US Charts

Week ending 28 December 2013

US: Billboard Top 40 Singles:

1. The Monster - Eminem Featuring Rihanna 
2. Timber - Pitbull Featuring Ke$ha 
3. Counting Stars - OneRepublic 
4. Say Something - A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera 
5. Royals - Lorde 
6. Demons - Imagine Dragons 
7. Wake Me Up! - Avicii 
8. Wrecking Ball - Miley Cyrus 
9. Let Her Go - Passenger 
10. Story Of My Life - One Direction 
11. Hold On, We're Going Home - Drake Featuring Majid Jordan 
12. Roar - Katy Perry 
13. Burn - Ellie Goulding 
14. Sweater Weather - The Neighbourhood 
15. White Walls - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring ScHoolboy Q & Hollis 
16. Do What U Want - Lady Gaga Featuring R. Kelly 
17. Unconditionally - Katy Perry 
18. 23 - Mike WiLL Made-It Featuring Miley Cyrus, Wiz Khalifa & Juicy J 
19. Stay The Night - Zedd Featuring Hayley Williams 
20. Applause - Lady Gaga 
21. My Hitta - YG Featuring Jeezy & Rich Homie Quan 
22. Dark Horse - Katy Perry Featuring Juicy J 
23. Team - Lorde 
24. Pompeii - Bastille 
25. Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. + Pharrell 
26. Marry Me - Jason Derulo 
27. All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey 
28. Holy Grail - Jay Z Featuring Justin Timberlake 
29. Stay - Florida Georgia Line 
30. Radioactive - Imagine Dragons 
31. Love More - Chris Brown Featuring Nicki Minaj 
32. It Won't Stop - Sevyn Streeter Featuring Chris Brown 
33. Brave - Sara Bareilles 
34. Rap God - Eminem 
35. Best Day Of My Life - American Authors 
36. Carolina - Parmalee 
37. Drink A Beer - Luke Bryan 
38. Sail - AWOLNATION 
39. Show Me - Kid Ink Featuring Chris Brown 
40. All Me - Drake Featuring 2 Chainz & Big Sean 

US: Billboard Top 40 Albums:

1. Beyonce - Beyonce
2. Blame It All On My Roots: Five Decades Of Influences - Garth Brooks
3. Wrapped In Red - Kelly Clarkson
4. Black Panties - R. Kelly
5. Midnight Memories - One Direction
6. Duck The Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas - The Robertsons
7. Because The Internet - Childish Gambino
8. The Marshall Mathers LP 2 - Eminem
9. Prism - Katy Perry
10. Frozen - Soundtrack
11. A Mary Christmas - Mary J. Blige
12. NOW 48 - Various Artists
13. Christmas - Michael Buble
14. Crash My Party - Luke Bryan
15. Here's To The Good Times - Florida Georgia Line
16. Pure Heroine - Lorde
17. Home For Christmas - Susan Boyle
18. ARTPOP - Lady Gaga
19. Night Visions - Imagine Dragons
20. Bangerz - Miley Cyrus
21. A Family Christmas - The Piano Guys
22. Britney Jean - Britney Spears
23. The Sound Of Music: Music From The NBC Television Event - Soundtrack
24. Nothing Was The Same - Drake
25. The Grohl Sessions: Vol. I (EP) - Zac Brown Band
26. PTXmas (EP) - Pentatonix
27. The 20/20 Experience (2 Of 2) - Justin Timberlake
28. Live At The Cellar Door - Neil Young
29. Christmas Symphony II - Mannheim Steamroller/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
30. A Charlie Brown Christmas (Soundtrack) - Vince Guaraldi Trio
31. WOW Hits 2014 - Various Artists
32. Based On A True Story ... Blake Shelton
33. Noel - Josh Groban
34. Nashville: The Music Of Nashville: Season 2 / Volume 1 - Soundtrack
35. Cheers, It's Christmas - Blake Shelton
36. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Soundtrack
37. Red - Taylor Swift
38. Loved Me Back To Life - Celine Dion
39. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Soundtrack
40. NOW Christmas - Various Artists

 Beyonce's new self-titled album remains unstoppable on the Billboard 200 chart, as it spends a second week atop the list. "Beyonce" sold 374,000 copies in the week ending Dec. 22

(down 39%), according to Nielsen SoundScan. It bowed at No. 1 on the previous week's chart, after only three days on sale, with 617,000 sold. The album was released on an off-cycle Friday, Dec. 13. Thus, in its first 10 days of release, "Beyonce" sold 991,000 and is (so far) the 12th biggest-selling album of 2013. There is one more tracking week left in the year -- the week ending Dec. 29. It's likely that "Beyonce" will finish 2013 among the top 10 sellers (all of which have sold at least 1 million this year). Impressively, "Beyonce" sold more copies in its second chart week than the diva's last album, "4," did in its debut on the chart. The latter album was released in 2011 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 310,000. (And, the album was released on a traditional Tuesday, giving the set six days of sales in its debut frame.) Although "Beyonce" became widely available in its second week, its digital sales remain strong (most of those coming from the iTunes Store). Of its 374,000 second week, downloads made up 63% (235,000). It was the top selling digital album of the week, and remains at No. 1 on the Digital

Albums chart. (Among the top selling physical albums of the week, "Beyonce" was the No. 3 seller, behind Garth Brooks "Blame It All On My Roots" and One Direction's "Midnight Memories.") Speaking of Brooks, his Walmart-exclusive box set spends another week at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, selling 199,000 copies (up 16%). The cumulative sales of the six-CD/two-DVD box -- which sells for $24.96 -- now stand at 681,000. The album, like the rest of Brooks' titles, is unavailable as a download. One Direction's "Midnight Memories" is No. 3 on the Billboard 200 -- up two spots -- with 166,000 (up 35%). The set has sold 954,000 in its four weeks on sale. The Robertson's "Duck the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas" album rises two rungs to No. 4 with 132,000 (up 22%), while

Kelly Clarkson's "Wrapped In Red" slips two positions to No. 5 with 124,000 (down 9%). Eminem's "The Marshall Mathers LP 2" climbs two positions to No. 6 (115,000; up 39%), Katy Perry's "PRISM" jumps 9-7 (99,000; up 67%) and the soundtrack to "Frozen" rises 10-8 with 81,000 (up 45%). Michael Buble's "Christmas" returns to the top 10, as it steps 13-9 with 68,000 (up 43%) and Luke Bryan's "Crash My Party" closes out the top 10, rising 14-10 with just over 68,000 (up 44%). Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Dec. 22) totaled 10.6 million units, up 22% compared with the sum last week (8.7 million) and down 17% compared with the comparable sales week of 2012 (12.7 million). Year to date album sales stand at 280 million, down 9% compared to the same total at this point last year (306.2 million). Over on the Digital Songs chart, A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera's "Say Something" remains at No. 1, selling 238,000 downloads (up 2%). That number could grow even larger next week, once the traditional rush of purchases made with newly-received gift cards kicks in. (The chart's sales volume increases dramatically in the weeks after Christmas, as consumers redeem digital download gift cards at retailers like iTunes.) The top five titles on the Digital Songs chart this week are all non-movers. Pitbull's "Timber," featuring Ke$ha, is No. 2 (213,000; up 14%), Eminem's "The Monster," featuring Rihanna, is No. 3 (193,000; up 10%), OneRepublic's "Counting Stars" is No. 4 (168,000; up 16%) and Passenger's "Let Her Go" is No. 5 (135,000; up 14%). Lorde's "Royals" rises 7-6 (111,000; up 14%). Katy Perry's "Dark Horse," which is now officially the third single from her "PRISM" album, gallops 17-7 with just under 111,000 (up 87%). One Direction's "Story of My Life" slides 6-8 on the Digital Songs chart with 110,000 (up 2%). Imagine Dragons' "Demons" descends 8-9 on Digital Songs with 103,000 (up 14%) and Ellie Goulding's "Burn" drops 9-10 with 84,000 (down less than 1%). Digital track sales this past week totaled 21.83 million downloads, up 12% compared with last week (19.57 million) and down 14% stacked next to the comparable week of 2012 (25.5 million). Year to date track sales are at 1.22 billion, down 5% compared to the same total at this point last year (1.28 billion).