Top 10 Albums (Europe, UK, US): Pearl Jam score first no.1 US album in 13 years

(Relaxnews) -

American pop icon Madonna enters the European and UK charts at no.1 with her third greatest hits collection, Celebration for the week of September 30. Meanwhile, American rock act Pearl Jam scores the first no. 1 album in 13 years with Backspacer.

In Europe, the charts are sprinkled with several notable album débuts, including German rock band Element of Crime's Immer Da Wo Du Bist Bin Ich Nie and British grime rapper Dizzee Rascal's Tongue n' Cheek on Billboard's European Albums chart; and Lebanese pop singer Mika's The Boy Who Knew Too Much and British rock n' roll singer Cliff Richard's Reunion with English rock group The Shadows on the Official UK Charts.

In the US, even more artists enter the Billboard 200 chart's Top 10, including Canadian rock band Three Days Grace (no.3); American rock band Brand New (no.6); American heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch (no.7); and American singer Harry Connick Jr. The top 10 albums in the US, UK and Europe for the week of September 30 are as follows:

TOP 10 OF BILLBOARD'S EUROPEAN TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART (sales tracking week: September 23-30)
	Last week	Artist	Album	Label
1	new	Madonna	Celebration	Warner Bros.
2	1	Muse	The Resistance	Warner Bros.
3	new	Pearl Jam	Backspacer	Island
4	21	Mika	The Boy Who Knew Too Much	Casablanca/Universal
5	2	Mark Knopfler	Get Lucky	Mercury
6	4	David Guetta	One Love	Astralwerks/Gumprod
7	3	Whitney Houston	I Look to You	Arista
8	7	The Black Eyed Peas	The E.N.D.	Interscope
9	new	Element of Crime	Immer Da Wo Du Bist Bin Ich Nie	Universal
10	new	Dizzee Rascal	Tongue n' Cheek	Dirtee Stank/Liberation

TOP 10 OF THE OFFICIAL UK TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART (sales tracking week: September 23-30)
	Last week	Artist	Album	Label
1	new	Madonna	Celebration	Warner Bros.
2	1	Muse	The Resistance	Warner Bros.
3	new	Dizzee Rascal	Tongue n' Cheek	Dirtee Stank/Liberation
4	new	Mika	The Boy Who Knew Too Much	Casablanca/Universal
5	3	Peter Andre	Revelation	Cone Heads
6	new	Cliff Richard w/The Shadows	Reunited	EMI
7	2	Vera Lynn	We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn	Dekka UK
8	4	Jay-Z	The Blueprint 3	Roc Nation
9	new	Pearl Jam	Backspacer	Island
10	7	Kings of Leon	Only by the Night	Columbia

TOP 10 OF THE BILLBOARD 200 ALBUMS CHART (US) (sales tracking week: September 23-30)
	Last week	Artist	Album	Label
1	new	Pearl Jam	Backspacer	Island
2	1	Jay-Z	The Blueprint 3	Roc Nation
3	new	Three Days Grace	Life Starts Now	Jive
4	2	Whitney Houston	I Look to You	Arista
5	5	Miley Cyrus	The Time of Our Lives	Disney
6	new	Brand New	Daisy	DGC/Interscope
7	new	Five Finger Death Punch	War Is the Answer	Prospect Park
8	new	Harry Connick Jr.	Your Songs	Columbia
9	6	Drake	So Far Gone	Cash Money/Universal Motown
10	3	Muse	The Resistance	Warner Bros.