Though not surprising given his ongoing shift away from overtly radio-friendly music, it remains notable that John Mayer’s “Paradise Valley” delivered the second-worst opening sales week of his career.<\/p>\n
With a debut sales tally of 144,000, “Valley” opens as Mayer’s weakest full-length studio album since his 2001 debut “Room for Squares,” which moved just 2,000 copies in its first week.<\/p>\n
That album, however, turned Mayer into a major music star and assured he would spend the next decade moving hundreds of thousands of studio albums in their respective opening weeks.<\/p>\n
“Valley” predecessor “Born & Raised” debuted with 219,000 sales last year. Prior to that, Mayer’s “Battle Studies” topped the charts with a 286,000 opening week.<\/p>\n
The “Paradise Valley” sales figure earned the album second place on the charts beneath Luke Bryan’s holdover “Crash My Party.” That album moved 159,000 in its second week, marking a decline of 70% from last week’s 528,000 bow.<\/p>\n
Also in the top five: TGT’s “Three Kings” (#3, 76K), Jimmy Buffett’s “Songs from St. Somewhere” (#4, 55K) and Earl Sweatshirt’s “Doris” (#5, 49K)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[183,3,1047],"tags":[719,176,656,625,598,626,655],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n