Note: The Heatseeker chart only includes artists who (including this week) have never been in the top 100 albums.

I think the fact that she's number 2 in the Classical Crossover Chart is much more important, and quite promising for next week's main chart. CLICK HERE TO VIEW

Dave L. UK Correspondent

HEATSEAKER CHART

This Week Last week Weeks on chart Artist, "Title" Imprint | Catalog No. | Distributing Label Peak Position 1 3 9 Jeremy Camp, Carried Me: The Worship Project  | 39613 | BEC | (18.98 CD) 1 2 - 1 In Flames, Soundtrack To Your Escape  | 1231 | Nuclear Blast | (16.98 CD) 2 3 5 18 Finger Eleven, Finger Eleven  | 13058 | Wind-up | (16.98 CD) 1 4 8 18 Ron White, Drunk In Public UME | 001582 | Parallel/Hip-O | (12.98 CD) 4 5 - 1 Toots And The Maytals, True Love  | 27186 | V2 | (18.98 CD) 5 6 12 34 Rooney, Rooney Interscope | 000242 | Geffen | (9.98 CD) 2 7 - 1 Blue County, Blue County  | 78833 | Curb | (18.98 CD) 7 8 32 38 Gavin Degraw, Chariot RMG | 20058 | J | (11.98 CD) 1 9 6 5 Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand  | 27* | Domino | (14.98 CD) 5 10 7 40 The Postal Service, Give Up  | 595 | Sub Pop | (14.98 CD) 4 11 13 28 Shinedown, Leave A Whisper AG | 83566 | Atlantic | (12.98 CD) 7 12 - 1 Ginny Owens, Beautiful  | 20009 | Rocketown | (18.98 CD) 12 13 - 1 Hayley Westenra, Pure Universal Classics Group | 001866 | Decca | (18.98 CD) 13 14 27 39 Jeremy Camp, Stay  | 40456 | BEC | (16.98 CD) 13 15 - 1 Dead Poetic, New Medicines Tooth & Nail | 95909 | Solid State | (14.98 CD) 15 16 - 1 NB Ridaz, nbridaz.com Upstairs | 1020 | NastyBoy | (13.98 CD) 16 17 22 2 Snow Patrol, Final Straw Interscope | 002271 | Polydor/A&M | (12.98 CD) 17 18 19 2 Vicente Fernandez, Se Me Hizo Tarde La Vida  | 91025 | Sony Discos | (14.98 EQ CD) 18 19 10 7 Passion Worship Band, Passion: Hymns Ancient And Modern  | 83817 | Sparrow | (18.98 CD) 5 20 - 1 Mark Lowry, The Best Of Mark Lowry Volume One  | 42559 | Gaither Music Group | (18.98 CD) 20 21 25 23 him, Razorblade Romance UMRG | 001429 | Jimmy Franks/Universal | (12.98 CD) 8 22 14 2 Toby Lightman, Little Things AG | 83623 | Lava | (12.98 CD) 14 23 15 3 Jem, Finally Woken  | 21519 | ATO | (12.98 CD) 15 24 11 9 Keb' Mo', Keep It Simple Sony Music | 86408 | OKeh/Epic | (18.98 EQ CD) 4 25 38 14 Chris Rice, Run The Earth, Watch The Sky Zomba | 20001 | Rocketown | (18.98 CD) 5

CLASSICAL CROSSOVER CHART - APRIL 24th

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks on Chart Artist, "Title" Imprint | Catalog No. | Distributing Label Peak Position 1 1 1 23 Josh Groban, Closer 3  143/Reprise | 48450 | Warner Bros. | (18.98 CD) 1 2 - - 1 Hayley Westenra, Pure  Decca | 001866 | Universal Classics Group | (18.98 CD) 2 3 2 3 13 Amici forever, The Opera Band  Victor | 52739 | AAL | (18.98 CD) 2 4 8 8 71 Josh Groban, Josh Groban In Concert  143/Reprise | 48413 | Warner Bros. | (27.98 CD) 2 5 5 6 37 Yo-Yo Ma, Obrigado Brazil  Sony Classical | 89935 | Sony Music | (18.98 EQ CD) 1 6 3 5 9 Yo-Yo Ma, Obrigado Brazil: Live In Concert  Sony Classical | 90970 | Sony Music | (18.98 EQ CD) 3 7 4 4 6 Sissel, My Heart  Decca | 002080 | Universal Classics Group | (18.98 CD) 3 8 7 7 45 Sarah Brightman, Harem  Nemo Studio | 37180 | Angel | (18.98 CD) 1 9 6 2 4 The Irish Tenors, Heritage  Razor & Tie | 82910 | (18.98 CD) 2 10 12 11 30 Bond, Bond: Remixed  MBO/Decca | 001117 | Universal Classics Group 4

 

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Sales data provided by Nielsen SoundScan. The Top Heatseekers chart lists the best-selling titles by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of The Billboard 200 chart. When an album reaches this level, the album and the artist's subsequent albums are immediately ineligible to appear on the Top Heatseekers chart. The Regional Heatseekers charts track the top-selling Heatseeker-eligible titles in eight different U.S. regions as defined by Nielsen SoundScan. The are the following: Northeast (MA, ME, NH, VT, RI, CT), Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA), East North Central (OH, IL, IN,MI, WI), West North Central (MN, IA, MO, MD, SD, NE, KS), South Atlantic (DE, MD, DC, VA, WV, NC, SC, GA, FL) South Central (KY, TN, AL, MS, AR, LA, OK, TX), Mountain (MT, ID, WY, CO, NM, AX, UT, NV), Pacific (WA, OR, CA, AK, HA). All albums are available on cassette and CD.

Entries with gold backgrounds and italicized numbers for current position are albums with the greatest sales gains this week.

Greatest Gainer shows chart's largest unit increase.

Most tape prices, and CD prices of BMG and WEA labels, are suggested lists. Tape prices marked EQ, and all other CD prices, are equivalent prices, which are projected from wholesale prices.

* Asterisk indicates vinyl LP is available.