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It must be torturous for anyone dependent solely on CD sales these days. Long gone are the days when an album would sell 20,000 copies a week for months on end. Now if any album sells that many its first week, label people dance in the streets.

Even though there were three debuts in the Canadian top 10, album sales sunk 2% from last week, 10% from the same week last year and 13% overall year-to-date. Eminem stays at #1 (that’s five weeks in a row) with another 28,000 copies sold for a total of 214,000 so far. That’s the first record in all of 2010 to sell more than 200K.

Way behind in second place is Sheryl Crow, who managed 4,700 copies of 100 Miles from Memphis in its first week in the store. The Biebster is in third spot followed by Drake and Jack Johnson. The last top ten debut is the acoustic EP from Lights which sold just under 3,300 copies.

In America, its more Eminem at #1 (187,000 albums), rapper Ric Ross at #2 (176,000) and Cheryl Crow at #3 (55,400), Drake slips to #4 in America while the Biebster continues to defy gravity at #6, holding steady at nearly 40,000 units a week.

Source: Nielson SoundScan