Billboard: Miley Cyrus Scores Fifth No. 1 Album With 'Bangerz'

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Everything's coming up Miley!

Miley Cyrus has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with her latest studio album, Bangerz. Led by the hit singles "We Can't Stop" and "Wrecking Ball," the album sold 270,000 copies in its first week, easily claiming the top spot.

Miley's last studio album, 2010's Can't Be Tamed, debuted and peaked at No. 3, so this No. 1 ranking marks the singer's auspicious return to the top of the charts, and all the more so for the milestone the debut represents. Including the soundtrack albums recorded as Disney character Hannah Montana, this is Miley's fifth No. 1 album. The Disney Channel series' first soundtrack topped the chart in 2006, and was followed by the soundtrack to the show's film adaptation in 2009. Cyrus scored her third No. 1 with the Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus double album in 2007, and her fourth with Breakout in 2008.

Debuting at No. 2 this week is the latest from Panic! at the Disco, whose Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die album sold 84,000 copies. The band took this spot from Drake, whose Nothing Was the Same slips to No. 3 this week with 83,000 copies sold. Meanwhile, fellow hip-hop artist Pusha T made his solo top 10 debut with his new album My Name Is My Name, which sold 75,000 copies to come in at No. 4.

Perhaps most surprisingly, last week's No. 1 album, Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2, saw an 80.08% percent decline in its second week, falling to No. 5 with 70,000 copies. This makes the album the largest second-week percentage drop for a No. 1-debuting album since Kanye West's Yeezus declined by 80.26% in late June. In No. 6, Lorde's "Pure Heroine" fell 51 percent with 63,000 copies sold.

No. 7, meanwhile, sees one of the bigger stories of the chart this week, as the Glee cast returned to the top 10 for the first time in nearly two years with the soundtrack to the show's Cory Monteith tribute episode, The Quarterback. The EP debuted at No. 7 with 47,000 copies sold, with proceeds from sales of the six-song collection benefiting the Project Limelight charity.

In other TV-related Billboard news, The Voice Season 3 winner Cassadee Pope debuted at No. 9 with her first major-label album, Frame by Frame, which sold 43,000 copies. Strengthened by strong promotion, including a reality series on CMT, Frame by Frame has not only cracked the Top 10 on the Billboard 200, it has also gone on to debut at No. 1 on the Country Albums chart. This makes Pope's album the most successful debut of any Voice winner so far, although that's an admittedly low bar to clear: Frame by Frame easily surpassed the No. 134 debut of season one winner Javier Colon, whose Come Through For You sold a disappointing 10,000 copies in its first week. Jermaine Paul and Danielle Bradbery, the respective winners of the second and fourth seasons of NBC's reality singing competition, have yet to release their post-win albums.

However, while the chart is largely dominated by pop and hip hop, rock is not to be forgotten this week. The No. 8 spot is occupied by Korn's The Paradigm Shift, which is the 12th Top 10 album for the eclectic rock group. Meanwhile, No. 10 features the Top 10 debut of Mayday Parade, Monsters In the Closet, which earned the group its best sales week ever with 30,000 copies sold (besting their previous first-week record of 27,000).

The full Billboard 200 Top 10 are as follows:

1. Miley Cyrus, Bangerz (270,000 copies)

2. Panic! At the Disco, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die (84,000 copies)

3. Drake, Nothing Was the Same (83,000 copies)

4. Pusha T, My Name Is My Name (75,000 copies)

5. Justin Timberlake, The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2 (70,000 copies)

6. Lorde, Pure Heroine (63,000 copies)

7. Glee Cast, The Quarterback (47,000 copies)

8. Korn, The Paradigm Shift (46,000 copies)

9. Cassadee Pope, Frame by Frame (43,000 copies)

10. Mayday Parade, Monsters in the Closet (30,000 copies)

Via: Billboard