Radiohead album crowns US chart
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Radiohead top the US album chart with In Rainbows, initially sold via the internet for a price chosen by fans.
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Singer-songwriter Amy MacDonald knocks Radiohead off the number one slot in the UK album chart with This is The Life.
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Singer Natasha Bedingfield's second album makes its debut at number three in the US album chart.
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Robbie Williams' goes straight in at number one on the UK singles chart as REM top the album chart.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - A day after reaching No. 1 on the U.S. album charts, hip-hop star Kanye West took the top spot on the singles chart Thursday.
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Whatever the price, Radiohead's "In Rainbows" is a top-seller.
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Rock group Oasis have claimed the top two spots in a poll of the nation's best ever albums on Monday, ahead of iconic albums by The Beatles and Pink Floyd.
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DENVER (Billboard) - Rock band Radiohead's decision to release its new album "In Rainbows" by itself -- online, without a record label's help and at any price the user chose -- rocked the industry last fall.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - English rock band Radiohead will  perform its new album, "In Rainbows," in its entirety during a  pre-taped, hour-long set that will premiere New Year's Eve on  TV and the Internet. The event will air on Current TV and  Current.com starting 12 a.m. EST on December 31, and will  repeat three times throughout the next day.
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British rock group Bloc Party break into the top 20 of the US album charts with their second album.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Pop-punk band Green Day scored  its first No. 1 album on the U.S. pop charts on Wednesday with  "American Idiot," the group's fifth studio set and its first  release in four years.
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Rock band Radiohead's decision to  release its new album "In Rainbows" by itself -- online,  without a record label's help and at any price the user chose  -- rocked the industry last fall.
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Green Day claimed the Number One spot on the album chart this week by selling 267,000 copies of American Idiot, according to Nielson SoundScan.
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Brits success helps return Keane's album Hopes and Fears back to the top of the UK album chart.
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Grammy-nominated punk trio Green Day returned to the top of the U.S. pop charts Wednesday with its hit opus "American Idiot," which sold just 178 copies more than Eminem's reigning champ.
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In a slow week for the Billboard chart, Alicia Keys reached No. 2 with 112,000 sales of âAs I Amâ (J); Mary J. Blige moved 89,000 of âGrowing Painsâ (Geffen) to reach No. 3; âNow Thatâs What I Call Music!â Vol. 26 is at No. 4 with 54,000; and the 18-year-old country singer Taylor Swift rose three spots to No. 5, though sales of her self-titled album, on the Big Machine label, dropped 39 percent last week to 47,000, Nielsen SoundScan reported. Radiohead reached No. 1 with the conventional release of âIn Rainbows,â through the ATO label, on CD and other formats. The indie-rock âJunoâ soundtrack (Rhino), popular online, opened at No. 8 with 38,000.
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Californian band Maroon 5's first album in four years has gone straight to the top of the US album chart.