R&B singer Jill Scott celebrates her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as her fourth studio effort, "The Light of the Sun," debuts atop the list with 135,000 sold according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Right behind her at No. 2 this week is folk rock act Bon Iver, who sees its self-titled second full-length album take a bow with 104,000. Adele's "21" holds at No. 3 with 101,000 (down 12%). That is not good for the music biz that 21 is losing steam. With the star album not selling as much, this does not bore well for the music biz, even though Byonce new album is going out next week.

Other debuts are: Country singer Justin Moore's second full-length album, "Outlaws Like Me," debuts at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Country Albums chart with 65,000, Pitbull's "Planet Pit" starts at No. 7 with, 55,000 and Rounding out the new entries in the top 10 this week is "Weird Al" Yankovic who earns his highest charting album ever as "Alpocalypse" laughs its way to at No. 9 debut (44,000). As a Weird Al fan, I'm so happy he got this high!

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending June 26) totaled 5.92 million units, down 6% compared to the sum last week (6.30 million) and down 2% compared to the comparable sales week of 2010 (6.07 million). Year to date album sales stand at 149.12 million, up less than 1% compared to the same total at this point last year (148.42 million).


Even though,iIt is the fifth week in a row where year-to-date album volume is greater than the same time in the prior year, less then 1% will not save the msuic biz. This is from where last years totals were down 10% from the year before and those were down 15% from that's year before!