Chrisette Michele Sophomore Disc Her First Career No. 1
Her sophomore disc, Epiphany, gave Michele her first career No. 1, selling 83,000 copies, per Nielsen SoundScan, for the week ended Sunday. Hannah Montana trailed at No. 2, fewer than 2,000 copies behind.
In previous weeks, Ms. Montana fell to Bob Dylan’s Together Through Life and Rick Ross’ Deeper Than Rap, which currently sit at Nos. 5 and 8, respectively.
Michele is doubtlessly jazzed to hit No. 1, but her success comes with a major caveat. Her 83,000-copy open is the worst-selling No. 1 bow in SoundScan history, which started tracking sales in 1991. In fact, during SoundScan’s 18 years, only two other albums debuted atop the charts with less than six-figure sales: Notorious B.I.G.’s #1’s (99,000 discs) in ‘05 and Johnny Cash’s American V: A Hundred Highways (88,000) in ‘06.
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