Top 10 Albums (Europe, UK, US): Barbra Streisand makes unexpected US comeback at no.1

(Relaxnews)

American singer Barbra Streisand's jazz standards album
Love Is the Answer makes a suprising US début at no.1 for the week of October 9. The American rock band Paramore scores a UK no.1 album with their third studio album,
Brand New Eyes. America scores three for three with American pop star Madonna ruling the European chart for a second week with the greatest hits collection
Celebration.

In Europe, Streisand's Love Is the Answer comes in at no.7 (while entering the UK chart's top 5 at no.4), and Paramore's Brand New Eyes make a splash at no.3. South African singer Howard Carpendale brings up the rear at no.10 with his latest German-language album, Stark.

English singers Newton Faulkner and Ian Brown enter the UK chart with Rebuilt by Humans (no.3) and My Way (no.8), respectively. Across the Atlantic, the US Billboard 200 welcomes Paramore (no.2); American pop star Mariah Carey's Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel (no.3); American rock band Breaking Benjamin's Dear Agony (no.4); American rock band Alice in Chains' Black Gives Way to Blue (no.5); Madonna's Celebration (no.7); American country singer Miranda Lambert's Revolution (no.8); and American pop group Selena Gomez & the Scene's Kiss and Tell (no.9). The top 10 albums in the US, UK and Europe for the week of October 9 are as follows:

TOP 10 OF BILLBOARD'S EUROPEAN TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART (sales tracking week: October 1-8)
	Last week	Artist	Album	Label
1	1	Madonna	Celebration	Warner Bros.
2	2	Muse	The Resistance	Warner Bros.
3	new	Paramore	Brand New Eyes	Fueled by Ramen
4	4	Mika	The Boy Who Knew Too Much	Casablanca/Universal
5	5	Mark Knopfler	Get Lucky	Mercury
6	3	Pearl Jam	Backspacer	Monkeywrench
7	new	Barbra Streisand	Love Is the Answer	Columbia
8	6	David Guetta	One Love	Astralwerks/Gumprod
9	7	Whitney Houston	I Look to You	Arista
10	new	Howard Carpendale	Stark	Koch Universal

TOP 10 OF THE OFFICIAL UK TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART (sales tracking week: October 1-8)
	Last week	Artist	Album	Label
1	new	Paramore	Brand New Eyes	Fueled by Ramen
2	1	Madonna	Celebration	Warner Bros.
3	new	Newton Faulkner	Rebuilt by Humans	RCA
4	new	Barbra Streisand	Love Is the Answer	Columbia
5	2	Muse	The Resistance	Warner Bros.
6	3	Dizzee Rascal	Tongue n' Cheek	Dirtee Stank
7	6	Cliff Richard w/The Shadows	Reunited	EMI
8	new	Ian Brown	My Way	Polydor
9	8	Jay-Z	The Blueprint 3	Roc Nation
10	7	Vera Lynn	We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn	Dekka UK

TOP 10 OF THE BILLBOARD 200 ALBUMS CHART (US) (sales tracking week: October 1-8)
	Last week	Artist	Album	Label
1	new	Barbra Streisand	Love Is the Answer	Columbia
2	new	Paramore	Brand New Eyes	Fueled by Ramen
3	new	Mariah Carey	Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel	Island
4	new	Breaking Benjamin	Dear Agony	Hollywood
5	new	Alice in Chains	Black Gives Way to Blue	EMI
6	2	Jay-Z	The Blueprint 3	Roc Nation
7	new	Madonna	Celebration	Warner Bros.
8	new	Miranda Lambert	Revolution	Sony
9	new	Selena Gomez & the Scene	Kiss and Tell	Hollywood
10	1	Pearl Jam	Backspacer	Monkeywrench