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No one was really expecting any big numbers this week because there was really nothing new of note in the last seven days.  Releasing an album in the last weeks of July or the first couple of weeks of August is usually a bad idea, given that people are too busy with summer to care about shopping for CDs.  (The exception this year is The Suburbs from the Arcade Fire, which came out yesterday.  But we’ll talk about that next week.)

Canadian CD sales are down 1% over last week—not horrible—and down 3% over the same period last year.  And the year-to-date numbers improved slightly, leaving the market 12% behind last year instead of 13%.

For the sixth week in a row, Eminem has the best-selling album in the country, moving another 24,000 copies.  That’s down 16% from last week, but hey, it’s to be expected.  Em‘s Recovery has sold 238,000 copies in Canada so far, which is powerful stuff.

The top debut album of the week is Nightmare from Avenged Sevenfold.  They enter the album charts at #2 with 14,000 copies. 

In America, Avenged Sevenfold debuted at #1—impressive, given their constituency—with about 162,000 albums.  Eminem gets bumped to #2, but still moved 159,000 CDs.  And there’s still significant CanCon in the American top ten thanks to the Biebster (38,000, good for #4) and Drake (34,000, #5).

Source:  Nielsen SoundScan