The National Crash the Billboard Album Chart at Number Three

Photo by Akmal Naim Only a swooped haircut and a middling country act got in the way of the National topping the Billboard 200 this week. Billboard reports that the Brooklyn band-- who have been nothing short of inescapable in the press and online for a couple weeks-- hit number three with their latest album, High Violet, which sold 51,000 copies. Good for them. Bad news is that this was one of the worst weeks ever for album sales in the SoundScan era, with the number one album, Justin Bieber's ...

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