Mariah Carey spends second week at No. 1
Sales of Mariah Carey's “E=MC2” hide 61% in its second workweek, merely the record album still managed to top the subject gross sales graph and garner gold status, thanks to moving 645,000 copies since its April 15 passing.
Carey's album is expected to yield the teetotum spot next hebdomad to Madonna's “Hard Confect,” which was released Tues. Sales should be helped by CD prices as first gear as $9.99 at Amazon River.com and Best Buy.
Just slow Carey's album, Leona Lewis' "Feeling" spent another calendar week at No. 2, with sales of 96,000, about the saame as the album sold a calendar week earlier.
The highest chart debut this workweek comes from New Sjaelland digi-folk duet Flight of the Conchords, which enters at No. 3 with gross sales of 52,000 for its debut record album, "Flight of the Conchords." The album was helped by vulnerability members Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement ar acquiring from HBO's series documenting their travails trying to make it in the U.S.
Ashlee Simpson's "Deadly nightshade Globe" waterfall in slow the Conchords at No. 4. Her third album sold 47,000 copies, a sharp shed from the 220,000 logged in the first base week by its 2005 harbinger, "I Am Me." It has sold a come of 944,000 copies. Her 2004 debut, "Autobiography," had first-week gross revenue of 398,000 and has sold 2.9 billion copies to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Atmosphere's "When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That . . . Gold" debuts at No. 5 on gross revenue of 36,000 copies.
randy.lewis@latimes.com
Paul Schwartz
