A smaller week in sales for new albums meant that an old face returned to the top of the Billboard 200.
The Frozen Original Motion Picture Soundtrack saw a slight decrease in sales from last week, when it was no. 3, but the 99,000 copies it sold was enough to make it no. 1 for the sixth nonconsecutive week. The total also made the album the first to sell more than 1 million copies during 2014. Let's see if it can hold out for a seventh.
The top placing new album this was the sixth installment in Luke Bryan's annual "Spring Break" series, titled Spring Break 6...Like We Ain't Ever, which sold 74,000 copies and placed at no. 2. Last year's version debuted at no. 1 and has sold 495,000 copies to date. Last week's no. 1, Rick Ross' Mastermind, drops to no. 3 after adding an addition; 49,000 copies sold.
Aloe Blacc has been responsible for two of the bestselling singles of the last two years-in Avicii's "Wake Me Up!" and his own "The Man"-but his most recent full-length, Lift Your Spirit, topped out at 45,000 copies sold in its debut week. Another R&B performer came in at no. 5 with a return performance. Pharrell Williams and his album G I R L added another 45,000 in sales and only dropped three spots.
A pair of new releases drop in at nos. 6 and 7. Billboard didn't give how many copies Stereolithic sold, but we can tell that 311 sold between 31,000 and 45,000 copies. The first number comes from the total that Young Money Records sold with its Rise of An Empire compilation. The title is somewhat ironic, considering that the last Young Money collection sold 142,000 copies.
Lorde's album Pure Heroine celebrated its sixth month on the charts, and it continues to hang around. The album sold another 27,000 copies, which kept in at no. 8, at least for this week.
The final two albums in the Top 10 both come from the country scene. No. 9 was a new entry, coming from stalwart Sara Evans. Her album Slow Me Down sold 27,000 copies in its first week. The final place this week goes to Eric Church and The Outsiders, which sold 23,000 copies and managed to stick around during its fourth week of release.
