The new Miley Cyrus album
Can't Be Tamed will be the Number 3 album in the USA selling 106,553 copies in the first week of release.
The Number 1 album will be Eminem -
Recovery (753,870 copies) followed by Drake -
Thank Me Later (156,451).
I have to think this is somewhat of a disappointment, considering Miley's last full album
Breakout was #1 and sold 366,267 copies in its first week. This means
Can't Be Tamed sold less than 1/3 of what
Breakout sold in its first week.
Now, it's
possible that digital sales aren't being counted in this. I thought most of the new charts counted digital sales but maybe this one doesn't. iTunes currently lists
Can't Be Tamed as the number 1 album.
These numbers are from
Hits Daily Double, which uses Mediabase tracking, so the final numbers might be slightly different from Billboard, which uses SoundScan. I know Billboard counts digital sales, so if there's any major difference between the two charts that's probably why.