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Friday 3 October 2014
Tony Bennett breaks own record
LOS ANGELES
At 88, veteran crooner Tony Bennett broke his
own record as the oldest living artist to land a No.
1 record on the weekly US Billboard 200 album
chart on Wednesday with his latest compilation of
duets with Lady Gaga.
“Cheek to Cheek,” which features New York
singers Bennett and Gaga singing classics such as
“Anything Goes” and “Let’s Face The Music And
Dance,” sold 131,000 copies in its first week
according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan.
Bennett previously set the record for becoming
the oldest-living artist to land a No. 1 album in
2011 aged 85, with his compilation “Duets,” which
included a track with Gaga.
“Cheek to Cheek” is the second compilation of
classic songs to top the Billboard 200 chart for the
second consecutive week, after fellow New York
songstress Barbra Streisand’s “Partners” debuted
at No. 1 last week.
“Partners” dropped to No. 3 this week, behind
country singer Kenny Chesney’s “Big Revival,”
which entered the chart at No. 2 with sales of
130,000.
Other new albums to break into the top ten of the
Billboard 200 chart, which measures physical and
digital album sales across all genres, include
English indie rockers Alt-J at No. 4 with “This Is All
Yours” and a cappella group Pentatonix at No. 5
with “PTX, Vol. III.”
Blues rocker Joe Bonamassa clocked in at No. 8
with “Different Shades of Blues” and R&B singer
Jennifer Hudson rounded out the top ten with her
new album “JHUD.” For the week ending Sept. 28,
total album sales clocked in at 4.4 million units,
down 14 percent from the comparable week in
2013, while year-to-date total sales totaled 175.71
million, also down 14 percent from last year,
Billboard said
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