Album sales were way, way down this week, which meant another week on top for Frozen: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
The album's tenth week on top of the charts brought with it a series of records and accomplishments. First of all, the record sold another 133,000 copies, which easily helped it surpass 2 million in total sales. Frozen joins a crew of ten other albums that has spent at least ten weeks atop the Billboard 200, four of which were soundtracks. One of those other film accompaniments was The Lion King, which Frozen now joins for the most weeks at no. 1 for an animated film soundtrack.
Things take a huge drop from that point. Pharrell Williams and G I R L come in at no. 2 with 29,000 units moved, more than 100,000 less than Frozen. Williams actually saw a boost in sales last week thanks to a stop at Good Morning America in the album's sixth week. Still, that's the lowest selling no. 2 album in the history of Nielsen Soundscan's sales tracking. Boy group 5 Seconds of Summer saw a much larger drop from last week but only dropped to no. 3 overall with its EP She Looks So Perfect. The EP moved slightly fewer copies than Williams' did.
The low sales allowed a number of acts to occupy the middle of the Top 10, beginning with MercyMe. The band also barely got over 26,000 copies with its eighth album, Welcome to The New. Following behind them at no. 5 was Black Label Society, which was just under 26,000 copies sold with its Catacombs of The Black Vatican. SoMo sold 23,000 copies of his self-titled album and placed no. 7, which marked the performer's first ever stop in the Top 10. The last debut in the Top 10 comes from Martina McBride, who released a covers album titled Everlasting, which placed at no. 7 with 21,000 copies moved.
McBride may have topped the country albums charts last week, but the slow sales allowed for two long-since released albums make a reemergence. Yes, Luke Bryan rode his hosting gig at the ACM Awards and got Crash My Party back into the Top 10, at no. 8. The album moved 19,000 copies. Florida Georgia Line also reaped the benefits, as Here's To The Good Times jumped back to no. 10 with 17,000 copies sold. No. 9 also belonged to someone who appeared at the ACMs, even if it wasn't a country performer. Shakira joined fellow The Voice host Blake Shelton at the ceremony, and her self-titled album sold 17,000 copies in its third week.
