英语文摘:Susan Boyle's album tops Billboard 200 for 2nd week

BEIJING, Nov. 25 (Xinhuanet) -- Susan Boyle's second album "The Gift" topped the Billboard 200 album charts for a second week despite challenges from nine new competitors including R. Rihanna, according to media reports Thursday.

The former "Britain's Got Talent" runner-up also scored a rare second-week sales increase, up 5 percent with 335,000 sales of her Christmas-themed album.

The top nine albums all sold more than 100,000 each. Overall album sales in the chart week ending Nov. 21 totaled 8.12 million units, up 2 percent compared to the comparable sales week of 2009.

Scottish singer Susan Boyle sings "I Dreamed a Dream" on the Danish relief show "The Denmark Collection" to raise money for women in Africa and for the victims of the Haiti earthquake at the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen Jan. 30, 2010.

No. 1: Susan Boyle's "The Gift," 335,000

No. 2: Jackie Evancho's  "O Holy Night," 239,000

No. 3:  Rihanna's  "Loud,"  207,000

No. 4: Josh Groban's "Illuminations," 191,000

No. 5:  Kid Rock's "Born Free," 189,000

No. 6:  Rascal Flatts' "Nothing Like This," 165,000

No. 7:  Keith Urban's "Get Closer," 162,000

No. 8:  "Glee" Christmas album, 161,000

No. 9: Taylor Swift's "Speak Now," 146,000

No. 10:  Nelly's  "5.0,"  63,000