Eric Church dominates Billboard albums chart with 'The Outsiders', 'Frozen' soundtrack passes one million sales mark [VIDEOS]

By Carolyn Menyes c.menyes@mstarsnews.com | Feb 19, 2014 12:00 PM EST

FINALLY. We're eight weeks into 2014, and we've just now achieved some real album sales. Country bad boy Eric Church's new album The Outsiders debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200, easily bumping the prolific Frozen soundtrack out of the top spot.

According to Billboard, Church has achieved the best sales of the year to date with 288,000 copies sold during his new album's first week, making him a shoe-in for the top album spot on the charts. Other than getting the top album spot, Church bested his previous best sales week by a long shot. His previous best selling album, 2011's Chief debuted with 145,000 copies, a goal Church nearly doubled this year.

The Outsiders was led by the rocking single of the same name.

Church wasn't the only one who managed to sell over 100,000 copies over the last seven days. Disney's massively successful Frozen soundtrack also surpassed that weekly mark, moving slightly over 100k and pushing over the one million album sales mark, meaning Elsa and co. have gone platinum, just in time for all the snow to thaw across the country.

With the Valentine's Day holiday, it was a big week for album sales. Featuring popular singles from the past few months like Lorde's "Royals," Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" and One Direction's "Story Of My Life," last week's chart topper Now 49 fell just two spots to No. 3 with 77,000 units sold.

Other album's saw big gains thanks to V-Day. Beyoncé helped people get "Drunk In Love" by selling 48,000 copies, and thus landing at No. 4.

Imagine Dragons' similarly saw increased sales of Night Visions at the No. 6 spot, with 41,000 units sold. Lorde, Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus also saw album sales rise, landing at Nos. 7, 9 and 10 respectively.

After huge sales lifts from the Grammys and Super Bowl, Bruno Mars saw a decrease in sales of his 2012 album Unorthodox Jukebox, though he still managed to land at No. 5 with 48,000 copies sold. Toni Braxton & Babyface helped to round out the top 10 with Love, Marriage & Divorce, which sold 33,000 and landed at No. 8.

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