The US charts have been printed and as usual, they depict a mix of up and downs. This week, Brandy’s ‘Two Eleven’ album finally impacted the Billboard 200 and despite scoring a top 5 slot on the lineup, the sales were far from impressive. On the other hand, Rihanna’s ‘Diamonds’ shined extra bright on the Billboard Hot 100.

‘Two Eleven’ debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 65K copies, representing an 8K dip from the 73K sold by Brandy’s last album, ‘Human’, when it entered the lineup in 2008. None of the singles from ‘Two Eleven’ have cracked the top 40 of the Hot 100, although Brandy performed on several television shows during the last couple weeks.

Meanwhile, Rihanna’s ‘Diamonds’ continued to gain momentum on the Hot 100 this week. The record launched into the top 10 to become the Barbadian’s 23rd such hit since her ‘Pon de Replay’ debut in 2005. Ke$ha still leads the race to the top of the Hot 100, though, as jumped to #5 on the chart.

See the leading releases in the top 10 of both Billboard 200 and the Hot 100 below:

Billboard 200

1. Jason Aldean - ‘Night Train’ - 409K (debut)

2. Mumford & Sons – ‘Babel’ – 74K (total: 938K)

3. Brandy – ‘Two Eleven’ – 65K (debut)

4. Scotty McCreery - ‘Christmas With Scotty McCreery’ – 41K (debut)

5. Jamey Johnson - ‘Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran’ - 32K (debut)

6. Pink – ‘The Truth About Love’ – 31K (total: 494K)

7. Miguel - ‘Kaleidoscope Dream’ – 22K (total: 123K)

8. Little Big Town - ‘Tornado’ – 22K (total: 273K)

9. Adele – ’21′ – 21K (total: 9.92 M)

10. Dethklok - ‘Metalocalypse: Dethalbum III’ – 20K (debut)

Billboard Hot 100

1. Maroon 5 – ‘One More Night’

2. PSY – ‘Gangnam Style’

3. fun. – ‘Some Nights’

4. Taylor Swift – ‘We Are Never Getting Back Together’

5. Ke$ha – ‘Die Young’

6. Justin Bieber – ‘As Long As You Love Me (Ft. Big Sean)’

7. Alex Clare – ‘Too Close’

8. Rihanna – ‘Diamonds’

9. Ne-Yo – ‘Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself)’

10. Pink – ‘Blow Me (One Last Kiss)’

Watch the video for Brandy’s ‘Put It Down (Ft. Chris Brown)’ below:

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