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| January 16, 2007 |
| Jamie Foxx : Sweet Dream Floats to No. 1 |
Girl Power is alive and well.
With the film doing record business at the box office and picking up plenty of awards mojo going into the Oscar season, the Dreamgirls soundtrack has climbed to the top of the charts.
As the holiday season winds down, the music industry enters one its slowest sales periods of the year; with the sales bar set lower, albums with legs often reach new chart peaks. Such is the case with Dreamgirls, which reached number one on the Billboard 200 after five weeks on the charts.For the week ended Sunday, Dreamgirls reached the top spot by selling just 66,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures released today. That's 38,000 copies fewere than it sold the previous week, a 36 percent drop.
The soundtrack--highlighted by the film's stars Beyoncé Knowles, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy and American Idol's Jennifer Hudson--opened at 20 in its inaugural week as the film itself debuted in just a handful of theaters.The film expanded its release nationwide on Christmas Day, when it set the single-day record for ticket sales by a big-screen musical, helping the album's upward climb. That week, Dreamgirls jumped 28 spots to number three.
While Dreamgirls climbed to number one, last week's chart-topper, Omarion's 21, fell nine spots to number 10 on 42,000 copies. While the former B2K singer took one of the hardest hits in the post-holiday slide, a pair of albums fared better with Top 10 returns: Daughtry's self-titled jumped eight spots to three (expect the sales to stay strong as the band embarks on its just-announced new tour) and the Beatles' Love moved up four to nine. |
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