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ScHoolboy Q knocks 'Frozen' from top spot on Billboard 200
[March 06, 2014] By Piya Sinha-Roy
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Hip-hop artist ScHoolboy Q knocked Disney's juggernaut soundtrack "Frozen" from the top spot of the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday.
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"Oxymoron," the third studio album from ScHoolboy Q and the
first to be released through a major label, Universal Music
Group's Interscope Records, sold 139,000 copies in its first
week, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan. The "Frozen" soundtrack, which features the hit Oscar-winning
song "Let It Go" and previously topped the Billboard chart for
five non-consecutive weeks, dropped to No. 2 this week with
91,000 copies. The Walt Disney Co film still performs strongly at the global
box office, recently crossing the $1 billion mark in ticket
sales worldwide. ScHoolboy Q led six new entries in the Top 10 of the Billboard
200 chart this week. Los Angeles alt-rocker Beck landed at No. 3 with his latest
studio album "Morning Phase." Rapper Kid Cudi notched No. 4
after the release of "Kid Cudi Presents Satellite FL" last week.
Latin music star Romeo Santos came in at No. 5 with "Formula
Vol. 2." Country music star Dierks Bentley's "Riser" debuted at No. 6,
while pop-rock group The Fray rounded out the new entries with
"Helios" at No. 8. Overall album sales for the week ending March 2 totaled 5.1
million, down 12 percent from the comparable week in 2013,
Billboard said. (Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; editing by Eric Kelsey and Jan Paschal) [© 2014 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved.] Copyright 2014 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
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