Country trio Lady Antebellum has earned their third #1 album on the Billboard 200 Albums chart with their fourth studio effort Golden , selling a total of 167,000 copies.
The band can likely thank Mother’s Day gift shopping for the sales bump, which pushed album sales past its original forecast of around 150,000 copies.
Golden follows Lady Antebellum ‘s previous #’1′s Own the Night (2011) and Need You Now (2010).
Their first album, the self-titled album released in 2008, debuted and peaked at #4. Own the Night serves as their second biggest sales week with 347,000, while Need You Now launched with 480,000.
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Coming in at #2 this week driven by downloads is the Jay-Z executive-produced movie soundtrack for The Great Gatsby , with a total of 137,000 copies, the best sales week for a soundtrack in over a year.
The last to sell more in a week was
The Hunger Games: Songs From District 12 and Beyond
, when it entered at #1 with 175,000.
Now 46 debuts at #3 with 91,000, Michael Buble ‘s To Be Loved is #4 with 84,000, and Pistol Annies ‘ Annie Up enter at #5 with 83,000.
Justin Timberlake remains in the top 10 at #7 with The 20/20 Experience , which pushed another 66,000 copies this week.
Rod Stewart’ s Time serves is the final new debut on the chart this week at #7 with 52,000 copies, while last week’s #1, Kenny Chesney ‘s Life on a Rock falls to #8 with 48,000 copies.
Holding the #9 and #10 spots this week are Blake Shelton ‘s Based on a True Story and Bruno Mars ‘ Unorthodox Jukebox , selling 38,000 and 32,000 respectively.
