Top 10 Albums (Europe, UK, US): Barbra Streisand makes unexpected US comeback at no.1
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American singer Barbra Streisand's jazz standards album Love Is the Answer makes a suprising US début at no.1 for the week of October 9. The American rock band Paramore scores a UK no.1 album with their third studio album, Brand New Eyes. America scores three for three with American pop star Madonna ruling the European chart for a second week with the greatest hits collection Celebration.
In Europe, Streisand's Love Is the Answer comes in at no.7 (while entering the UK chart's top 5 at no.4), and Paramore's Brand New Eyes make a splash at no.3. South African singer Howard Carpendale brings up the rear at no.10 with his latest German-language album, Stark.
English singers Newton Faulkner and Ian Brown enter the UK chart with Rebuilt by Humans (no.3) and My Way (no.8), respectively. Across the Atlantic, the US Billboard 200 welcomes Paramore (no.2); American pop star Mariah Carey's Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel (no.3); American rock band Breaking Benjamin's Dear Agony (no.4); American rock band Alice in Chains' Black Gives Way to Blue (no.5); Madonna's Celebration (no.7); American country singer Miranda Lambert's Revolution (no.8); and American pop group Selena Gomez & the Scene's Kiss and Tell (no.9). The top 10 albums in the US, UK and Europe for the week of October 9 are as follows:
| TOP 10 OF BILLBOARD'S EUROPEAN TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART (sales tracking week: October 1-8) | ||||
| Last week | Artist | Album | Label | |
| 1 | 1 | Madonna | Celebration | Warner Bros. |
| 2 | 2 | Muse | The Resistance | Warner Bros. |
| 3 | new | Paramore | Brand New Eyes | Fueled by Ramen |
| 4 | 4 | Mika | The Boy Who Knew Too Much | Casablanca/Universal |
| 5 | 5 | Mark Knopfler | Get Lucky | Mercury |
| 6 | 3 | Pearl Jam | Backspacer | Monkeywrench |
| 7 | new | Barbra Streisand | Love Is the Answer | Columbia |
| 8 | 6 | David Guetta | One Love | Astralwerks/Gumprod |
| 9 | 7 | Whitney Houston | I Look to You | Arista |
| 10 | new | Howard Carpendale | Stark | Koch Universal |
| TOP 10 OF THE OFFICIAL UK TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART (sales tracking week: October 1-8) | ||||
| Last week | Artist | Album | Label | |
| 1 | new | Paramore | Brand New Eyes | Fueled by Ramen |
| 2 | 1 | Madonna | Celebration | Warner Bros. |
| 3 | new | Newton Faulkner | Rebuilt by Humans | RCA |
| 4 | new | Barbra Streisand | Love Is the Answer | Columbia |
| 5 | 2 | Muse | The Resistance | Warner Bros. |
| 6 | 3 | Dizzee Rascal | Tongue n' Cheek | Dirtee Stank |
| 7 | 6 | Cliff Richard w/The Shadows | Reunited | EMI |
| 8 | new | Ian Brown | My Way | Polydor |
| 9 | 8 | Jay-Z | The Blueprint 3 | Roc Nation |
| 10 | 7 | Vera Lynn | We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn | Dekka UK |
| TOP 10 OF THE BILLBOARD 200 ALBUMS CHART (US) (sales tracking week: October 1-8) | ||||
| Last week | Artist | Album | Label | |
| 1 | new | Barbra Streisand | Love Is the Answer | Columbia |
| 2 | new | Paramore | Brand New Eyes | Fueled by Ramen |
| 3 | new | Mariah Carey | Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel | Island |
| 4 | new | Breaking Benjamin | Dear Agony | Hollywood |
| 5 | new | Alice in Chains | Black Gives Way to Blue | EMI |
| 6 | 2 | Jay-Z | The Blueprint 3 | Roc Nation |
| 7 | new | Madonna | Celebration | Warner Bros. |
| 8 | new | Miranda Lambert | Revolution | Sony |
| 9 | new | Selena Gomez & the Scene | Kiss and Tell | Hollywood |
| 10 | 1 | Pearl Jam | Backspacer | Monkeywrench |
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