Chris Brown earns his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, as "Fortune" debuts atop the chart, selling 134,000 copies accor...
Brown is the second R&B hitmaker in a month to debut at No. 1 with a comparably soft launch. Four weeks ago, Usher's "Looking 4 Myself" started at No. 1 with 128,000. That marked a significant slide from the 329,000 first week of his last full-length album, the No. 1-debuting "Raymond v Raymond."
Had it not been for Brown's new "Fortune" release, we would have seen a surprise return to No. 1 for Katy Perry, as her "Teenage Dream" set zooms from No. 21 to No. 2 with 80,000 (up 417%) -- and its best sales frame since Christmas of 2010. The set was one of 20 titles the Amazon MP3 store sale priced for 99 cents -- for one day only -- on July 3. (Perry also benefits from buzz earned by the release of her "Part of Me" film, which hit U.S. theaters on July 5.)
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