Half a million buy a ticket to Carrie’s ‘Carnival Ride’
, sold 527,000 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That made it …
> The top debut week for a female singer so far this year.
> The second-biggest debut week for an Idol (next to Clay Aiken’s 613,000 for
Measure of a Man
).
> Her first No. 1 (first album
Some Hearts
entered the
Billboard
chart at No. 2 with 315,000 copies sold).
> Nearly five times as big as this week’s No. 2 album,
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