Shania Twain returns to No. 1 with her first album in 15 years, and Tom Petty re-enters charts after death

Shania Twain performs inside Arthur Ashe Stadium during opening ceremony at the US Open in New York. PHOTO: REUTERS

NEW YORK (NYTimes) - On the music charts this week, Shania Twain returns to No. 1 after a 15-year absence, and Tom Petty had a huge surge in sales and streams following the news of his death.

Now, Twain's first studio album since 2002, opened at the top of Billboard's latest chart by a wide margin, with 134,000 copies sold as a full album and 2.7 million song streams in the United States, according to Nielsen - an extremely low streaming sum for a No. 1 these days, but not unexpected for Twain's demographic.

After news emerged of Petty's death on Oct. 2 at age 66 - and even before it was confirmed, thanks to premature reports attributed to information from the Los Angeles Police Department - fans went online to buy and stream his catalog.

On that day, Petty's songs were streamed 7 million times, according to Nielsen, and on Oct. 2 and Oct. 3, sales of his music grew by nearly 6,800 percent compared to the two days before his death. The most popular song, of course, was Free Fallin'.

Five albums by Petty re-entered the Billboard album chart this week. Greatest Hits, with his longtime band, the Heartbreakers, reached No. 2 with the equivalent of 84,000 sales, including an impressive 24 million streams. His next-highest charting title, Wildflowers, a solo album from 1994, reached No. 27.

Also this week, three new albums rounded out the Top 5: Demi Lovato's Tell Me You Love Me is No. 3; A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie's The Bigger Artist is No. 4; and Miley Cyrus's Younger Now is in fifth place.

Last week's top seller, the Killers' Wonderful Wonderful, dropped all the way to No. 59, having lost 92 percent of its first-week sales.

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