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Stronger than the 110-120,000 total projected by Billboard last week, the mark greatly exceeds any single-week performance from comparable artists Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato.<\/p>\n<p>Though separated from the top by a comfortable margin, Tamar Braxton&#8217;s &#8220;Love &#038; War&#8221; still had a strong week.  With 114,000 sales, according to Billboard, it performed at the high-end of initial expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Nine Inch Nails&#8217; &#8220;Hesitation Marks&#8221; claimed third place with 107,000, besting the 68,000 moved by John Legend&#8217;s debuting &#8220;Love in the Future&#8221; and Luke Bryan&#8217;s monster holdover &#8220;Crash My Party.&#8221;<\/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],"tags":[692,176,757,776,755,756],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ariana Grande&#039;s &quot;Yours Truly&quot; Overperforms, Wins Album Sales Race<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Confirming Hits Daily Double&#039;s preliminary report, Billboard announced Wednesday that Nickelodeon star Ariana Grande will debut at number one on its\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/09\/10\/ariana-grandes-yours-truly-overperforms-wins-album-sales-race\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ariana Grande&#039;s &quot;Yours Truly&quot; Overperforms, Wins Album Sales Race\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Confirming Hits Daily Double&#039;s preliminary report, Billboard announced Wednesday that Nickelodeon star Ariana Grande will debut at number one on its\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/09\/10\/ariana-grandes-yours-truly-overperforms-wins-album-sales-race\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-09-10T21:35:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-09-11T15:29:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/09\/10\/ariana-grandes-yours-truly-overperforms-wins-album-sales-race\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/09\/10\/ariana-grandes-yours-truly-overperforms-wins-album-sales-race\/\",\"name\":\"Ariana Grande's \\\"Yours Truly\\\" Overperforms, Wins Album Sales Race\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-09-10T21:35:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-09-11T15:29:48+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"Confirming Hits Daily Double's preliminary report, Billboard announced Wednesday that Nickelodeon star Ariana Grande will debut at number one on its\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/09\/10\/ariana-grandes-yours-truly-overperforms-wins-album-sales-race\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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