This week's record sales charts are in, and it looks like Attack Attack!'s This Means War managed to sneak into the top 10 overall with 17,500 sold. Congrats to Rise Records. Perhaps more importantly, they outsold Nickelback - who came in at No. 11. Please leave your thoughts on this in .gif form in the replies. Also relevant: read more]

Head to the replies to see a screen shot of this week's sales numbers, according to HITS Daily Double. Adele's 21 once again tops the chart - moving a ridiculous 123,000 units while the second place album - Drake's Take Care - shifts 43,000 records. A friend of mine and I have been keeping track of Adele for a few months now, and as far as we can tell, she has not sold anything less than 100K in every week since 21's release on Feb. 22, 2011. Worth adding is that her last record - 19 -...[read more]

For the first time in history, the sale of digital music has surpassed physical. It was bound to happen.

Soundscan is reporting vinyl record sales of 3.9 million units over the course of 2011, which is a 39.3 percent gain of the 2010 numbers (2.8 million). In the replies you can see a graphic of what the growth of vinyl record sales looks like in bar graph form. I wrote about this topic last year, and a gain of 1 million units over the last year is amazing. Have you started buying vinyl yet?

Drake's Take Care has gone platinum.

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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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Looks like Drake is projected to move close to 700k units of Take Care, while Childish Gambino is projected to move somewhere between 45-50k of Camp.

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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.

According to Hits Daily Double, Bon Iver's new album, Bon Iver, Bon Iver, sold over 104k copies in its first week, good enough to debut at #2.

Having sold some 10,000 DVDs and downloads since its release, the feature-length documentary Foo Fighters: Back & Forth has debuted at #1 on the Billboard DVD chart.

City and Colour has landed the #27 position on Billboard’s Top 200 chart with Little Hell (Vagrant/Dine Alone), the highest US debut ever for Canadian singer/songwriter Dallas Green. Little Hell is also #7 on the Top Independent Albums chart.

Lady Gaga's Born This Way set another record this week: sales of the album dropped off by 84% from its sizzling (but discount-inflated) opening week.

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

Explosions In The Sky's new album Take Care, Take Care, Take Care has debuted at #16 on the Billboard Top 200, selling approximately 19,000 units since its April 26 release.

Foo Fighters' seventh album has become its first to hit #1 in the band's native U.S., selling 235,000 in the week. Wasting Light debuts at #1 in eleven other countries--including the UK where it ends Adele's 11-week run atop the albums chart, and Australia and New Zealand where it has had the biggest first week digital album sales in both country's chart histories.

Rise Against is expected to sell 80-90k copies of their new album in the first week.

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Aerosmith sales jumped 260% after the American Idol debut of Steven Tyler.

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The Decemberists have captured the top spot on the Billboard 200 by selling 93K copies of The King Is Dead.

Taylor Swift's Speak Now made sales history by having the #1 album, despite selling under 54,000 copies. This is now the lowest sales for a #1 album in a week.

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2010's album sales were terrible. Lowlights: Only 13 records sold over a million copies (and only 4 of those sold over 2 million copies). The highest selling album went to Eminem, which sold 3.4 million copies. An impressive sum, until you think about his Marshall Mathers LP selling 10 million copies a decade ago. Read all about the misery here, you theives.

Bad Books' album is expected to debut at #55 on the Billboard Top 200, selling 8,000+ copies in its first week.

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Jimmy Eat World's Invented is projected to debut in the charts with sales of around 40-45k.

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With 253,685 copies sold in the first week, Linkin Park have nabbed themselves another #1 album.

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Anberlin's Dark Is The Way, Light Is Place is expected to sell around 35-40k copies in its first week of availability.

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The Maine will debut at number 16 this week with over 22k copies of Black & White sold.

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Bandcamp will soon start taking 15% of each transaction made on their site.

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Emarosa sold 5700 copies of their record in its first week.

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With over 754,000 records sold, Eminem's Recovery has the highest first week sales since AC/DC's Black Ice.

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Eminem's Recovery is set to sell 590-615,000 copies in the first week, making it the current highest first-week sales for 2010.

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