{"id":20078,"date":"2013-10-08T16:48:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T20:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=20078"},"modified":"2013-10-09T11:54:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T15:54:50","slug":"timberlake-wins-album-sales-race-lordes-pure-heroine-debuts-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/10\/08\/timberlake-wins-album-sales-race-lordes-pure-heroine-debuts-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberlake Wins Album Sales Race, Lorde&#8217;s &#8220;Pure Heroine&#8221; Debuts Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re Justin Timberlake, not even a massive slip can knock you off the top spot.<\/p>\n<p>Despite selling significantly less units than its predecessor, Timberlake&#8217;s &#8220;The 20\/20 Experience Part 2&#8221; cruised to a dominant victory in the weekly album sales race.  According to Billboard, &#8220;20\/20&#8221; sold roughly 350K copies for a convincing first place finish.<\/p>\n<p>Its margin of victory over the number two album&#8211;roughly 200K copies&#8211;makes the fact that Part 2&#8217;s opening week tally trailed that of Part 1 by more than 600K readily digestible.<\/p>\n<p>Filling that number two position is Drake&#8217;s &#8220;Nothing was the Same,&#8221; which moved approximately 148K.  Given the front-loaded nature of marquee hip-hop albums, its massive week-over-week decline, while jarring on paper, was not unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>Teen alt-pop sensation Lorde claimed the number three spot with her debut LP &#8220;Pure Heroine.&#8221;  Fueled by industry recognition and the international success of its smash single &#8220;Royals,&#8221; which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 last week, &#8220;Heroine&#8221; moved 129K.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Bryan&#8217;s holdover smash &#8220;Crash My Party&#8221; claimed fourth place on the strength of 32,000 units, while Tyler Farr&#8217;s &#8220;Redneck Crazy&#8221; landed in fifth with 29,000 sales.<\/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":[943,54,651,640,872,809,897],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Timberlake Wins Album Sales Race, Lorde&#039;s &quot;Pure Heroine&quot; Debuts Well<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When you&#039;re Justin Timberlake, not even a massive slip can knock you off the top spot. 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