Keeping up with the Joneses is nothing compared to keeping up with the Jonases.
The Jonas Brothers�Joe, Kevin and Nick�just landed the third-biggest opening week of the year. Their latest album sold a whopping 525,000 copies to debut at No. 1, i of trey Jonas-powered joints in the top 10.
A Little Bit Longer, which sold north of cc,000 on its low day in stores last-place week, trails only Lil Wayne's million-plus Tha Carter III and Coldplay's 721,000-copy Viva la Vida as the year's biggest debuts, per Nielsen SoundScan.
If that weren't enough, the Jonas boys are just the secondment sibling pretend to top the charts since the Bee Gees reigned supreme in the 1970s. (The Isley Brothers' Body Kiss accomplished the feat in 2003.)
The Jonases were all over the place. The Disneyfied band's eponymous soph album, released just over a year ago, inched its way back up the charts to No. 10, selling 31,000 copies. This marks the first time in well-nigh a decennium that a group simultaneously claimed 2 top 10 spots. ('N Sync did it utmost in January 1999.)
And the Jonas-juiced Camp Rock soundtrack finished the week at No. 8, selling some other 50,000 copies. Released in June in connection with the Disney Channel film, the disc is already the 10th best-selling album of the year, moving 861,000 copies to date.
The Mamma Mia! soundtrack, which rose to No. 1 last week, slipped to No. 2 on gross sales of one hundred ten,000. All told, the top heptad albums on the new chart ar all onetime No. 1 albums, a first in the 45-year history of the comprehensive pop albums chart, per Billboard.com.
Elsewhere, Daddy Yankee sold nearly 26,000 copies of the Talento De Barrio soundtrack at No. 13, patch Yung Berg's Look What You Made Me opened at No. 20 with 19,000. Milking their reunion hitch, the oldsters in New Kids on the Block came in at 22, marketing 19,000 copies of their Greatest Hits. (Their reunion album, The Block, hits the retail racks in two weeks.)
Other notable debuts include the Toby Keith-led Beer for My Horses soundtrack at No. 74, Extreme's Saudades de Rock at No. 78 and Janelle Mon�e's Metropolis: The Chase Suite at No. 115.
In other chart news, Nickelback's unstoppable All the Right Reasons notable its hundred-and-fiftieth week on the charts at No. 84, up 11 spots from terminal week. Clearly the oldest title on the charts, Reasons made its debut in October 2005.
American Idol runner-up David Archuleta as well made newsworthiness, as his debut single "Crush" topped the Digital Tracks chart by marketing 166,000 copies.
Overall, album sales ar up nearly 3 percent from last week only down 9 percent compared to the same week in 2007, when High School Musical 2 made its monster debut atop the charts.
Here's a recap of the top-selling albums for the week terminated Sunday:
1. A Little Bit Longer, Jonas Brothers
2. Mamma Mia! soundtrack, various
3. Rock n Roll Jesus, Kid Rock
4. Breakout, Miley Cyrus
5. Love on the Inside, Sugarland
6. Tha Carter III, Lil Wayne
7. Viva la Vida, Coldplay
8. Camp Rock soundtrack, various
9. Good Girl Gone Bad, Rihanna
10. Jonas Brothers, Jonas Brothers
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