For a change, three debuts broke the 100,000 mark last week, and none of them had a digital share greater than 4%. (That may seem odd, but urban music sells relatively few downloads compared to pop and rock.) Musiq Soulchild's Luvanmusiq (Atlantic) topped the album chart with sales of 149,000 (4% digital). Lloyd's Street Love (Universal Motown) debuted at #2 with 144,000 (3% digital) and Rich Boy's self-titled album (Interscope) debuted at #3 with 112,000 (2% digital).

Two other debuts in the Top 10 were by Neil Young and 8-Ball and MJG.

Another iTunes pre-order success story: UK singer Amy Winehouse's Back To Black (Universal Republic) debuted at #7 with sales just shy of 51,000. An impressive 31% of those sales were digital, which points to a high number of iTunes pre-orders. Normally I would expect Winehouse to drop significantly next week, but she has a good deal of momentum. One thing that is almost sure to drop is the digital-to-physical ratio. By next week it should be well under 30%.

Lily Allen's Alright Still (Capitol) was the lone non-debut in the Top 40 to post a gain last week. The Brit singer's debut album increased 11% and rose to #33 from #39.

Second-week slides: Sevendust slid 65%, Bright Eyes tanked 64%, Reliant K dropped 62%, Notorious BIG dropped 61%, Chimera fell 61%, Arcade Fire sank 60%, Air faded 58%, Korn fell 55% and Finger Eleven dropped 52%.

Overall, album sales dropped 2% from the prior week and were down 17% over the same week in 2006. To date, album sales are 19% lower than last year.

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