Farewell, Kanye West: Susan Boyle is back at the top of the Billboard album chart.
Ms. Boyle’s second album, “The Gift” (Syco/Columbia), has been out for a month but it’s holding strong. Last week it sold 272,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, a slight sales gain from the previous week that was enough to bump it up two spots to No. 1. Mr. West’s album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) fell six spots to No. 7 with 108,000 sales, a 78 percent drop from its first week.
Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now” (Big Machine) is No. 2 with 182,000, Jackie Evancho’s “O Holy Night” (Columbia) is No. 3 with 145,000, and the expanding “Glee” franchise on Columbia holds down the next two slots: “The Christmas Album” is No. 4 with 129,000 sales in its third week out, and “The Music: Volume 4” opens at No. 5 with 128,000. “Glee” has seven albums in the Top 200, with combined sales of nearly 3.4 million.
Besides “Glee,” the only other new release in the Top 10 this week is the Black Eyed Peas’ “The Beginning” (Interscope), which opened at No. 6 with 119,000.
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