Lil Wayne & Coldplay Continue To Top US Album Sales Charts

For more than a month, there’s been a heated battle happening on the weekly Billboard albums sales chart, waged between 2008’s best-selling albums: rapper Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III and Coldplay’s Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends.

After Wayne’s latest debuted at #1, selling more than a million copies, Coldplay’s LP swooped in, knocking Tha Carter III from the top spot, where the rockers’ record stayed for two weeks. Last week, Wayne made a comeback, reclaiming the peak position.

According to the latest figures released by Nielsen SoundScan, Wayne’s newest will hold at #1 on next week’s top 200, selling another 124,700 units and bringing total sales of the disc to 1.8 million. Coldplay’s Viva la Vida clings to the #2 spot with sales reported at 112,600. Meanwhile, the soundtrack to the Disney Channel original movie “Camp Rock“ follows at #3 — a position it’s held since its release four weeks ago — with 88,500 scans.

Climbing two spots next week to #5, with 61,000 sold, is Kid Rock’s Rock N Roll Jesus, which experienced a 35 percent sales boost on the strength of the LP’s latest single, “All Summer Long.” Now That’s What I Call Music! Vol. 28 follows at #6 with 48,000 sold, while Rihanna’s Good Girl Gone Bad moves one spot to #8 with 47,000 scans. G-Unit’s T.O.S. (Terminate on Sight) follows at #9, selling another 36,400, while John Mayer’s Where the Light Is rounds things out at #10 with 33,700 sold.

As far as new releases go, there are a total of 23 making their impact felt on next week’s chart, with two opening in the top 10. Beck’s latest, Modern Guilt, enters the chart at #4, having sold 84,300 copies, while the soundtrack to the big-screen adaptation of “Mamma Mia!“ bows at #7 with 48,400 sold. Elsewhere on the chart, the Maine’s Can’t Stop Won’t Stop debuts at #40, scanning 12,100 copies, while New York electronica outfit Ratatat’s LP3 follows at #82, selling 7,800 units.

3Oh!3’s Want enters at #89, having scanned 7,500 copies, with Hit the Lights‘ Skip School, Start Fights trailing at #97 on sales of 7,000 and change. Maroon 5 and Whitechapel are tied at #117, as Live from Le Cabaret and This Is Exile both scanned exactly 5,907 copies. Kerli’s Love Is Dead bows at #126 with 5,500 sold, while Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr.’s sophomore solo offering, ¿Como Te Llama? debuts at #145, after selling 4,500 copies. The Melvins‘ Nude With Boots follows at #148 with 4,400 sold, while Me First and the Gimme Gimmes‘ Have Another Ball claims the #164 slot with 4,000 scans.

Source: MTV