Album sales took a big tumble last week, falling 55% over the previous week. A year ago, the post-Christmas week was 50% lower that its previous week. At 14.2 million, last weeks' total was 16% lower than the same week the previous year. CDs accounted for 90.6% of last week's album sales. Digital accounted for 9%. Compare to exactly one year ago, when CDs were 95% of all album sales and digital was 4.6%.

There are a few talking points only because Columbia put out a few albums in a slow week. Omarian's 21 (Columbia) debuted at #1 with sales of 119,000 (1% digital). The next best debut was Switchfoot's Oh! Gravity (Columbia), which entered the chart at #18 with sales of 46,000 (an impressive 16% digital).

Gift cards and gift certificates must have been redeemed for hip hop albums. For a change, rappers dominated the Top 10. Akon's Konvicted continued its strong showing, coming in at #2 on sales of 112,000. Nas' Hip Hop Is Dead took #4 with 101,000. Young Jeezy's Inspiration: Thug Motivation sold 91,000 and came in at #5. Eminem Presents: The Re-Up rose to #7 from #24 on sales of 84,000.

Second-week fades: Bow Wow sank 78%, Nas dropped 71%, DJ Clue fell 69%, RBD dropped 67% and Trick Daddy fell 66%.

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