Pop Music

Can't touch this!

Sorry.

U2 blows through the album chart this week, with No Line on the Horizon selling 484,000 copies and debuting at number one. Billboard sez it's U2's seventh number-one album, tying them with Led Zeppelin for third behind The Rolling Stones (9) and The Beatles (19).

Taylor Swift's Fearless drops a notch to number two. Neko Case's Middle Cyclone debuts at number 3. Tony Okungbowa's Total Dance 2009 is the other newcomer, in at 13.

The Jonas Brothers' 3D Concert Experience soundtrack drops from 3 to 15. That was quick. They've got the goods to at least have some sort of career, and I'm not convinced that the end of their teenpop days will be a bad thing for them long-term.

This week's painful stats:

• Album units, current chart week: 7 million units

• UP 1.6% from last week's charts: 6.9 million units

• DOWN 8.6% from same week, 2008: 7.7 million units

• This week: Only the No. 1 album sells more than 100,000 copies.

• This week last year on the Billboard 200: Alan Jackson's Good Time started with 119,000 and replaced another Jackson at No. 1, Janet Jackson, whose Discipline slipped to No. 3 with 57,000 (down 68%) in its second week.

 Tags  Billboard Jonas Brothers Neko Case Taylor Swift U2

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