USA

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Sales For The Week Ending October 16th, 2005. Billboard Issue Date: October 29th, 2005.

Rank, Title, Sales This Week, +/- percentage

Madonna - 4,466 units

Notes: Immaculate rises comfortably back above the 2K mark. A few others see gains, as well. Erotica sees the biggest percentage increase.

1. The Immaculate Collection: 2,243 (+14%)
2. GHV2: 333 (+14%)
3. Ray Of Light: 260 (-6%)
4. Like A Virgin: 197 (-27%)
5. Something To Remember: 196 (+3%)
6. True Blue: 185 (+23%)
7. The Immaculate Collection (Video): 184 (+4%)
8. Madonna: 149 (-11%)
9. Music: 146 (+2%)
10. Ciao, Italia: Live From Italy (Video): 143 (-11%)
11. American Life: 143 (-5%)
12. Erotica: 138 (+34%)
13. Like A Prayer: 121 (-19%)
14. Remixed & Revisited: 120 (+22%)
15. You Can Dance: 91 (-11%)
16. The Video Collection 93:99 (Video): 84 (-1%)
17. Drowned World Tour 2001 (Video): 74 (-27%)
18. Bedtime Stories: 71 (+22%)
19. Girlie Show: Live Down Under (Video): 68 (+51%)
20. Evita: 43 (-26%)
21. Me Against the Music (Single): 33 (-18%)
22. Nothing Fails (Single): 33 (+32%)
23. I'm Breathless: 30 (-14%)

Michael Jackson - 13,801 units (Sales Estimate)

Note: This tally does not include sales for The Ultimate Collection (4 CD/1 DVD), single sales, certain music DVD titles (eg. The One, Dangerous: The Short Films, etc.), material recorded with The Jacksons, and Motown era solo and Jackson 5 albums. Weekly sales information for those titles is not available at this time. Also since SoundScan figures aren't available for Live In Bucharest , we can only estimate how much The Essential sold based on the chart ranking of the Number Ones DVD on the Billboard Comprehensive Music Videos Chart.

1. The Essential (2 CD): 2,796 (Cumulative sales: 76,150 units) Thanks again hope.
2. Number Ones: 2,676 (2,743) (-2%) (Year To Date sales: 181,378 units) (Cumulative sales: 986,060 units)
3. Number Ones (Video): 2,296 (2,376) (-3%) (Holds at #18 on the Billboard Comprehensive Music Videos Chart, 81 weeks on the chart) (Cumulative sales: 369,434 units)
4. Live In Bucharest - The Dangerous Tour (Video): (Sales Estimate: 2,000) (Holds at #22 on the Billboard Comprehensive Music Videos Chart, 11 weeks on the chart)
5. Thriller: 1,589 (1,545) (+3%)
6. Greatest Hits: HIStory Vol. 1: 698 (738) (-5%)
7. Off The Wall: 536 (532) (+8%)
8. Greatest Hits: HIStory (Video): 379 (308) (+23%)
9. HIStory On Film - Vol. 2 (Video): 279 (285) (-2%)
10. Bad: 186 (151) (+23%)
11. Dangerous: 162 (149) (+9%)
12. Invincible: 110 (104) (+6%)
13. HIStory (2 CD): 73 (91) (-20%)
14. Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory In The Mix: 21 (24) (-13%)

Cher - 3,949 units
(excluding live Farewell Tour CD and the Gold CD)

Notes: Very Best Of drops below 1,400 units this week.

1. The Very Best of Cher: 1,352 (-8%)
2. The Very Best of Cher (Video): 589 (-1%)
3. The Best Of Cher-Millennium Collection (first edition): 450 (-22%)
4. The Very Best of Cher (Deluxe): 341 (-6%)
5. The Farewell Tour (Video): 259 (+4%)
6. If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher’s GH: 254 (+1%)
7. Live In Concert (video, 1999): 190 (-5%)
8. The Best of Cher-Millennium Collection (2004 edition): 142 (-27%)
9. Heart of Stone: 116 (-17%)
10. Half Breed: 107 (+4%)
11. Believe: 101 (-11%)
12. Living Proof: 48 (+78%)

Whitney Houston - 1,758 units

Notes: One Wish sees the largest gain by far, and should rise back up to the top in coming weeks, thanks to the holidays.

1. The Greatest Hits (2 CD): 734 (-3%)
2. The Greatest Hits: (Video): 224 (+21%)
3. The Bodyguard: 212 (+1%)
4. One Wish: 157 (+461%)
5. The Preacher's Wife: 127 (+12%)
6. Whitney Houston: 115 (-6%)
7. Whitney: 59 (+9%)
8. My Love is Your Love (Album): 52 (-5%)
9. Just Whitney: 49 (-2%)
10. The Star Spangled Banner: 25 (-32%)
11. I’m Your Baby Tonight: 4 (-71%)

Janet Jackson - 1,985 units

Notes: Still below 500 units at the top of the JJ list.

1. Design Of A Decade 1986/1996 (album): 469 (-1%)
2. janet.: 281 (-17%)
3. Damita Jo: 276 (-36%) (Cumulative sales: 976,115 units)
4. From janet. To Damita Jo (Video): 210 (-3%)
5. The Velvet Rope: 188 (-13%)
6. Rhythm Nation: 161 (-21%)
7. All For You (album): 145 (-29%)
8. Control: 132 (-11%)
9. Live in Hawaii (Video): 77 (-13%)
10. Design of a Decade 1986/1996 (Video): 24 (-31%)
11. All For You (CD/DVD): 22 (-33%)

Mariah Carey - 6,425 units (53,781 units including The Emancipation Of Mimi)
(excluding Live at MSG DVD and digital single sales)

Notes: The latest scanned anohter 47,000 and change, and should aurpass 3.6 million next week. Among the older titles, Merry Christmas begins its usual trek back up in sales, and should see better-than-usual sales, thanks to an upcoming reissue.

1. The Emancipation Of Mimi: 47,356 (-11%) (Moves up 18-15 on the Billboard 200, Moves down 13-15 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart, 27 weeks on the chart)
2. Greatest Hits (2 CD): 3,219 (+2%)
3. #1's: 1,003 (-11%)
4. Remixes (2 CD): 429 (-3%)
5. Charmbracelet: 268 (-)
6. #1's (Video): 261 (+11%)
7. Merry Christmas: 244 (+225%)
8. Butterfly: 205 (-16%)
9. Glitter: 192 (+4%)
10. Music Box: 180 (-8%)
11. Daydream: 100 (-10%)
12. Rainbow: 84 (-21%)
13. Mariah Carey: 75 (-19%)
14. Around the World (Video): 72 (-6%)
15. Through the Rain: 60 (+7%)
16. Emotions: 17 (+6%)
17. MTV Unplugged: 16 (-24%)