Her aforementioned album, Bionic, was released last week. As her first studio album in four years, you'd expect this superstar comeback to easily top the charts. Instead, Bionic debuted at a more moderate No. 3 selling a tepid 110,000 copies. That's down from 2006's Back to Basics which sold 346,000 in its first week. And don't blame the economy or the imploding record industry - Britney sold more copies of her 2008 Circus in its first week than 2007's Blackout. Regardless, I'm more concerned with how the two albums above Aguilera managed to hit No. 1 and 2 than why Christina sucks (that's already been discussed by Chase).
No. 1 on this week's Billboard 200 is Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals EP followed by The Twilight Saga: Eclipse at No. 2. What's interesting about these two albums is that they didn't have radio support to promote themselves (You could probably say the same thing for Aguilera after "Not Myself Tonight" peaked at an embarrassing No. 23, but I digress). Instead, these two soundtracks relied on the the television and movie screens respectively as well as their established brands.
