UPDATE: The chart wasn't updated to include this week's sales in the PMB. In the meantime, here is the Top 16. Only 30,593 albums separate Mary J. Blige and Carrie, who is steadily moving in on that #4 spot. Carrie didn't outsell Mary as much as she did last week and Mary's sales may increase on next week's charts because of the BET Awards. Thus, the soonest we can expect Carrie to finally take that #4 spot is (and this is just a wild guess) late July.
Incidentally, I hope 2m updates the charts at the PMB soon. I really don't like computing numbers, and I might just be forced to do that since I want to see a longer list and I have a lot of time on my hands, LOL! Would any of our dear CFer's who are also PMB members mind asking 2m for the updated charts? I've tried repeatedly to register on PMB but I could never make it work for some reason
1 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK 2,563,227
2 ME & MY GANG RASCAL FLATTS 1,938,570
3 BACK TO BEDLAM JAMES BLUNT 1,634,252
4 THE BREAKTHROUGH MARY J BLIGE 1,478,891
5 SOME HEARTS CARRIE UNDERWOOD 1,448,298
6 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC! 21 VARIOUS ARTISTS 1,321,969
7 T.I. KING 1,301,857
8 DIXIE CHICKS TAKING THE LONG WAY 1,190,254
9 AMORE ANDREA BOCELLI 1,114,097
10 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS EMINEM 1,059,742
11 ALL THE RIGHT REASONS NICKELBACK 1,042,249
12 10,000 DAYS TOOL 1,033,831
13 UNPREDICTABLE JAMIE FOXX 1,022,836
14 IN MY OWN WORDS NE-YO 995,404
15 THE LEGEND OF JOHNNY CASH JOHNNY CASH 995,347
16 THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE FIFTIES BARRY MANILOW 958,886
Compared to last week:
1 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK 2,497,014
2 ME & MY GANG RASCAL FLATTS 1,883,297
3 BACK TO BEDLAM JAMES BLUNT 1,605,324
4 THE BREAKTHROUGH MARY J BLIGE 1,460,055
5 SOME HEARTS CARRIE UNDERWOOD 1,415,165
ETA: Since I computed the top 16, I might as well put it on the first post. Now off to compute for the Billboard chart year thread...