Hope For Haiti Now Tops Billboard Albums Chart
1/28/2010 12:29:00 PM
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Susan Boyle slips to #2, Spoon see their strongest Billboard debut on next week's chart.When the 20-track Hope for Haiti Now debuts at #1 on next week's Billboard 200 albums chart, it will be the first time in the 54-year history of the chart that a digital-only release has hit the top spot.
All proceeds from the $7.99 Hope for Haiti album — which was available for pre-order through iTunes before Friday's all-star telethon and is now also available through Amazon's MP3 service and Rhapsody — will be donated to the Haiti relief funds. Thanks to sales of 171,000, Haiti Now easily beat out Susan Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream, which holds steady at #2 on sales of 86,000, for a nine-week total just shy of 3.4 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan
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