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ScHoolboy Q scores best

Beck's 'Morning Phase' enters at No. 3


ScHoolboy Q has arrived with his major-label debut, ' Oxymoron,' which bows at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this week, selling 139,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan. The Los Angeles rapper is the first of the Top Dawg Entertainment family - which includes Kendrick Lamar - to score a No. 1 album.


'Oxymoron' is ScHoolboy Q's best-selling album to date, following his independent releases 'Setbacks,' which sold 17,000 in 2011, and 'Habits & Contradictions,' which sold 48,000 in 2012. The album also marks the largest debut by a rapper since Eminem's 'The Marshall Mathers LP 2,' which opened at No. 1 with 792,000.


In its ninth straight week in one of the top two positions, the soundtrack to Disney's ' Frozen' slides to No. 2 with 91,000 (+2%). Its sales were likely boosted by winning best original song ('Let It Go') and best animated feature at the Academy Awards on Sunday (March 2).


Beck's critically-acclaimed 10th album ' Morning Phase' enters at No. 3 with 87,000, giving him his second-highest charting album ever. In 2005, 'Guero' debuted and peaked at No. 2. Beck's last album, 2008's 'Modern Guilt,' debuted at No. 4 with 84,000.


At No. 4 is Kid Cudi's surprise new album ' Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon,' which sold 87,000 as a digital-only release. Like Beyonce's self-titled album, it was only sold as a complete album i.e. no individual tracks could be purchased. Cudi's last album, 2013's 'Indicud,' debuted and peaked at No. 2 with 136,000.


Latin singer Romeo Santos' ' Formula: Vol. 2' debuts at No. 5 with 85,000. It marks the biggest sales week for a Latin album since 2006 when pop group RBD's 'Celestial' entered with 117,000. Santos first solo set, 'Formula: Vol. 1,' also debuted in the top 10, peaking at No. 9 in 2011.


Country singer-songwriter Dierks Bentley's seventh studio album, ' Riser,' starts at No. 6 with 63,000. Bentley's 2012 album 'Home' entered at No. 7 with 55,000. His highest-charting set is 2009's 'Feel That Fire,' which debuted and peaked at No. 3 with 71,000.


Eric Church's 'The Outsiders' slips from No. 2 to No. 7 in its third week with 43,000 (-42%).


Another debut in this week's top 10, The Fray's 'Helios' bows at No. 8 with 37,000. The pop/rock band's last album, 2012's 'Scars & Stories,' debuted and peaked at No. 4 with 87,000.


The 'Now 49' compilation falls from No. 4 to No. 9 with 34,000 (-25%), while 'Beyonce' slips from No. 5 to No. 10 with 32,000 (-9%).


Sales are down 5% this week compared to the previous week and down 13% compared to the same week last year. Year-to-date album sales are down 15% compared with the previous year.



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