SHOW BIZ: Billboard Top Cast Albums Chart: Week Ending 10/9/2010

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 10/9/2010

Report from Billboard Issue 10/16/2010

1. Wicked, Original Broadway Cast Recording - Decca Broadway

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

3. Jersey Boys, Original Broadway Cast Recording - Rhino

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

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

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

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

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

9. Memphis Original Broadway Cast Recording - Rhino

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

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

12. Mamma Mia!, Original Cast Recording - Decca Broadway

13. Billy Elliot, Original Cast Recording - Decca Broadway

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