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如題....告示牌專輯榜~出道近50年...老將 "尼爾戴蒙" 首度拿下全美專輯榜冠軍!!!
Neil Diamond 尼爾戴蒙 - Amazing Grace (Live @ American Idol 7)


出道近50年...老將 "Neil Diamond 尼爾戴蒙"....
他出道至今...已在全球創下超過1億1千萬張專輯銷售紀錄
的傳奇歌手 "Neil Diamond 尼爾戴蒙"....
從 "Song Sung Blue" 到 "You Don’t Bring Me Flowers (與芭芭拉史翠珊深情對唱)"...
他略帶憂鬱的嗓音迴蕩成不同世代同樣多情的男女心中陣陣漣漪....

上上週 "Neil Diamond 尼爾戴蒙" 參加了....
...的 "Neil Diamond 尼爾戴蒙 Week"....
他上了兩次 "美國偶像" 的節目...大大的宣傳了他的最新專輯...
本週他的最新專輯首度拿下全美專輯榜冠軍!!!

而專輯榜前十名......
幾乎是新發行專輯的天下....
只有 "娜姐" "花蝴蝶" 及 "里歐娜"....
這三張舊專輯在前十名榜內.....
繼續努力呢....!!!


The Billboard 200 告示牌專輯榜 - TOP 10
TW/LW/ "Artist" "Title" "Sales"
1 NEW Neil Diamond - Home Before Dark 146,000
2 NEW Toby Keith - 35 Biggest Hits 103,000
3 1 Madonna - Hard Candy 94,000 (-66%)
4 NEW Clay Aiken - On My Way Here 90,000
5 2 Mariah Carey - E=MC2 87,000 (-9%)
6 3 Leona Lewis - Spirit 76,000 (-10%)
7 NEW Gavin DeGraw - Gavin DeGraw 66,000
8 NEW Josh Groban - Awake Live 58,000
9 NEW Dierks Bentley - Greatest Hits~Every Mile A Memory 2003-2008 43,000
10 NEW Luis Miguel - Complices 32,000
16 NEW Tye Tribbett & G.A. - Stand Out 26,000
39 NEW Tokio Hotel - Scream 16,000


"美國偶像" 現場合唱 "Neil Diamond 尼爾戴蒙" 的組曲...
....還不錯聽呢!!!
Americal Idol 7~Top 5 - "Neil Diamond Medley"



Diamond Dominates Billboard 200 With First No. 1

In another busy week in the top tier of The Billboard 200, Neil Diamond's
"Home Before Dark" zooms in at No. 1, becoming his first chart-topping album.
The Columbia set got a big plug when Diamond appeared on "American Idol"
two weeks ago, bolstering its 146,000 first-week U.S. sales, according to
Nielsen SoundScan.

The Rick Rubin-produced "Home" is Diamond's biggest debut sales week since
SoundScan began tracking in 1991. He first appeared on Billboard's charts
in 1966 with "The Feel of Neil Diamond"; the closest he ever got to No. 1
was with the 1973 soundtrack to "Jonathan Livingston Seagull," which reached
No. 2.

With 103,000 units, Toby Keith's double-disc collection "35 Biggest Hits"
(Show Dog Nashville) bows at No. 2. The country star has scored three prior
No. 1 albums and two No. 2s.

Meanwhile, Madonna's "Hard Candy" (Warner Bros.) falls from the top slot to
No. 3, moving 94,000 with a 66% slip. "American Idol" star Clay Aiken debuts
at No. 4 with "On My Way Here" (RCA), with a slightly less total than "Hard
Candy." Aiken's last studio album, 2006's "A Thousand Different Ways," started
at No. 2 with the much larger sum of 211,000.

Mariah Carey's Island Def Jam album "E=MC2" continues its decline 2-5 with
87,000 (-9%), and Leona Lewis' "Spirit" (Syco/J) slips 3-6 with 76,000 (-10%).


Gavin DeGraw's self-titled sophomore effort from J Records climbs on board
at No. 7 with 66,000. Interest was spurred by the single "In Love with a Girl,"
which has peaked at No. 34 thus far on the Hot 100. "Gavin DeGraw" easily
trumps the No. 103 peak of 2004's "Chariot" and the subsequent entry of "Chariot
-- Stripped" at No. 56.

Josh Groban's concert CD/DVD "Awake Live" (Reprise) starts at No. 8 with 58,000,
his seventh album to chart on The Billboard 200. Another country mainstay
scores a top 10 spot with a hits collection, as Dierks Bentley's "Greatest Hits:
Every Mile a Memory" (Capitol Nashville) opens at No. 9 with 43,000. His most
recent studio album, "Long Trip Home," peaked at No. 5 in 2006.

Latin superstar Luis Miguel claims his highest charting album ever, as "Complices"
takes a bow at No. 10 with 32,000. "Complices" (Warner Music Latina) also gives
Miguel his eighth No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums chart -- the most of any artist
in the history of the list.

Back on the 200, Tye Tribbett & G.A.'s "Stand Out" (Columbia) stands out with a
No. 16 debut (26,000), and German rock troupe Tokio Hotel's "Scream" (Interscope)
enters at No. 39 with 16,000.

Album sales this week are up 6.9% from last week's sum with 8.12 million units
and down 4.6% from the same week last year.

From>>>Billboard