SHOW BIZ: Billboard Top Cast Albums Chart: Week Ending 10/16/2010

Billboard's Top Cast Albums chart is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and measures the sales of cast recordings from a collection of merchants that represents more than 90% of the U.S. music retail market.

The sample includes not only music stores and the music departments at electronics and department stores, but also direct-to-consumer transactions and Internet sales (both physical albums via Internet, and ones bought via digital downloads).

The Top Cast Albums chart was added to Billboard's listings January 12, 2006.

For more information visit Billboard.com.

Billboard Top Cast Albums Chart
Week Ending 10/16/2010

Report from Billboard Issue 10/23/2010

1. Wicked, Original Broadway Cast Recording - Decca Broadway

2. Jersey Boys, Original Broadway Cast Recording - Rhino

3. The Lion King, Original Cast Recording - Walt Disney

4. Rock of Ages: The Musical, Original Cast Recording - New Line

5. American Idiot, Original Broadway Cast Recording - Reprise/Warner Bros.

6. La Cage Aux Folles: The New Broadway Cast Recording - PS Classics

7. Promises, Promises, New Broadway Cast Recording - Masterworks Broadway

8. Memphis Original Broadway Cast Recording - Rhino

9. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Originally Broadway Cast Recording - Ghostlight/Sh-K-Boom

10. Phantom of the Opera Original London Cast Recording - Really Useful

11. Sondheim on Sondheim, Original Cast Recording - PS Classics

12. Next To Normal, Original Cast Recording - Ghostlight/Sh-K-Boom

13. The Addams Family, Original Broadway Cast Recording - Decca Broadway

15. Billy Elliot, Original Cast Recording - Decca Broadway