Michael Loccisano/Getty Images Garth Brooks at the Ascap Country Music Awards in November.Garth Brooks has scored his ninth No. 1 album on the Billboard chart with an eight-disc boxed set available only at Walmart.
The six-CD, two-DVD collection, “Blame It All on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences†(Pearl), was released on Thanksgiving Day for $25, and in its first few days it sold 164,000 copies, reaching No. 3, according to Nielsen SoundScan. (SoundScan's standard account week ends on Sunday.) Last week, the album's first full week on sale, it moved 146,000 copies, beating out the latest by One Direction, Kelly Clarkson and Britney Spears.
One Direction's “Midnight Memories†(Syco/Columbia), which opened at No. 1 on last week's chart, fell to No. 2 with 117,000 sales, a 79 percent drop. Ms. Clarkson's “Wrapped in Red†(RCA) rose three spots to No. 3 with 112,000, and Ms. Spears's latest album, “Britney Jean†(RCA), opened at No. 4 with 107,000. That is the lowest opening-week sales number in Ms. Spears's career, lower even than her very first release, “… Baby One More Time,†which opened with 121,000 in January 1999.
Also on the chart this week, “Duck the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas†(EMI Nashville) is No. 5 with 105,000 sales, and Eminem's “The Marshall Mathers LP 2†(Aftermath/Interscope) fell four spots to No. 6 in its fifth week out, with 84,000 sales.
Eminem's song “The Monster,†which features Rihanna, is No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, with 186,000 dowloads and 5.4 million streams. The pair's last collaboration, “Love the Way You Lie,†was a No. 1 hit for seven weeks in 2010 and was nominated for five Grammy Awards.
