US Top 10 Albums 8-2-14

Blake drops his drawers

1. Mandatory Fun – Weird Al Yankovic – B

2. Yes! – Jason Mraz – D

3. The Black Market – Rise Against – C+

4. Kidz Bop Kids – Kidz Bop Kids – B

5. Frozen – V/A – C-

6. In The Lonely Hour – Sam Smith – A

7. X – Ed shheran – C+

8. Now 50

9. Trigga – Trey Songz – C+

10. Based On A True Story – Blake Shelton –  B+

Comment: If you can get over Weird Al at # 1, take a peek at Blake (who I am seeing a week on Friday at MSG) at #10. I mean, we know the deal with the album charts, anybody with any type of decent fanbase is gonna make it though, the album did sell 25% more than the first album. So what’s with Blake? The album was on sale at ITunes for $5.99 and  and the moral of this story is: if Itunes and/or the record business wanted to really battle streaming they should drop their prices in half…