Alicia Keys’ new album “The Element of Freedom” logged impressive first-week sales of 417,000 copies, enough to put her at No. 1 just about any other week of this year.
But she has to settle for a debut in the runner-up slot this week, as Susan Boyle’s “I Dreamed a Dream” continues at the top of the national sales chart for a fourth consecutive week.
Boyle’s collection posted a 14% sales increase over last week, logging 661,000 copies heading into the final days before Christmas, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That puts the album’s four-week total at 2.4 million, ahead of Michael Jackson’s “Number Ones” and behind only Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” on the list of the biggest-selling albums of 2009.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times.
