Billboard has announced that "sales of albums priced below $3.49 in their initial four weeks of release will be ineligible for inclusion on Billboard's album charts." Nor will the sales count toward Nielsen SoundScan's album sales totals.

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Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto debuted at #1 with over 458,000 sold. This makes it the 3rd highest in first-week sales of 2011, after Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV and Lady Gaga's Born This Way.

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La Dispute's latest album Wildlife entered the Billboard 200 at #135 with just over 3,100 albums sold. Of those, 1,192 units were vinyl.

LIGHTS' new album Siberia entered the Billboard 200 at #44 with over 8,700 records sold. More details in the replies.

Blink 182's new single, "After Midnight," debuted at #88 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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The Devil Wears Prada entered the Billboard Top 200 at #10 this week, selling more than 32,400 copies of their new album, Dead Throne. Big congrats to the band. In other charting news, St. Vincent's Strange Mercy was #18, while We Came As Romans' Understanding What We've Grown To Be came in at #20.

With the first half of 2011 in the books, Idolator considers every album that's hit #1 on the Billboard chart. We Americans like us some weird stuff.

EDIT: The band actually debut at 6, selling over 43k copies.

According to Hits Daily Double, All Time Low's new album, Dirty Work, debut at #5, selling over 47k records in its first week.

Lady Gaga's new album, Born This Way, sold 1.1 million copies in its first week.

Otenki have advanced to the final six bands for the chance to play for the Billboard Music Awards.

Otenki are trying to win a chance to play the Billboard Music Awards. You can vote for them here.

Odd Future is featured on the cover of this week's Billboard Magazine.

For the first time in over 25 years, the top 3 biggest selling albums in the U.S. are all from British artists. With Adele currently at the top spot, Liverpool singer, Marsha Ambrosius debuting at number 2 and Mumford...[read more]

Watch The Downtown Fiction perform "I Just Wanna Run" and Alanis Morrisette's "Ironic" on billboard.com.

The Civil War's new album, Barton Hollow, debuted at #12 on Billboard 200, selling 25,000 copies its first week.

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Billboard has launched the Uncharted Music Chart, which tracks developing artists not on sales but on song streams, page views and fans on myspace, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, and other sources.

Billboard has launched their new feature, dubbed "Social 50 Music Chart," which tracks the most active artists on the world's leading social networking sites.

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Soundscan is reporting A Day To Remember's new album, What Separates Me From You, sold 58,105 first week and is # 11 on the top 200 charts. It is also the # 1 rock album in both the US and UK.

Disambiguation is currently charting at #23 on Billboard.

EDIT: The album debuted at #22.

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Click here to check out Young The Giant on Billboard Tastemakers.

EDIT: We were finally sent the right numbers, as Chiodos actually sold over 11k and debuted at #36.

According to Hits Daily Double, Chiodos' new record, Illuminaudio, charted at #42 with 9,144 albums sold.

Bring Me The Horizon's new album, There Is A Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is A Heaven, Let's Keep It A Secret, charted at #17 on the Billboard. It was also the #2 Hard Rock album as well as the #2 Indie Album.

The cast of Glee has surpassed The Beatles for the most appearances on the Billboard Hot 100 chart by a non-solo act.

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The Devil Wears Prada's Zombie EP debuted at #10 on the Billboard top 200 with 24,539 copies sold it's first week.

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Apparently you can chart on the Billboard 100 without writing a real song.

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It looks like Arcade Fire will have the #1 album in the country when the new Billboard charts come out tomorrow, with 156K albums sold.

EDIT: It's confirmed.

Steel Train's new album came in at #8 on the Billboard New Artists Chart, #4 on the Alternative Artist Chart and within the Top 50 on the Independent Records Chart.

You can now stream Big Boi's new solo album, Sir Lucious Left Foot: Son of Chico Dusty, on Billboard.

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Attack Attack!'s new album debuted at #26 on The Billboard Top 200.

According to this report from Billboard, of the 97,751 albums released last year, only 12 sold over a million copies, and only 2,050 sold more than 5,000 copies.