'Fortune' tops Billboard album chart

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'Fortune' tops Billboard album chart

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Fortune sold 134,000 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

12 July,2012 09:49 am

Rapper Chris Brown scored his second No. 1 debut with new album Fortune topping the Billboard 200 chart on Wednesday, despite failing to impress critics in early reviews last week.Fortune sold 134,000 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan, a considerably lower debut than the singers previous album F.A.M.E., which also reached No. 1 with 270,000 copies in its debut week last year.Browns was the only new album in the top 10 this week.A surprise entry from pop star Katy Perry took the No. 2 slot on the album chart. Her Teenage Dream record, released almost two years ago in August 2010, notched 80,000 unit sales last week, fueled by her new movie Katy Perry: Part Of Me and Amazon.coms offer of the album for 99 cents on July 3.The Amazon.com offer, which saw several albums priced at 99 cents for one day only, also pushed Gotyes Making Mirrors, Fun.s Some Nights and the Black Keys El Camino albums back into the top 10 of the Billboard 200, at No. 6, No. 7 and No. 10 respectively.Justin Biebers Believe held steady at No. 3, Maroon 5s Overexposed notched No. 4, and Linkin Parks Living Things fell from the top spot last week to No. 5.