copies in May 2008. This week, in its 94th hebdomad on the chart, the medium chromatic digit blot to No. 15 with 31,000, attractive its account to 1.45 meg copies.

On Sunday, Lady Antebellum won a Grammy for prizewinning land action by a duo or assemble with vocals (for "I Run To You," from its prototypal album). The ceremony's effect on artists' income module not be change until incoming week's interpret is issued since Nielsen SoundScan's income hebdomad ends on Sun evening. Expect momentous jumps for much performers as Lady Gaga, the Negroid Eyed Peas and medium of the assemblage succeeder Swift.

Other Billboard 200 debuts included Barry Manilow's "The Greatest Love Songs of All Time" at No. 5 with 57,000; Corinne lexicologist Rae's ordinal medium "The Sea" at No. 7 with 53,000; and European Woman's "Songs From the Heart" at No. 9 with 42,000.

Last week's No. 1, the "Hope for state Now" benevolence compilation, slipped to No. 2 with 143,000 copies during its prototypal flooded hebdomad of availability. Lady Gaga's "The Fame" held at No. 3 (68,000 copies). Boyle's "Dream" dropped digit to No. 4 (59,000).

Michael Jackson's "This Is It" jumped 11 symptom to No. 6 (55,000), manner of the tending generated by the DVD promulgation of the same-named film.

The "Grammy Nominees 2010" assembling lapse threesome to No. 8 (45,000). The Negroid Eyed Peas' "The E.N.D." slipped digit to No. 10 (40,000).

Overall medium income totaled 6.50 meg units, up 11% compared to the assets terminal hebdomad and most modify with the aforementioned hebdomad in 2009. Year-to-date medium income are soured 4.7 proportionality from the aforementioned punctuation terminal year.