Worldwide Weekly Album Sales Chart: 'Madonna debuts at #1 with 740k, Adele falls to #3'

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Album Chart week 9 / 2012 - March 3 the top-selling albums according to global sales figures and national album charts issue date: February 23, 2012 copyright (C) 2012 - all rights reserved

	1 / 2 week 56	Adele - 21 9 XL Recordings - 979.000 - 34 weeks at No.1 - Largest Sales Increase
	9 / - week 2	Whitney Houston - The Greatest Hits 2 RCA - 232.000
	3 / 1 week 3	Lana Del Rey - Born To Die Stranger / Interscope - 146.000
	10 / 13 week 70	Adele - 19 2 XL Recordings - 131.000
		Emeli Sande - Our Version Of Events Virgin - 120.000 - Hot Shot Debut
	5 / - week 2	Paul McCartney - Kisses On The Bottom Hear Music - 116.000
	2 / - week 2	Van Halen - A Different Kind Of Truth Interscope - 102.000
		Whitney Houston - Ultimate Collection RCA - 100.000
	6 / 3 week 3	Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas Columbia - 87.000
	8 / 6 week 18	Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto 2 Parlophone / Capitol - 84.000
	20 / 17 week 64	Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans 2 Elektra / Warner Bros. - 68.000
	21 / 15 week 10	Gotye - Making Mirrors Universal Music Australia - 67.000
	13 / 7 week 13	Rihanna - Talk That Talk  Def Jam - 54.000
	11 / 11 week 35	LMFAO - Sorry For Party Rocking Interscope - 53.000
	15 / 14 week 25	David Guetta - Nothing But The Beat EMI Music - 49.000
	14 / 8 week 11	Amy Winehouse - Lioness: Hidden Treasures  Island - 48.000
	16 / 10 week 11	Black Keys - El Camino Nonesuch - 47.000
	26 / 40 week 23	Lady Antebellum - Own The Night Capitol Nashville - 43.000
	18 / 22 week 14	Kelly Clarkson - Stronger RCA - 41.000
	19 / 16 week 14	Drake - Take Care Cash Money - 38.000
	32 / 25 week 22	Ed Sheeran - Plus Asylum - 38.000
	- / - week 2	The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow Sensibility Music - 38.000
	31 / 23 week 16	Florence & The Machine - Ceremonials Universal Republic / Island - 37.000
		Tokyo Jihen - Tokyo Collection Toshiba EMI Japan - 36.000
	29 / - week 11	One Direction - Up All Night Syco Music - 36.000
		Chatmonchy - Chatmonchy Best 2005-2011 Kioon Records Japan - 33.000
	7 / - week 2	The Fray - Scars & Stories Epic - 33.000
	- / - week 24	Foo Fighters - Wasting Light  RCA - 32.000
	30 / - week 12	Soundtrack - Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 Chop Shop / Atlantic - 32.000
	28 / 20 week 26	Foster The People - Torches Startime / Columbia - 30.000
	24 / 18 week 13	Nickelback - Here And Now Roadrunner - 30.000
	33 / 26 week 7	Skrillex - Bangarang Big Beat / Atlantic - 30.000
	4 / - week 2	L'arc-En-Ciel - Butterfly Kioon Records Japan - 30.000
		Soundtrack - The Bodyguard 19 Arista - 30.000
	35 / - week 38	Jason Aldean - My Kinda Party  Broken Bow - 29.000
		Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston 11 Arista - 28.000
	- / - week 80	Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More 2 Island - 27.000
	- / 28 week 19	Tony Bennett - Duets II Columbia - 26.000
	- / - week 16	Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne Roc-A-Fella / Def Jam - 26.000
	23 / - week 2	Xavier Naidoo - Danke Fürs Zuhören Naidoo Records / Tonpool Germany - 25.000

	albums with sales gains this week     albums with global sales of 2 million copies
with additional 2 million copies indicated by a numeral following the symbol