Britney Does Worse Than Expected!

She’s gonna be pissed!

Billboard has revised their charts – allowing records sold at only one retailer to appear on their lists – and as a result, the Eagles officially have the #1 album in America this week, according to Billboard and Nielsen Soundscan.

Britney‘s CD, which otherwise would have been in the top slot, came in at #2.

In other bad news for Spears, her latest, Blackout, only sold 290,000 copies since its release on October 30th. Based on projections, the album was expected to sell 350,000.

Carrie Underwood‘s latest CD, by contrast, sold 527,000 copies last week, during its debut.

The Eagles’ latest disc, a double CD, is their first album of original material in 28 years. And it’s available only at Wal-Mart.

About the change in their chart policy, which allowed the veteran rockers to claim the #1 spot, Billboard says, “We know that some retailers will be uncomfortable with this policy, but it was inevitable that Billboard’s charts would ultimately widen the parameters of to reflect changes that are unfolding in music distribution. We would have preferred to make this decision earlier, but only became aware within the last 24 hours that Wal-Mart would be willing to share the data for this title with Nielsen SoundScan.”

Congrats Eagles!

Sucks to be you, Brit Brit.

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