Groban\'s \'All That Echoes\' Is No. 1

In time for Valentine’s Day, the pop-classical singer Josh Groban has a No. 1 album with his latest collection of heart-swelling ballads and tenor showpieces.

The album, “All That Echoes” (Reprise), sold 145,000 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan, returning him to No. 1 for a third time. Holiday-timed releases have been a sweet spot for Mr. Groban, 31, whose Christmas album “Noël” was the best-selling title of 2007.

New releases fill the next two spots on the chart. Tim McGraw’s “Two Lanes of Freedom” â€" the longtime country star’s first release on Taylor Swift’s label, Bi Machine â€" opened at No. 2 with 107,000 sales, and the 45th edition of “Now That’s What I Call Music!” bowed at No. 3 with 87,000.

The lead-up to the Grammy Awards on Sunday drove some sales, with Mumford & Sons’ “Babel” (Glassnote), the album of the year winner, rising three spots to No. 4 with 54,000 sales. Downloads of its song “I Will Wait,” which the band performed at the show, more than doubled from the week before, to 104,000 sales. But the most popular track of the week was, once again, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s “Thrift Shop,” with 389,000 copies downloaded.

Two other Grammy performers, Bruno Mars and the Lumineers, had sales gains for their albums but fell to lower positions on the chart, since sales overall were improved for the week. Mr. Mars’s “Unorthodox Jukebox” (Atlantic) fell two spots to No. 8, despite its nearly 41,000 sales being 10 percent up for the week, and the Lumineers’ self-titled album, on Dualtone, was up 21 percent in sales, to 39,000, but fell one spot to No. 10.

Also on this week’s chart, Andrea Bocelli’s “Passione” (Sugar/Verve) fell three to No. 5 with 51,000 sales, and last week’s No. 1, Justin Bieber’s “Believe Acoustic” (Schoolboy/RBMG/Island), fell five to No. 6 with 43,000 sales, a 79 percent drop in its second week out.

More Grammy “bumps” should be reflected on the next chart, since SoundScan’s reporting week ended on Sunday, just as the awards were finishing up.