As we celebrate the holiday season and approach the end of the year, Mathew Knowles’ Music World Gospel dominates Billboard’s Top Gospel Album chart, holding the #1, # 2, #10, #29 and #50 positions this week. Amber Bullock’s debut project, Thank You, entered at #1, and Grammy nominee Le’Andria Johnson’s The Awakening of Le’Andria Johnson, which spent eight weeks at #1, holds at #2 for six weeks.

Le’Andria’s holiday CD, Christmas Best, holds at #10. Label mate and this year’s Grammy nominee Trin-i-tee 5:7′s current CD, Angel & Chanelle, maintains its position at #29 after spending 28 weeks on the charts. And Interface Entertainment/Music World Gospel worship leader Micah Stampley’s One Voice lands at #50.

“The label has had a banner year,” said Mathew Knowles, founder, President and CEO of Music World Gospel. “We have demonstrated significant growth and had several major-artist signings this year. In 2012, we are expanding the label’s release schedule to include over 45 new releases.

We have other faith-based acquisitions that we will be announcing in the coming months.” This year, Music World Gospel experienced a 115 plus percent revenue increase from 2010, and the label moved to the Top 5 on the Gospel Album Labels chart from #9 in 2010 on Billboard‘s Year-End charts.

This year’s Grammy nominees Trin-i-tee 5:7 and Le’Andria Johnson led the way on Billboard‘s Year-End charts. Their current CD projects, The Awakening of Le’Andria Johnson and Angel & Chanelle landed at #7 and #13, respectively, on the Gospel Albums chart. Le’Andria and Trin-i-tee 5:7 were listed at #8 and #10, respectively, on the Gospel Albums Artists chart.

And Trin-i-tee 5:7′s hit single, “Over and Over” came in at #9 on the Gospel Songs chart, and the song producer,  PJ Morton, lands at #8 on the Gospel Songs Producers chart.

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Coldplay’s fifth studio album, “Mylo Xyloto,” is the group’s third album to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 200 chart.  Coldplay’s previous two albums, “Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends” in 2008 and “X&Y” in 2005, both debuted at No.1. Their single, “Princess Of China,” which features Rihanna also made a debut this week at No. 20 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

The album’s sales were significantly less compared to the previous two albums which debuted on the chart with 721,000 and 737,000 albums sold. According to Nielsen SoundScan, “Mylo Xyloto” is the third biggest debut this year, selling 447,000 physical and digital copies.

Only Lady Gaga and Lil Wayne have managed to sell more in one week this year. Gaga’s “Born this Way” sold 1.1 million albums, and Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter IV” sold 964,000. Kelly Clarkson’s new album, “Stronger,” debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 200 and sold 163,000 copies.

This is the American Idol winner’s fifth studio effort as she stands as the most successful artist to come out of the popular show. The Canadian singer, Michael Buble, finds success in his holiday album, “Christmas,” which sold 141,000 copies and debuted at No. 3 behind Coldplay and Kelly Clarkson.

Rihanna had a big week, too, as her new single, “We Found Love” in which she collaborated with the Scottish DJ Calvin Harris, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Rihanna takes the crown from Adele’s “Someone Like You” who held the No. 1 spot for four weeks in a row.

This marks the Barbadian’s eleventh No. 1 ranking on the chart since her career began in 2005. She now ties with Whitney Houston, but surpassed Stevie Wonder and Janet Jackson, both of whom had 10 No. 1 hits. Her sixth album titled “Talk That Talk” is due to be released later this month, just a year after the release of her successful fifth album “Loud.”

Justin Bieber’s holiday album, “Mistletoe,” is set to debut at No. 1 next week, though the single of the same name dropped in rank from 11 to 73 in just one week on the Billboard Hot 100. In the meantime, a young woman by the name of Mariah Yeater hit the Canadian singer with a paternity suit claiming they had a sexual encounter after a concert last year in Los Angeles.

A California court will have a hearing next month, but Island Def Jam records have publicly denied the accusation and stated they will do everything they can to protect the young singer.

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