People Still Buy Music: Nickelback and Michael Buble battle for the soul of a nation
It turns out that Americans prefer Christmas to Nickelback, but not by much. In what has been called (by Nickelback's label) one of the closest margins ever between No. 1 and 2 on the Billboard albums chart, Michael Buble's Christmas just barely edged out Nickelback's Here And Now for the top spot this week. Christmas outsold Here And Now by a mere 419 units, finishing with just over 227,000 total. The .18 percent difference between the two albums is the closest finish since November 2007, when Bruce Springsteen's Magic bested Kid Rock's Rock N Roll Jesus by .3 percent.