Country singer Eric Church takes his third album, "Chief," straight in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 145,000 sold. (I know who?,)

Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black" unsurprisingly surges up the chart, moving up 9-4 (54,000; up 44%). Like I said Death sales.

The higest debut this week is Kelly Rowland's third album, "Here I Am," arrives at No. 3 with 77,000.

One more debut dots the top 10 of the albums chart this week as Joss Stone's "LP1" starts at No. 9 with 30,000.

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending July 31) totaled 5.79 million units, up 3% compared to the sum last week (5.62 million) and up 11% compared to the comparable sales week of 2010 (5.21 million). Year to date album sales stand at 177.83 million, up 2% compared to the same total at this point last year (174.92 million). It is the tenth week in a row where year-to-date album volume is greater than the same time in the prior year.