Lady Antebellum's New Album Back at #1

After losing the #1 spot to Sade a few weeks back, Country trio Lady Antebellum have reclaimed the top on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Their album Need You Now sold an impressive 125,000 copies on its sixth week out. Sade moves down a spot to #2 with Soldier of Love, while Country's men Blake Shelton and Danny Gokey debut at #3 and #4 respectively both selling about 70,000 copies of their new albums. Pretty impressive for Gokey I must say.

Sade Live at Jonathan Ross

Sade performed their single "Soldier of Love" live at Jonathan Ross. The group's album of that same title is enjoying their second week at #1. Check it out!

Sade Debuts Strong After Ten Years of Absence

Nearly 10 years after the group's last studio effort, Sade is back with Soldier of Love, blasting in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 502,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Soldier of Love gives Sade its first No. 1 debut and its best sales week since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. On top of that, it's the best sales week for an album by a group since AC/DC's Black Ice bulldozed into the chart at No. 1 on the chart dated Nov. 8, 2008, with 784,000.

Soldier is Sade's second No. 1 album. Its first, Promise, spent two weeks at the top of the chart in 1986. The new album is also the first studio effort from the band -- led by vocalist Sade Adu -- since Lovers Rock was released in November of 2000. That set debuted and peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 370,000 sold in its first week. Since its release, Lovers Rock has sold 3.9 million in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Sade To Debut Strong at #1 Next Week

Sade’s been away for a while, but her fans are still out there.

The reclusive pop-soul songstress returns with Soldier of Love, her first Epic album in 10 years, since 2000’s Lovers Rock, and sixth overall in a career that began in 1984 with Diamond Life.

According to one-day sales reports from those retailers not up to their necks in snow, the album will debut at #1 next week with a total somewhere between 400-425k, with bad weather back east and Valentine’s weekend shopping the two variables.