\'Now 43\' Compilation Tops Album Chart

By BEN SISARIO

After a nine-week run at No. 1, Carly Rae Jepsen's song “Call Me Maybe” has finally been bumped from No. 1, by Flo Rida's “Whistle.” But Ms. Jepsen's song now part of a different No. 1. It is the first track on the latest installment - Vol. 43 - of “Now That's What I Call Music!,” the long-running pop compilation series, which opens atop Billboard's album chart this week.

“Now 43” sold 111,000 copies in its first week, easily reaching No. 1, according to Nielsen SoundScan. (Aside from “Call Me Maybe,” the album includes Maroon 5's “Payphone,” Katy Perry's “Part of Me” and Ellie Goulding's “Lights” - but not “Whistle.”) Rick Ross's “God Forgives, I Don't” (Maybach/Def Jam), last week's chart-topper, fell to No. 2 with 60,000 sales, a 73 percent weekly drop.

At No. 3 is a surprising name: Frank Sinatra. “Nothing But the Best” (Reprise), a four-year old compilation, returned to th e Top 10 with 40,000 sales, largely thanks to a 99-cent promotion last week by Amazon's MP3 store. The album also made a big splash when it was released in 2008, opening at No. 2 (right behind Death Cab for Cutie).

Other new entrants in the Top 10 this week include the R&B singer-songwriter Elle Varner's “Perfectly Imperfect” (RCA), at No. 4 with 33,000, and “Declaration of Independence” (Average Joe's Entertainment) by the country rapper - a self-described “300-pound redneck rebel” - Colt Ford is in fifth place with 31,000.

Zac Brown Band's “Uncaged” (Southern Ground/Atlantic), last week's No. 2, fell four spots to No. 6, also with about 31,000, but slightly less than Mr. Ford's album. (SoundScan's publicly reported numbers are rounded to the nearest thousand.)