CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Billboard Magazine reports:

Dolly Parton’s Rockstar blasts in at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Dec. 2), scoring the music legend her first leader on the 32-year-old tally. Rockstar bows with 118,500 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 23, according to Luminate.

That marks biggest sales week for an album in the modern era, since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991.

She more than doubles her previous biggest week, notched in 1993 when Slow Dancing With the Moon sold 50,500 copies in its second week on the chart (rising 54-19 on the March 20, 1993-dated list).

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