Until late last week it looked like Adele was going to return to the top of the album chart with her massive hit 21. However, that was before Lionel Richie launched his two hour TV special Friday night on CBS called ACM Presents: Lionel Richie & Friends in Concert. The show feature many of his duet partners from the album including Tim McGraw and Martina McBride. The result was that sales of Lionel Richie's album Tuskegee took off again. Now it is expected to total 125,000 copies for the week while Adele comes in at just under 100,000. This will be Lionel Richie's third solo album to hit #1 and his first since 1986's Dancing On the Ceiling, over 25 years ago. Tuskegee sold almost 200,000 copies in its first week, but that was not enough to overtake Madonna and her album MDNA. Last week Tuskegee fell to #4, but it should rise to the top in this third week of release.
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